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BIOGRAPHICAL  REVIEW 


VOLUME    XXII 


CONTAINING  LIFE  SKETCHES  OF  LEADING  CITIZENS  OF 

SULLIVAN  AND  MERRIMACK 

COUNTIES 


NEW  HAMPSHIRE 


"  Biography  is  the  home  aspect  of  history " 


BOSTON 

Biographical  Review  Publishing  Company 

1897 


ATLANTIC   STATES   SERIES   OF  BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIEWS. 


The  volumes  issued  in  this  series  up  to   date  are  the  fu'lowing:  — 


I.  Otsego  County,  New  York. 

II.  Madison  County,  New  York. 

III.  Broome  County,  New  York. 

IV.  Columbia  Countv,  New  York. 
V.  Cayuga  County,   New   York. 

VI.  Delaware  County,  New  Y  .uk. 

VII.  Livingston     and    Wyoming     Counties, 
New  York. 

VIII.  Clinton  AND  Essex  Counties,  New  York. 

IX.  Hampden  County,  Massaciiusetis. 

X.  Franklin  County,  Massachusetts. 

XI.  Hampshire   County,  Massachusetts. 

XII.  Litchfield  County,  CoNNiicTicur. 

XIII.  York  County,  Maine. 


XIV.       CUMDERLAND    CoUNTY,    MaINE. 
XV.        (JXFORD        AND        FrANKLIN        COUNTIES, 

Malne. 
XVI.     Cu.mbe.;lani)  Cnuxiv,  New  Jersey. 

X\'II.        R0CKI\GH\M        CO'JXIY,        NEW        HAMP- 
SHIRE. 

X\'1II.     Plymouth   County,   Massachusetts. 
XIX.     Camden    and    Burlington    Counties, 
New  Jersey. 
XX.     Sagadaho,:,      Lincoln,      Knox,      and 
\\'aldo  Counties,  Maine. 
XXI.     Strafford    and    Belknap    Counties, 

New  Hampshire. 
XXII.     Sullivan   and  Merri.mack    Counties, 
New  Hampshire. 


NoTF.. —  All  the  biographical  sketches  published  in  this  volume  were  submitted  to  their  respective  subjects  or  to  the  sub- 
scriljers,  from  whom  the  facts  were  primarily  obtained,  for  their  approval  or  correction  before  going  to  press  ;  and  a  reasonable 
time  was  allowed  in  each  case  for  the  return  of  the  tyjjewritten  copies.  Most  of  them  were  returned  to  lis  within  the  time  allotted, 
or  before  the  work  was  printed,  after  being  corrected  or  revised ;   and  these  may  therefore  he  regarded  as  reasonably  accurate. 

A  few,  however,  were  not  returned  to  us;  and,  as  we  have  no  means  of  knowing  whether  they  contain  errors  or  not,  we 
cannot  vouch  for  their  accuracy.  In  justice  to  our  readers,  and  to  render  this  woik  more  valuable  for  reference  purjioses,  we  have 
indicated  the.se  uncorrected  sketches  by  a  small  asterisk  (*),  placed  iminediate'y  after  the  name  of  the  subjuct.  'I'hey  will  all  be 
found  on  the  last  pages  of  the  book. 

II.   R.   I'L'li.  CO. 
Ski'TKMIii;k,  1897. 


PREFACE. 


Tllli  character  and  contents  of  this  up-to-date  volume  of  biography  are  indicated 
on  the  title-page;  its  ]jlace  in  the  series  we  arc  publishing  is  elsewhere  shown. 
.\n    index   at   the  end   renders   easy  of   reference   the  book,  who.se  ample  te.xt 
niav  be  trusted  to  furnish   many  an  answer  to  the  question  of  "  Who's  who.'"  in  Sulli- 
van and  Merrimack  Counties  to-dav. 

"Life  is  real!  life  is  earnest!"  The  New  England  psalmist  sings  a  true  note: 
New  England  people  as  a  rule  have  been  accustomed  to  take  life  earnestly,  to  improve 
its  opportunities  for  advancement  and  enlargement,  for  using  and  strengthening 
native  talent,  for  developing  the  resources  of  their  rugged  region,  for  cultivating  the 
sterner  human  \irtues, —  woi'king  manfully  and  womanfully  in  various  fields  and 
diverse  ways  to  "leave  the  world  better"  than  they  found  it.  The  name  and  fame  of 
not  a  few  New  Englanders  of  worth  and  inlluence  in  Colonial  and  later  times  have 
been  preserved  in  historv;  but  of  manv  others  it  can  only  be  said  that,  beyond  a  name 
and  a  date  or  two  that  have  rewarded  the  laljors  of  the  genealogist,  thev  have  left  no 
memorial.  Efforts  are  being  made  by  the  present  generation  to  give  honor  where 
honor  is  due,  to  testify  its  regard  for  living  and  for  recently  departed  worthies  by 
making  and  keeping  a  fuller  record  of  indi\-iduals  who  have  distinguished  themselves 
by  usefulness  in  word  and  deed,  brave  rjbuke  of  wrong,  and  gallant  championship  of 
justice  and  right, —  persons  who  have  earned  the  title  of  public  benefactors.  Due  at 
once  to  all  such,  clear  statement  of  fact  and  grateful  appreciation,  the  future,  when  it 
will,  mav  rear  the  monumental  stone. 


DANIEL    WEBSTER. 


BIOSRAPHIGAL. 


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ON.  DANiin,  vvj;nsi];k,  i.i.i). 


■  With  rarest  gifts  of  lieart  and  liead 
From  manliest  stock  inherited, 
i\c\v  England's  stateliest  ty|)0  of  man.' 


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]!(irn  oil  January  i.S,  1782,  in  Sal- 
j^  io,\x        isbury,  N.H.,  Daniel  Webster  was 
^J/  the  younger  son  of  Captain  I'^ben- 

^-^  ezer  \Vel:ister  by  his  second  wife, 

Abigail  I'^.astnian.  Mis  father  was  a  son  of 
l-'benezer  second,  grandson  of  Ebenezer  first, 
anil  great-grandson  of  Thomas  Webster,  of 
Ormsby,  Norfolk  County,  England,  who  was  an 
early  settler  in  Hampton,  N.  H.  Captain  Eben- 
ezer Webster  is  saitl  to  have  inherited  from  his 
mother,  Mrs.  Susannah  B.  Webster,  who  was  a 
descendant  of  the  l^ev.  Stephen  Bachiler  and 
"a  woman  of  uncommon  strength  of  understand- 
ing," some  of  his  most  prominent  mental  and 
physical  traits.  He  has  been  characterized  as 
a  "perfect  example  of  a  strong-mindeii,  un- 
lettered man,  of  sound  common-sense,  correct 
judgment,  and  tenacious  rnemory. "  He  com- 
manded a  company  in  the  Revolution,  and 
later  in  life  was  a  Colonel  in  the  State  mi- 
litia. A  farmer  by  occupation,  he  also  held 
the  office  of  "side  justice"  in  the  Court  of 
Common  I'leas.  liy  his  first  wife  he  had  five 
children,  namely:  two  that  died  young,  Susan- 
nah, Davitl,  and  Joseph  ;  and  by  his  second 
five,  as  follows:  Mehitable,  Abigail,  Ezekiel, 
Daniel,  and  Sarah.  In  1783  Captain  Webster 
removed    from    the   homestead    where  the   early 


years  of  his  married  life  hat!  iieen  spent  to 
]<>lms  Farm,  as  later  known,  in  that  part  f)f  the 
town  of  .Salisbiny,  N.  II.,  that  is  now  I'rank- 
lin,  Merrimack  Coimty. 

Physically  frail,  the  yotmg  child  Daniel 
here  passed  his  time  for  the  next  few  years 
mostly  in  healthful  [day,  learning  at  home  to 
read  the  Bible  so  early  and  easily  that  in  after 
life  he  could  never  remember  when  and  .how 
he  did  it.  He  attended  the  district  schools 
a  ntmiber  of  terms;  was  nine  months  a  pupil 
at  Phillips  E.xeter  Academy;  studied  under 
Dr.  Wood  at  lioscawen,  N.  H.,  also  a  brief 
time  with  another  tutor;  and,  entering  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1797,  was  graduated  in 
1 801.  In  1800,  a  youth  of  eighteen  in  his 
Junior  year,  he  delivered  a  Fourth  of  July  ora- 
tion at  Hanover,  N.  II.  Studying  law  at 
Salisbury  and  in  the  office  of  Christojiher  Gore 
in  Boston,  in  the  meantime  earning  money  liy 
teaching  and  by  copying  deeds  in  I-'ryeburg, 
Me.,  to  help  his  brother  Ezekiel  defray  col- 
lege expenses,  Mr.  Webster  was  admitted  to 
the  bar  in  Boston  in  1805.  Returning  to  New 
Hampshire  to  be  near  his  father,  whose  health 
was  failing,  he  lived  the  life  of  a  country 
lawyer  in  Boscavven,  his  ])ractice  extending 
over  three  counties.  In  1S07,  his  brother 
Ezekiel  taking  his  place  in  Boscawen  and 
assuming  charge  of  the  home  farm,  their 
father  having  died  in  1806,  he  removed  to 
Portsmouth,  N.ll.,  where  he  rapidly  rose  to 
prominence  in  his   profession   and    in   politics. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


Elected  to  Congress  in  1812,  he  took  his  seat 
in  the  following  May,  his  term  ending  March 
4,  I  Si  7.  He  had  changed  his  residence  to 
Boston,  Mass.,  in  18 16;  and  there  he  devoted 
himself  to  his  lucrative  law  practice  till  De- 
cember, 1823,  when  he  again  became  a  mem- 
ber of  Congress.  He  was  chosen  Senator  in 
1827,  and  from  that  time  on  till  his  death, 
which  occurred  at  Marshfield,  Mass.,  October 
24,  1852,  with  short  intervals  of  retirement, 
he  served  his  country  either  in  the  Senate  or 
in  the  Cabinet,  easily  "the  first  lawyer  and 
the  first  statesman  "  in  the  land. 

Mr.  Webster  had  five  children,  all  by  his 
first  wife,  Grace  Fletcher.  The  three  who 
grew  to  maturity  were:  Colonel  Fletcher,  who 
was  killed  at  the  second  battle  of  13ull  Run  in 
August,  1862;  Julia,  i\Irs.  Samuel  A.  Apple- 
ton,  who  died  in  April,  1 84S  ;  and  Major  Ed- 
ward, who  died  in  Mexico  in  January,  1848. 
Mrs.  Appleton  left  four  children,  the  eldest  a 
daughter  Caroline,  who  married  in  1S71,  for 
her  second  husband,  Jerome  Napoleon  Bona- 
]iarte,  of  Baltimore,  and  is  now  a  widow  re- 
siding in  Washington,  D.  C.  Mr.  Webster's 
first  wife  died  in  January,  1S28;  and  in  De- 
cember, 1829,  he  married  Miss  Caroline 
Le  Roy,  of  New  York,  who  survived  him. 

From  a  recent  article  in  the  Daily  Mirror 
we  glean  some  interesting  particulars  concern- 
ing "beautiful  Grace  Fletcher,"  of  whom 
little  has  been  written  by  the  biographers  of 
Mr.  Webster.  She  was  born  in  Hopkinton, 
N.I  I.,  in  1 78 1,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Elijah 
I-'letcher.  Her  father  died  in  1786;  and  her 
mother  married  the  Rev.  Christopher  I'age, 
who  succeeded  him  as  pastor  of  the  Congi'ega- 
tional  church  at  Hoj^kinton,  but  in  1789  re 
moved  to  Pittsfield,  N.H.,  where  he  remained 
till  1796,  and  where  his  son  James  W.  was 
born.  Grace  T'letchcr's  scliool  days  ended 
when  she  left  Atkinson  Academy  at  the  age  of 


eighteen.  At  the  home  of  her  sister  Rebecca, 
wife  of  Judge  Kelley,  of  Salisbury,  she  met 
Daniel  Webster,  then  a  rising  young  lawyer  of 
Portsmouth.  Acquaintance  soon  ripened  into 
love;  and  they  were  married  in  Judge  Kelley's 
parlor,  June  10,  1S08.  "They  at  once  estab- 
lished and  maintained  for  nine  years  a  humble 
home  at  Portsmouth,  winning  the  love  and 
respect  of  all  associates.  Mrs.  Webster,  with 
her  superior  grace  and  beauty,  inherited  ability 
and  intellectual  accomplishments,  was  equal  to 
all  occasions,  never  discouraged,  proud  of  her 
husband's  success,  but  not  unduly  elated. 
Oneen  at  home  or  in  the  i)ublic  drawing- 
room,  she  met  the  most  distinguished  men  of 
the  time.  "  She  was  much  attached  to  the  pict- 
uresque town  of  Pittsfield,  and  was  accustomed 
to  make  long  visits  to  her  sister  there,  Mrs. 
White. 

Mr.  Webster  retained  to  the  last  the  love 
for  farm  life,  which  was  doubtless  born  with 
him,  but  was  mainly  developed,  it  would  seem, 
after  his  mental  faculties  had  attained  their 
growth  and  had  long  had  full  play.  About 
two  years  after  the  death  of  his  brother 
Ezekiel,  in  April,  1829,  he  became  the  owner 
of  the  old  home  place  in  Franklin;  and  to  this 
he  added  by  purchase  other  lands,  so  that 
I*21ms  Farm  came  to  be  a  valuable  estate  of 
about  one  thousand  acres  with  many  improve- 
ments. It  was  long  under  the  management  of 
a  tenant  farmer  from  Massachusetts,  John 
Taylor  by  name,  to  whom  Mr.  Webster  was 
wont  to  write  directions  like  the  following, 
which  we  quote  from  a  letter  in  Mr.  Lanman's 
book  on  his  Private  Life,  dated  March  17, 
1852  :  "Whatever  ground  j'oii  sow  or  ]ilant,  see 
that  it  is  in  good  condition.  We  want  no/c«- 
nyroyal  crops.  .  .  .  Be  sure  to  produce  suffi- 
cient quantities  of  useful  vegetables.  A  man 
may  half  supjiort  his  family  from  a  gootl  gar- 
den. "      In  1839  Mr.   Webstei',  having  sold    his 


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liDiisf  in  liostiin,  icmovocl  with  iiis  family  {<> 
his  estate  of  about  two  tlioiisaiul  acres  in  the 
town  of  Marshficlcl,  Mass.  Tlicic  he  freely 
and  expensively  inikilgecl  his  a,L;rieiiltural 
tastes  and  his  hospitality,  and  from  both  de- 
rived great  enjoyment. 

'I'o  retuin  now  to  Mr.  Webster's  public  life. 
I'^irst,  perhaps,  auKjni^  his  memorable  ad- 
dresses should  be  named  his  "Rejily  to 
Ilayne  "  in  the  Senate  Chamber,  January  26, 
1830,  which  has  been  pronounced  "ne.vt  to  the 
Constitution  the  most  correct  and  complete 
exposition  of  the  true  powers  and  functions  of 
the  l""edeial  government,"  a  speech  "replete 
with  eloquence  and  ])ower,  clear  in  statement, 
grand  in  language,  irresistible  in  argument." 
One  of  the  grandest  mementos  in  I-'aneuil 
Hall,  l?(3ston,  is  the  painting  by  Mealy,  which 
reijroduccs  the  scene  of  that  matchless  elo- 
(|uence.  There  is  no  cjuestioning  the  fact, 
and  it  cannot  be  too  strongly  emphasized,  that 
"Mr.  Webster  was  thoroughly  national,"  with 
"no  taint  of  sectionalism  or  narrow  local 
prejudice  about  him."  As  a  diplomatist  he 
rendered  eminent  service  to  the  country,  en- 
titling him  to  honorable  fame  and  lasting 
gratitude.  Not  to  speak  of  his  great  forensic 
efforts  and  numerous  forceful  occasional 
speeches,  his  Bi-centennial  Discourse  at 
Plymouth,  the  two  Bunker  Hill  Addresses  and 
the  luilogy  on  Adams  and  Jefferson  are  recog- 
nized triumphs  of  American  oratory.  In  his 
famous  /th  of  March  speech,  1850,  it  has  been 
said,  "he  broke  from  his  jiast  and  closed  his 
jjublic  career  with  a  terrible  mistake."  A 
more  generous-minded  critic  argues  that  his 
course  on  that  occasion  was  "consistent  with 
his  whole  career  in  postjDoning  all  other  con- 
siderations to  the  supreme  need  of  saving  the 
Union."  And  Whittier,  whose  muse  had 
earlier  made  bitter  lamentation  over  de[)arted 
ghiry,  reviewing  in   the   calm    eventide   of   life 


the  great  conflict  for  Union  and  Liberty, 
which  sad  concessions  had  availed  not  to  slay, 
recognizing  Mr.  Webster's  rich  eruiowment, 
his  jjower  to  call  out  the  might  of  men  in 
noble  cause,  offers  gracious  tribute  to  the 
sleeper  by  the  "lonely  northern  .sea,  where 
long  and  low  the  marsh-lands  spread  "  :  — 

"Wise  men  and  strong  wc  did  not  lack: 
liut  .still,  willi  nicmory  turning  back. 
In  the  (lark  hours  we  thouglu  of  thee, 
And  thy  lone  grave  beside  the  sea. 

■  But  where  thy  native  mountains  bare 
I'lieir  foreheads  to  diviner  air, 
l-it  emblem  of  enduring  fame. 
One  lofty  summit  keeps  thy  name, 
l-'or  thee  the  cosmic  forces  did 
The  rearing  of  that  pyramid. 
The  prescient  ages  shaping  with 
Fire,  flood,  and  frost  thy  monolith. 
-Sunrise  and  sun.set  lay  thereon 
With  hands  of  light  their  benison, 
The  stars  of  midnight  pause  to  set 
Their  jewels  in  its  coronet. 
And  evermore  that  mountain  mass 
.Seems  climbing  from  the  shadowy  pa.ss 
']■<)  light,  as  if  to  manifest 
Thy  nobler  self,  thy  life  at  best!" 


ILLIAM  p.  I-;GGLKST0NE,  one  of 
the  leading  agriculturists  of  Plain- 
field,  Sullivan  County,  was  born  in 
this  town,  November  5,  1826,  son  of  Colonel 
Charles  and  Betsey  (Fullum)  Egglestone. 
His  maternal  great-grandfather,  Samuel  Will- 
iams, moved  with  his  family,  in  1759,  fi'oni 
Connecticut  to  New  Hampshire,  where,  hav- 
ing cleared  a  farm,  he  cultivated  it  for  the  rest 
of  his  active  period.  Samuel  married  Sarah 
Lawrence,  who  was  a  descendant  of  John  Law- 
rence, one  of  the  "Mayflower  "  Pilgrims. 

Samuel  Egglestone,  the  paternal  grandfather 
of  William   V.,  and   a   native   of  Connecticut, 


lilOGRAPHICAL    REVIliW 


served  as  a  soldier  in  tlie  Revolutionary  War. 
After  his  discharge  from  the  army  he  resumed 
farming  in  Plainfield.  He  was  twice  married. 
His  first  wife,  whose  maiden  name  is  unknown, 
bore  him  one  son,  Samuel  (second).  When 
he  returned  home  from  the  war,  his  wife  was 
dead,  and  his  boy  had  disappeared  without 
leaving  any  trace.  Many  years  afterward  an 
account,  published  by  the  local  newspapers,  of 
how  one  Samuel  Egglestone,  an  aged  farmer, 
had  mowed  half  an  acre  of  land  before  break- 
fast, was  extensively  copied  throughout  New 
England.  It  was  seen  by  his  son,  then  forty 
years  old,  who,  thinking  that  it  might  be  his 
father,  came  to  Plainfield  and  met  him.  Sam- 
uel Egglestone  (second)  married,  and  had  nine 
children.  His  father  wedded  for  his  second 
wife  Phoebe  Williams,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Williams,  of  Plainfield.  By  this  union  there 
were  four  children  —  Simon,  Sibyl,  Charles, 
and  Zeruah.  Simon  resided  in  Vermont,  and 
reared  a  family.  Sibyl  became  the  wife  of 
Charles  Eivermore,  of  "Hartland,  Vt.  ;  and 
Judge  Livermore  of  that  State  was  one  of  her 
sons.  Zeruah,  who  became  Mrs.  Keyes,  re- 
sided in  the  West,  and  had  one  son. 

Colonel  Charles  Egglestone,  William  P. 
I''gglestone's  father,  was  born  and  reared  in 
Plainfield.  After  leaving  school,  he  learned 
the  carjjenter's  trade,  and  later  became  a 
well-known  contractor  and  builder.  He 
erected  several  school-houses,  academies,  and 
other  public  buildings  in  New  Hampshire  and 
Vermont,  besides  many  ]]rivate  residences. 
The  house  and  farm  buildings  which  are  now 
owned  by  his  son,  William  P.,  were  erected 
by  him  in  1842.  He  .served  in  the  War  of 
1812,  and  was  later  commissioned  Colonel  of 
the  I'"ifteenth  Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Vol 
unteer  Militia.  Though  not  active  in  puliti- 
cal  affairs,  he  served  with  ability  as  a  member 
of  the   Poard   (jf   .Selectmen  and   in  other  town 


offices.      In   his   religious  views   he  was  a  Con- 
gregational ist.       Colonel    Charles    Egglestone 
died  June  25,    1858.      His  wife,  Betsey,  whom 
he  married  in  1812,  was  born    in    Eitzwilliam, 
N.H.      She  became  the    mother    of   nine  chil- 
dren,   born   as   follows:   Lorenzo,    October    30, 
1812;   Lucinda,  August  11,  1S15;   ErancisF., 
August   6,   1817;   Mary  Ann,    June    27,    1820; 
Sarah,  April  23,   1822;  William   P.,   the  sub- 
ject  of  this   sketch;  Ai,  November    16,    1829; 
Henry,    March  4,    1832;  and   Helen   M.,    Oc- 
tober   23,    1835.      Lorenzo,    who    is    no   longer 
living,  was  a  machinist,  and  followed  that  call- 
ing   in    Cambridge    and     Boston,     Mass.      He 
married     Elizabeth     Lamarau,     of     Rochester, 
N.Y.,  and  had  a  family  of   si.x   children.      Lu- 
cinda  married  Raymond    Page,  of   Sjiringfield, 
Vt.,  and  had   two  children.      P^rancis   F.  went 
to  Chicago,  and  engaged  in  manufacturing  fur- 
niture.      He    married    P"anny    Laughton,    and 
had   a    family    of    nine    children,  of   whom   the 
survivors   are   two    sons,    now   carrying   on   the 
business    established    by    their    father.      Mary 
Ann  married  S.  F.   Redfield,  a  tailor  of  Clare- 
mont,    N.  H.,  and    had   seven   children.      Sarah 
married    Daniel    Kenyon,    a  farmer   of    Clare- 
mont,  and   had   four  children,  two  of  whom  are 
living.      Ai  served  in  the  Civil  War  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Sixth  Regiment,  Massachusetts  Vol- 
unteers, and  afterward  settled  in  Blooniington, 
111.,  where  he  died.      He  married    Speedy  B. 
Farrington,   of  Claremont,  N.H.,  and  was  the 
father  of  three  children,  one  of  whom  is  living. 
Henry  was  engaged    in    the   furniture  business 
in  Chicago.      He  married    Isabella   Laughton, 
who  bore  him  four  children,' three  of  whom  are 
living.      Plelen  M.  became  the  wife  of   George 
T.    Avery,    a  prosperous  farmer  of   Plainfield, 
antl    had   one  son,    who   is    still    living.      Mrs. 
Charles  I-^gglestone  died  May  i,   i  868. 

William  P.   Egglestone  began  his   education 
in  the  connnon  schools  of   Plainliehl,  and  com- 


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]i1l'Ici1  liis  slndics  at  the  high  school  in  Ilarl- 
land,  Vt.  When  a  young  man  he  learned  the 
cabinet-maker's  trade  in  Hoston.  From  Bos- 
ton he  went  to  Iowa,  and  later  settled  in 
Chicago,  where  he  followed  his  trade  for  a 
number  of  years.  When  paying  a  visit  to  his 
]iarents,  his  father  dietl.  He  was  then  pre- 
vailed upon  by  his  mother  to  take  charge  of 
the  farm,  and  he  has  since  remainerl  at  the 
homestead.  lie  has  a  large  and  ]iroductive 
farm,  which  affords  him  ample  opportunity  for 
the  raising  of  superior  crojjs.  He  also  has  a 
dairy.  For  twenty  years  he  was  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  caskets;  and  he  was  an 
undertaker  until  i8go,  when  he  gave  up  the 
business  on  account  of  failing  healtli.  Mr. 
Egglestone  has  acceptably  served  the  commu- 
nity in  some  of  the  town  ofifices.  He  attends 
the  Congregational  church. 

Mr.  Egglestone  married  Caroline  V.  Seaver, 
who  was  born  in  Gardiner,  Me.,  April  20, 
1830.  Mrs.  Egglestone's  parents,  John  and 
Catherine  (Dill)  Seaver,  died  when  she  was 
very  young.  She  is  the  mother  of  four  chil- 
dren, namely:  Charles,  born  August  25,  i860; 
Leonora  K.,  born  March  20,  1863;  Addie  L., 
born  December  30,  1865;  and  b'lorida  F., 
born  Sejjtember  16,  1868.  Charles  has  always 
resided  with  his  parents,  and  assists  in  carry- 
ing on  the  farm.  He  married  Elizabeth 
Davis,  who  was  born  in  luigland,  July  14, 
1 87 1,  daughter  of  ICvan  Davis;  and  she  is  the 
mother  of  one  son,  William  Edward,  born 
April  4,  1896.  Leonora  K.  married  Lindsley 
L.  Walker,  a  native  of  Reading,  \'t.,  and  now 
a  blacksmith  of  Hanover,  N.  H.  Addie  I.,  is 
the  wife  of  Fred  A.  Cowen,  a  merchant  in 
Lebanon,  N.H.  b'lorida  V.  married  George 
\V.  Hodges,  a  maker  of  fine  tools  for  the 
Waltham  Watch  Company,  and  resides  in  Wal- 
tham,  Mass.  She  has  one  son,  Forrest  E. , 
born  May  30,   1895. 


1;NRY    !•■.     IIOLLIS  is  a  rising  young 
lawyer  of  Concord  and  a  descendant 

'^  *  "f  some  well-known  New  Hamp- 
shire families.  He  was  born  in  West  Con- 
cord, August  30,  1869,  and  is  a  son  of  Major 
Abijah  and  Ilarriette  V.  M.  (French)  Mollis. 
The  first  of  the  name  on  record  was  John  Hol- 
lis,  an  early  settler  in  Weymouth,  Mass. 
After  him  came  another  John,  and  then,  in 
succession,  four  of  the  name  of  Thomas,  all 
of  them  natives  of  Jkaintree,  Mass.  The  last- 
named  Thomas  Mollis,  who  was  the  grand- 
father of  the  subject  of  our  sketch,  was  a  stone 
contractor  of  Quincy,  Mass.,  and  one  of  the 
leading  men  of  his  time  in  that  business.  He 
furnished  the  stpnc  for  the  famous  Minot's 
Ledge  light-house.  In  1826-27  he  laid  the 
track  of  the  first  railroad  ever  built  in  America 
to  haul  granite  from  the  quarries  to  the  Ne- 
ponset  River.  He  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent citizens  of  Milton,  and  took  an  active  part 
in  all  its  local  affairs.  He  married  Deborah 
C.  Allen,  of  Braintree,  Mass.  She  was  a  de- 
scendant of  the  Rev.  Peter  Clark,  who  was 
graduated  at  Harvard  in  1712,  and  ordained 
minister  of  the  church  at  Salem  village  in 
1717,  and  married  Deborah  Hobart,  of  Brain- 
tree,  in  1719. 

Abijah  Hollis  was  the  youngest  son  of 
Thomas  and  Deborah,  and  one  of  a  large  fam- 
ily of  children.  He  first  attended  the  district 
schools  of  Milton,  then  went  to  Phillips  Flxe- 
ter  Academy,  and  subsequently  studied  law  at 
the  Harvard  Law  School  in  Cambridge,  Mass. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Suffolk  County  (Mas- 
sachusetts) bar  in  1S61.  Before  entering 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession,  however, 
the  Civil  War  having  broken  out,  and  in- 
spired with  patriotic  ardor,  he  enlisted,  and 
was  elected  a  commissioned  officer  in  the 
Forty-fifth  Regiment  of  Massachusetts  Volun- 
teers, and   served  out   his  term    of  enlistment 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


with  thnt  regiment.  On  its  expiration  he 
re-enllsted  in  the  F"ifty-si.\th  Massachusetts 
Volunteers,  and  served  until  the  end  of  the 
war.  At  the  battle  of  the  Wilderness  he  re- 
ceived a  severe  wound,  and  at  the  close  of  the 
war  his  health  was  so  seriously  impaired  that 
he  found  himself  unable  to  withstand  the 
strain  of  the  legal  profession.  He  accordingly 
decided  to  turn  his  attention  to  outdoor  busi- 
ness. In  1865  he  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H., 
and  in  company  with  his  brother  proceeded  to 
f)pcn  one  of  the  first  stone  quarries  ever  worked 
in  this  town.  This  business  he  successfully 
conducted  until  his  retirement  in  1S95. 
Major  Hollis  has  taken  a  prominent  part  in  the 
political  affairs  of  the  State,  and  held  many 
public  offices.  In  1S76  he  was  elected  to  the 
legislature. 

Major  Hollis  married  Harriette  V.  M. 
French,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Henry  F. 
French,  of  Exeter  and  Chester,  N.H.,  who 
was  Assistant  -Secretary  of  the  United  States 
Treasury  from  the  time  of  Grant's  administra- 
tion to  that  of  Cleveland,  and  from  1855  to 
1859  was  Justice  of  the  Court  of  Common 
Pleas  in  New  Hampshire.  He  was  the  first 
President  of  the  Massachusetts  Agricultural 
College.  His  father,  Daniel  French,  was  a 
second  cousin  of  Daniel  Webster,  and  was 
Attorney  General  of  New  Hampshire  early  in 
the  century.  Judge  I'rencli  married  Anne, 
daughter  of  William  M.  Richardson,  Chief 
Justice  of  New  Hampshire  for  many  years. 
Their  son,  Daniel  C.  ]'"rench,  is  the  distin- 
guished sculptor  of  New  York  City,  among 
whose  most  celebrated  works  are  the  statue  of 
the  Republic,  executed  for  the  Columbian  lis- 
position,  Chicago,  and  the  Minute-man  stand- 
ing at  the  historic  bridge  in  Concord,  Mass. 
Major  Hollis  is  the  father  of  the  following 
children:  Thomas,  who  is  a  broker  in  lioston, 
Mass.;    Anne     R.  ;   Hcnr)'     1'.,     of     Concord; 


Allen,    also   a   lawyer  of   Concord,  N.H.;   and 
Mary  F. 

Henry  F.  Hollis,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  graduated  at  the  Concord  High  School  in 
the  class  of  1886.  In  1S86-87  he  was  en- 
gaged in  railroad  engineering  between  Denver, 
Col.,  and  San  Francisco,  Cal.,  and  on  a  sur- 
vey of  the  intervening  mountain  passes.  Re- 
turning r^ast,  he  prepared  at  Concord,  Mass., 
to  enter  Harvard  College,  where  he  was  gradu- 
ated in  1892.  He  attended  the  Harvard  Law 
School,  and  also  studied  law  in  the  ofifices  of 
the  Hon.  William  L.  Foster  and  H.  G.  Sar- 
gent at  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  was  admitted  to 
the  Merrimack  County  bar  in  1893.  Since 
that  date  Mr.  Hollis  has  formed  a  law  partner- 
ship with  Harry  G.  Sargent  and  E.  C.  Niles, 
of  Concord.  He  has  been  elected  a  Trustee  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Savings  Bank  and  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Education,  a  marked 
evidence  of  the  confidence  which  his  fellow- 
townsmen  already  repose  in  him.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat,  and  cast  his  first  Presiden- 
tial vote  for  Grover  Cleveland  in  1892.  June 
T4,  1893,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to  Grace 
B.  Fisher,  of  Norwood,  Mass.  They  have  two 
children — Henry  F.,  Jr.,  and  Anne  R.  Mr. 
Hollis  bids  fair  to  enter  the  first  ranks  of  his 
profession  and  to  add  fresh  laurels  to  the 
family  record. 


4^»^» 


■j^ATHANIEL  MORGAN  TRUl-.,  a 
prominent    farmer    of    Plainfield,    was 

-  \^  born  here,  I-'ebruar}'  21,  1826,  son 
of  Osgood  and  Betsey  (Morgan)  True.  'I'he 
founder  of  the  family,  who  came  from  old  luig- 
land  among  the  early  settlers  of  the  Massachu- 
setts Bay  Colony,  subsec[uently  settled  in 
Salisbury,  N.  H.  Benjamin  True,  grandfather 
of  Nathaniel  M.,  was  the  first  of  the  family  in 
Plainfield.  He  left  an  honored  name.  As 
did   most   of   the   men   of  his   day,  he  won    his 


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suslcnaiicc  finm  tlic  Sdil.  His  fiisl  wife,  ;i 
Saiiljorn  before  her  marriage,  had  seven  chil- 
dren, six  of  wlioin  were:  Reuben,  Osgood, 
Ilannali,  Sarah,  Judith,  and  Abigail.  The 
seventi)  cliild,  a  daughter,  married  a  Severance 
and  lived  in  Andover.  Benjamin  Triie's  second 
marriage  was  contracted  with  Mrs.  Roberts,  a 
widow,  who  l)ore  him  three  children —  Lydia, 
Eunice,  and  Kimball. 

Osgood  True,  born  in  I'lainfield,  August  5, 
1789,  died  October  26,  1856.  After  complet- 
ing his  public-school  education,  he  stayed  for 
a  short  time  as  a  helper  on  his  father's  farm, 
and  later  assumed  the  management  of  the  farm 
and  carried  it  on  until  his  death.  He  raised 
large  numbers  of  cattle  and  sheep  as  well  as 
some  garden  produce.  He  was  Selectman  for 
a  number  of  years;  and  he  represented  the  town 
in  the  State  legislature  for  a  time,  fulfilling 
the  obligations  of  these  important  trusts  to 
the  full  satisfaction  of  his  constituents.  For 
many  years  prior  to  his  death  he  was  a  Dea- 
con of  the  15a])tist  church.  Educational  mat- 
ters obtained  considerable  attention  from  him. 
He  took  an  active  ]iart  in  the  service  of  the 
militia,  being  finally  chosen  Captain.  He 
married  Betsey  Morgan,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
Morgan,  a  well-to-do  farmer  of  Plainfield. 
She  was  born  July  10,  1793,  and  died  Novem- 
ber 9,  1875.  Their  si.\  children  were:  Mar- 
cia  E.,  born  July  i,  1S20;  Ellen  M.,  born 
July  8,  1822;  Benjamin  O. ,  born  June  i, 
1S24;  Nathaniel  M.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  David  P.,  born  August  iS,  1829;  and 
Ellen  M.  (second),  born  July  13,  1833.  Mar- 
cia  married  Jasper  H.  Purmort,  a  prosperous 
farmer  of  Lebanon,  and  has  a  family  of  chil- 
dren. EUcn  M.  (first)  died  in  infancy.  Ben- 
jamin O.  died  in  November,  1845,  ^^  t''<^  ^ge 
of  twenty-one  years,  having  just  graduated  from 
Kinib:ill  Union  Academy.  David  P.,  who  is 
a  successful  faimer  in  Minnesota,   first  m:uried 


I  Any  Kidder,  and  iiad  two  children  His  sec- 
ond wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Crowe,  bore 
him  one  daughter,  now  a  physician  well  known 
in  her  profession  in  the  West.  Ellen  M. 
(second)  married  Thomas  K.  Hough,  who  has 
been  a  successful  farmer  and  travelling  agent, 
living  in  Claremont  and  in  New  York  State. 
They  have  four  children  —  Clement  T., 
lilizabeth  E.,  Delia  M.,  and  Kate  M. 

Nathaniel  M.  True  attended  Kimball  Union 
Academy.  After  finishing  school,  he  worked 
on  the  homestead  farm,  assisting  his  father  in 
the  management  for  a  time.  When  the  health 
of  the  latter  became  poor,  he  took  full  charge. 
The  farm,  which  is  a  large  one,  containing 
nearly  five  hundred  acres,  has  a  handsome  resi- 
dence and  numerous  well-kept  buildings.  Mr. 
True  has  given  his  personal  attention  to  all 
the  details  of  his  business,  which  he  finds 
quite  enough  to  occupy  his  full  time.  He  has 
never  cared  for  public  life,  nor  aspired  to  po- 
litical preferment.  On  October  13,  1853,  he 
married  Ruth  L.  Hough,  daughter  of  Clement 
Hough,  of  Lebanon,  a  leading  farmer  of  his 
time  in  that  jilace.  Mrs.  True  was  born  May 
25,    1834.      'I'hey  have  no  children. 


ZRA  TAFT  SH3LEY,  a  retired  manu- 
facturer of  Newport,  Sullivan  County, 
was  born  in  Auburn,  Mass.,  Febru- 
ary 3,  1 81 7,  son  of  Ezra  and  Marcia  (Taft) 
Sibley.  His  grandfather,  Reuben  Sibley, 
who  was  also  a  Massachusetts  man,  and  is  said 
to  have  been  born  in  Sutton  of  that  State,  car- 
ried on  general  farming  for  a  time.  Reuben 
went  to  Maine  and  settled  in  the  town  of  Ja}-, 
Franklin  County,  where  he  conducted  a  ferry 
on  the  Androscoggin  River  during  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life.  His  son,  Ezra,  born  in 
Sutton,  September  21,  1787,  was  a  scythe 
maker  —  a    trade    which    he    learned    when    a 


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ycjung  man.  Me  conducted  a  successful  busi- 
ness in  Auburn,  Mass.,  several  years,  was  a 
liberal  in  religion,  and  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics. In  the  year  1S15  he  married  Marcia 
Taft,  a  native  of  U.xbridge,  Mass.,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  twenty-eight  years.  They  had 
two  children:  Ezra  T.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  and  Kvelyn,  who  married  Mr.  Lowell 
Sweetzcr,  of  Wakefield,  Mass.,  and  died  in 
June,  1S71.  His  second  marriage  was  con- 
tracted with  Elmira  Golding,  who  lived  to  a 
good  age.      He  died  March  13,   1830. 

Ezra  T.  Sibley  lived  in  Auburn  until  the 
death  of  his  father,  which  occurred  when  he 
was  but  thirteen  years  of  age.  Then  he  went 
to  his  grandfather's  at  U.xbridge,  remaining 
there  for  two  years.  At  this  time  he  went  to 
Millbury,  Mass.,  where  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Hale  &  Whipple,  scythe  manufacturers,  and 
learned  the  trade  which  he  has  since  made  his 
business.  He  remained  with  that  firm  about 
three  and  one-half  years,  after  which  he 
worked  at  his  trade  in  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  for 
one  year,  and  in  New  London,  N.  H.,  for  nine 
years.  In  1S45  he  came  to  Newport,  N.II., 
and  liought  a  half-interest  in  the  scythe  factory 
owned  by  Mr.  Earned.  The  factory  had  been 
conducted  by  Lamed  &  Sibley  for  three  years, 
when  on  account  of  the  failure  of  his  health 
Mr.  Earned  disposed  of  his  interest  in  the 
business  to  William  Dunton,  of  Newport. 
Three  years  later  Mr.  Sibley  bought  out  Mr. 
Dunton,  and  thereafter  ran  the  business  alone 
until  1873,  when  betook  his  son  into  ])artner- 
shijj.  In  iSgi  he  retired  after  a  continuous 
business  life  of  forty-si.x  years,  being  at  that 
time  the  oldest  manufacturer  of  scythes  in  the 
United  States.  He  still  carries  on  his  farm, 
and  also  operates  a  lumber-mill  at  North  Ncw- 
])ort.  He  has  been  largely  instrumental  in 
building  uii  the  jiresent  business  successfully 
carried    on    by   his  son.      His     political     iirin- 


ciples  are  Republican,  and  he  has  served 
Newport  in  the  capacities  of  Selectman  and 
legislative  Representative. 

On  July  19,  1838,  Mr.  Sibley  married 
Lydia  D.  Gay,  who  was  born  in  New  London, 
N.  H.,  March  10,  1820,  daughter  of  David  and 
Asenath  (Davis)  Gay.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sibley 
have  had  six  children,  as  follows:  Amelia  R., 
born  April  7,  i  S40 ;  Frank  A.,  born  January 
28,  1851  ;  Anson,  who  died  at  the  age  of  two 
years;  Isabelle,  who  died  aged  six  and  one- 
half  years;  and  two  who  died  in  infancy. 
Amelia  R.  is  now  the  wife  of  Samuel  Allen, 
who  is  employed  in  the  scythe  factory ;  and  she 
has  eight  children.  Frank  A.,  who  married 
Mary  M.  Tutnum,  and  has  three  children,  is 
now  carrying  on  the  scythe-manufacturing 
business  established  by  his  father.  A  self- 
made  man  and  one  of  the  oldest  residents  of 
the  town,  Ezra  Taft  Sibley  has  the  sincere 
respect  of  his  fellow-townsmen. 


^AVID    N.     PATTERSON,    for  many 
years    one    of    the   most   active    and 


(^~\,^/  prominent  liusiness  men  of  Contcio- 
ct)ok,  N.H.,  was  born  June  i,  1  Soo,  in  llcn- 
niker,  Merrimack  County,  and  died  March  28, 
1892,  in  the  village  of  Contoocook,  at  the  ven- 
erable age  of  ninety-one  years,  nine  months, 
and  twenty-eight  days.  He  was  of  Scotch- 
Irish  ancestry,  so  called,  being  a  direct  de- 
scendant of  John  Patterson,  who  (Ui  account  of 
religious  persecution  fled  fnim  .Scuthind  to 
the  northern  part  of  Ireland,  wliere  his  son 
Robert  and  his  grandson,  whu,  it  is  thought, 
was  named  Alexander,  were  iiorn.  Tiie  Lit- 
ter emigrated  to  America  in  1721,  biinging 
with  him  his  family,  which  included  a  son, 
Alexander  second. 

Alexander  Patterson,  second,  married  1^1  iza- 
beth  Arbiickle,   who  was  born  in   1720011  ])oard 


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ship  ill  which  iicr  paicnts  came  In  tliis  country. 
lie  settled  first  in  I.nndnnderry,  N.ll.,  where 
he  held  office  in  1751,  l^ut  suljsequently  re- 
moved to  I'enibifikc,  N.II.,  in  the  early  days 
of  its  settlement,  and  was  one  of  the  first  Se- 
lectmen of  the  town.  He  served  as  a  soldier 
in  the  I'ievolutionary  War.  His  wife,  a  well- 
educated  woman  for  those  days,  taught  school 
several  terms.  In  1799  they  migrated  to 
'I'hetford,  \'t.,  going  thence  to  Strafford,  Vt., 
where  both  died  in  i(So2.  They  had  nine 
cliildi'cn,  Ale.xanclei",  the  third  to  bear  that 
name,  being  the  ne.xt  in  li)ie  of  descent. 

Alexander  third,  born  July  10,  1763,  mar- 
ried Mar\'  Nelson,  of  Sterling,  Mass.,  and 
settled  in  lieuniker,  N.II.  In  1806  he 
erected  a  building  on  tlie  site  now  occupied 
by  the  residence  of  \V.  P.  Cogswell,  and  put 
in  water-works,  which  were  used  until  1878. 
He  was  very  [jrominent  and  popular  among  his 
fellow-men,  full  of  hmnor  and  ready  wit,  and 
was  generally  accosted  by  young  and  old  as 
Uncle  Santly.  lie  died  Januar}'  12,  i<S27,  in 
the  si.vty-fourth  year  of  his  age.  They  had  a 
family  of  eleven  children,  of  whom  David  N., 
the  special  subject  of  this  biographical  sketch, 
was  the  seventh -horn.  Their  tlaughter  Mary 
M.,  the  ne.Nt  younger  child,  became  a  very  suc- 
cessful teacher,  being  endowed  with  a  strong 
personality  and  a  remarkable  gift  for  imparting 
knowledge.  She  began  teaching  at  the  age  of 
eighteen,  and  taught  in  Henniker  and  Warner 
until  1828.  Going  then  to  Cambridge,  Wash- 
ington County,  N.  Y.,  she  taught  in  that  local- 
ity twenty  )'ears.  In  1 S44  she  received  a 
State  license  on  parchment,  and  continued  her 
lajjors  until  1S69,  devoting  forty-nine  years  to 
the  education  of  the  young.  Her  husband, 
Hervey  Culver,  to  whom  she  was  married  in 
1846,  dying  in  1S75,  she  removed  to  Vassar, 
Mich. 

David  N.   Patterson  left    linine   at   the  age  of 


si.vtcen  years,  going  tfi  Wearc  to  work  for  his 
brother-in-law,  John  Chase.  Four  years  later 
he  began  working  at  the  clothier's  trade  with 
his  brother  Joab,  a  woollen  manufacturer  in 
Deering,  N.H.  In  1S29  the  two  yoinig  men 
came  to  Contoocook,  establishing  themselves 
in  business,  first  in  carding  rolls,  then  engag- 
ing in  fulling  and  shearing,  eventually  engag- 
ing in  the  full  manufacture  of  cloths,  their  olil 
mills  standing  on  the  site  of  the  present  silk 
factory.  There  were  several  mills  in  that 
vicinity,  including  a  saw-mill,  a  grist-mill,  a 
sash,  door,  and  blind  mill,  a  kit  frctory,  a 
woollen-mill,  etc.,  all  of  which  were  destroyed 
in  the  fall  of  1S71,  the  silk-mill  having  since 
been  erected.  The  Patterson  brothers  contin- 
ued in  business  until  i860,  building  up  a  sub- 
stantial and  profitable  trade  from  one  which 
at  the  beginning  was  largely  an  exchange. 
David  N.  Patterson  continued  his  residence  in 
the  village  until  his  death,  preserving  his 
mental  and  physical  activities  in  a  remarkable 
manner.  He  was  very  influential  in  local 
affairs,  a  strong  worker  in  the  temperance 
cause,  and  an  enthusiastic  laborer  in  the  l-Tee 
Will  Baptist  church,  of  which  he  was  a  mem- 
ber anci  for  si.xteen  years  the  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday-school.  In  1S42  and  1843  he 
was  one  of  the  Selectmen  of  Hopkinton,  and  in 
1845  and  1846  was  a  Representative  to  the 
General  Court.  In  his  younger  days  he  served 
four  years  as  Lieutenant  in  a  company  of 
militia. 

On  March  17,  1830,  David  N.  Patterson 
married  Maria  Woods,  a  daughter  of  William 
S.  and  Betsey  D.  (Dutton)  Woods.  Mr. 
Woods  settled  in  Henniker  in  iSoo,  purchas- 
ing mills  at  West  Henniker,  and  was  the  first 
to  carry  on  the  clothier's  trade  there  to  any 
extent.  A  citizen  of  prominence,  he  served  as 
Selectman  in  1813,  1814,  and  1815,  apd  was 
a  member  of  the  State  legislature  in  1832  and 


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1833.  He  died  at  a  good  old  age,  March  29, 
1847;  and  his  wife  passed  away  October  31, 
1849.  Mrs.  Maria  Woods  Patterson  died  May 
■9.  •''^73i  leaving  four  children,  namely: 
Susan  M.,  wife  of  Captain  D.  Howard,  of 
Concord,  N.  H.  ;  William  A.,  of  Contoocook  ; 
and  Annette  and  Jennette,  twins,  the  former 
of  whom  lives  in  Concord.  The  latter  first 
married  Charles  Upton,  of  Amherst,  N.H., 
and  after  his  death  became  the  wife  of  Charles 
H.  Danforth,  of  Contoocookville.  On  June 
15,  1875,  Mr.  Patterson  married  for  his  second 
wife  Mrs.  Sarah  W.  Batchelder,  widow  of 
Moses  l^atchelder,  and  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Mary  (Gove)  Philbrick,  of  Andover,  N.  H. 
She  died  June  14,  i S90,  aged  seventy-nine 
years  and  eight  months. 

William  A.  Patterson,  born  at  Contoocook- 
ville, N.  H.,  December  12,  1836,  received  but 
a  limited  education,  being  obliged  to  go  into 
the  mill  and  feed  the  carding  machines  as  soon 
as  he  was  tall  enough  to  reach  the  carding 
places.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  went  to 
work  for  his  uncle,  Button  Woods,  a  bridge 
contractor  and  builder,  remaining  with  him 
six  or  more  years.  In  1859  he  entered  the 
blacksmith's  shops  of  the  Northern  Railway 
Company,  continuing  until  March,  1862,  when 
he  returned  to  Contoocook,  accepting  a  posi- 
tion in  the  kit  shop.  On  August  7,  1862, 
Mr.  I'atterson  enlisted  for  a  term  of  three 
years  in  Company  B,  Second  New  Hampshire 
Volunteer  Infantry.  Three  days  later,  August 
10,  his  marriage  with  Olive  Amanda  Allen, 
one  of  New  Hampshire's  brave  and  patriotic 
daughters,  was  solemnized.  The  following 
day  he  was  mustered  into  service,  and,  leav- 
ing his  bride,  joined  the  Army  of  the  Potomac. 
Ten  days  afterward  he  participated  in  the 
second  battle  of  Pull  Run,  was  taken  prisoner, 
kept  in  the  rebel  lines  a  week,  then  jwrolct! 
and   sent  to    Canij)   Parole,    where   he   was   e.v- 


changed.  At  once  returning  to  his  comrades, 
he  joined  them  at  Falmouth,  December  17, 
1862,  while  on  their  retreat  from  the  first 
attack  on  I'redericksburg.  He  subscciuently 
was  at  the  front  in  many  important  battles,  in- 
cluding Gettysburg,  and  saw  much  hard  ser- 
vice. On  July  I,  1864,  he  was  made  Corporal 
of  his  company.  June  7,  1S65,  he  was  dis- 
charged from  the  hosjiital  at  Hampton,  Va. , 
where  he  had  been  ill  for  si.x  months,  although 
he  was  never  wounded. 

On  returning  to  Contoocook,  Mr.  Patterson 
worked  for  a  year  on  the  railway,  and  then  re- 
sumed his  former  employment  with  his  uncle, 
assisting  in  building  bridges  on  the  Concord 
Railroad  for  two  years,  also  working  on  the 
Claremont  and  Passumpsic  railways  for  four 
years.  Since  that  time  he  has  had  charge  of 
the  branch  office  of  Kimball  &  Lane,  under- 
takers, of  Concord,  N.  H.  He  is  now  serving 
his  third  year  as  Town  Treasurer,  besides 
which  he  is  Treasurer  and  one  of  the  stock- 
holders of  the  Contoocook  lilectric  Light 
Company.  He  is  not  an  active  [lolitician,  but 
always  votes  the  straight  Republican  ticket. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  society  connected  with 
the  Methodist  Ljjiscopal  church,  of  which  his 
wife  is  an  active  member.  He  is  one  of  the 
leading  Odd  Fellows  of  this  ]:)lace,  belonging 
to  Kearsarge  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  I-'.,  and  to 
PLagle  luicampment,  and  in  each  bod)'  has  been 
through  all  the  chairs. 

Mrs.  Patterson  is  a  grand-daughter  of  John 
and  Hannah  (Goldthwait)  Allen,  and  a  daugh- 
ter of  Willard  Allen,  who  was  born  in  Cor- 
nish, N.IL,  September  3,  181  i,  ami  died  in 
Contoocook,  June  21,  18S2.  Mr.  Allen  was 
a  brickmaker  by  trade,  following  it  fust  in 
Chelsea,  Mass.,  and  later  in  Croydon,  this 
State.  In  1853  he  came  to  Contoocook,  ami 
in  company  with  Warren  M.  Kempton  started 
a    factfiry    for    making    mackerel    kits    in    the 


JUOGKArilKJAI,    RI-;ViEVV 


»9 


hiiildini^  now  cicciipiL-d  liy  J.  I.  Monill  as  a 
saw-mill.  He  iiad  varinus  iiaitncrs,  usually 
one  of  the  Monills,  and  continued  in  active 
business  about  twenty-five  years.  In  i<S3She 
married  Elvira  Stone,  of  (irantham,  a  dau<,d)ter 
of  Daniel  Stone.  She  died  October  17,  iS.Si, 
just  a  few  months  prior  to  his  demise.  They 
reared  two  children,  namely:  Olive  Amanda, 
now  Mrs.  I'atteison ;  and  Walton  Terkins 
Allen,  of   llopkinton,   N.  II. 


/  3)  I'OkCb;    WAi.i.Aci'.    i-tsiii<:r,    a 

\  p  I  well-known  faiiner  in  lioscawen, 
N.ll.,  was  born  June  26,  1837,  in 
New  London,  this  State.  1 1  is  father,  Levi 
l'"isher,  was  a  native  of  Francestown,  N.IL; 
and  his  mother,  Fannie  Wilkins  Fisher,  was 
born  June  12,   1 808,  in  Merrimack. 

Mr.  I""isher's  ancestors  can  be  traced  back 
nine  generations,  as  follows:  Anthony  F'isher 
first,  who  is  said  to  have  lived  at  Wignotte,  in 
.S)'leham  Parish,  I'".n<;land,  married  Mary 
F'iske,  dau,i;htcr  of  William  and  Anne  I''iskc, 
of  St.  James,  South  Klmshani,  County  Suffolk. 
He  doubtless  died  at  Syleham,  as  he  was 
buried  there  April  11,  1640.  Anthony  sec- 
ond, the  third  child  of  Anthony  first  and 
Mary,  and  one  of  a  family  of  six  children,  was 
baptized  at  Syleham,  County  Suffolk,  England, 
April  23,  1591.  He  came  to  New  England 
with  his  wife  Mary  and  his  children  in  the 
ship  "Rose,"  Jime  26,  1637,  and  settled  at 
Dorchester,  Mass.  He  was  made  a  freeman, 
May,  1645.  His  first  wife  dieil,  doubtless  in 
Dorchester;  and  he  married,  in  1663,  Isabel, 
widow  of  Edward  Breck.  He  held  the  office 
of  Selectman  in  Dorcliester.  On  May  5, 
1662,  he  was  allowed  by  the  town  four  pounds 
for  killing  six  wolves.  He  died  intestate, 
April  18,  \C>7\,  in  his  eightieth  year.  An- 
thony third,  his  eldest   son,  settled  in  Dedhani 


in  1637.  He  married  .Se])tember  7,  1^)47, 
Joanna,  only  ilaugliter  of  'I'homas  and  Joan 
I'"axon,  of  Hraintrec.  He  removed  from  JJcd- 
ham  to  Dorchester,  where  he  died  i-'cbruary 
13,  1670.  His  widow  died  October  16,  jCxj^. 
Their  youngest  son,  F^ieazer,  the  fourth  in 
line,  born  at  Dcdham,  September  18,  i66g, 
died  there  February  6,  1722.  He  married 
October  13,  1698,  Mary,  daughter  of  William 
and  Mary  (Lane)  Avery.  She  was  born  Au- 
gust 21,  1674,  and  died  at  Stoughton,  March 
25,  1749. 

Their  son  David  was  born  in  Dcdham,  June 
21,  1705.  The  s]iot  where  l^avid's  hf)usc 
stood  in  South  Dedham  is  even  now  well 
known.  Lie  married  first  Deborah  lioyden, 
second  Elizabeth  Talbot.  The  fornicr  died 
in  July,  1770,  aged  fifty-nine  years.  David 
Fisher,  first,  died  July  30,  1779.  His  chil- 
dren, all  by  his  first  wife,  were:  David, 
second,  born  January  22,  1733;  Thomas; 
Jacob;  Deborah;  Hannah;  Nathan;  Oliver; 
Abigail;  Mary;  and  Abner,  the  youngest, 
born  Jmie  20,    i  755. 

David  second,  eldest  son  of  David  anil 
Deborah  Fisher,  and  the  sixth  in  the  ancestral 
line,  married  Abigail  Lewis,  September  21, 
1758,  and  settled  on  Morse  Hill  in  Sharon 
(then  Stoughtonham),  Mass.,  where  David 
third,  who  represents  the  seventh  generation, 
was  born  June  26,  1759.  He  married  Mehita- 
ble  Ilewins,  born  in  Sharon,  I-'ebruary  20, 
1762. 

David  Fisher  third,  with  other  settlers  from 
Dedham  and  Sharon,  removed  to  Francestown 
about  the  year  .1780,  and  cleared  the  farm 
known  as  the  Jones  Whitfield  place,  on  the 
north  eastern  slope  of  Oak  Hill.  Here  he 
reared  a  family  of  thirteen  children.  He  was 
large  and  athletic,  his  common  weight,  when 
in  the  prime  and  vigor  of  life,  being  two 
hundred   and    fifty  pounds.      He  was   known    in 


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ha{h  Dedham  and  Franccstown  as  "King 
David."  He  entered  the  Revolutionary  army 
when  sixteen  years  of  age.  He  died  in  Fran- 
cestovvn,  November  8,  1829;  iiis  wife,  Mehit- 
able,  died  in  the  same  town,  May  4,  1849. 
Their  children,  who  were  of  the  eighth  gener- 
ation, and  all  save  one  born  in  F"raiicestown, 
were:  Mehitablc,  born  February  iS,  17S2, 
married  Ebenezer  Burtt,  of  Hancock,  and 
died  in  Franccstown,  September  17,  1S54; 
David,  born  December  15,  1783,  married 
Nancy  Chandler,  of  Canton,  Mass.,  and  died 
in  Charlotte,  Me.,  March  11,  1842;  Ebenezer, 
born  August  11,  1785,  married  Sarah  Johnson, 
of  Sharon,  Mass.,  went  to  Charlotte,  Me., 
where  he  was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  held 
various  official  positions,  besides  representing 
the  town  in  the  legislature,  and  died  at  Char- 
lotte, February  4,  1850;  Juel,  born  July  16, 
1787,  married  Anna  Gage,  of  Merrimack,  died 
in  Bedford,  August  23,  1834;  Susannah,  born 
in  Sharon,  November  5,  1790,  married  Asa 
Howe,  of  Merrimack,  died  in  Cooper,  Me., 
F'ebruary  26,  i860;  Increase,  born  July  17, 
1792,  married  Flunice  Johnson,  of  Sharon,  died 
in  Charlotte,  May  11,  1866;  Flnoch  H.,  born 
March  16,  1794,  married  Ro.xana  Lakin,  of 
1'rancestown,  died  December  17,  1S82,  at 
Charlotte,  Me.  ;  Benjamin,  born  b'ebruary  22, 
1796,  married  Mary  Starboard,  of  Portland, 
Me.,  died  in  I'rancestown,  March  13,  1848; 
Asa,  born  October  i,  1798,  married  Mary 
Gage,  of  Merrimack,  died  in  Sutton,  Febru- 
ary 28,  1846;  Nancy,  born  October  10,  1800, 
married  Walter  Chadwick,  of  Sutton,  died  in 
l-'rancestown,  February  28,  1841  ;  Levi  (father 
of  George  W.  Fisher),  born  March  14,  1803, 
married  l*\anny  VVilkins,  daughter  oi  Alexan- 
der Wilkins,  of  Merrimack,  was  a  farmer, 
and  resided  at  Merrimack,  where  he  died  No- 
vember 29,  1880;  Mary,  born  April  17,  1805, 
married   Jefferson   Jones,   of    New  ]5oston,  also 


William  I^ovejoy,  of  Amherst,  died  in  Goffs- 
town,  March  24,  18S2;  and  Thomas,  born  May 
12,  1808,  married  Lydia  Hanson,  of  Weare, 
was  a  cabinet-maker,  resided  in  Weare,  N.H., 
where  he  died  December  18,  1834. 

Levi  Fisher  was  a  farmer.  He  removed 
from  New  London  to  Merrimack  when  his  son, 
George  W. ,  was  five  years  old;  and  he  died 
there,  November  29,  1880.  H  is  wife  survives 
him,  and  lives  with  her  son,  Levi  W. ,  in 
Merrimack.  Their  children  were  five  in  num- 
ber, as  follows:  Levi  W. ,  Sarah  W.,  George 
W. ,  Anna  L. ,  and  Cynthia  M.  The  first  of 
these,  Levi  W. ,  was  born  September  ig, 
1829.  He  married  Lucy  A.  Freeman,  who 
died  January  26,  1875.  He  then  married 
Frances  E.  Bowen.  There  was  one  child  by 
the  first  marriage,  Maria  L. ,  now  the  wife  of 
Frank  P.  McAfee,  of  Nashua.  By  the  second 
marriage  there  were  three  children  :  F'annie 
W.,  Ella  Grace,  and  Edwin  Milo,  the  first 
born  March  9,  1884,  the  second  March  3, 
1886,  and  the  third  .September  20,  i88g;  all 
are  living  at  home.  Levi  F^isher's  second 
child,  .Sarah  W.,  was  born  P'cbruary  6,  1832, 
and  married  Chester  Bui  lard,  of  Nashua. 
Both  are  now  deceased,  he  having  died  Novem- 
ber 12,  1884,  and  she  January  3,  1896.  They 
had  no  children.  Anna  L.  was  born  March 
4,  1840,  and  married  Hazen  G.  Dodge,  a 
farmer  of  Merrimack,  born  August  24,  1837. 
They  reside  there,  and  have  one  child  — 
Elwin  FI.,  a  machinist  in  Nashua,  born  De- 
cember 4,  1867.  Cynthia  M.  was  Inirn  Janu- 
ary 14,  1843,  and  became  the  wife  of  Eilwin 
M.  Shepherd,  a  watch-maker  and  jeweller  of 
Maiden,  Mass.,  where  they  reside.  The)' have 
two  children:  Grace  pjiicry,  wife  of  Charles 
Bennett,  of  Maiden  ;  and  l-"lorcncc,  a  teacher 
in  Chelsea,  Mass. 

George  \V. ,  llic  direct  subject  of  the  present 
sketch,    remained    at    Imme    with    iiis    parents 


i;i<)(;u  Ai'iiKAi, 


.VIIvW 


until  lie  was  ciglitccn  years  did,  when  he  went 
t(i  Nashua,  where  lie  engaged  in  the  sash, 
door,  and  blind  husiiicss  for  live  }'ears.  On 
Oetiiher  7,  1S61,  he  enlisted  in  Company  I, 
Seventh  New  Ilani|)shire  Volunteers,  untler 
Colonel  Putnam  and  Captain  Joseph  ]'"rcsch]. 
lie  was  in  engagements  in  South  Carolina  and 
I'diiriila.  On  account  of  poor  health  he  was 
discharged  at  I'ortsmouth  Grove,  R.I.,  Octo- 
ber 29,  \SC)^,  and  returned  to  Merrimack.  lie 
remained  there  till  spring,  then  went  to  Man- 
chester, N.II.,  and  again  entered  into  the  sash 
and  blind  business.  He  also  did  carpentering, 
and  continued  thus  engaged  for  eight  years. 
In  1872  he  came  to  B(jscavven,  and  engaged  in 
carjientering  for  his  father-in-law,  making  no 
change  until  1876,  when  he  bought  his  present 
tarm.  Me  has  carried  on  general  farming  here 
ever  since.  He  owns  two  hundred  and  thirty 
acres,  has  made  various  improvements  on  his 
property,  keeps  three  horses  and  ten  cows, 
and  does  quite  a  dairy  business,  shipping  milk 
to  Boston. 

Mr.  Fisher  was  a  charter  member  of  Kzekiel 
Webster  Grange  at  Boscawen,  has  been  Master 
three  years,  and  has  held  other  offices  in  the 
grange  for  nine  years.  He  is  connected  with 
the  G.  A.  K.,  having  been  a  member  of  a  post 
in  Manchester,  and  being  now  a  member  of 
\V.  I.  Brown  Post  at  Penacook,  N.  H.  Since 
July,  1S68,  he  has  belonged  to  Hillsborough 
I.odge,  No.  2,  I.  O.  O.  v.,  of  Manchester,,  of 
which  he  was  at  one  time  Chaj)lain.  He  has 
been  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  the  past  nineteen 
years,  and  for  four  years  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Selectmen,  being  at  present  Chair- 
man ;  and  has  been  si.x  years  a  member  of  the 
School  Board  and  Chairman  two  years.  He  is 
a  Republican  in  politics  and  an  active  worker 
for  that  party. 

Mr.  Fisher  was  married  December  14,  1865, 
to  Mary  K.  Green,  a  native  of  Litchfield,  born 


December  6,  1836.  She  was  the  daughter  of 
Hartwell  W.  and  .Sarah  (Turner)  Green,  of 
Merrimack,  both  of  whom  are  now  dead.  Mrs. 
I'"isher  died  y\pril  1,  1868;  and  Mr.  I'isher 
was  married  November  30,  1869,  to  Esther 
P.  Coffin,  of  Boscawen,  who  was  born  Decem- 
ber 15,  1843,  a  daughter  of  Peter  and  ICunicc 
(Couch)  Coffiii,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
native  of  Boscawen  and  the  latter  of  Webster. 
By  this  second  marriage  there  were  three  chil- 
dren—  George  V.,  Winfred,  and  Levi  P. 
George  F.  was  born  June  23,  1871,  mar- 
ried in  1896  Lizzie  A.  Bachelder,  of  North- 
field,  and  is  engaged  at  home  on  the  farm. 
Winfred  was  born  May  i  S,  1S73,  was  gradu- 
ated at  Bryant  &  .Stratton  Commercial  Col- 
lege, Manchester,  and  became  a  member  of  the 
firm  of  Balch,  Chandler  &  Co.,  grocers,  in 
Penacook.  He  died  l-"ebruary  23,  1896.  Levi 
P.,  born  October  12,  1876,  was  graduated  at 
the  above  college  and  is  now  at  home. 

Mr.  Fisher  and  his  wife  both  belong  to  the 
Congregational  church,  of  which  he  has  been 
a  member  at  Nashua,  Manchester,  and  Bos- 
cawen for  thirty-eight  years ;  and  he  has  been 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  for  three 
years. 


Ji 


ANI1;L  GIL:\IAN  CHP:SLFV,  one 
of  the  largest  land-owners  of  Epsom, 
Merrimack  County,  was  born  upon 
the  farm  he  now  occupies,  July  2,  1S37,  son  of 
John  and  Joanna  (Tibbetts)  Chesley.  The 
Chesley  family  is  believed  to  be  of  English 
origin;  and  the  great-grandfather  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch  was  Lemuel  Chesley,  who 
resided  in  Lee,  X.  H. 

Mis  son,  John  Chesley,  Sr. ,  grandfather  of 
Daniel  Gilman,  was  born  in  Lee.  When  a 
young  man  he  went  to  Chichester,  N.  M., 
where     he     learned     blacksmithing    of    James 


BlakL 


After    his    marriage    he    settled    in 


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Epsom  nnd  coiitimit.'cl  to  work  at  his  trade  for 
some  time.  He  also  followed  agricultural 
pursuits  quite  extensively  in  this  town,  and 
kept  a  hotel.  He  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty 
years.  He  married  Betsey  Blake,  sister  of 
James  Blake,  with  whom  he  served  his  appren- 
ticeship. Betsey  Blake  was  a  daughter  of 
Samuel  Blake,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Epsom,  who  purchased  from  the  Indians  a 
large  tract  of  land  near  the  centre  of  the  town 
for  the  paltry  sum  of  ten  shillings,  and  turned 
in  his  jack-knife  for  one  shilling  of  that  sum. 
Samuel  Blake,  generally  called  Sergeant 
]51ake,  came  to  Epsom  at  the  age  of  fifteen  ; 
and  several  years  later  his  father.  Lieutenant 
]51ake,  moved  into  town.  In  the  early  days 
the  frontier  settlers  were  kept  in  a  state  of 
almost  continual  alarm  by  the  incursions  of 
the  Indians,  whose  ferocity  and  cruelty  were 
doubtless  very  much  averted  by  friendly  con- 
ciliating conduct  on  the  part  of  the  white  in- 
habitants toward  them.  This  was  particularly 
the  case  in  the  course  pursued  by  Sergeant 
Blake.  Being  himself  a  skilful  marksman  and 
an  expert  hunter,  evincing  traits  of  character 
and  abilities  in  their  view  of  the  highest  order, 
he  soon  gained  their  respect;  and  by  kind 
treatment  he  secured  their  friendship  to  such  a 
degree  that,  though  they  had  opportunities, 
they  would  not  injure  him  even  in  time  of 
war.  An  industrious  pioneer,  he  cleared  and 
im[)roved  a  good  farm,  which  is  now  owned 
by  his  descendants,  Daniel  Gilman  Chesley 
and  John  y\ugustus  Chesley.  John  and  ]5etsey 
(Blake)  Chesley  had  a  family  of  si.\  children; 
namely,  John,  Samuel  M.,  Betsey,  Jonathan 
S. ,  James  15.,  and  Josiah  C. ,  none  of  whom  are 
now  living.  The  death  of  Mrs.  Betsey  ]?. 
Chesley  occurred  previous  to  that  of  her  hus- 
band. 

John    Chesley,     Jr.,     Daniel     (1.     Chesley's 
father,  was   b(jrn    in  Epsom,  and  was  a  lifelong 


resident  of  this  town.  In  his  younger  days  he 
was  engaged  in  teaching  school ;  but  he  later 
served  an  apprenticeship  at  the  blacksmith's 
trade,  and  followed  it  in  connection  with 
farming  during  his  active  ]3eriod.  He  suc- 
ceeded to  the  ownership  of  the  IMakc  home- 
stead, and  resided  here  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  when  he  was  eighty-three  years  and 
six  months  old.  His  wife,  Joanna  Tibbetts, 
whom  he  married  August  2i,  1834,  was  born 
in  Madbury,  N.H.,  daughter  of  Israel  and 
Susan  (Emerson)  Tibbetts.  Her  grandfather 
on  her  mother's  side,  Smith  Emerson,  was  an 
officer  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  wife 
was  a  Thompson.  Her  grandmother  Tib- 
betts's  maiden  name  was  Joanna  Eulchar. 
Eleven  children  were  born  to  John  and  Joanna 
(Tibbetts)  Chesley,  and  of  these  three  are 
deceased  ;  namely,  Margaret  Ann,  Ellen  Eran- 
ces,  and  Etta  Oryntha.  The  eight  living  are: 
Almira  Blake;  Daniel  Gilman,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  John  Augustus;  Lizzie  Joanna; 
Lydia  Addie;  Emma  Susan;  Edward  Monroe; 
and  Ellen  Erances.  Almira  Blake  Chesley 
married  Alfred  Kimball,  of  Haverhill,  Mass., 
and  her  children  are:  Clara  Wood,  Susie 
Clarke,  Myrtle  Lydia,  Everett  Alfred,  and 
Arthur  Russell.  Lizzie  J.  is  the  wife  of 
Warren  Kimball,  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and 
the  mother  (if  Alice  Graham,  \'ictor  Orange, 
and  Lizzie  Wood.  Lydia  Addie  is  now  Mrs. 
Charles  W.  b'rench,  of  VVarrensburg,  111.,  and 
has  five  children  —  Herbert,  Clara,  Laura, 
Olive,  and  another  whose  name  is  unknown  to 
the  present  writer.  luinna  Susan  married 
Orange  E.  Sackett,  resides  in  Central  City, 
Neb.,  and  has  seven  children  Lizzie  Kim- 
ball, Arthin-  Ru.ssell,  Dwight,  Alton  Veasey, 
Robert  McKinley,  Hazel,  and  Mira.  Edward 
M.  Chesley  married  for  his  first  wife  b'lora 
Ayer  ;  and  Iiy  that  union  there  was  one  child, 
luta,  who  (lied  at  the  age   of    lour  years.       His 


IWOCR  AI'IIKAI, 


lA  IKW 


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scciuul  wife  was  licfdic  nianiage  I'"lla  Kugg, 
of  I  lavciliill,  Mass.  ;  and  tlie  children  by  this 
nniiiii  arc:  Ciiailuttc  l-'. ,  lulvvard  (i.,  and 
Maiioii.  l'!llcii  !''.  is  now  the  widow  of 
Ciiailcs  W.  Maitin,  late  of  Pittsficld,  N.ll., 
and  has  no  children.  Margaret  Ann  married 
Daniel  Yeaton,  of  ]'",]-)som.  Mrs.  Joanna  T. 
Cheslcy  is  now  residing  at  the  homestead,  and 
has  reached  the  age  of  nearly  eighty-one  years. 
She  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 

Daniel  Gilman  Chesley  acquired  a  good 
education  in  schools  in  his  native  town,  in 
Pittsfield,  and  Pembroke.  After  completing 
his  studies,  he  engaged  in  educational  work, 
and  taught  twenty-nine  (mostly  winter)  terms 
of  school  in  Illinois  and  New  Hampshire.  He 
eventually  settled  at  the  homestead,  where  he 
now  resides;  and  he  devotes  his  time  and  at- 
tention to  the  cultivation  of  his  farm  with  the 
same  energy  and  ])erseverance  which  character- 
ized his  ancestors. 

On  November  25,  1888,  Mr.  Chesley  mar- 
ried Olive  Elnora  .Sanborn,  a  daughter  of 
Nathan  B.  and  Ruth  (Cousens)  Sanborn.  Her 
father  was  a  native  of  Gilmanton,  N.H.,  the 
son  of  Jonathan  T.  and  Hannah  (Page)  San- 
born; and  his  mother  was  the  daughter  of 
Andrew  and  Elizabeth  Page,  the  latter  being  a 
cousin  of  Daniel  Webster,  and  also  related  to 
the  Greeley  family  of  which  Horace  Greeley 
was  a  member,  Ruth  Ann  Cousens,  a  native 
of  Kennebunk,  Me.,  was  a  daughter  of  Jere- 
miah M.  and  P^liza  (Kimball)  Cousens,  the 
former  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812.  Olive 
Elnora  Sanborn  was  born  in  Thornton,  N.  H., 
where  her  parents,  who  were  industrious  farm- 
ing ])eople,  resitleil  for  a  period  of  twelve 
years,  removing  then  to  Gilmanton,  where 
they  passed  the  remainder  of  their  days. 
Nathan  B.  Sanborn  was  identified  with  public 
affairs,  and  served  as  a  Selectman  in  Thorn- 
ton.     He   lived    to  be   seventy  years   old,   and 


his  wife  to  the  age  of  sixty-.six.  They  had  a 
family  of  seven  children,  of  whom  six  arc  now 
living.  Olive  ]■:.  (Mrs.  Chesley)  was  the 
third-born.  She  was  educated  in  tiie  schools 
of  Gilmanton,  graduated  from  Gilmanton 
Academy,  and  became  a  teacher  in  the  jjuhlic 
schools,  teaching  previous  to  her  marriage 
twenty-eight  terms  of  school  in  New  Hamj)- 
shire  and  Maine.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  l-lpiscopal  church.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Chesley  have  three  children  :  Elnora  Sanborn, 
who  was  born  September  i,  1889;  Mabel 
Elorence,  born  September  4,  1893;  and  John 
Gilman,  born   March  29,   1895. 

In  politics  Mr.  Chesley  is  a  Democrat.  He 
served  as  Superintendent  of  Schools  for  fifteen 
years,  was  a  member  of  the  School  Board  six 
years,  was  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen 
for  two  years,  Town  Treasurer  four  years,  and 
Town  Clerk  two  years.  He  has  also  held 
other  offices  and  is  now  Auditor.  He  stands 
high  in  the  estimation  of  his  fellow-townsmen, 
who  regard  him  as  one  of  the  most  upright. 
conscientious,  and  worthy  of  citizens. 


ILLIAM  E.  WESTGATE,  a  lead- 
ing farmer  and  stock-raiser  of  Cor- 
nish, Sullivan  County,  was  born 
December  9,  1840,  at  Plainfield,  N.H.,  son  of 
Earl  and  Sarah  Chase  (Cole)  Westgate.  His 
great-grandfather,  John  Westgate,  married 
Grace  Church,  of  Tiverton,  R.  I.,  w-ho  was  a 
descendant  of  Colonel  Benjamin  Church,  fa- 
mous in  King  Philip's  War  in  Colonial  times. 
They  had  eleven  children  —  Betsy,  John, 
Lydia,  Earl,  Priscilla,  Mary,  George,  Will- 
iam, Joseph,  Benjamin,  and  Hannah.  Earl 
Westgate,  grandfather  of  William  E. ,  came 
with  his  father  to  Plainfield  in  177S,  and  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Waite,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Annie    Swetzer,    of    Hubbardston,  -Mass. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


Their  children     were:    Elizabeth,    John,    Na- 
thaniel, Anna,  George,  and  Earl. 

Earl  Westgate  (second)  was  born  at  Plain- 
field,  December  17,  iSoS,  and  was  educated 
in  the  town  schools.  After  completing  his 
education,  he  lived  on  the  home  farm  with 
his  father  until  the  latter  died,  when  he  took 
entire  charge.  A  very  religious  man,  he  has 
been  a  member  and  a  Deacon  of  the  Baptist 
church  for  more  than  fifty  years.  He  has 
never  joined  any  of  the  secret  fraternities,  and 
has  never  held  public  office,  preferring  rather 
the  quiet  of  his  own  fireside  to  the  more  active 
life  of  a  public  man.  The  first  of  his  two 
marriages  was  contracted  with  Sarah  Chase 
Cole,  of  Plainfield,  who,  born  November  24, 
I  Si  5,  died  January  18,  1S76.  She  was  the 
mother  of  William  E.,  Martha  E. ,  Edith  S., 
Julia  A.,  Mary  E.,  and  Daniel  C.  Westgate. 
liarl  Westgate's  second  wife,  in  maidenhood 
Abigail  M.  Camp,  of  Hanover,  is  now  de- 
ceased. Martha,  Mr.  Westgate's  eldest 
daughter,  born  in  Plainfield,  January  g,  1842, 
married  F"reeman  Holt,  of  Lyme,  N.  H.,  a 
farmer,  and  is  now  living  at  Plainfield.  Edith 
S.,  born  June  21,  1846,  married  Carlos  D. 
Colby,  a  farmer  of  Plainfield,  and  had  eight 
children,  seven  of  whom  are  living.  Julia, 
born  August  8,  1848,  died  soon  after  leaving 
school.  Mary,  born  November  i,  1852,  died 
at  the  age  of  ten  years.  Daniel,  born  June  4, 
1857,  lives  on  the  farm  at  Plainfield  with  his 
father,  and  is  now  Selectman  of  the  town.  He 
married  Clara  J.  Stone,  of  Plainfield,  and  has 
two  children  —  Mary  E.  and  Bessie  S. 

William  E.  Westgate  received  his  early 
education  at  Plainfield  and  in  Kimball  Union 
Academy.  Not  long  after,  he  settled  cjn  a 
farm  formerly  owned  by  Mr.  ]?ryant.  He  has 
since  jiurchased  the  property,  and  is  living 
there  still.  Mr.  Westgate  has  been  pidinincnt 
in  the  iniblic  affairs  of  the  town,  and  has  been 


honored  by  his  fellow-townsmen  by  ajipoint- 
ment  to  various  offices  of  trust  and  responsi- 
bility. He  has  been  Collector  of  Ta.xes  ;  for 
three  years  Selectman;  in  1895  he  was  sent  to 
the  State  legislature,  where  he  served  on  the 
Committee  on  Labor;  and  he  was  elected 
County  Commissioner  in  1896.  Mr.  West- 
gate's  farm  is  rich  and  fertile;  and  his  build- 
ings are  commodious,  of  improved  style,  and 
in  excellent  condition.  Besides  carrying  on 
general  farming,  he  raises  considerable  stock. 
Mr.  Westgate  was  united  in  matrimony 
with  Charlotte  E.  Bryant,  of  Cornish,  daugh- 
ter of  Daniel  and  Chloe  (Hildreth)  Bryant. 
They  have  two  children  ^  Earle  and  Martha 
E.  Earle,  born  May  25,  1865,  after  complet- 
ing his  education,  worked  on  the  farm  for  a 
time.  He  is  now  employed  at  the  creamery, 
where  he  oversees  the  making  of  butter  known 
all  over  the  country  as  Hill  Side  Creamery 
Butter.  He  married  Angle  L.  Chadbourne, 
daughter  of  William  E.  Chadbourne,  of  Cor- 
nish. Martha  Westgate  was  born  in  Cornish, 
March  8,  1869,  and  was  educated  in  the  Cor- 
nish schools  and  in  the  high  school  at  Wind- 
sor, from  which  she  graduated.  Afterward, 
becoming  a  very  successful  and  ])()pu]ar 
teacher,  she  taught  school  for  fifteen  terms. 
She  and  her  husband,  I{lvvin  W.  Ouimby,  of 
Cornish,  now  reside  with  her  parents.  The 
circumstances  attending  the  removal  of  Mr. 
Westgate  and  his  wife  from  Plainfield  to  Cor- 
nish are  vividly  impressed  on  his  mind.  it 
was  in  the  spring  of  1862,  when  the  snow  lay 
five  or  si.\  feet  deeji  on  the  level,  and  was 
coveretl  by  a  crust  so  solid  that  teams  rode  on 
it  over  fences  and  fields,  witlu)ut  breaking 
through,  a  condition  of  things  which  lasted 
until  the  middle  of  April.  Mr.  Westgate  is  a 
I'^ree  Mason  and  loiineily  belonged  to  the 
grange.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  earnest 
members  of  the    jiantist   Church  of   Plainfield. 


BIOGRAl'HICAI,    KKV'IEW 


Mrs.  Westgate,  wlio  lias  a  musical  taste,  was 
organist  of  the  church  for  some  years  both 
before  and  after  her  marriage. 


jUWIN  A.  TYRRELL,  a  highly  es- 
tceiiied  citizen  of  llookset,  IMcrrimack 
County,  iM'oniinent  in  town  affairs, 
has  been  station  agent  and  Postmaster  at 
Martin  Depot  since  1SS7,  a  continuous  ser- 
vice of  ten  years  in  the  two  positions,  an  hon- 
orable record  which  speaks  for  itself.  He 
was  born  May  15,  i.Ssi,  in  Paxton,  Mass.,  a 
son  of  Jesse  D.  Tyrrell.  His  grandfather, 
Jesse  Tyrrell,  was  of  Massachusetts  birth,  but 
removetl  from  that  State  to  Vermont,  settling 
in  the  town  of  Waterville,  where  he  carried 
on  general  farming  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred at  a  ri[)e  old  age. 

Jesse  D.  Tyrrell  was  born  June  2,  1825,  in 
Bakersfield,  Vt.,  and  spent  a  large  part  of  his 
life  in  that  State.  He  learned  the  shoe- 
maker's trade  when  young,  and  followed  it  in 
connection  with  his  agricultural  labors  until 
the  fall  of  1S63,  when  he  enlisted  in  the 
Seventh  Vermont  Regiment.  He  died  Feb- 
ruary "6,  1864,  soon  after  being  mustered  into 
service  in  ]?rattleboro,  Vt.  He  was  a  hard- 
working man,  industrious  and  thrifty,  as  well 
as  a  patriotic  citizen,  and  was  greatly  re- 
spected by  all  with  whom  he  had  dealings. 
His  wife,  formerly  Mary  Ann  Tyler,  survived 
him  but  three  years,  passing  to  the  life  eter- 
nal January  6,  1S67.  ]5oth  were  dee[)ly  re- 
ligious, and  were  active  members  of  the  Meth- 
odist church.  Of  the  five  children  born  of 
their  union  but  two  are  now  living,  as  fol- 
lows: Alfred  H.,  born  in  Princeton,  Mass., 
December  5,  1849,  who  married  lillen  Prouty, 
of  Paxton,  Mass.,  and  has  two  children  — 
Mabel  and  ]'",lla;  and  lulwin  A.,  the  special 
subject  of  this  personal  sketch. 


Edwin  A.  Tyrrell  was  but  two  years  of  age 
when  his  parents  removed  to  Cambridge,  Vt. , 
where  he  first  attended  school.  After  com- 
pleting his  education  at  Troy,  Vt. ,  he,  by  the 
death  of  his  i)arents  having  been  left  depend- 
ent in  a  large  measure  on  his  own  resources, 
went  to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  where  he  ob- 
tained a  situation  in  the  Manchester  ?iiill. 
Proving  himself  able  and  faithful  in  every  po- 
sition in  which  he  was  placed,  he  retained  his 
connection  with  the  mill  for  eighteen  years, 
being  second  hand  in  the  harness  shop  when 
he  left.  On  September  i,  1887,  Mr.  Tyrrell 
located  in  Hookset,  having  accepted  the  posi- 
tion of  station  agent  at  Martin  Depot;  and 
during  the  same  year,  under  President  Cleve- 
land's administration,  he  received  the  appoint- 
ment of  Postmaster.  During  his  residence  in 
Hookset  he  has  been  prominently  identified 
with  the  best  interests  of  the  place,  and  has 
served  in  important  offices,  having  been  Super- 
visor in  1890  and  1891,  and  ever  since  that 
time  a  member  of  the  lioard  of  Selectmen. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Trade  of 
llookset;  and  he  was  appointed  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  this  county  by  Governor  Ramsdell 
in  P'cbruary,  1897.  I'raternally,  he  is  an  ac- 
tive member  of  Wildy  Lodge,  No.  45, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Manchester,  N.H.,  in  which 
he  served  one  term  as  Outside  Guardian. 

On  May  2,  1871,  Mr.  Tyrrell  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Miss  Junia  A.  lila,  of  Hook- 
set, who  was  a  woman  of  fine  character,  much 
beloved  by  all  who  knew  her,  and  a  faithful 
member  of  the  Methodist  church.  She  died 
May  16,  1885,  leaving  three  children,  the  fol- 
lowing being  their  record:  Lcona  O. ,  born 
February  19,  1875,  resides  in  Hookset, 
N.  H.  ;  Arthur  J.,  who  was  bom  September 
21,  1876,  is  connected  with  the  passenger  de- 
partment of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  and 
resides  in    Concord,    N.H.;    and    Wesley  E. , 


BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


born  August  31,  1879,  is  a  resident  of  Hook- 
set.  On  December  24,  1885,  Mr.  Tyrrell 
was  married'  to  Miss  Augusta  R.  Hatch,  a 
daughter  of  Deacon  Samuel  Hatch,  of  Maiden, 
Mass.  She  was  born  in  Derry,  N.H.,  De- 
cember 25,  1852.  At  one  time  she  was  a 
member  of  the  Second  Advent  church  in 
Manchester;  but  she  withdrew  from  that,  and 
at  present  is  not  connected  with  any  church. 
A  devoted  wife,  Mrs.  Tyrrell  has  been  a  kind 
and  loving  mother  to  the  children  left  to  her 
care,  and  is  loved  and  respected  by  them  all. 


^YLVANUS  VV.  BRYANT,  of  Cor- 
nish Flat,  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Cornish,  October  23,  1839,  son  of 
Sylvanus  W.  and  Sophia  (Woodward)  Bryant. 
He  comes  of  a  robust,  tenacious,  and  progres- 
sive family,  representatives  of  which  fought 
in  the  P"rench  and  Indian  War,  were  officers 
in  the  Continental  army  under  Washington, 
and  have  attained  distinction  in  politics,  the 
army  and  navy,  the  learned  professions,  and 
the  arts  and  sciences.  Among  these  none 
have  been  more  widely  known  and  beloved 
than  New  England's  poet  of  nature,  the  late' 
William  Cullen  Bryant. 

Sylvanus  W.  Bryant  traces  his  genealogy  to 
Stephen  Bryant,  who  came  from  the  west  of 
England  in  1643,  and  settled  in  the  Plymouth 
Colony  at  Duxbury,  Mass.  He  married  Abi- 
gail Shaw,  who  was  born  in  England,  and 
came  to  this  country  with  her  father,  John 
Shaw,  in  1632.  William  Cullen  Bryant  be- 
longed to  the  si.xth  generation  descended  from 
Stephen.  Lieutenant  John  Bryant  married 
the  daughter  of  Stephen  liryant  at  IMymouth 
on  November  23,  1665.  Notiiing  is  known  of 
him  prior  to  that  date,  iiis  children  ntun- 
bered  seven.  Samuel,  the  fourth  son,  married 
Joanna  Cole,  and  iiad  seven  children,  four  of 


whom  were  born  in  Plymouth  and  three  in  the 
adjoining  town  of  Plympton.  Samuel,  Jr., 
the  eldest  child,  married  Tabitha,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Joseph  P"ord,  of  Pembroke,  Mass. ; 
and  eleven  children  were  born  to  them.  Syl- 
vanus, the  fourth  child  of  Samuel,  Jr.,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Sears,  daughter  of  Edward  Sears, 
of  Halifa.x,  and  had  a  family  of  six  children. 

Sylvanus  Bryant,  Jr.,  the  third  child  of  his 
parents,  and  the  grandfather  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Con- 
tinental army,  rose  to  the  rank  of  Captain, 
and  did  good  service  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  After  the  war  he  settled  in  Cornish, 
being  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  town.  He 
married  Judith,  daughter  of  Moses  Chase,  and 
had  a  family  of  eight  children.  Sylvanus  W. 
Bryant,  Sr. ,  son  of  Captain  Bryant,  and  the 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born 
in  Cornish,  June  14,  1790,  and  died  August 
17,  1S64.  He  was  a  man  of  unusual  mental 
range,  sound  judgment,  and  of  much  business 
capacity.  His  wife,  Sophia,  was  born  in 
Plainfield,  N.H.,  June  3,  1800,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 3,  1890.  Their  six  children  were: 
John,  Sophia,  Judith,  George,  Sarah  Anne, 
and  Sylvanus  W. 

Sylvanus  W.  Bryant,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  married  Sarah  G.  Smith,  of  West- 
minster, Vt.  They  have  had  three  children, 
namely:  Mary  H.,  now  deceased,  born  Sep- 
tember 6,  1876;  Jennie  S.,  born  June  28, 
1879;  and  George  H.,  JDorn  November  22, 
18S0. 


ON.  HOSEA  VV.  PARKIER,  of 
Claremcjiit,  N.  H.,  attorney  and  coun- 
i®  V  _  sellor  at  law,  was  born  in  Lemjister, 
Sullivan  County,  May  30,  1833,  son  of  ]5en- 
janiin  and  Olive  (Nichols)  Parker.  His 
father  was  an  esteemed  citizen  of  Lcmpster, 
where   he   held   many  positions    of    trust    and 


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responsibility.  He  died  in  1S45,  Icavin;^ 
three  children  —  lunilie,  Hiram,  and  Hosea 
W.  lunilie  L.  marrietl  Ransom  15cckwith 
(deceased),  Ijy  vviiom  she  had  two  sons  —  Wal- 
ter 1'.  and  Hira  R.,  the  I'ornier  a  graduate  of 
Tufts  College  and  the  present  superintend- 
ent of  the  Salem  Normal  School,  the  latter  a 
well-known  architect,  residing  in  Claremont, 
N.H.  llirani  Parker  is  a  merchant  of  Lemp- 
ster,  has  held  different  offices  in  the  town,  and 
has  been  a  Representative  to  the  legislature. 
He  ranks  among  the  most  prosperous  and  en- 
terprising farmers  in  the  county,  and  has  for 
many  years  been  a  prominent  member  of  the 
State  Board  of  Agriculture. 

Hosea  W.  Parker  acquired  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  district  school,  and  at  hf)me  as- 
sisted his  brother  on  the  farm  imtil  he  was 
eighteen  years  old.  He  later  attended  Tubbs 
Union  Academy,  Washington,  and  the  Green 
Mountain  Liberal  Institute,  South  Wood- 
stock, Vt.  luitering  Tufts  College  in  1855, 
he  there  remained  two  years,  and  then  began 
the  study  of  law  in  the  office  of  Burke  & 
Waite,  of  Newport.  While  thus  engaged,  he 
taught  school  in  Newport  and  elsewhere.  In 
1859  he  was  admitted  to  the  Sullivan  County 
bar,  and  began  to  practise  in  his  native  town; 
but  in  the  fall  of  i860  he  removed  to  Clare- 
mont, where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  He 
has  built  up  an  extensive  and  most  excellent 
l>ractice,  antl  is  consiilered  a  very  competent 
counsellor.  He  is  strong  and  influential  in 
the  Supreme  Court,  anil  as  a  draughtsman  of 
legal  documents  it  is  said  he  is  not  excelled 
in  the  State.  His  services  are  in  constant 
demand  wherever  sound  counsel  and  legal 
ability  are  appreciated.  He  was  admitted  to 
practice  in  the  United  States  Circuit  and  Dis- 
trict Courts  in  New  Hampshire,  and  in  1873 
was  admitted  to  the  Supreme  Court  at  Wash- 
ington,  D.C.      He   has   been   engageil   on   one 


side  or  the  other  of  almost  every  important 
case  tried  in  the  county,  and  as  a  lawyer  ranks 
with  the  foremost  of  New  Hampshire. 

Mr.  Parker  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
has  been  a  iirominent  leader  and  worker  in  the 
cause  of  Democracy  ever  since  he  became  a 
voter,  attending  county,  State,  and  national 
conventions.  In  1859  and  i860  he  repre- 
sented the  town  of  Lempstcr  in  the  New 
Hampshire  legislature.  In  1869  he  was  the 
Democratic  candidate  for  member  of  Congress 
from  the  Third  New  Hampshire  District, 
which  had  almost  always  been  Republican; 
and  he  was  defeated  by  Jacob  Benton.  In 
1871  he  was  again  a  candidate,  and  was 
elected;  and  in  1873  he  was  re-elected  by  an 
increased  majority.  "Corruption  was  rife  at 
Washington  during  the  time  of  his  service, 
but  jobbery  and  extravagance  in  every  form 
found  in  Mr.  Parker  a  persistent  opiionent. 
The  Coiignssioiuil  Record  will  show  his  vote 
recorded  against  every  jobbery,  subsidy,  and 
plunder  scheme,  of  whatever  description, 
brought  before  Congress  during  his  term  of 
service,  and  in  support  of  every  measure  cal- 
culated to  promote  the  interests  of  the  masses 
of  the  people,  and  especially  in  the  direction 
of  revenue  reform.  There  and  everywhere 
he  has  been  earnest  and  outspoken  in  op|JOsi- 
tion  to  those  features  of  the  tariff  laws 
calculated  to  enrich  the  few  at  the  ex- 
pense of  the  many.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Committee  on  Education  and  Labor,  and 
also  of  the  Committee  on  Patents,  rendering 
valuable  service  in  both  committees.  It  was 
in  the  Forty-third  Congress,  as  a  member 
of  the  last-named  committee,  that  Mr.  Parker 
rendered  his  constituents  and  the  people  of 
the  entire  country  a  ser\^ice  of  inestimable 
value.  It  was  at  this  time  that  the  patents 
held  by  the  great  sewing-machine  monoply,  a 
combination  of  the  leading  companies  entered 


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into  for  the  purpose  of  keeping  up  the  enor- 
mous prices  of  the  machines,  were  about  ex- 
piring; and  a  determined  effort  was  made  to 
secure  an  extension.  A  powerful  lobby  was 
employed,  and  money  without  stint  was  at  its 
command.  I'lvery  possible  argument  and  ap- 
pliance was  brought  to  bear  upon  the  commit- 
tee to  secure  a  report  in  favor  of  extension. 
Mr.  Parker,  with  his  unyielding  hostility  to 
monopoly  and  especial  privilege  in  every  form, 
was  unalterably  opposed  to  such  action  from 
the  start ;  and  it  was  largely  through  his  per- 
sistent efforts  that  the  committee  finally  re- 
ported against  the  extension  by  a  majority  of 
one  vote,  and  the  committee's  report  was  sus- 
tained by  the  House.  A  reduction  of  nearly 
fifty  per  cent,  in  the  price  of  sewing  machines 
soon  followed,  a  result  hailed  with  joy  in  al- 
most every  family  in  the  land." 

After  the  close  of  his  second  Congressional 
term  Mr.  Parker  was  out  of  politics,  giving 
his  time  and  attention  wholly  to  the  practice 
of  his  profession  until  1S92,  when  he  was 
nominated  unanimously  in  convention  of  the 
Second  District  for  member  of  Congress,  but 
was  defeated  by  a  small  plurality.  He  has 
been  on  the  State  Central  Committee  of  the 
Democratic  party  for  thirty  years.  At  the 
session  of  the  New  Hampshire  legislature  in 
1897  Mr.  Parker  was  the  Democratic  nominee 
for  United  States  Senator,  and  received  the 
votes  of  the  Democratic  members.  The  party, 
however,  being  in  the  minority,  he  was  not 
elected. 

For  five  years  he  has  been  one  of  the 
Commissioners  to  establish  free  public  libra- 
ries in  New  Hampshire,  and  the  work  has 
ijcen  carried  on  to  such  an  extent  that  at 
the  present  writing  nearly  every  town  in  the 
State  has  a  free  public  library.  In  1883  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  was  conferred  u]X)n 
him   by  Tufts  College,  and   he  was  elected  a 


Trustee  of  the  college,  which  position  he  still 
holds.  He  was  for  ten  years  Trustee  of  the 
State  Normal  School  at  Plymouth,  N.  H.  He 
is  a  member  of  the  Southern  New  Hampshire 
Bar  Association,  is  a  prominent  Free  Mason, 
and  was  for  over  twenty  years  Eminent  Com- 
mander of  Sullivan  Commandery,  Knights 
Templar,  of  Claremont.  In  religious  faith 
and  fellowship  a  Universalist,  for  the  past 
thirty-six  years  he  has  been  superintendent  of 
the  Universalist  Sunday-school;  and  he  has 
been  President  of  the  United  States  and  Can- 
ada Universalist  General  Convention. 

He  married  Louvisa  C.  Southgate,  daughter 
of  Mark  Southgate,  of  Bridgewatcr,  Vt.,  and 
has  one  child,  Lizzie  S. ,  who  is  one  of  the 
prominent  alumnae  of  Smith  College,  where  she 
was  graduated  in  i888.  She  married  the  Rev. 
Lee  S.  McCollester,  a  graduate  of  Tufts  Col- 
lege and  Tufts  Divinity  School,  who  has  also 
studied  and  travelled  extensively  abroad.  He 
is  now  pastor  of  the  Church  of  Our  F'ather,  a 
large  and  flourishing  society  in  Detroit, 
Mich.  His  father,  the  Rev.  S.  H.  McCol- 
lester, D.D.,  of  Marlboro,  N.H.,  is  the 
author  of  valuable  works  of  European  travel. 

Mr.  Parker,  it  may  be  added,  is  a  descend- 
ant of  Captain  Joseph  Parker,  and  a  relative  of 
the  late  Rev.  Dr.  A.  A.  Miner,  a  distin- 
guished divine  of  the  Universalist  faith,  who 
was  born  in  Lempster,  and  long  a  favorite 
among  the  church-goers  of  Boston,  Mass.  Mr. 
Parker,  it  has  been  well  said,  is  "a  citizen 
eminently  public-spirited,  heartily  supporting 
all  schemes  of  local  improvement.  He  is  lib- 
eral to  a  fault,  and  never  hesitates  to  contrib- 
ute to  any  object  for  which  his  aitl  is  sought, 
unless  convinced  that  there  is  sham  and  hy- 
pocrisy. For  hypocrites  and  pretenders, 
whether  in  politics  or  religion,  in  ]mblic  or 
in  private,  in  business  or  in  social  life,  he  has 
a  thorough  and   ardent   contcniiit.      In    his    in- 


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3' 


t<.'i"(.'mirs(j  willi  men  lie  he-slows  llic  same  con- 
sideration upon  the  i^oorest  ami  lunnlilest  as 
upon  the  rich  and  exalted." 


-'••«•*-*— 


X\)f  ilAAAM  SIIAVV,  a  farmer  of  Pitts- 
field,  was  horn  here,  December  25, 
1S33,  son  of  Smith  and  Mary  Jane 
(Garland)  Shaw.  The  family  is  of  Scotch 
origin,  and  descends  from  Joseph  Shaw,  its 
earliest  known  ancestor  in  America.  The 
great-grandfather  of  William  was  Caleb  Shaw, 
who  was  born  May  9,  1718.  On  January  21, 
1742,  he  married  Abigail  Batcheldcr,  daugh- 
ter of  Deacon  John  Batcheldcr.  Of  their 
seven  children  John,  the  sixth  chiUI  and  sec- 
ond son,  and  grandfather  of  William  Shaw, 
was  born  in  Exeter,  N.IL,  July  30,  1751. 
lie  learned  the  machinist's  trade,  and  fol- 
lowed it  in  connection  with  farming.  He  set- 
tled in  I'ittsfield  one  hundred  years  ago,  and  a 
portion  of  his  farm  of  two  hundred  acres  is 
now  owned  by  William  Shaw.  lie  married 
for  his  first  wife  Molly  ]*"olsom,  daughter  of 
John  h'olsom,  of  Exeter;  and  she  died  leaving 
no  children.  On  June  ig,  17.S5,  he  wedded 
his  'first  wife's  sister,  ]5etty  l'"olsom,  who  bore 
him  thirteen  children,  all  now  deceased. 

Smith  Shaw,  the  seventh  of  his  parents' 
children,  was  born  in  rittstield,  August  6, 
1795.  His  entire  life  was  passed  in  his  na- 
tive town;  and  his  active  period  was  spent  in 
the  cultivation  of  a  portion  of  his  father's 
farm,  which  he  inherited.  He  was  widely 
known  as  an  industrious  and  useful  citizen. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-six  years,  eight  months, 
and  eighteen  days.  His  wife,  Mary  Jane, 
whom  he  married  June  26,  1S17,  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Amos  Garland,  of  Ossipec,  N.H.  She 
became  the  mother  of  six  children,  of  whom 
three    are     living  —  Abigail,     John     E.,    and 


William.  Abigail  was  born  April  22,  1820, 
and  is  the  wife  of  Plummer  Garland,  of  I'itts- 
field. John  E.,  born  February  13,  1828,  mar- 
ried Sarah  Brown,  of  Hamjiton  Falls,  N.H., 
and  has  two  children —  Ella  and  Josie.  Will- 
iam Shaw's  mother  lived  to  reach  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-five  years,  nine  months, 
and  sixteen  days.  Both  parents  were  mem- 
bers of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 

After  working  at  shoemaking  for  a  short 
time,  William  Shaw  engaged  in  farming. 
He  succeeded  to  the  homestead  of  sixty  acres, 
the  most  of  which  is  under  cultivation.  He 
labored  perseveringly  for  the  prosperity  he 
now  enjoys.  On  December  25,  1870,  he  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mary  O.  Foss,  daugh- 
ter of  Simon  Foss,  of  Alton,  N.H.  She  died 
August  8,  1894,  leaving  no  children.  Mrs. 
Shaw  was  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church. 
Mr.  Shaw  is  also  in  communion  with  the  so- 
ciety and  one  of  the  most  highly  respected 
residents  of  Pittsfield. 


''rank  W.  FOSTER,  a  leading  farmer 
and  dairyman  of  Hill,  was  born  in  the 
town  of  Bristol,  N.H.,  September  20, 
1859.  His  father,  Wilson  Foster,  was  born 
in  Alexandria,  N.H.;  and  Wilson's  father, 
Joseph  Foster,  was  a  farmer  well  known  in 
Bristol  for  many  years.  From  Bristol  Joseph 
removed  to  Merrimack,  where  he  spent  the 
latter  part  of  his  life,  dying  at  the  age  of 
eighty  years.  His  wife,  in  maidenhood  Lydia 
Pattec,  became  the  mother  of  nine  children. 
Of  these  Wilson,  the  youngest  son,  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools,  and  followed 
farming  in  Bristol  for  sixteen  years.  He  then 
sold  his  property  in  that  town,  came  to  Hill, 
and  there  purchased  a  farm,  upon  which  he 
has  since  made  substantial  improvements,  in- 
cluding the   erection   of    a    house.      He    mar- 


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ried  Harriet  Kelley,  daughter  of  Alfred 
Kelley,  of  Hill;  and  their  children  are: 
Martha  A.,  Ellen  F.,  Emma,  Frank  W.,  and 
Hadley  J.  Martha  is  married,  lives  in  Bris- 
tol, and  has  one  son,  Everett ;  Emma,  now 
deceased,  married  George  Ballon,  and  had  four 
children  —  Oscar,  Grace  M.,  Herbert,  and 
Hattie;  Ellen  is  now  Mrs.  Errol  Morse; 
Hadley  married  Annie  Little,  and  has  one 
child. 

Mr.  Frank  Foster  grew  to  manhood  on  his 
father's  farm.  Interested  in  farming  from  his 
youth,  he  adopted  it  as  his  occupation,  and  has 
prosperously  followed  it  since.  On  his  farm 
of  about  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  he  raises 
large  quantities  of  vegetables,  and  he  past- 
ures as  fine  a  herd  of  cattle  as  one  could  wish 
to  see.  His  dairy  yields  about  fifty  pounds  of 
"gilt-edge"  butter  each  week. 

Mr.  Foster  married  Cora  B.  Call,  daughter 
of  Joseph  Call.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Foster  have 
two  children  —  Alson  F.  and  Ralph  J.  —  upon 
whom  is  bestowed  the  most  affectionate  care. 
Both  parents  are  members  of  the  Christian 
Church  of  Hill,  and  are  prominent  in  the 
grange.  In  politics  Mr.  Foster  is  a  Demo- 
crat, and  he  cast  his  first  Presidential  vote  for 
General  Hancock.  He  is  known  in  the  com- 
munity as  a  man  of  the  strictest  integrity,  as 
one  ready  to  give  active  suj^port  to  every  good 
cause,  and  a  leader  in  benevolent  and  philan- 
thropic work.  He  is  interested  in  the  pub- 
lic affairs  of  the  town,  and  has  served  on  the 
Board  of  Selectmen. 


RANK     DE     FORREST     BAKER,     a 

well-known    farmer  and    lumber   dealer 

(jf  Plainfiekl,  belongs  to  a  family  that 

came  of  luiglish  yeomanry  stock,  and  has  been 

known  for  centuries  in   England  for  industry, 

sturdincss,  and  reliability.     The  name  denotes 


the  occupation  of  the  founder  of  the  fan)ily. 
In  the  fifteenth  century  the  Bakers  possessed 
considerable  projierty  in  the  north  of  England, 
and  were  known  as  being  thrifty,  industrious, 
and  very  tenacious  of  their  rights.  In  1650 
there  were  many  of  the  name  at  Aylesbury, 
County  of  Bucks,  who  became  followers  of 
George  Fo.x,  the  Quaker,  and  with  him  suffered 
imprisonment  by  order  of  Cromwell.  Mr. 
Baker  directly  traces  his  ancestry  to  Jeffry 
Baker.  Jeffry's  son  Joseph,  who  was  born 
June  18,  1655,  came  to  Ameiica  and  settled  in 
Connecticut.  Joseph's  son,  Joseph,  Jr.,  born 
April  13,  1678,  was  twice  married,  first  to 
Hannah  Pomeroy,  who  had  by  him  two  sons, 
Joseph  and  Samuel.  His  second  marriage  was 
made  with  Abigail  Bissell,  who  bore  him  nine 
children;  namely,  John,  Hannah,  Jacob,  Abi- 
gail, Ebenezer,  Daniel,  Heman,  Titus,  and 
Abigail  (second).  In  the  third  generation 
down  was  Heman,  born  April  27,  1719,  who 
married  Lois  Gilbert,  November  24,  1747. 
They  had  nine  children  —  Heman,  Anna, 
Deborah,  John,  Oliver,  Abigail,  Lois,  De- 
light, and  Lydia. 

Oliver  Baker,  in  the  fourth  generation,  who 
was  born  at  Tolland,  Conn.,  October  5,  1755, 
and  received  a  medical  education,  purchased 
a  farm  in  Plainfiekl,  on  which  he  settled,  and 
was  thereafter  engaged  in  the  jiractice  of  his 
profession  until  his  death  on  October  3,  181  r. 
He  was  great  grandfather  of  Mr.  Frank  De 
P'orrest  Baker.  Of  his  family  of  eleven  sons 
some  became  physicians.  Dimmick,  born 
March  18,  1793,  took  up  farming,  and  re- 
mained on  the  old  homestead  until  his  death. 
He  married  Hannah  Colby,  and  had  a  family 
of  five  children  —  Elias,  Hannah  A.,  luiward 
D.,  Dr.  Cyrus  Baker,  and  Helen  F.  Hannah, 
after  teaching  successfully  for  some  time,  mar- 
ried Morrill  Cutting,  a  prosjierous  farmer  of 
Newjiort,    now    deceased.       Edward    D.,    born 


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33 


April  21,  iS'27,  rc;id  law  at  I'.nfickl,  N.H., 
with  the  lioii.N.  \V.  Wcstgato,  now  (if  Haver- 
Jiill,  N.ll.,  and  later  entered  the  law  office  of 
the  il(in.  II.  A.  liellow.s,  late  Chief  Justice  of 
New  Hampshire.  lie  was  admitted  to  the  bar 
of  Sullivan  County  in  July,  1851,  and  opened 
an  office  at  Cornish  l'"lat,  wiiere  he  practised 
until  October,  1855,  when  he  removed  to 
Claremont.  He  married  l-llizabeth  Ticknor  on 
November  12,  185 1.  Cyrus,  who  graduated 
in  medicine  at  New  York,  was  an  army  sur- 
geon (luring  the  Civil  War.  He  first  married 
Maltha  J.  I'resti^m,  who  bore  him  one  child, 
Alice  Haker.  His  second  wife,  whose  maiden 
name  is  Anna  Erskins,  has  been  the  mother  of 
four  children,  one  of  whom  is  living.  Helen 
1".  married  .Sheppard  H.  Cutting,  a  prosperous 
farmer  of  New]iort,  N.H.,  and  has  iiad  three 
children. 

Mlias  Hakei',  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  born  at  Plainfield.  After 
com|)lcting  his  education,  he  began  his  work- 
ing life  as  a  farmer,  managing  his  father's 
farms,  and  later  being  associated  with  his 
father  on  the  homestead  farm,  where  he  lixed 
until  his  death.  He  was  a  man  of  superior 
intelligence  and  an  apt  student.  It  was  his 
own  ambition  and  the  desire  of  his  family  to 
obtain  a  college  education  and  prepare  for  a 
jirofessional  career,  but  circumstances  pre- 
vented this.  He  married  Amelia  I51anchard, 
and  had  a  family  of  three  children  —  Elsie  A., 
l''rank  D.,  and  Charles  D.  l^Hsie,  born  June 
iC,  1848,  was  educated  at  Kimball  Union 
Academy,  and  taught  school  very  successfully 
until  her  marriage  with  Dr.  J.  H.  IMartin,  of 
Lebanon,  N.  H.  Charles  D.,  who  is  a  hotel 
man  in  Arizona  and  owns  considerable  prop- 
erty, married  Margaret  Desmond. 

blank  De  Forrest  Baker  was  born  in  Plain- 
field,  April  8,  1 85 1.  After  receiving  his 
education  at  the  well-known    Kimball    Union 


Academy,  he  assisted  his  grandfather  until  the 
death  of  the  latter.  lie  then  engaged  in 
farming  and  lumbering,  and  in  raising  cattle 
for  the  market.  At  one  time  he  conducted  a 
livery  stable.  He  is  active  and  energetic. 
Industrious  and  thrifty,  he  has  acquired  quite 
a  competency.  He  married  Sarah  Moulton 
Scales,  who  was  born  June  10,  1855,  daughter 
of  Henry  M.  and  Ann  J.  Scales,  of  Meriden. 
Mrs.  Baker's  grandfather,  the  Rev.  Jacob 
Scales,  was  settled  in  Plainfield  for  many 
years.  She  has  had  four  children:  Cleon  l*'. , 
born  February  27,  i<S73,  now  at  Ilartland, 
Vt.  ;  Fred  11.,  born  June  29,  1874,  who  died 
in  April,  1878;  Julia  M.,  born  Octtjber  31, 
1879,  who  died  in  January,  1894;  and  Edward 
M.,  born  March  21,  iSSr,  now  attending 
Kimball  Union  Academy. 

Mr.  Baker  is  a  member  of  the  local  grange. 
He  attends  the  Congregational  church,  and 
is  a  liberal  supporter  of  all  its  benevolences. 
He  has  never  aspired  for  jiolitical  honors, 
thinking  his  family  and  his  business  have 
needed  his  time  and  attention. 


ILLIAM  JAMES  CHANDLER, 
}-^\l  whose  life  was  profitably  spent  as  a 
farmer  in  Langdon  and  the  immedi- 
ate vicinity,  was  born  March  10,  1832,  in 
Alstead,  Cheshire  County,  son  of  James,  Jr., 
and  Sophia  (Tuttle)  Chandler.  The  grand- 
father, James  Chandler,  Sr.,  spent  his  life  in 
Alstead,  where  he  followed  the  occupation  of 
a  farmer.  He  married,  and  had  a  large  family 
of  children.  When  he  died,  he  was  the  oldest 
Mason  in  New  Hampshire.  James  Chandler, 
Jr.,  born  in  Alstead,  September  20,  1801, 
besides  farming  was  also  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business;  and  he  was  prosperous  in  both. 
The  first  of  his  three  marriages  was  contracted 
with    Sophia    Tuttle;    his    second,     with    her 


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sister  Nancy;  and  his  third,  with  Mary 
Stowell  Tuttle,  the  widow  of  their  brother. 
There  were  two  children  by  the  first  union  — 
William  James  Chandler;  and  a  daughter  that 
died  in  childhood. 

William  James  Chandler  received  a  good 
practical  education  in  the  common  school. 
Shortly  after  leaving  school  he  went  to  work 
at  farming,  and  continued  to  pursue  that  occu- 
pation throughout  the  rest  of  his  life,  which 
was  chiefly  spent  in  Langdon.  He  was  one 
who  enjoyed  life  thoroughly,  and  his  quick 
wit  and  humorous  sayings  gave  pleasure  to  all 
about  him.  At  the  same  time,  a  man  of 
sterling  worth,  he  was  held  in  high  esteem  by 
his  neighbors.  While  he  did  not  desire  or 
seek  office,  he  never  failed  to  take  due  interest 
in  the  welfare  of  his  town.  He  died  Decem- 
ber 6,  1893,  in  the  sixty-second  year  of  his 
age.  Mr.  Chandler  married  Miss  Augusta  H. 
Mellish,  who  was  born  in  Langdon,  N.H., 
August  10,  1839,  daughter  of  Samuel  and 
Huldah  (Lane)  Mellish.  No  children  were 
born  to  them.  Since  his  death  Mrs.  Chand- 
ler has  resided  in  Langdon. 


^^CV/1LLI.\M  H.  HARTWELL,  the 
proprietor  of  a  thriving  grocery 
business  in  Pittsfield,  was  born  in 
Groton,  Mass.,  September  5,  1833,  son  of 
Aniasa  and  Mary  (Patch)  Hartwell.  The 
paternal  grandfather,  also  named  Amasa,  was 
a  |)rosperous  farmer  of  Shirley,  Mass.,  his 
native  town,  and  had  si.xteen  children,  none  of 
whom  are  living.  Amasa  Hartwell,  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  and  a  native  of 
Shirley,  Mass.,  served  an  apjirenticeship  at  the 
carpenter's  trade,  and  was  engaged  in  the  man- 
ufacture of  sofas  in  Boston  and  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  for  five  years.  Subsequently  he 
worked  at  his  trade  in  the  towns  of   Hrookline, 


Amherst,  Milford,  and  Nashua  of  this  State. 
Finally  he  took  up  his  residence  in  Groton, 
where  he  followed  farming  for  the  rest  of  his 
life,  and  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-nine  years. 
A  man  of  excellent  character,  he  stood  high  in 
the  estimation  of  his  neighbors.  In  politics 
he  was  originally  a  Democrat,  but  later  he 
supported  the  Republican  party.  His  wife, 
Mary,  who  was  a  native  of  Ilollis,  NIL,  be- 
came the  mother  of  four  sons  —  Henry  T. 
George  E. ,  William  B. ,  and  Albert  A. 
Henry  T.  married  Lizzie  Beadie,  of  Ames- 
bury,  Mass.,  who  died  leaving  two  sons — Ar- 
thur and  Harry.  George  E.  wedded  Mary 
Dow,  of  Amherst,  N.  IL,  who  died  leaving 
three  children  —  Herbert,  Albert,  and  Mary. 
Albert  A.  married  Helen  F.  Cummings,  of 
Reading,  Mass.,  and  has  one  son — Leon  A., 
who  was  born  F'ebruary  6,  1880.  Mrs.  Amasa 
Hartwell  lived  to  the  age  of  eighty  years. 
She  and  her  husband  were  members  of  the 
Baptist  church. 

William  B.  Hartwell  attended  the  schools  of 
Charlestown,  Brookline,  .Mass.,  and  Andierst, 
N.H.  When  his  studies  were  finished,  he 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  followed  it  as 
a  journeyman  for  a  time.  He  then  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  water  pails  in  Amherst, 
and  continued  in  that  business  four  years. 
Moving  to  Wilton,  N. H.,  he  worked  at  his 
trade  in  that  town  for  seven  years,  and  then, 
in  1871,  settled  in  Pittsfield.  Llere  he  bought 
a  saw-mill,  located  upon  the  Suncook  River, 
and  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber. 
He  also  continued  to  work  at  his  trade  at 
intervals  until  1S92,  when  he  opened  a  gro- 
cery, which  now  has  a  large  number  of  pa- 
trons. In  connection  with  his  store  he  op- 
erates a  grist-mill,  grinding  a  large  quantity 
of  grain  and  feed  annually. 

On  April  19,  1S57,  Mr.  Hartwell  married 
Ann   M.  Vose,    daughter  of  Samuel   \'ose,    of 


BIOGRAI'IIKAI-    REVIEW 


35 


Amherst.  Mrs.  Ilartwell  is  the  mother  of 
throe  chikhen  — ^  I'"rai)k  II.,  luiima,  and 
Cliarlos  K.  I'"raiik  II.  iiiarrietl  Annie  Gray, 
(laughter  of  Artiiur  Gray,  ami  lias  one  son, 
Roland,  llmma  is  the  wife  uf  William  I'. 
Adams,  iif  I'ittsfield,  and  has  nine  children  — 
Samuel  T. ,  I''lorence,  I'hilip  li.,  Joseph, 
Kiitli,  Ann,  I'aul,  Rachel,  and  Lydia. 
Charles  I'",  married  Kate  Loiigee,  of  this  town, 
and  has  no  children.  Mr.  Ilartwell  was  for  a 
number  of  years  Chief  of  the  I'ittsfield  T'ire 
Department,  and  is  still  connected  with  it. 
He  takes  an  interest  in  public  affairs,  and  in 
]iolitics  he  acts  with  the  Republican  party. 
He  is  hiL;hlv  esteemed  both  in  business  and 
social  circles,  and  also  by  his  brother  Masons 
and  Otld  I'ellows.  15oth  he  and  Mrs.  Ilart- 
well are  members  of  the  Congregational 
church. 


i 


[.ARI.TOX  HURD,  a  druggi.st  of  New- 
port, and  the  President  of  the  Sugar 
River  Savings  Bank,  was  born  in 
Newport,  October  7,  1842,  son  of  Isaac  B.  and 
Emaline  (Dow)  Ilurd.  Nathan  Hurd,  the 
great-grandfather,  came  from  the  State  of 
Connecticut  to  Newport  among  the  first  set- 
tlers, taking  land  on  which  he  passed  the  rest 
.of  his  life.  Levi,  his  son,  was  a  tanner  and 
shoemaker,  and  had  one  of  the  first  tanneries 
in  the  town.  Afterward  Levi  was  engaged  in 
farming  and  shoemaking,  and  he  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-three.  His  wife,  Anna  Brad- 
ley Hurd,  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Mass. 
They  were  both  members  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church. 

Isaac  B.  Hurd,  the  father,  born  June  15, 
1815,  has  spent  his  life  in  Newport,  chiefly 
occupied  in  farming.  He  was  a  sturdy  and 
industrious  man  and  a  good  farmer.  He  re- 
tired from  active  occupation  some  time  ago, 
and  now  lives  in  the  village  with   his  son.      In 


politics  he  was  a  Republican,  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  l''piscopal  church. 
His  wife,  a  native  of  Newpf)rt,  born  in  Janu- 
ary, 1 8 16,  died  in  Janu.iry,  iS<j2.  He  has 
three  children  living  —  Carlton,  Nancy,  and 
I'llizabeth. 

Brought  up  and  educated  in  Newport,  Carl- 
ton Hurd  devoted  his  early  life  to  farming. 
At  twenty-one  he  engaged  in  the  drug  busi- 
ness for  Mr.  Howe.  Soon  after  he  bought  out 
his  emidoyer,  since  which  time  he  has  con- 
ducted the  business  on  his  own  account.  Mr. 
Hurd  has  a  good  store,  and  carries  a  full  line 
of  drugs,  also  stationery  and  fancy  goods,  fine 
candies,  and  so  forth.  On  January  3,  1S72, 
he  married  Mariette  Garfield,  a  native  fif 
Charlestown,  N.H.  They  have  no  children. 
.Mr.  I  hud  has  liberal  views  in  religion,  and 
attends  the  Methodist  Kpiscopal  church.  He 
is  a  Republican,  and  he  represented  Newjiort 
in  the  legislature  of  1895-96.  He  is  now  a 
Director  and  the  President  of  the  Sugar  River 
Savings  Bank.  Farming  and  lumbering,  fol- 
lowed to  some  e.xtent,  are  also  sources  of  in- 
come to  him.  A  self-made,  industrious,  and 
successful  man,  he  is  highly  respected  in  the 
town. 


'  ISTlToRC 


/  2)  liORGK  H.  SAVAGE,  now  living 
\J5  I  in  retirement  in  Henniker  village, 
was  born  December  25,  1855,  in 
Orford,  Grafton  County,  son  of  John  A.  and 
Maria  (Edmester)  Savage.  His  father  was 
born  and  bred  in  Grafton  Coimty,  and  his 
mother  in  Everett,  Mass.  When  a  boy  of  six- 
teen, he  left  home  determined  to  make  his 
own  way  in  the  world.  Going  to  Massachu- 
setts, he  located  in  Charlestown,  where  he 
began  his  active  career  as  a  peddler  of  milk 
and  cream.  Purchasing  his  supplies  from  the 
large  dairies  of  Hillsborough  and  Henniker, 
this  county,    he  had   it   shipped   to  a  distribut- 


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ing  depot  in  Boston,  employing  several  milk 
wagons  in  order  to  meet  the  demands  of  his 
extensive  patronage.  Three  years  ago,  after 
carrying  on  a  profitable  business  for  twenty- 
two  3'ears,  he  came  to  Henniker,  and  pur- 
chased his  present  home,  the  J.  H.  Abbin 
estate,  next  to  that  of  Colonel  Cogswell. 

Mr.  Savage  is  an  ardent  sportsman,  fond  of 
the  gun  and  rod,  especially  delighting  in 
partridge  hunting,  in  which  he  has  good  suc- 
cess. He  and  a  friend,  with  the  assistance  of 
his  pair  of  fine-bred  pointers,  bagged  about 
four  hundred  partridge  last  season,  that  of 
1896.  In  company  with  his  brother,  A.  A. 
Savage,  of  Ncwtonville,  another  lover  of  the 
chase,  he  makes  very  successful  trips  annually 
to  the  Maine  woods  in  search  of  deer. 

Mr.  Savage  was  married  August  2,  1 88 1,  to 
Miss  Nettie  C.  Clayton,  daughter  of  William 
and  Sarah  Clayton,  of  Boston,  Mass.  She 
died  August  31,  1S95,  leaving  five  children; 
namely,  George,  lulgar  H.,  Bessie  K.,  Rob- 
ert VV.,  and  Mlla  L.  He  was  again  mar- 
ried on  April  26,  1896,  to  Miss  Christie  B. 
McLane,  of  Belmont,  Mass. 


M 


ARIUS  NOYES  MOULTON,  one 
(if  the  influential  men  of  Plainfield, 
and  well  known  throughout  the 
county,  was  born  here,  January  26,  1838,  son  of 
.Stephen  R.  and  Sally  (Noyes)  Moulton.  His 
grandfather  was  William  Moulton,  one  of  the 
first  of  the  name  to  settle  in  this  jxirt  of  the 
country.  William  took  up  a  grant  of  land  in 
a  part  of  Grantham  now  belonging  to  Plain- 
field,  and  built  upon  it  at  first  a  log  house. 
By  industriously  following  the  occupation  of 
farmer  he  acquired  a  considerable  property, 
which  later  became  the  foundation  of  the 
wealth  of  the  present  generation  of  Moultons. 
An   honest,  fair-dealing   man,  he   had   the   full 


respect  of  all  who  knew  him.  In  religious 
faith  he  was  a  Methodist.  By  his  first  mar- 
riage he  had  two  children  —  Judith  and  Will- 
iam. By  his  second  marriage  there  were  seven 
children,  namely:  William;  Kmery;  Myrick  ; 
Samuel;  Stephen;  Jane;  and  a  daughter  who 
married  Daniel  Noyes,  of  Plaistow.  William 
settled  in  business  for  himself  in  Cicero, 
N.  Y.,  and  was  also  interested  in  a  cooperage 
and  in  farming.  He  accumulated  considerable 
money,  married,  and  raised  a  family  of  chil- 
dren. Myrick,  who  also  went  to  Cicero,  fol- 
lowed the  trade  of  cooper,  was  engaged  in 
agriculture,  and  died  about  two  years  ago. 
Samuel  lived  on  the  homestead  nearly  all  his 
life,  and  was  twice  married.  He  first  married 
Ruth  Brown,  of  Strafford,  Vt.  ;  and  she  bore 
him  three  children.  His  second  marriage  was 
contracted  with  Mrs.  Ford,  daughter  of  Judge 
Jackson,  of  Cornish.  After  this  marriage  he 
went  West  with  his  wife  to  Lakeland,  Minn., 
where  he  died.  He  was  well-to-do,  and  had 
been  very  prominent  in  town  affairs  in  Grant- 
ham and  in  Plainfield.  He  was  Selectman  of 
both  towns,  was  a  legislative  Representative, 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  Notary  Public;  and 
he  acted  as  the  lawyer  of  the  district.  Jane 
married  William  Wright,  of  Cicero,  N.  Y.,  a 
prosperous  farmer;  and  she  has  no  children. 

.Stephen  R.  Moultmi,  born  May  8,  1S05, 
received  his  education  at  Kindiall  Union 
Academy,  and  then  taught  school  for  manv 
years.  After  his  man  Inge  he  moved  to  the 
old  homestead  and  stayed  there  for  sume  years. 
He  finally  sold  his  interest  in  the  estate  to  his 
brother  Samuel,  bought  the  ]5uzzel  place,  situ- 
ated on  Methodist  Hill,  and  lived  there  for 
some  nine  or  ten  years.  He  then  bought  the 
Harris  place  and  the  Pool  jilace,  which  to- 
gether made  a  large  farm.  He  carried  on 
general  farming  and  raised  considerable 
cattle.      In  addition  to  this  he  managed  a  large 


ISIOGRAI'IIICAI,    Ri:\IEW 


37 


store  Icir  ;j;ciK'nil  nicichaiulisc  in  |iarlii(jrship 
with  Mr.  Morj^aii.  Active  in  local  affairs,  he 
was  a  Selectman  and  lc<;islative  J'J.eprescnta- 
tive,  and  was  respected  to  a  degree  only  sec- 
ond to  the  palish  minister.  lie  altendcii  the 
Unitarian  church.  His  wife  Sally,  who  came 
from  Plaistow,  N.I  I.,  was  born  May  2.S,  1813. 
She  liecame  the  mnlhcr  of  five  children; 
namely,  h'rederick,  Darius  N.,  an  infant 
ilaughter,  Joseph  Sidney,  and  l-^Ila.  All  were 
natives  of  I'lainfield  except  ]'"rcderick,  who 
was  horn  July  11,  1S36,  at  Grantham,  and  is 
a  popular  and  piosperous  merchant  of  Lebanon. 
Joseph  S.,  horn  April  13,  1851,  is  the  popular 
pastor  of  the  Unitarian  church  at  Stow,  Mass. 
Ella,  born  Sejitember  16,  1853,  taught  school 
for  some  time  after  her  graduation  from  Kim- 
ball Academy,  and  at  length  married  Mr. 
George  I'.  Doty,  of  Meriden.  She  has  two 
children  —  Lena  M.  and  George  1'".,  Jr. 

After  finishing  with  school,  Darius  Noyes 
Monlton  woiked  on  the  home  farm  with  his 
father,  remaining  until  the  death  of  the  latter. 
When  he  was  twenty-one  years  old,  his  father 
gave  him  a  share  in  the  business;  and  together 
they  went  into  stock-raising  to  a  considerable 
extent.  Vov  the  jxist  twenty-five  years  Mr. 
Moulton  has  done  a  large  amount  of  trading  in 
farms,  horses,  cattle,  and  real  estate  of  various 
kinds,  besides  carrying  on  the  farm.  He  has 
become  a  wealth)'  man,  and  is  to-day  regarded 
as  one  of  the  scdid  business  men  of  the  town. 
He  owns  a  number  of  farms,  and  has  helped 
many  a  poor  man  in  securing  a  comfortable 
home  and  a  good  farm.  Of  a  generous  dispo- 
sition, he  cannot  resist  an  appeal  for  aid  when 
his  sympathies  are  aroused.  Although  con- 
stantly engaged  in  all  sorts  of  transactions,  he 
was  never  known  to  take  an  unfair  advantage. 
Public-si)irited  to  a  high  degree,  he  is  inter- 
ested in  everything  that  concerns  the  welfare 
or  progress  of  his  native  town.      Me  has  filled 


various  town  offices  with  credit  to  himself  and 
in  a  manner  worthy  of  the  family  name.  Mr. 
Moulton  attends  the  Unitarian  church,  and  is 
a  liberal  benefactor  not  only  of  that  church, 
but  of  all  the  others  in  the  town.  lie  has  been 
a  great  traveller,  having  journeyed  all  over  the 
United  States  and  Canada.  Since  1885  Mr. 
Moulton,  in  comiiany  with  Mr.  Roberts,  the 
Town  Clerk  of  Meriden,  N.  If.,  has  owned  and 
operated  the  large  store  owned  ffjrmerly  by 
E.  E.  Clark. 


in  11 UR  C.  GRAVliS,  the  station 
a^ent  of  the  Hoston  &  Maine  Railroad 
in  Henniker,  was  born  in  Andover, 
N.  H.,  November  7,  1S57,  son  of  John  and 
Ann  (Clifford)  Graves.  He  is  a  descendant 
of  John  Graves,  wdio  came  in  1792  from 
Kingston,  N.I  I.,  and  settled  on  the  Graves 
homestead  in  Andover.  Jesse  Graves,  son  of 
John  and  grandfather  of  Arthur  C. ,  f)ccu]iied 
the  farm,  and  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-four 
years.  The  father,  who  was  born  in  Andf)ver, 
and  succeeded  to  the  property,  was  engaged  in 
cultivating  and  improving  the  farm  during  the 
active  period  of  his  life,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
si.\ty-two  years.  His  wife,  Ann,  was  a  native 
of  Hebron,  Grafton  County.  Their  son,  Wil- 
ton V.  Graves,  is  the  present  ])roprietor  cf  the 
homestead. 

Arthur  C.  Graves  began  his  education  in 
New  London,  N.II.,  and  later  attended  Tilton 
Semin.iry  and  I'roctor  .Academy,  where  he  was 
fitted  for  college.  He  returned  to  the  farm, 
however;  and,  with  the  exception  of  two  years 
spent  in  Massachusetts,  he  remained  there 
until  he  was  twenty-six  years  old.  In  18S4 
he  entered  the  railroad  service  at  East  An- 
dover, learned  telegraphy,  and  for  a  lime  was 
assistant  operator  at  East  Andover  and  Potter 
Place.      He  has  been  station  agent  at   Henni- 


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ker  since  1S85,  and  now  superintends  the  busi- 
ness of  several  trains  per  day.  He  is  also  ex- 
press agent,  and  lias  an  assistant.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat,  although  he  supported 
Palmer  and  Buckner  in  the  last  national  cam- 
paign. He  has  been  a  delegate  to  party  con- 
ventions, and  has  served  as  Town  Treasurer, 
Supcrvisoi',  and  a  Trustee  of  the  Free  Library 
Association  for  two  years.  He  is  well  versed 
in  scientific  subjects  and  in  those  of  general 
interest. 

On  September  6,  1SS5,  Mr.  Graves  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Ida  J.  Prince,  of 
Salisliury,  N.  H.  She  was  born  in  Orange, 
N.H.,  daughter  of  David  S.  Prince,  who  is 
now  a  well-known  resident  of  Salisbury.  She 
was  a  schoolmate  of  her  husband,  and  previous 
to  her  marriage  was  engaged  in  teaching.  Mr. 
Graves  is  connected  with  the  Masonic  frater- 
nity and  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows; and  for  two  years  he  was  Master  of  Bear 
Hill  Grange,  of  Henniker.  Mrs.  Graves  at- 
tends the   Congregational   church. 


15FNEZER  B.  SARGENT,  one  of  the 
best  known  farmers  of  Pittsfield  and  a 
veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  was  born 
in  Loudon,  N.H.,  April  11,  1821,  son  of 
Eljjnczer  and  Annie  (Batchelder)  Sargent. 
]5enjamin  Sargent,  the  father  of  Eibenezer, 
served  as  a  scout  under  General  Washington 
during  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  later  be- 
came a  Baptist  minister.  He  preached  in 
Pittsfield  from  1808  to  1819,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  fifty-eight  years.  The  maiden  name  of 
his  wife  was  luinice  Lindell.  Of  their  seven 
children  who  reached  maturity  I^benezer,  the 
second  son,  was  born  in  Bow,  N.IL,  in  1789. 
He  learned  the  carpenter's  trade  in  Pittsfield, 
and  followed  it  in  Pittsfield,  Loudon,  and 
Epsom   until  he  was   fifty  years  old.      The  re- 


mainder of  his  life  was  passed  in  farming,  and 
he  died  in  Pittsfield  at  the  age  of  seventy-five 
years.  Originally  a  Whig  in  politics,  he 
later  joined  the  Free  Soil  party.  His  wife 
reached  the  age  of  eighty-eight.  Both  were 
members  of  the  Baptist  church. 

Ebenezer  B.  Sargent  passed  his  early  boy- 
hood in  Loudon  and  b^psom,  and  was  educated 
in  the  .schools  of  Pittsfield.  He  subsequently 
learned  the  shoemaker's  trade,  at  which  he 
worked  for  many  years  in  this  town.  After 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  he  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  the  First  New  Hampshire  Ar- 
tillery, and  in  the  service  was  detached  from 
his  regiment  and  placed  on  duty  in  the  Mary- 
land Hospital  at  Camp  Sumner,  where  he  was 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  After  his  retmn 
to  Pittsfield  he  engaged  in  agricultural  ]nir- 
suits.  He  owns  a  farm  of  tiiirty  acres,  and 
has  cultivated  his  property  successfully  since 
relinquishing  his  former  calling.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican.  He  receives  a  pension 
for  his  services  in  the  war;  and  he  is  a  com- 
rade of  Post  W.  K.  Cobb,  No.  29,  G.  A.  R., 
of  Pittsfield.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Free 
Will  Baptist  church. 

On  October  9,  1849,  Mr.  Sargent  married 
Abigail  Philbrick,  of  Epsom.  She  was  the 
mother  of  nine  children,  of  whom  there  are 
living  —  Almira  M.,  Abbie  F. ,  Charles  C, 
and  Mary  E.  Abbie  ¥.  is  the  wife  of  Edwin 
C.  Emerson,  of  Pittsfield;  and  her  children 
are:  Winnifred  R.,  Hattie  1?.,  Iwa  M.,  and 
Abbie  15.  Charles  C.  married  lulith  L. 
Knowlton,  of  this  town,  and  lias  a  family  of 
five  children  —  Grace  E.,  Lew  G.,  Ralph  L., 
Charles  R.,  and  Edith  P.  Mary  I"^.  succes- 
sively married  Charles  H.  Whipple  and  Clar- 
ence Huntoon,  and  has  one  son  by  her  first 
union,  Ralph  C.  Mrs.  Ebenezer  B.  Sargent 
died  at  the  age  of  si.\ty-five  years.  .She  was 
a  member  of  the  I'ree  Will  Baiitist  chnrrli. 


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^ '^^TvArnGK  CIIASI';  FRI':KMAN,  one  of 
\  ST  the  best  known  dairy  farmers  and 
cattle  breeders  in  I'lainfield,  was 
boin  in  Cornisli,  N.li.,  /\iifjnst  26,  1819, 
son  of  Cyrus  and  Sarali  (Dow)  Freeman.  The 
fjrandfather,  Daniel  I'reeman,  who  was  a 
native  of  Connecticut,  moved  his  family 
to  I'lainfiLdd,  where  he  engaged  in  farming, 
lie  also  kei)t  a  hotel  in  Lebanon,  N.II.,  for  a 
number  of  years.  The  maiilen  name  of  his 
fu'st  wife  was  Dow.  That  of  his  second  wife 
is  unknown.  Ilis  children  were:  Cyrus, 
Daniel,  lienjaniin,  Josci)h,  Deborah,  and 
Mercy.  Benjamin,  who  was  a  farmer,  married 
luidocia  Chi  Ids,  and  reared  a  family;  Jo- 
seph, who  resided  upon  a  farm  in  I'lainfield, 
married  Folly  Johnson,  and  hail  one  child; 
Deborah  became  Mrs.  Chase,  and  reared  a 
family;   Mercy  died  in  infancy. 

Cyrus  F'reeman,  father  of  George  C,  ac- 
companied his  parents  from  Connecticut,  and 
was  reared  upon  a  farm  in  I'lainfield.  fie 
tilled  the  soil  industriously  and  with  success 
during  the  active  period  of  his  life,  devoting 
his  entire  attention  to  the  cultivation  and  im- 
provement of  his  farm.  His  first  wife,  a  na- 
tive of  Cornish,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Persis  Chase,  had  no  children.  His  second 
marriage  was  contracted  with  Sarah  Dow,  who 
was  born  in  Salisbury,  N.II.,  in  177S,  daugh- 
ter of  Jeremiah  Dow.  She  bore  him  eight 
children;  namely,  John  T.,  Sarah,  Persis, 
Forest,  Susan,  Daniel  D.,  Tamesin  K.,  and 
George  C.  John  T.  married  for  his  first  wife 
Ursula  Chase,  of  Cornish,  who  bore  him 
three  children.  His  second  wife  was  a  lady 
i)f  I'lHinfieUl,  whose  maiden  name  was  Durenda 
Penniman.  His  third  marriage  united  him  to 
Sarah  Wyman,  of  Cornish.  Sarah,  born  in 
iSoo,  died  in  1826.  Persis  married  Benjamin 
L.  l'\iller,  a  prosperous  farmer  and  hotel- 
keeper  of  this  town,  and   had   five  chiklren,  of 


whom  four  are  living.  Forest,  who  engaged 
in  farming,  married  Nancy  Penniman,  of 
Windsor,  Vt.,  and  reared  a  family.  Su.san 
became  the  wife  of  Fnos  Spauhling,  a  black- 
smith of  I'lainfield,  and  has  a  family. 
Daniel  D.,  who  was  a  farmer,  wedded  Mary 
Marcy,  and  reared  children.  Tamesin  K. 
married  Isaac  C.  Ilarroun,  of  Barre,  Vt.,  a 
blacksmith  by  trade,  and  had  children.  Mrs. 
Cyrus  F'reeman  lived  to  be  eighty-two  years 
old,  and  died  in  i860. 

George  Chase  Freeman  acquired  his  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  I'lainfield  and  Cornish. 
After  finishing  his  studies,  he  assisted  his 
father  upon  the  homestead  farm.  He  later 
bought  of  his  brother-in-law,  Benjamin  L. 
F'uller,  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  resides. 
This  property,  containing  nearly  four  hundred 
acres  of  land  located  uj^on  the  banks  of  the 
Connecticut  River,  occupies  an  eminence 
overlooking  the  valley.  Besides  carrying  on 
general  farming  and  dairying,  Mr.  F'reeman 
has  been  an  extensive  breeder  of  cattle,  sheep, 
and  horses.  His  son  is  now  in  partnership 
with  him.  They  have  some  excellent  Durham 
cows,  si.x  fine  horses  of  noted  pedigree,  among 
which  is  a  mare  that  last  fall  made  a  record 
of  2. 17. 

Mr.  F'reeman  married  Sarah  Ward,  who  was 
born  June  19,  1824,  in  Marlboro,  daughter  of 
William  Ward.  She  has  bad  four  children, 
namely:  Frances  R.,  born  March  7,  1846; 
William  W.,  born  June  29,  1848;  Nellie 
May,  born  June  25,  1855;  and  Fllizabcth 
Marion,  born  December  20,  1863.  I' ranees 
R.  married  the  Rev.  R.  C.  Bell,  of  Connecti- 
cut, and  had  three  children.  William  W. 
completed  his  education  at  the  Kimball 
Union  Academy,  and  has  been  of  valuable  as- 
sistance to  his  father  in  managing  the  farm. 
He  possesses  a  practical  knowledge  of  all 
branches  of  agriculture,   and  has    acquired    a 


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wide  reputation  as  a  breeder  of  fine  cattle  and 
horses.  Nellie  May  is  the  wife  of  Samuel  P. 
Wood,  a  wealthy  resident  of  Lebanon,  N.  H., 
and  has  two  children.  Elizabeth  Marion,  who 
attended  the  Kimball  Union  Academy,  and 
subsequently  graduated  from  Wellesley  Col- 
lege, Wellesley,  Mass.,  married  George  F. 
Chandler,  a  native  of  Strafford,  Vt.,  and  has 
one  child.  Her  husband  is  a  graduate  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  and  is  now  engaged  in  farm- 
ing upon  scientific  principles. 

Mr.  Freeman  is  one  of  the  most  prominent 
residents  of  Plainfield.  His  strict  adherence 
to  high  principles  has  gained  for  him  a  warm 
place  in  the  hearts  of  his  neighbors  and  fel- 
low-townsmen. Although  he  takes  a  deep  in- 
terest in  the  general  welfare  of  the  town,  he 
has  never  aspired  to  political  honors,  as  his 
time  has  always  been  absorbed  by  his  large 
farming  operations. 


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6 1  iThODORK  M.  TOGUS,  M.D.,  a 
J I  well-known  and  skilful  i)hysician  of 
Hookset,  Merrimack  County,  was  born 
in  the  Province  of  Quebec,  April  21,  1853, 
son  of  Edward  Togus.  His  grandfather,  Joel 
Togus,  who  followed  the  trade  of  a  carpenter 
in  Quebec  throLighout  his  life,  died  at  the  age 
of  sixty-four  years.  The  father,  also  a  native 
of  Quebec,  born  in  1832,  was  a  successful 
agriculturist  there  for  many  years.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Josephine  Maynard,  who  was  like- 
wise born  in  Quebec;  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  eight  children.  Of  these  there  are 
now  living:  Theodore  IVL,  ICdward,  John, 
Isaac,  Jennie,  Julia,  and  Mary.  ICdvvard  mar- 
ried, and  has  one  child,  Jessie;  Jennie  married 
Oliver  ]5ird,  and  has  four  chiUlren;  Julia  is 
the  wife  of  Lewis  Busiere,  and  has  four  chil- 
dren ;  and  May  is  the  wife  of  lulmund  Busiere, 
and    has    five    children.      The    mother    passed 


away  in  1S72,  and  the  father  in  1SS7.  ]k)th 
were  pious  and  active  members  of  the  Ba[)tist 
church  of  IMackinton,  Mass. 

Theodore  M.  Togus  received  the  larger  part 
of  his  education  in  New  England.  First  at- 
tending the  schools  of  Shelburne  Falls,  Vt., 
then  pursuing  his  studies  in  Concord,  N.  H., 
he  graduated  from  the  medical  department  of 
the  University  of  Vermont  at  Burlington  in 
1886.  The  Doctor  began  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  the  manufacturing  city  of  Lowell, 
Mass.  I'rom  there  he  went  to  Concord,  N.H., 
in  1887.  Subsequently  he  purchased  the 
practice  of  Dr.  Randall  in  Hookset,  where  he 
has  since  been  actively  employed  in  his  pro- 
fessional duties.  His  acknowledged  ability 
has  won  for  him  a  fair  share  of  the  patronage 
of  the  place. 

Dr.  Togus  was  married  December  25,  1878, 
to  Miss  Fannie  Simmons,  daughter  of  John 
C.  and  Frances  Lane  Simmons,  of  Concord, 
N.H.  Of  their  four  children  two  died  in  in- 
fancy. The  others  are:  LeoiJoUl  T.,  born  No- 
vember 6,  1S80,  at  Bluffton,  Minn.;  and  Alice 
M.,  born  in  Concord,  N.H.,  June  17,  1884. 
In  politics  Dr.  Togus  is  a  Republican.  Tak- 
ing much  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  town, 
he  has  served  as  Supervisor,  and  has  been  a 
member  of  the  Hookset  School  Board  for  the 
past  two  years.  He  belongs  to  Jewell  Lodge, 
No.  29,  I'.  &  A.  M.,  of  Suncook;  and  to 
Friendship  Lodge,  No.  19,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of 
Hookset.  Born  and  bred  in  a  Christian  home, 
he  has  never  dejjartetl  from  the  faitii  that  sus- 
tained his  parents  through  life;  and  both  he 
and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Baptist 
church. 


lARKER    ITLLSBURY,  a  veteran   of 
the  anti-slavery  movement,  one  of  the 
few  survivors  of  the  earnest,  intrepid 
band  of   [iliilantiiropists  and  reformers  who  for 


PARKER    PILLSBURY. 


SARAH    H.    PILLSBURY. 


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nearly  half  a  century,  in  journcyings  oft,  in 
harcl.slii[js  and  perils,  devoted  themselves  to 
pleading  the  cause  of  the  oi)|)ressed,  denounc- 
ing ini(iuiUnis  laws  and  practices,  and  demand- 
ing the  removal  of  the  yoke  that  held  a  race 
in  cruel  bondage,  is  now  passing  the  serene 
sunset  of  a  life  of  diligent  and  beneficent  ac- 
livit)'  in  retirement  at  his  home  in  Concord, 
N.il.  Son  of  Deacon  Oliver  and  Anna 
(Smi'di)  I'iUsbury,  and  the  eldest  of  a  family 
of  eleven  children,  I\Ir.  I'iUsbury  was  born 
in  Hamilton,   Essex  Coimty,  Mass.,  September 

22,    1809. 

His  father,  a  native  of  Newbury,  Mass., 
son  of  Tarker,  first,  and  Sarah  (Dickinson) 
I'illsinn-y,  was  of  the  sixth  generation  in  de- 
scent from  William  Pillsbury,  who  married 
Deborah  Crosby  in  Dorchester,  Mass.,  in 
1641,  and  afterward  settled  in  Newbury,  the 
line  being  continued  as  follows:  William's 
son  Moses,  his  grandson,  Moses,  Jr.,  and  his 
great-grandson,  I\Ioses,  third,  who  married 
Mary  Parker,  and  was  the  father  of  Parker 
Pillsbury,  first.  Oliver  Pillsbury,  when  four 
years  old,  was  taken  by  his  parents  to  West 
Boscawen,  now  Webster,  N.H.,  and  there  grew 
to  manhood.  At  nineteen  years  of  age  he  re- 
turned to  Newbury,  Mass.,  where  he  learned 
the>blacksmith"s  trade;  and  after  that  he  com- 
pleted his  schooling  at  Dummer  Academy. 
While  there  he  made  the  accpiaintance  of  his 
future  wife,  Anna  Smith,  daughter  of  Phile- 
mon Smith.  They  were  married  December  S, 
1S08,  and  settled  in  Hamilton,  Alass. ,  he 
working  at  his  trade  till  1814,  when  the  iiard 
times  caused  by  the  war  with  England  led  him 
to  remove  to  a  farm  in  llenniker,  N.H.,  to 
buy  which  he  incurred  a  debt  of  fifteen  hun- 
dred dollars.  With  the  conclusion  of  pcaco 
the  price  of  farm  produce  fell,  and  to  free 
himself  from  this  burden  cost  many  years  of 
severe  toil.      Public-spirited   and   religious,  a 


Deacon  in  the  church,  active  in  Sunday- 
school,  he  was  earnestly  interested  in  temper- 
ance and  the  abcjlition  of  slavery,  and  was  ever 
ready  to  lend  a  hand  to  local  benevolent  enter- 
prises. He  died  in  1857,  his  wife,  a  most 
estimable  woman,  of  strong  character,  outliv- 
ing him  about  twelve  years,  retaining  her 
faculties  to  a  remarkable  degree  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-four.  They  had  been 
bereft  of  three  children,  and  were  survived  by 
eight,  namely:  Parker;  Josiah  \V.,  father  of 
Albert  K.,  ex-Attorney  General  of  Massachu- 
setts; Gilbert;  Oliver,  Jr.;  Eliza  A.;  Har- 
riet; Mary  S.  ;  and  Moses  D. 

Parker,  the  special  subject  of  this  sketch, 
acquired  such  education  in  his  boyhood  as  was 
afforded  by  the  district  schools  of  Henniker, 
and  at  an  early  age  began  to  help  in  the  work 
of  the  home  farm.  When  about  twenty  years 
old  he  went  to  live  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  was 
for  some  time  thereafter  employed  in  driving 
an  express  wagon  from  Lynn  to  15oston.  Re- 
turning to  Henniker,  he  again  devoted  himself 
to  farming.  Uniting  with  the  church  a  year 
or  two  later,  he  engaged  zealously  in  religious 
work;  and,  being  urged  to  prepare  himself  for 
the  ministry,  he  pursued  a  course  of  study  at 
Gilmanton,  N.H.,  and  at  the  Andover  Theo- 
logical Seminary,  "in  less  than  four  years 
from  the  reaper  and  the  plough  "  was  licensed 
to  preach,  and  for  a  year,  1839-40,  had  charge 
of  a  parish  at  Loudon,  N.PL  In  the  mean 
time  his  sympathies  and  his  strong  sense  of 
justice  had  been  aroused  in  behalf  of  the 
Southern  slaves,  and  in  the  spring  of  1839, 
undertaking  a  short  lecturing  and  financial 
agency  for  the  Massachusetts  Anti-slavery  So- 
ciety, he  delivered  his  first  lecture  on  the  sub- 
ject of  slavery  in  Eitchburg,  Mass.  Leaving 
the  Congregational  church  and  pulpit  in  1S40, 
he  began  his  "anti-slavery  apostleship"  in 
New  Hampshire,  his  first  work  being  to  con- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


duct  the  Flciald  of  Freedom  for  a  few  months 
in  the  absence  of  its  editor,  Nathaniel  P. 
Rogers.  In  the  autumn  he  entered  "the  lect- 
ure field  with  the  full  resolve,"  as  he  says, 
"to  see  the  overthrow  of  the  Southern  slave 
system  or  perish  in  the  conflict."  An  es- 
teemed associate  of  Garrison  and  Phillips,  of 
Rogers  and  Foster,  of  Douglass  and  others,  he 
engaged  heart  and  soul  in  the  greatest  mis- 
sionary movement  of  the  age,  denouncing  the 
"sum  of  all  villanies,"  and  fearlessly  reason- 
ing of  truth,  rigliteousness,  and  judgment  to 
come.  A  book  written  by  Mr.  Pillsbury, 
published  in  1883,  entitled  "Acts  of  the 
Anti-slavery  Apostles,"  presents  a  graphic 
series  of  pen  pictures  of  a  character  sufifi- 
ciently  indicated  by  its  title,  and  is  a  valuable 
contribution  to  the  history  of  that  thirty 
years  of  stress  and   storm. 

The  work  of  Mr.  Pillsbury  himself  and  the 
esteem  in  which  he  was  held  by  his  fellow- 
laborers,  who  knew  him  best,  may  be  judged 
from  a  few  citations  that  follow,  the  first  from 
the  pen  of  Nathaniel  P.  Rogers  in  the  Herald 
of  Freedom  in  October,  1842;  the  second  and 
third  from  the  "Life  of  William  Lloyd  Garri- 
son," vol.  iii. 

"The  abolitionists  of  the  country  ought  to 
know  Parker  Pillsbury  better  than  they  do.  I 
know  him  for  all  that  is  noljle  in  soul  and 
powerful  in  talent  and  eloquence.  He  is  one 
of  the  strong  men  of  our  age." 

"Could  you  know  him  and  liis  liistory," 
wrote  Wendell  Phillips  to  I-llizabeth  Pease  in 
'^^^53'  "yoii  would  value  him.  Originally  a 
wagoner,  he  earned  enough  to  get  educated. 
When  just  reatly  to  be  settled,  the  faculty  of 
Andover  Theological  Seminary  threatened  him 
that  they  would  never  recommend  him  to  a 
parish  unless  he  gave  up  speaking  in  anti- 
slavery  meetings.  He  chose  us,  and  sacri- 
ficed all   the   benefits  (worldly  and   pecuniary) 


of     his     hard-earned     education.      His    course 
since  has  been  worthy  of  this  beginning." 

James  Russell  Lowell,  in  his  rhyming  letter 
to  the  Pennsylvania  Freeman,  describing  th.e 
reunited  abolitionists  at  the  Anti-slavery 
Bazaar  in  Boston  in  December,  1846,  portrays 
with  a  few  bold  strokes  this  dauntless  cham- 
pion of  freedom :  — 

"  Beyond,  a  crater  in  each  eye. 

Sways  brown,  broad-shouldered  Pillsbury, 

Who  tears  up  words  like  trees  by  the  roots, 

A  Theseus  in  stout  cowhide  boots, 

The  wager  of  eternal  war 

Against  the  loathsome  Minotaur 

To  whom  we  sacrifice  each  year 

The  best  blood  of  our  Athens  here  — 

A  terrible  denouncer  he. 

Old  .Sinai  burns  unquenchably 

Upon  his  lips :  he  well  might  be  a 

Hot-blazing  soul  from  fierce  Judea  — 

Habakkuk,  Kzra.  or  Hosea  — 

His  words  burn  as  with  iron  searers."' 

As  was  inevitable,  in  Mr.  Pillsbury's  book 
are  recorded  dark  and  shameful  passages  of 
American  history.  Impressive  and  pleasing 
is  the  account  given  of  the  memorable  con- 
vention at  Nantucket  in  August,  1841,  where 
Frederick  Douglass  made  his  first  appearance 
on  the  anti-slavery  platform,  and  in  a  speech, 
rising  to  the  importance  of  the  occasion  and 
the  dignity  of  his  theme,  wrought  the  crowded 
congregation  up  "almost  to  enchantment." 
Long  afterward  Mr.  Garrison,  having  just 
passed  the  threescore-and-ten  milestone  of 
life's  journey,  wrote  to  Mr.  Pillsbury  in  reply 
to  a  congratulatory  letter,  in  which  tlie  Doug- 
lass incident  had  been  alludeil  to  among 
others.      We  quote  but  in  jxirt :  — 

'^  Dear  friend  Pillsbury, —  I  did  not  mean 
that  a  fortnight  should  elapse  before  answer- 
ing your  letter,  tiie  receipt  of  which  gave  me 
much  pleasure,  not  only  because  of  the  stir- 
ring memories  of  Auld  Lang  Syne  awakened 
by  it,  but  also  for  its  very  kind  and  fraternal 
spirit.   .  .  . 


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"^'olll•  c-oming  into  llic  fuld  of  conflict 
was  specially  timely,  and  displayed  on  your 
part  rare  moral  courage  and  a  martyr  readi- 
ness to  meet  whatever  of  religious  oblotjuy, 
j)opular  derision,  social  outlawry,  mobocratic 
violence,  or  deadly  peril,  might  confront  you 
as  the  outspoken  and  uncompromising  advo- 
cate of  immediate  and  unconditional  emanci- 
pation. l*"or  then  the  aspect  of  things  was 
peculiarly  disheartening,  a  formidable  schism 
existing  in  the  anti-slavery  ranks,  and  the  pro- 
slavery  elements  of  the  country  in  furious 
commotion,  l^ut  you  stood  at  your  post  with 
the  faithfulness  of  an  Abdiel;  and,  whether 
men  would  hear  or  forbear,  you  did  not  at  any 
time  to  the  end  of  the  struggle  fail  to  speak 
in  thunder  tones  in  the  ear  of  the  nation,  ex- 
posing its  blood-guiltiness,  warning  it  of  the 
wratli  to  come,  ami  setting  forth  the  duty  of 
thorough  re[)entance  and  restitution.  If  you 
resorted  to  a  ram's  horn  instead  of  a  silver 
trumpet,  it  was  because  thus  only  could  the 
walls  of  our  slave-holding  Jericho  be  shaken  to 
their  overthrow.  .  .  . 

"You,  too,  have  seen  of  the  travail  of  your 
soul,  and  may  well  be  satisfied.      Laiis  Deo. 

"WlLI.I.VM     Ll.OVL)    G.\KRISON." 

Of  the  prominent  workers  in  the  anti-slavery 
contlict  only  two  besides  Mr.  I'illsbury  now 
(1897)  survive;  namely,  the  Rev.  Samuel  May 
and  Charles  K.  Whipple.  Mr.  I'illsbury,  it 
may  be  mentioned,  was  one  of  the  trustees, 
with  absolute  discretion,  to  whom  Mr.  Charles 
F.  Hovey,  a  merchant  of  Boston,  dying  in 
1859,  left  forty  thousand  dollars  to  be  used  in 
behalf  of  anti  slavery,  woman's  rights,  and 
other  reforms  dear  to  his  heart.  Much  to  the 
regret  of  Mr.  Pillsbury,  owing  to  the  exi- 
gencies of  the  Civil  War  and  the  pressing 
needs  of  the  colored  race  during  that  period 
the  whole  amount  was  expended   before  any  of 


it  could  be  devoted  to  the  interests  of  interna- 
tional peace,  of  which  he  has  long  been  a 
stanch  advocate.  Since  the  close  of  the  war 
Mr.  I'illsbury,  by  voice  and  pen,  has  also 
lab(jrcd  valiantly  in  behalf  of  temperance  and 
woman  suffrage,  publishing  and  circulating 
over  fifteen  thou.sand  tracts  devoted  to  his 
favorite  reforms.  Disbelieving  in  govern- 
ment by  force,  he  belongs  to  no  political 
party,  and  he  never  votes. 

From  his  boyhood  up,  the  home  life  of  Mr. 
I'illsbury  has  been  a  happy  one,  the  domestic 
atmosphere  cheerful  and  invigorating,  of 
New  England's  best  type.  On  January  i, 
1840,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Sarah 
H.  Sargent,  daughter  of  Dr.  John  L.  and 
Sally  (Wilkins)  Sargent,  of  Concord,  N.II. 
Mrs.  Pillsbury  was  born  in  Loudon,  Merri- 
mack County,  N.H.  Her  father.  Dr.  John 
L.  Sargent,  was  born  in  Chester,  Rockingham 
County,  N.II.  He  was  a  very  successful  phy- 
sician and  surgeon,  ami  had  an  extensive  prac- 
tice. Her  mother,  Sally  Wilkins,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Jonathan  Wilkins,  of  Concord, 
N.H.,  was  a  woman  of  rare  excellence  of 
character,  of  refined  taste  and  culture,  being 
an  extensive  and  appreciative  reader. 

In  this  connection  the  biographer  desires  to 
say  that  Mrs.  Pillsbury,  whose  portrait  right- 
fully appears  w^ith  her  husband's  in  this  vol- 
ume, was  not  only  an  ardent  sympathizer  with 
him  in  his  anti-slavery  work,  but  was  most 
efficient  in  co-operation  with  him.  It  was 
hers  to  keep  the  domestic  fire  burning  while 
he  was  away,  to  exercise  an  economy  and  thrift 
unknown  to  the  present  generation,  that  her 
husband's  time  and  means  might  be  wholly 
devoted  to  the  overthrow  of  slavery.  This 
wife  gave  her  husband  the  encouraging  word 
when  he  left  the  home,  and  bade  him  God- 
speed with  a  cheery  voice,  when  her  heart  was 
sad  as  the  grave;    for  she  knew  that  her  be- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


loveil  husband  was  liable  any  day  to  be 
trampled  or  beaten  to  death  by  an  angry  mob, 
and  his  mangled  form  hurled  with  a  slur 
across  the  hearthstone,  or  perchance  an  assas- 
sin's bullet  would  destroy  the  life  that  was 
her  very  soul.  What  ostracism  she  underwent 
in  social  life!  She  withdrew  from  the  church 
in  which  her  life  was  inwrought  rather  than 
partake  of  the  sacred  emblems  from  the  hand 
of  a  minister  who  sanctioned  the  slavery  of 
human  beings.  How  her  soul  ached  with  that 
of  her  husband,  and  how  sad  the  family  circle 
when  poor  Sims  was  remanded  from  Boston's 
court-house  to  Southern  slavery,  and  again 
when  the  hero  martyr,  John  Brown,  was 
legally  murdered.' 

The  writer  regards  it  as  an  honor  and  a 
privilege  to  show  in  this  sketch  that  in  those 
days  that  tried  men's  souls  there  were  women 
as  well  as  men  who  toiled  through  dark  days, 
and  worried  and  wept  through  sleepless  nights, 
that  there  might  be  accomplished  what  after 
years  of  bloodshed  we  witness  in  America 
to-day  —  perfect  freedom  of  all  God's  chil- 
dren, without  regard  to  color,  race,  sex,  or 
sect.  And  so  on  the  page  of  history,  beside 
that  of  the  anti-slavery  hero  and  apostle, 
Parker  Pillsbury,  we  place  that  of  the  heroine, 
Sarah  H.  Sargent  Pillsbury,  his  sympathizer, 
helper,  wife. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pillsbury  have  always  resided 
in  this  city.  They  have  one  child,  a  daugh- 
ter, Helen  Buffum,  who  was  born  June  14, 
1843.  She  was  married  September  22,  188S, 
to  Parsons  Brainard  Cogswell,  journalist  and 
e.\-Mayor  of  Concord,  who  died  October  28, 
1895.  Mr.  Cogswell  came  to  Concord  to 
learn  the  printer's  trade  of  George  G.  I'ogg, 
who  ran  the  Independent  Denioemt,  a  Free 
Soil  paper.  Having  thoroughly  mastered  his 
profession,  he  set  his  heart  to  have  a  daily 
paper  for  Concord ;  and  the  Daily  Monitor  was 


the  child  of  his  conception.  It  is  not  too 
much  to  say  that  to  P.  Brainard  Cogswell  be- 
longs the  honor  of  Concord's  Daily  Monitor. 
During  her  married  life,  as  ever  before  and 
after,  Mrs.  Cogswell  has  continued  to  make 
her  home  with  her  father  and  mother,  her  de- 
votion to  whom  and  ceaseless  care  for  their 
comfort  was  most  cordially  seconded  by  her 
husband,  who  has  left  the  fragrant  memory  of 
a  noble  manhood. 


MMET  S.  ROBINSON,  an  ex-member 
of  the  legislature  and  the  owner  of 
a  large  farm  in  Goshen,  was  born  in 
Orange,  Vt.,  August  2,  1859,  son  of  Alexan- 
der and  Sarah  (Moore)  Robinson,  both  natives 
of  Plainfield,  Vt.  The  father,  who  is  a  stone 
mason  by  trade,  about  the  year  1862  moved  to 
Newport,  Vt.,  where  he  resided  for  fifteen 
years.  From  there  he  went  to  Newport, 
N.  II.  ;  and  there  he  has  since  been  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Alexan- 
der Robinson  have  reared  ten  children, 
namely:  Captain  P'rank  Robinson,  who  fol- 
lows the  sea,  and  is  a  ship-master;  Henry  C, 
who  married  Lucy  Wing,  of  Newport,  Vt. , 
and  is  now  carrying  on  a  farm  in  Newport, 
N.  H.  ;  Herman  A.,  a  wood-worker  in  New- 
port, N.  H.  ;  Alson,  who  married  Mrs.  Clara 
True,  and  is  now  a  carpenter  in  Tewksbury, 
Mass.  ;  Emmet  S.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
I'^lla  J.,  who  lives  in  Newport,  N.H.  ;  Piiili[), 
who  for  many  years  has  been  connected  with 
the  National  Library  in  Washington,  D.C.  ; 
Lcander,  a  railroad  engineer  in  Canada; 
P'ruest,  a  carpenter  in  Newport,  N.H.;  ant! 
Abbie,  who  resides  at  home. 

Having  acquired  an  education  in  the  com- 
mon schools,  Lmmet  S.  Robinson  began  to 
work  for  his  living.  After  following  different 
occupations  for  a  time,  he   finally  settled   upon 


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the  I'lukcr  f;irni  in  ("loslicii,  where  he  mnv 
resides.  He  owns  al)out  f(nir  liiindrccl  and 
fifty  acres  of  land,  the  tillage  portion  of  which 
he  devotes  to  general  farming  and  dairying; 
and  he  sells  considerable  milk. 

On  March  9,  188 1,  Mr.  Robinson  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Marietta  Parker. 
She  was  born  in  this  town,  August  12,  1839, 
daughter  of  Jonas  and  Zeroyda  (Chase)  Parker, 
natives  respectively  of  Lempstcr  and  Unity. 
Jonas  I'arker  was  for  many  years  a  prosperous 
farmer  in  Goshen.  Both  parents  are  now  de- 
cea.sed.  Mr.  Robinson  is  a  firm  supporter  of 
the  Republican  party,  and  has  rendered  in  an 
able  manner  his  share  of  service  to  the  town. 
He  served  upon  the  Board  of  Selectmen  for 
several  years,  and  was  elected  to  the  legis- 
lature in  1895.  Much  interested  in  agricult- 
ural t[uestions,  he  is  connected  with  Sunapee 
Mountain  Grange,  No.  144,  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry, in  Mill  Village.  Mr.  Robinson  is 
one  of  Goshen's  representati\e  men. 


(S^OIIX  b'RAZn;R,  a  well-known  farmer 
of  Hanbury,  Merrimack  County,  N.H., 
was  born  in  Salisbury,  January  16, 
1836,  son  of  John  C.  and  Alice  (Eastman) 
Frazier,  of  that  place. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  licnjamin  I'Vazier, 
was  one  of  the  pioneers  of  Kearsarge  Moun- 
tain. His  ancestors,  it  is  said,  were  of 
Scotch-Irish  descent.  Born  on  July  21,  1767, 
he  went  to  Deerfield  when  a  child;  and  after 
his  marriage  to  Mary  Philbrick  he  removed,  in 
1790,  to  Salisbury.  Here  he  cleared  at  first 
an  acre  of  land  and  l)uilt  a  log  house,  and  as 
time  went  on  became  a  very  thrifty  farmer  and 
owner  of  considerable  land  which  had  been 
cleared  by  his  own  efforts.  Game  was  abun- 
dant in  those  da^'s ;  and,  Grandfather  Frazier 
being  a    skilful    huntsman,    the   family   larder 


was  kejjt  well  lilletl  with  venison  and  bear 
.steak.  One  sectirjn  of  his  farm  was  called 
Bear  Wold,  because  of  the  number  of  bears 
killed  there.  The  Frazier  house  was  always  a 
resort  for  the  neighboring  farmers  and  their 
families  whenever  a  good  time  was  wanted. 
Benjamin  Frazier  died  on  June  12,  1820. 

John  C.  Frazier,  son  of  lienjamin,  removed 
from  Salisbury  to  Danbury  in  1836,  shortly 
after  the  birth  of  his  son  John.  Here  he 
built  a  fine  group  of  buildings  and  remained 
during  the  rest  of  his  life,  dying  on  November 
25,  1886.  He  served  in  the  legislature  for 
two  terms,  one  of  them  being  the  famous  Con- 
stitutional Convention  term.  He  was  the 
father  of  three  sons,  the  second  of  whom, 
named  Moses,  died  April  19,  1S96.  Mr. 
]''rank  P.  Frazier,  the  third  son,  a  resident  of 
Ivvanston,  111.,  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
Bartlett,  Frazier  &  Co.,  of  Chicago,  III.,  and 
does  an  extensive  grain  business  in  the  West. 
He  married  Clara  Duff,  of  Peoria,  111.,  and 
has  one  son. 

Mr.  John  Frazier,  of  Danbury,  is  the  eldest 
son.  After  leaving  school,  he  worked  for  a 
time  on  a  farm  and  later  as  a  fireman  on  the 
railroad.  In  1869  he  went  to  Toledo,  Ohio, 
where  he  remained  for  five  years  as  engineer 
on  the  Lake  Shore  &  Michigan  Southern  Rail- 
road, running  between  Toledo  and  Elkhart, 
Toledo  and  Cleveland,  and  between  Toledo 
and  Detroit.  Coming  l-'ast  again,  Mr.  Frazier 
was  engineer  for  some  time  on  the  O.  C. 
R.  R.  Later  he  settled  on  the  farm  where  he 
now  resides.      He  built   a   new   barn    in    1891. 

Mr.  Frazier's  first  wife  was  Mary  O.  Fra- 
zier, and  two  sons  were  born  of  this  marriage: 
James  H.,  who  is  now  deceased ;  and  Samuel 
M.  The  second  wife  was  Miss  Ida  L.  Brown, 
of  Concord,  N.  H.  Mr.  Frazier  was  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention,  and  has  been 
Selectman  of  Danbury.      He  has  always  voted 


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BIOGRAPHICAL   REVIEW 


the  Democratic  ticket,  and  is  a  solid  sup]Kirter 
of  the  platform  of  the  gold  Democrats.  His 
first  Presidential  vote  was  cast  in  i860  for 
Stephen  A.  Douglas. 


NDREW  J.  ABBOTT,  a  prosperous 
farmer  of  West  Concord  and  an  ex- 
member  of  its  Board  of  Selectmen, 
was  born  in  the  house  he  now  occupies,  De- 
cember J 9,  1856,  son  of  Simeon  and  Mary 
(Farnum)  Abbott.  The  Abbott  homestead, 
which  has  been  owned  by  the  family  for  five 
generations,  was  bought  in  1754  by  James 
Abbott  from  one  of  the  original  proprietors 
of  Concord.  James  Abbott,  who  was  a  native 
of  Andover,  Mass.,  moved  from  there  with  his 
family  to  this  land,  and  proceeded  to  clear  and 
improve  it.  In  1760  he  erected  a  frame 
house,  which  is  still  in  use.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  son,  Amos  Abbott  (first),  who 
left  the  property  to  his  son,  Amos  Abbott 
(second),  who  was  grandfather  of  Andrew  J., 
and  served  as  a  Corporal  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  The  maiden  name  of  the  grandfather's 
wife  was  Judith  Morse. 

Simeon  Abbott,  after  receiving  his  ele- 
mentary education  in  the  district  schools  of 
this  town,  subsequently  pursued  a  higher 
course  in  a  school  of  Meredith,  N.  II.  He 
then  taught  school  for  several  winter  terms, 
and  he  conducted  the  homestead  farm  during 
liis  active  ])eriod.  His  natural  ability  and 
energy  brought  him  into  prominence  in 
affairs,  and  he  served  as  a  Selectman  and  as 
Representative  to  the  legislature.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  eighty-seven  years  and  si.x  months. 
His  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Simeon  Farnum, 
who  represented  a  highly  reputable  family  of 
this  city,  became  the  mother  of  ten  children  — 
Amos  S.,  Rebecca  C,  Mary  S.,  Abiel  C. , 
Calvin    I''.,  Stephen   F.,  Louise  Ci.,  Clara  A., 


Mattie  W.,  and  Andrew  J.  Calvin  F., 
Stephen  F.,  and  Mattie  VV.  are  no  longer 
living.  Amos  S. ,  who  is  residing  in  Concord, 
married  Hattie  Williams,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren —  Hattie  P.  and  Otis  A.  Mary  S.  mar- 
ried Fred  G.  Chandler,  of  Penacook,  and  has 
one  daughter,  Annie  M.  Abiel  C,  who  lives 
in  this  city,  wedded  Mary  iM'ancis,  and  has 
two  children  —  James  F.  and  Rebecca  F. 
Louise  G.  married  George  Capen,  lives  at 
Omaha,  Neb.,  and  has  seven  children  —  Al- 
bert G.,  Simeon  A.,  Stephen  I".,  Mary  L. , 
George  H.,  Edwin  L.,  and  Susan  S. 

Andrew  J.  Abbott  accjuired  a  district-school 
education,  and  at  an  early  age  apjilied  himself 
to  the  regular  farm  duties  at  the  homestead. 
Having  succeeded  to  its  ownership,  he  has 
since  carried  on  general  farming  there  with 
success.  His  crops  are  always  large  and  of  a 
superior  cjuality,  and  he  is  regarded  as  one  of 
the  most  practical  farmers  in  his  neighbor- 
hood. Actively  interested  in  local  affairs,  he 
has  displayed  a  determination  to  faithfully 
guard  the  general  interests  of  the  community. 
Politically,  he  is  a  Republican;  and  he  cast 
his  first  vote  for  James  A.  Garfield  in  1880. 


Il.LIAM  BRl'XK  was  a  prominent 
and  wealthy  resident  of  Claremont 
in  his  time.  Born  in  Croydon, 
N.I  I.,  December  17,  1826,  he  was  a  son  of 
Henry  and  Keziah  (Marsh)  Breck.  The 
grandfather,  William  Breck,  who  was  bom  in 
Boston,  Mass.,  May  11,  1745,  was  a  merchant 
in  that  city  until  1792,  when  he  came  to  West 
Claiemont.  Here  he  bought  a  farm  of  a  Mr. 
Dickinson,  the  deed  of  which  bears  the  date 
May  3,  1792;  and  he  resided  on  the  estate  for 
the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  a  business  man  of 
unsullied  integrity,  and  while  residing  in 
15oslon   he   held   several    responsible  positions. 


BIOORAI'IIICAJ,   Rr<:viEvv 


5' 


lie  (lied  Niivcnihcr  22,  1819.  On  July  11, 
1 77 1,  liu  wedded  Margaret  Thomas,  daughter 
of  ])r.  William  Thomas,  of  Plymouth,  Mass. 
She  died  J''ebruary  4,  1820.  Iler  chiltlren 
were:  William,  Iioru  I*"el)niary  5,  1775; 
Peggy,  who  died  aged  one  year;  Peggy  (sec- 
ond), born  Aiiri]  2,  1778,  who  died  in  August, 
183s;  John  T.,  born  March  14,  1779,  who 
died  in  1816;  James,  born  May  8,  1780,  who 
died    October    15,   1871;   Nancy,  born   October 

3,  1781,  who  (lied  March  i,  1858;  Harriet, 
born  September  15,  1782,  wlio  died  June  30, 
1S36;  Henry,  born  February  26,  1786;  and 
Hannah,  born  April  7,  1787,  who  died  August 
22,  1858.  William  became  a  sea  captain, 
and  acquired  a  fortune.  His  last  days  were 
passed  in  retirement  at  the  homestead  in  West 
Claremont,  where  he  lived  as  a  country  gentle- 
n)an,  and  died  Ajiril   13,    1848. 

Henry  l^reck,  who  was  born  in  Boston,  ac- 
companied his  parents  to  Claremont.  When 
a  young  man  he  settled  in  Croydon,  and  there 
kept  a  store.  Later  he  opened  a  branch  store 
in  Cornish,  N.  H.  Subsequently  he  disposed 
of  his  business  in  Croydon.  He  continued  to 
carry  on  the  Cornish  store  until  1848.  After 
the  death  of  his  brother  William  he  returned 
to  the  homestead  and  residetl  there  until  his 
death,  wliich  occurred  July  10,  1872.  Keziah 
Marsh  Iireck,  his  first  wife,  who  was  a  native 
of  Croydon,  died  June   29,   1S26.      On  October 

4,  1827,  he  married  for  his  second  wife  Sarah 
Townc.  She  survived  him,  and  died  June  22, 
1889.  His  children  by  his  first  wife  w-ere : 
John  Thomas,  who  lives  in  Lebanon,  N.H.  ; 
Henry,  who  lives  in  Newton,  Mass.  ;  Robert, 
who  died  in  .Springfield,  Mass.,  July  25, 
1825  ;  and  William,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Those  b)'  his  second  union  were:  Sarah  Ann, 
who  married  Reuben  15.  l^llis,  and  resided  in 
Claremont;  .Samuel,  a  resident  of  Springfield, 
Mass.  ;    lulward  W.,  who    is    residing    in    Hel- 


ena,"Mont.  ;  Charles  1'.,  who  wedded  Mary, 
daughter  of  Stephen  Robcrt.s,  of  Mcdford, 
Mass.,  and  now  owns  the  homestead;  and  Llla 
M.  ]5reck. 

William  lircck  completed  his  education  at 
the  Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden,  N.  M. 
He  went  to  reside  in  Cornish  when  fourteen 
years  old,  and  was  Assistant  Postmaster  there 
from  1844  to  1846.  He  had  been  engaged  in 
business  with  his  brother  John  in  Cornish  for 
about  four  years  when  he  was  obliged  to  with- 
draw on  account  of  a  severe  attack  of  asthma. 
Li  1852  he  went  to  California  in  search  of 
health,  and  during  his  eight  years'  residence  in 
that  State  he  engaged  in  several  business  en- 
terprises, which  in  a  short  time  tripled  his 
investments.  In  i860  he  returned  home  much 
improved  in  health.  He  retained  some  of  his 
interests  in  California,  which  yielded  a  hand- 
some income  during  the  war.  Though  not 
actively  engaged  in  business  after  his  return  to 
Claremont,  he  invested  in  various  enterprises. 
For  several  years  he  was  a  Director  of  the 
Claremont  National  Bank,  of  Sullivan's  Sav- 
ings Institution,  and  of  the  Sugar  River 
Paper  Mill  Company.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  New  Hampshire  legislature  in  1S84  and 
1885. 

On  October  7,  1868,  I\Ir.  ]?reck  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Susan  L.  Farwell.  She  was 
born  in  Claremont,  May  27,  1 841,  daughter  of 
George  N.  and  Sarah  A.  (McDonald)  Farwell. 
George  N.  F^arwell,  one  of  the  thirteen  chil- 
dren of  Nicholas  and  Susan  (Corey)  Farwell, 
was  born  in  Claremont,  F^cbruary  18,  1804. 
At  an  early  age  he  learned  shoemaking,  and 
later  became  the  proprietor  of  a  shoe  factory, 
employing  one  hundred  hands.  He  acquired 
influence  in  business  circles;  was  one  of  the 
organizers  of  the  Claremont  Bank,  of  which  he 
was  President  for  some  time;  and  he  was  the 
first  Treasurer  of   Sullivan's  Savings   Institu- 


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tion.  He  was  a  liberal,  public-spirited  man. 
He  erected  several  buildings  in  this  town. 
His  record  was  that  of  a  liberal,  public- 
spirited  man.  For  over  fifty  years  he  was  a 
leading  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 
His  wife,  whom  he  married  December  25, 
1827,  was  a  daughter  of  Lewis  and  Rhoda 
(Rathbone)  McDonald.  She  reared  three 
children  —  James  H.,  John  L. ,  and  Susan  L. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Breck  had  one  daughter,  Sarah 
McDonald.  Mr.  Rreck  died  at  his  home  in 
this  town,  November  10,   iSSg. 


IIJJAM  HALL,  a  retired  merchant 
of  riainfield,  was  born  in  Cornish, 
N.  H.,  February  28,  1846,  son  of 
Lsrael  and  Elizabeth  D.  (Demming)  Hall. 
He  is  a  descendant  of  Willis  Hall.  His 
grandfather,  Jonathan  Hall,  who  was  a  native 
of  Connecticut,  was  the  first  of  the  family  to 
ascend  the  river  for  the  purpose  of  settling. 
Jonathan,  who  was  an  extensive  farmer,  mar- 
ried Mercy  Cady;  and  his  children  were :  Ls- 
rael, Sophia,  Alfred,  and  Susan,  all  of  whom 
w^ere  born  in  Windsor,  \'t.  Sophia  married 
Sullivan  Blood,  of  Windsor,  and  with  her 
husband  made  the  journey  from  Vermont  to 
Missouri  by  horse  and  chaise.  Sullivan  Blood 
was  for  some  years  captain  of  steamboats  of 
the  Mississipjii  River.  Afterward  he  settled 
in  .St.  Louis,  where  he  became  prominent  in 
the  real  estate  business.  The  owner  of  many 
slaves  at  one  time,  he  liberated  them  previous 
to  the  Rebellion.  In  politics  he  was  a  stanch 
Republican.  He  died  a  millionaire,  and  two 
of  his  four  children  are  living.  Susan  always 
remained  at  home  and  cared  for  her  mother, 
who  in  her  later  years  suffered  the  loss  of  her 
sight.  Alfred  succeeded  to  the  homestead, 
and  always  resided  in  Windsor.  A  leading 
business  man,  he  was  President  of  the  Windsor 


Savings  Bank  and  of  the  liridge  Company. 
He  was  also  prominent  in  public  affairs.  He 
married  Catharine  Morgan,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain Morgan,  of  Windsor,  and  had  a  family  of 
five  sons  and  one  daughter,  to  whom  he  left 
a  large  estate. 

Israel  Hall,  William  Hall's  father,  was 
born  in  1792.  When  a  young  man  he  asso- 
ciated himself  with  a  Mr.  Marcy,  and  carried 
on  a  general  mercantile  business  in  Cornish, 
N.H.,  for  a  number  of  years.  Selling  out 
then  to  his  partner,  he  engaged  in  the  hotel 
business  in  Cornish,  and  conducted  it  for 
some  time.  He  finally  became  a  man  of 
affairs,  and  his  time  was  occujiied  in  attending 
to  his  various  enterprises.  He  settled  estates 
and  acted  as  trustee,  and  was  guardian  for 
minors  and  persons  not  competent  to  take  care 
of  property.  At  one  time  he  was  President  of 
the  Windsor  Savings  Bank  and  of  the  Bridge 
Company.  He  also  carried  on  a  farm.  Prom- 
inent in  politics,  h£  served  as  a  Selectman 
until  forced  to  decline  further  nomination, 
represented  Cornish  in  the  legislature,  was 
Postmaster  for  several  years,  and  he  acted  as 
a  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Notary  Public.  He 
attended  the  Episcopal  church,  sang  in  its 
choir,  and  generously  contributed  to  its  sup- 
port. He  was  a  natural  musician,  and  for 
some  years  played  a  bass-viol  in  church. 
When  si.xty  years  old  he  purchased  a  seraphine 
for  the  use  of  the  church.  As  the  party  se- 
lected to  play  it  was  unable  to  do  so,  he  took 
a  few  lessons  on  the  instrument  and  ]ilayed 
it  himself.  Israel  Hall  died  October  29, 
1S63,  aged  seventy-one  years,  leaving  a  large 
amount  of  property  to  his  family.  Having 
stood  high  in  the  community  as  an  honest,  up- 
right business  man  and  a  faithful  public  ser- 
vant, his  descendants  have  every  reason  to 
JiKik  uiiiin  his  record  with  piide.  The  fii'st  of 
his  three   marriages  was   contracted  with  Mary 


RIOGRAl-mCAL    KKVIKW 


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Chase,  and  the  second  with  Sarah  Chase,  both 
of  whom  were  daughters  of  Israel  Chase,  of 
Coi'iiish.  ( )n  the  Ihiid  occasion  lie  was  united 
to  ICIizabetii  1).  Dcnmiing,  daugliter  of  Will- 
iam Demniinj;',  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Cornish. 
Tiie  ciiildren  of  liiis  rriarriage,  all  born  in 
Cornish,  were:  Charles,  Israel  ]).,  William, 
lulward,  and  George.  Charles  died  in  in- 
fancy. George  died  I-'ebruary  13,  1863,  aged 
eleven  years.  Israel  D.,  born  May  17,  1S43, 
who  completed  his  studies  at  the  Windsor 
High  School,  and  then  took  a  course  at  l-'ast- 
man's  Business  College  in  Concord,  is  now 
carrying  on  a  large  general  store  in  Clare- 
mont,  N.II.,  is  connected  with  other  enter- 
prises, and  is  President  of  the  Bridge  Com- 
pany in  Windsor.  He  has  represented  Clare- 
monl  in  the  legislature,  has  served  upon  the 
School  ]5oard  for  a  number  of  years,  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity,  and  attends 
the  Congregational  church.  He  married  M. 
Belle  Redfield,  daughter  of  .S.  Frank  Redfield, 
of  Claremont,  and  has  one  daughter,  Alice 
I'^lizabcth,  who  is  now  Mrs.  .Scott,  of  that 
town.  Ivlward  Hall,  who  was  boin  July  3, 
1S49,  attended  the  Windsor  High  School. 
Prevented  by  his  failing  sight  from  entering 
upon  a  business  career,  he  engaged  in  farming 
in  I'lainficld  for  some  years,  and  is  now  living 
in  retirement.  He  married  Emilv  Lewin, 
now  deceased,  who  was  a  daughter  of  I-'rastus 
I.cwin,  of  Plainfield.  Mrs.  Israel  Hall,  who 
lived   to  be  sixty-seven  years  old,  died  Janu.ary 

22,    1S75. 

William  Hall  acquired  a  good  education  in 
the  common  scliools  of  Cornish  and  in  the 
Windsor  High  School.  He  had  intended  to 
enter  Dartmouth  College,  and  was  about  to 
graduate  from  the  high  school,  when,  seeing 
an  unusually  [iromising  business  opportunity 
open  to  him,  he  decided  to  embrace  it. 
When,    by    the    destruction    of    the    Windsor 


Bridge  by  a  flood,  communication  between 
that  town  and  Cornish  was  cut  off,  he  im- 
mediately established  a  general  store  in  the 
latter  town,  and  had  a  profitable  trade  until 
the  britlge  was  rebuilt.  He  then  bought  a 
store  in  Plainfield,  to  which  he  mrjvcd  his 
stock,  and  was  in  company  with  his  brother, 
Israel  D.,  for  four  years,  when  Israel  retired. 
After  carrying  it  on  successfully  for  nineteen 
years  longer  he  retired.  He  has  served  with 
ability  as  Town  Clerk  and  Treasurer,  and 
has  frequently  been  solicited  to  accept  other 
town  offices,  but  declined. 

]\Ir.  Hall  married  Amanda  M.  Gallup,  of 
Plainfield.  She  was  born  February  28,  1846, 
which  is  also  the  date  of  her  husband's  birth. 
Mrs.  Hall  is  a  daughter  of  Charles  I',  and 
Amanda  M.  (Kingsbury)  Gallup.  Her  father 
was  a  leading  citizen  of  Plainfield,  and  repre- 
sented this  town  in  the  legislature.  His  wife 
was  a  daughter  of  Asa  Kingsbury,  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Plainfield.  The  name  of 
Kingsbury  is  now  e.xtinct  in  this  town,  but 
three  grandsons  of  Asa  Kingsbury  are  living, 
namely:  Benjamin  C,  amine  owner  in  Spo- 
kane, Wash.  ;  Byron  1'.,  a  railroad  station 
agent  in  Taunton,  Mass.  ;  and  Charles  G.,  the 
superintendent  of  the  American  F3.\press 
Agency  in  Cincinnati,  Ohio.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hall  arc  the  jiarents  of  three  children,  who 
were  born  in  Plainfield,  as  follows:  William 
Israel,  April  14,  1868;  Halliene  Elizabeth, 
April  7,  1S72;  and  Charles  Gallup,  January 
9,  1S80.  William  Israel,  who  completed  his 
education  at  the  Sa.xton's  River  Academy  in 
\'crmont,  studied  art  and  vocal  culture  in  Bos- 
ton, and  is  now  singing  at  one  of  the  large 
churches  in  Trenton,  N.J.  ;  he  married  Eliza- 
beth Sprecklen,  of  New  Jersey.  After  receiving 
her  education  in  a  private  academy,  Halliene 
Elizabeth  studied  music  at  the  New  F'ngland 
Conservatory  in    Boston,    and   graduated    June 


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25,  1894.  She  has  since  spent  some  time  in 
travelling  through  the  United  States.  Charles 
Gallup  is  being  educated  under  a  private  tutor. 


T^APT.  JACOB  KNIGHT  CLARK 
I    Jl         was  a  farmer  of  Hopkinton.      He  was 

xjf_,^  born  here,  April  4,  1812,  son  of 
Jacob  and  Betsey  (Huse)  Clark.  His  grand- 
father, also  named  Jacob,  came  here  from 
Newbury,  Ma.ss.  The  other  children  of  his 
parents  were:  Thomas,  Prudence  K.,  Sally 
F.,  Cyrene  H.,  and  James  M.  Thomas,  born 
June  6,  iSio,  married  Judith  Lull,  of  East 
Weare,  and  died  at  the  age  of  thirty  years. 
Prudence  K.,  who  was  born  August  9,  18 14, 
died  in  early  childhood.  Sally  F.,  born  De- 
cember 30,  18 16,  married  Thomas  Edwards 
Paige,  of  Weare,  and  died  in  Hopkinton, 
August  II,  1882.  Cyrene  H.,  born  March 
17,  1819,  married  William  Plummer,  resided 
in  Henniker,  and  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty- 
seven  years.  James  M.,  who  was  born  May 
24,  1822,  went  to  California  and  died  there  in 
1864  or  1865. 

Captain  Clark  was  a  well-to-do  farmer 
and  man  of  affairs  in  his  town.  In  1830  he 
was  Llnsign  of  the  Hopkinton  Rifles,  and  he 
was  successively  ]iromoted  to  the  ranks  of 
Lieutenant  and  Cai)tain  in  1S31  and  1S34.  In 
1848-50  he  was  Selectman,  in  1851  he  was 
elected  State  Representative,  and  he  was 
Town  Assessor  in  1854.  When  he  and  Moses 
Moyt  introduced  machine  threshing,  it  was 
popularly  thought  that  the  machine  would 
spoil  the  grain  or  cause  a  fire.  Captain  Clark 
was  married  July  19,  1835,  to  Mary,  daughter 
of  Samuel  and  Betsey  (Burbank)  Straw,  of 
Weare,  and  was  the  father  of  three  children  — 
Helen  M.,  Warren,  and  I'^llen  T.  Wan  en 
Clark  was  born  in  Hopkinton,  March  29, 
1S37,  and  was  educated  at  Hopkinton  Academy 


and  at  Norwich  (Vt.)  University.  At  the 
latter  place  he  was  Lieutenant  of  the  Norwich 
Cadets.  After  graduating  from  the  university 
in  1857,  he  taught  military  science  and 
mathematics  in  Mount  Pleasant  Academy, 
Sing  Sing,  N.  Y. ,  and  also  in  Randall's 
School  for  Boys  in  Bloomfield,  N.J.  He  then 
studied  law  with  George  &  I-'oster,  of  Concord, 
and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1S62.  He 
lived  in  Hopkinton  until  1863,  in  Henniker 
up  to  1S70,  and  after  that  time  in  Concord, 
serving  in  some  public  capacity  in  each  place. 
In  1874  he  was  ajipointed  Judge  of  Probate 
for  Merrimack  County.  In  Concord  he  was 
connected  with  the  .School  Board  for  the  most 
of  his  life  after  1875,  and  he  was  Postmaster 
there  after  18S8.  Pie  married  Fannie  S. , 
daughter  of  Alfred  and  Sophia  (Worthington) 
Otis,  of  Colchester,  Conn.  Judge  Clark  died 
November  21,  1891. 

The  owner  of  the  old  Clark  homestead  since 
the  death  of  Cajitain  Clark,  which  occurred 
July  19,  1893,  is  Thomas  Warren  Paige,  son 
of  Thomas  Edwards  and  Sally  Felch  (Clark) 
Paige.  He  was  born  December  13,  1853,  in 
Lowell,  Mass.  Tiiere  were  two  other  sons  — 
Orra,  of  Magnolia,  Mass.,  and  French,  of 
Lowell.  In  185S  the  family  moved  to  Stone- 
ham,  Mass.,  where  in  i86[  the  father  died. 
Ills  widow'died  while  on  a  visit  in  Hopkintim, 
August  II,  1882.  Thomas  W.  Paige  was 
married  November  i,  1885,  to  Minnie,  daugh- 
ter of  Gilnian  and  Wealthy  (Ho3t)  Straw,  of 
Contoocook,  N.  II. 


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■ORGI".  II.  CILI.l'V,  a  prominent 
\  jS)F  farmer  of  Hill,  is  a  native  of  Bris- 
tol, N.  II.,  bdin  i\Iay  15,  1864.  A 
son  of  John  M.  Cilley,  of  Andover,  he  is  a 
descendant  of  one  of  the  early  pioneer  families 
of  that  district.      His  great-grandfather  cleared 


JUOGRAIillCAL    REVIEW 


55 


;m<l  settled  Cillc)'  Hill,  a  |)r(ijcc'ti()i)  of  Ragged 
Mdiintain.  The  father,  Jnhii  M.  Cilley,  was  a 
tlniggist  and  jeweller  of  liristol,  where  he  had 
a  .store  for  a  mimbcr  of  years.  lie  married 
Susan  Herbert,  daughter  of  Saunders  Herbert; 
and  the  subject  of  this  sketch  is  their  only 
chilli.  After  the  death  of  the  father,  the 
mother  married  Deacon  l^heii  \V.  Mason,  and 
thereafter  resided  on  the  old  Mason  farm  until 
her  death  in  1889. 

(ieorge  H.  Cilley  has  resided  for  some  time 
on  the  Mason  homestead.  In  his  earl)'  years 
he  servetl  an  apprenticeship  at  the  printer's 
trade,  and  subsecjuently  worked  at  the  case 
and  in  the  job  department.  On  December  13, 
1886,  Mr.  Cijle)'  married  Ida  A.  Currier, 
(laughter  of  Charles  V..  and  Hannah  (Cilley) 
Currier,  of  Andover.  They  have  two  chiklren 
—  Roy  C.  and  Leon  I).  Heing  a  farmer,  Mr. 
Cilley  is,  of  course,  a  member  of  the  grange. 
He  has  also  been  a  Selectman  of  the  town, 
and  he  was  Chairman  of  the  School  l^oaril  for 
two  years.  Me  is  a  Republican,  a  (iood  Tem- 
plar, and  a  member  of  the  Christian  Church 
of  Hill. 

ICvcry  one  who  goes  to  the  Mason  homestead 
is  sure  to  admire  the  stately  elm-tree  with 
spreading  blanches  which  stands  near  the  ap- 
jiroach  to  the  house  from  Hill  Centre.  Over 
a  hundred  years  agf)  a  gentleman  visiting  the 
place  cariied  iii  his  liautl  a  small  elm  switch, 
which  he  stuck  into  the  groinul.  The  result 
of  tliat  simple  act  is  the  venerable  tree  seen 
there  to-day,  and  which  offers  its  shade  to  all 
passers-by. 

iHRISTOITIKR  COLUMHUS  GIH 
SON,  one  of  the  leading  violinists  of 
America,  is  an  honored  resident  of 
the  town  of  Henniker,  N.H.,  where  he  was 
born  August  24,  1824,  a  son  of  John  and  Su- 
sannah  (Hale)   Gibson.      The   emigrant   ances- 


i 


tor  of  the  Gibson  family  was  John  Gibson, 
who  was  born  in  Mngland  in  1601,  and  was 
made  a  freeman  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1634. 

The  line  was  then  continued  through  the 
following-named  progenitors:  John,  born  in 
163 1  ;  Deacon  Timothy  Gibson,  born  in  lOCiH, 
who  lived  with  Abraham  Holman  in  Stow, 
Mass.,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  received 
from  him  a  deed  of  land;  Captain  Timothy 
Gibson,  born  in  Stow,  Mas.s.,  in  1702,  who 
married  in  1725  I'crsis  Rice,  and  settled  in 
Henniker  in  1772;  and  Captain  Jo.scph  Gib- 
son, the  I'rofessor's  grandfather,  born  June  S, 
1750,  who  died  May  26,  1801,  from  injuries 
received  by  his  horse  stumbling  and  throwing 
him  upon  the  pommel.  For  more  than  a  quar- 
ter of  a  century  he  was  one  of  the  most  promi- 
nent and  influential  men  of  this  place,  serving 
as  Selectman  in  1787,  1790,  1791,  1796, 
1797,  and  1799.  On  May  28,  1772,  he  mar- 
ried Olive  Randall. 

John  Gibson,  Professor  Gibson's  father, 
was  born  in  Henniker,  October  22,  17S2,  and 
died  June  5,  1836,  while  in  manhood's  prime. 
He  was  married  March  3,  1808,  to  Susannah 
Hale,  who  survived  him,  passing  to  the  life 
beyond  April  8,   1855. 

Christopher  C.  Gibson  exhibited  his  phe- 
nomenal musical  talent  at  a  very  early  age,  at 
every  opportunity  seizing  his  father's  violin 
for  practice.  This  instrument  Mr.  John  Gib- 
son played,  as  thousands  of  others  do,  for  his 
own  amusement,  having  never  received  espe- 
cial instruction.  One  of  his  daughters,  Klvira 
Gibson,  was  a  gifted  musician  and  poetess. 
She  was  eleven  years  older  than  her  brother, 
the  subject  of  this  .sketch  ;  and  she  assisted  him 
in  his  musical  elTorts,  so  that  at  the  age  of  five 
he  began  to  pick  out  melodies  on  the  violin, 
and  could  soon  read  music  quite  rapidh",  mak- 
ing wonderful  advancement  considering  -his 
limited    opportunities.      At    the    age    of    ten 


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years  he  took  lessons  of  Ostinelli,  an  Italian 
performer  of  great  merit ;  and  he  was  after- 
ward a  pupil  of  Metz,  a  German  violinist  of 
Lowell,  Mass.  When  he  was  but  twelve  years 
old  his  father  died,  and  the  support  of  the 
family  fell  largely  upon  him.  His  sister  was 
an  invalid  for  years,  requiring  much  of  his 
care.  He  also  had  charge  of  a  young  girl 
named  Mary  J.  Brown,  whom  he  subsequently 
married.  He  spent  every  moment  he  could 
spare  from  his  daily  labors  in  the  study  of  his 
chosen  art;  and,  that  he  might  not  annoy  his 
sick  sister,  he  took  his  beloved  instrument  to 
the  barn,  where  night  after  night  he  practised 
many  an  hour  that  should  have  been  given  to 
sleep,  tired  nature's  sweet  restorer. 

He  was  in  his  fourteenth  year  when  Ole 
Bull,  the  world-renowned  artist,  visited  this 
country  for  the  first  time.  Young  Gibson  was 
determined  to  hear  him;  and  his  desire  was 
strongly  approved  and  seconded  by  his  sister, 
who  had  awakened  to  a  realizing  sense  of  the 
lad's  genius.  Collecting  all  of  his  cash,  and 
taking  what  his  sister  had,  he  set  forth  one 
bright  June  morning  on  foot  for  Boston,  nearly 
one  hundred  miles  away.  He  had  just  pur- 
chased a  pair  of  new  shoes,  w-hich  were  hard 
and  .stiff,  and  pinched  his  every  toe,  causing 
him  great  pain  ;  but  despite  his  misery  he  con- 
tinued his  walk,  reaching  the  desired  Mecca 
the  third  day.  In  the  evening  he  listened  to 
the  wonderful  music,  so  weird  and  strange,  but 
so  smooth  and  beautiful  that  he  scarce  knew  if 
he  were  on  earth.  The  following  night  he 
was  again  an  entranced  listener,  being  borne  to 
the  seventh  heaven  of  delight.  Probably  few 
persons  on  this  terrestrial  planet  ever  came 
nearer  to  realizing  the  sweets  of  Paradise  than 
did  this  raw  country  boy  that  memorable  even- 
ing. The  two  succeeding  evenings  he  was 
again  in  the  audience,  and  then  heard  two 
other    celebrated    violinists,    Vieu.xtemiis    and 


Artot.  The  great  resources  of  the  wonderful 
instrument  were  opened  to  him,  revealing 
powers  of  which  he  had  never  dreamed. 
Bright  and  early  the  ne.xt  morning  he  started 
on  his  homeward  w'ay ;  and,  though  his  feet 
were  causing  him  excruciating  pain  at  every 
step,  he  w'alked  on  flowers,  and  his  soul  was 
expanded  and  filled  with  those  celestial  har- 
monies. 

From  that  time  on  the  young  musician  de- 
voted himself  more  assiduously  to  his  violin, 
and  was  himself  surprised  at  the  advancement 
he  made  toward  its  mastery.  He  labored 
hard,  availed  himself  of  every  opportunity  to 
hear  the  most  distinguished  artists,  and  after 
years  of  severe  labor  realized  that  he  had  him- 
self become  a  finished  artist.  His  first  public 
appearance  was  made  in  the  winter  of  1853,  in 
Tremont  Temple,  Boston,  when  his  wonderful 
composition  (which  he  learned  from  the 
feathered  songsters  in  the  pine  woods  near 
his  home,  catching  their  exact  tones  on  his 
violin),  entitled  the  "Bird  Fantasia,"  created 
much  enthusiasm.  In  1S60  Professor  Gibson 
gave  concerts  in  Albany,  Troy,  and  other 
cities  of  New  York,  and  also  visited  Washing- 
ton, Richmond,  and  Charleston,  being  every- 
where warmly  received.  He  has  since  been 
largely  occupied  in  concert  work  and  teaching. 
He  is  well  entitled  the  Ole  Bull  of  America, 
and  easily  stands  at  the  head  of  his  profession 
in  this  country.  He  was  at  one  time  invited 
by  Ole  Bull  to  accompany  him  to  bis  home  in 
Norway,  but  his  sister's  long  illness  ]:)revented 
him  from  going.  At  the  World's  Peace  Jubi- 
lee held  in  Boston  in  1S72,  he  was  the  first 
violinist  from  New  Hampshire,  and  the  only 
American  first  violinist  retained  through  the 
entire  session.  He  became  intimately  ac- 
quainted with  Ole  Hull  during  one  of  his  later 
visits  to  this  country,  forming  a  friendship  for 
the  great   master   that  was   broken   only  by  the 


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lattor's  dcatli.  At  tlic  Trcniont  House  in 
Boston,  where  tliey  were  tof^ether  one  clay, 
Mr.  Bull  gave  him  his  [ihotograph,  and  a 
clay  or  two  later  sailed  from  New  York  for 
his  Norwegian  home.  Within  a  month  after 
that  the  news  was  flashed  acioss  the  ocean  that 
the  siinl  of  this  grand  genius  had  gone  to  the 
rcahns  where  celestial  mnsie  is  chanted  l>y  the 
heavenly  hosts. 

It  is  not  in  the  conceit  room  or  in  the  or- 
chestra that  the  sweetest  music  from  Professor 
Gihson's  violin  is  heard,  hut  in  his  own  mod- 
est home  in  llenniker,  where,  with  a  few  ap- 
preciative friends  as  listeners,  he  draws  forth 
the  most  charming  music.  His  violin  is  a 
rare  instrument,  one  hundred  and  twcnty-si.v 
years  old,  of  a  rich,  jiowerful  tone.  The  Pro- 
fessor is  modest  as  to  his  own  attainments,  is 
simple  of  manner,  and  has  a  kind  and  generous 
heart;  and  he  is  much  loved  by  his  pupils. 
His  violin  has  been  a  source  of  infinite  pleas- 
ure to  him  and  his  friends,  comforting  him  in 
his  sorrows  and  cheering  him  across  the  rough 
places  of  life's  pathway. 

From  the  many  deserved  compliments  jjaid 
to  his  extraordinary  talent  we  cpiote  the  fol- 
lowing from  the  New  York  Musical  Times  of 
January  lo,  i860,  written  by  its  Washington 
correspondent  concerning  a  concert  given  by 
C.  C.  Gibson  in  Wilkud's  Hall:  "Mr.  Gibson 
is  a  great  performer.  For  jnuity  of  tone,  ex- 
pression, and  ease,  and  the  skill  with  which  he 
executes  difficult  passages,  he  cannot  be  ex- 
celled. .Senators  .Sumner,  Hale,  Ciittenden, 
Seward,  and  others,  including  many  [irominent 
men  and  foreign  ministers,  were  in  the  audi- 
ence; and  every  ap[)earance  of  Mr.  Gibson  was 
met  with  hearty  applause,  and  each  number 
was  repeatedly  encored. "  The  Boston  Satitr- 
diJv  Evening  Gazette  of  February  6,  1858,  says 
of  a  concert  at  'Fremont  Temiile:  "C.  C.  Gib- 
son   perfoinied    his  '  liird  Waltz  I'antasia  '  in  a 


most  masterly  and  scientific  manner.  The 
bird  imitations  were  perfect.  It  requires 
genius  and  perseverance  to  reach  such  pcrfcc- 
tiijn  on  this  king  of  instruments.  He  evi- 
dently took  the  audience  by  surprise,  and  was 
rapturously  encored."  The  Boston  Traveller 
of  January  2,  1S5S,  says:  "Mr.  Gibsrm  is 
truly  a  wonderful  performer.  Tones  more  ]>ure 
and  beautiful  wc  never  heard,  and  we  have 
heard  all  the  great  players  of  the  clay.  His 
wizard-like  ijerformance  seemed  to  cast  a  spell 
of  enchantment  over  the  audience,  which  burst 
into  rapturous  apjilause  at  the  conclusion  of 
each  piece."  The  musical  critic  of  the 
Washington  Constitution  sjjcaks  of  liim  thus: 
"Professor  C.  C.  Gibson  is  not  cjnly  a  scien- 
tific performer,  but  the  genius  of  his  nature  is 
such  that  when  he  alights  upon  a  theme  to 
which  his  delicate  sensibilities  respond  he 
seems  to  evince  an  inspiration  of  soul  capable 
of  expression  only." 

Some  years  ago  Professor  Gibson  suffered  a 
severe  attack  of  spinal  meningitis,  which  con- 
fined him  to  his  room,  and  much  of  his  time  to 
his  bed,  for  two  years.  Since  that  time  iiis 
work  has  been  largely  confined  to  private  in- 
structiim,  his  pupils  including  some  of  the 
brightest  violinists  of  the  country. 


YRUS    RUNN1-:LS,  a  well-known  and. 
I]         highly   esteemed   citizen    of    Concord, 

if -   was  born  at  Mast   \'ard  in  1832,  son 

of  Samuel  Runnels.  His  grandfather,  Samuel 
Runnels,  Sr. ,  a  native  of  Boxford,  Mass., 
came  early  to  New  Hampshire,  where  he 
bought  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  si.\ty-two 
acres,  and  spent  the  latter  part  of  his  life 
occupied  in  farming.  He  was  a  land  sur- 
veyor, and  assisted  greatly  in  laying  out  roads 
and  lots  in  his  day.  He  was  also  one  of  the 
Home    Guard   of   the   War    of    1812.      At     his 


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death  he  was  sixty-six  years  old.  With  his 
wife,  Anna  Hardy  Runnels,  he  reared  four 
<:hildren  —  Samuel,  Lois,  Priscilla,  and  Anna, 
all  of  whom  have  now  passed  away.  Samuel 
Runnels,  Jr.,  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  and  became  a  farmer.  He  secured 
land,  and  built  the  house  now  occupied  by  his 
son.  He  died  in  1864,  aged  sixty-eight. 
His  wife  was  Anner  Abbot  Runnels,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Ezra  Abbot,  of  the  old  Abbot  family  of 
this  place.  She  was  the  mother  of  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  two  died  young.  The  others 
are:  Cyrus,  Louisa  J.,  ]{mily,  Almira,  and 
Anner  A. 

After  Cyrus  Runnels  received  his  element- 
ary education  in  the  district  schools,  he 
pursued  higher  courses  at  the  Hancock  Lit- 
erary and  Scientific  School,  at  Penacook 
Academy,  at  Hopkinton,  and  at  Professor 
Hall  Roberts's  select  school  in  Concord.  He 
also  graduated  in  the  class  of  1855  of  the 
Chandler  Scientific  School  of  Hanover.  In 
early  life  Mr.  Runnels  taught  school  for  four 
winters  in  New  Hampshire  and  later  for  one 
winter  in  Iowa.  He  worked  at  his  profession 
of  civil  engineering  in  Iowa  for  nine  years, 
doing  local  service  in  1862  at  the  Adjutant- 
general's  office  in  Clinton  of  that  State.  In 
1S64  Mr.  Runnels  returned  to  New  Hamp- 
shire and  took  the  farm,  but  still  continued  to 
carry  on  his  work  of  surveying.  He  became 
at  once  identified  with  the  social  and  civil  in- 
terests of  the  tiiwn.  He  has  been  for  six 
years  Assessor,  for  three  years  Selectman,  for 
three  years  a  member  of  the  Council,  and  he 
has  been  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  more  than 
ten  years. 

During  his  residence  in  Iowa,  Mr.  Runnels 
was  a  member  of  the  Presbyterian  church, 
serving  the  society  as  a  Deacon  and  Llder. 
Since  his  return  to  New  llampsliirc  he  has 
joined    the     West    Congregational    Church    of 


Concord,  and  is  one  of  its  Deacons.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican,  and  he  cast  his  first 
Presidential  vote  for  General  Grant  in  1S68. 


-JT^OSES  A.  CRAGIN,  of  Lempster, 
a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War  and  an 
ex-member  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire legislature,  was  born  in  Rindge,  N.H., 
Decemlier  13,  1823,  son  of  Moses  and  Sarah 
(Chamberlain)  Cragin.  His  father,  who  was 
born  in  Rindge  in  the  year  iSoo,  and  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  his  native  town,  was 
for  some  years  engaged  in  peddling.  He 
afterward  removed  from  Rindge  to  Alstead, 
N.  H.,  and  later  to  Marlow,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  wooden-ware  business.  He  died 
April  5,  1864.  His  first  wife,  Sarah  Cham- 
berlain Cragin,  was  a  native  of  New  Ipswich, 
N.  H.  After  her  death  he  successively  mar- 
ried Eleanor  Walton,  of  Temple,  N.  H.,  and 
I'^anny  Pidwell,  of  Langdon.  By  his  first 
union  there  were  six  children,  namely:  Moses 
A.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  a  child  who 
died  in  infancy;  Newton  B.  ;  Elvira;  lildward  ; 
and  Lucius.  Lucius  died  in  1853,  aged  eigh- 
teen years.  Newton  B.  Cragin,  who  is  a  re- 
tired fruit-grower  and  resides  in  Worcester, 
Mass.,  married  Sarah  Monroe,  of  Marlow;  and 
their  daughter,  Alice  P'stella,  is  now  the  wife 
of  P'red  Ilathern,  of  Worcester.  l^lviia  mar- 
ried John  0.  Priest,  now  living  in  retirement 
at  Westboro,  Mass.  l^dward,  wlio  is  a  rail- 
road engineer  and  lives  in  Oliio,  wctklcd  Mar- 
tha Peither. 

Moses  A.  Cragin  attended  the  district 
school  until  he  was  nine  years  old.  On 
reaching  his  majority,  he  then  located  in 
Gardner,  Mass.  Some  time  after  his  marriage 
he  moved  to  Marlow,  where  he  followed  the 
blacksmith's  trade  for  five  }'ears.  Then  he 
engaged    in     the    wooden-ware    business.      On 


mOGKAIIIH    \l,    KKVIKW 


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Sc|)lcnil)cr  3,  1S64,  lie  enlisted  as  a  private 
ill  Ci)iii|)aiiy  A,  ]';i<;liteeiitii  Regiment,  New 
llanipsliiie  Volunteers,  and  served  in  it  until 
the  elose  ui  the  Civil  War.  His  comjiany  was 
detaehed  to  act  as  guard  I'm-  Henham's  corps 
of  engineers  for  a  time,  and  also  took  part  in 
the  defence  of  l'ittsl)urg  Landing,  the  siege  of 
Tetershnrg,  and  the  capture  of  l^ichniond. 
Discharged  from  the  service  in  June,  1865,  he 
returned  to  Marlovv  and  resumed  the  wooden- 
ware  business.  In  1869  he  bought  the  Rogers 
place  in  Lempster,  where  he  now  resides. 
Since  taking  possession  of  the  estate,  he  has 
enlarged  its  land  area  from  eighty  to  three 
lunulred  acres,  made  various  imprfU'emeiits, 
and  carried  on  general  farming  and  dairying, 
lie  is  a  loyal  supporter  of  the  Republican 
party,  and  he  ably  represented  his  district  in 
the  legislature  in  1895  and  1896.  Me  is  a 
comrade  of  I'rcd  II.  Smith  Post,  No.  10, 
G.  A.  R.,  of  Newpoit. 

In  Keene,  N.  II.,  Jaiuiary  25,  1853,  Mr. 
Cragin  was  joined  in  mari'iage  with  I'jiieliue 
R.  l?eckwith,  who  was  born  in  Acworlh, 
N.II.,  April  9,  1836,  daughter  of  Stephen  and 
Cynthia  (Osgood)  Beckwith.  Steplicn  licck- 
with,  a  native  of  Acworth,  followed  agricult- 
ure in  his  native  town  during  the  active  period 
of  his  life,  and  died  April  8,  1S77.  His 
wife,  who  was  born  in  Pittsford,  \'t.,  died 
October  19,  1889.  Their  children  were:  Ira 
Alonzo,  who  died  in  1893;  luneline  R.,  who 
is  now  Mrs.  Cragin;  Oliver,  who  resides  in 
Marlow ;  Nellie  C,  now  the  widow  of  Henry 
VV.  Ware,  who  died  in  Hancock,  N.II.,  in 
March,  1896;  and  Diantha,  who  is  residing 
in  ;\cwortli.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cragin  have  four 
sons,  born  as  follows:  Lucius  M.,  December 
26,  1855;  Charles  A.,  February  20,  185S; 
Leslie  D.,  September  6,  i860,  who  died  Feb- 
ruary 19,  1862;  and  b'red  II.,  December  3, 
1862.      Lucius  M.  married    Mora  Grimes,  and 


is  engaged  in  farming  in  Springfield,  \'t. 
Charles  A.  resides  at  the  homestead  and 
assists  in  the  management  of  the  farm.  On 
January  6,  1892,  he  married  Annie  V.  (JrinTith, 
who  was  born  August  11,  186X,  daughter  of 
George  Bancroft  and  Anna  S.  (Howe)  Griffith. 
Her  father  is  the  well-known  poet  of  Lemp- 
ster, of  whom  an  e.xtended  account  appears 
elsewhere  in  this  work.  Fred  IL,  who  is  a 
butcher  and  meat  dealer  in  Springfield,  Vt. , 
married  b'dith  C.  Gould,  a  native  of  W'eathers- 
field,  Vt. 

RTKMAS  TI':RRILL  liLRIJCIGH, 
who  is  now  engaged  in  truck  farming 
in  I'^ranklin,  was  born  in  this  town, 
February  25,  i860,  son  of  Gordon  and  Char- 
lotte (Turner)  Burleigh.  The  father,  who 
was  a  native  of  Dorchester,  N.H.,  accom- 
panied his  parents  to  Franklin  when  he  was 
two  years  old.  In  early  manhood  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  coal  business  in  Boston.  He 
subsetjuently  returned  to  I-'ranklin,  and  re- 
sided upon  the  farm  now  occupied  by  his  son, 
Artemas  T. ,  until  his  death  on  August  10, 
1 89 1.  His  wife,  Charlotte,  who  was  a  resi- 
dent of  Charlestown,  Mass.,  became  the 
mother  of  ten  children,  namely:  Henry,  who 
lives  in  Hyde  Park,  Mass.,  and  is  a  boot  and 
shoe  dealer;  Gordon,  who  is  in  the  same  busi- 
ness in  Boston;  Artemas  T.,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  Robert,  a  medical  practitioner  in 
Rochester,  N.H.  ;  George,  a  jeweller  in  Til- 
ton,  N.H.;  Lottie  and  Emma,  who  are  resid- 
ing in  Newport,  R.I.  ;  Paul,  a  resident  of 
Lawrence,  Mass.;  Sarah  IClizabeth;  Freddie, 
who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Gordon  Burleigh 
now  resides  with  her  daughters  in  Newport. 

Artemas  Terrill  Burleigh  began  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools,  and  his  advanced 
studies  were  pursued  at  the  Agricultural  and 
Dartmouth    Colleges.      After  completing    his 


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education  he  resided  at  hunie  until  he  became 
a  travelling  salesman  for  a  ]5oston  concern 
dealing  in  hardware  and  agricultural  imple- 
ments, in  which  capacity  he  was  employed  for 
seven  years.  In  1S89  he  engaged  in  the  dry- 
goods  business  in  Tilton,  N.  H.,  and  contin- 
ued in  trade  for  about  three  years.  At  the 
end  of  that  time  he  settled  upon  the  farm  in 
Franklin,  where  he  has  since  resided.  The 
property  contains  three  hundred  acres  of  land. 
He  carries  on  general  farming,  dairying,  and 
market  gardening. 

On  July  14,  1S82,  Mr.  Burleigh  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Inez  Rice.  She  was  born  in 
Lowell,  Mass.,  daughter  of  Edwin  and  lantha 
(Blanchard)  Rice.  The  father,  who  was  a 
merchant,  is  no  longer  living.  The  mother  is 
residing  in  Franklin.  In  politics  Mr.  Bur- 
leigh is  a  Republican.  The  progress  he  has 
already  attained  in  agricultural  pursuits 
speaks  well  for  his  energy  and  ability.  He 
is  a  member  of  Belknap  Lodge,  No.  iS, 
Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen. 


^AMUEL  HARRIS  DOW,  son  of 
Amos  and  Mary  (Brown)  Dow,  was 
born  in  Hojikinton,  N.  H.,  June  10, 
1818,  anil  died  at  his  residence  at  Bagley  Sta- 
tion, Warner,  Merrimack  County,  September 
6,  1894.  He  had  not  been  well  for  several 
years,  having  been  unfortunate  enough,  Janu- 
ary 17,  i88g,  while  overseeing  some  work  at 
one  of  his  mills,  to  liave  his  leg  broken  by  a 
rolling  log;  and  he  had  scarce  recovered  from 
that  accident  when  he  had  a  slight  paralytic 
shock.  Within  a  year  after,  a  cancer  devel- 
oped on  his  li[),  causing  him  great  suffering 
for  four  or  five  years.  Hi.s  strong  will  power 
and  determined  resolution,  however,  kept  him 
about  until  his  death,  which  was  caused  by  a 
second  stroke,  altliough  he  paid    less  attention 


to  his  business  in  his  later  days,  throwing  much 
of  its  responsibility  upon  his  son. 

Mr.  Dow  was  a  self-made  man  in  the  broad- 
est sense  implied  by  the  term.  His  early  life 
was  spent  in  poverty,  his  father  having  been  a 
cripple,  with  a  large  family  to  support,  and 
needing  the  assistance  of  every  child  to  keep 
the  wolf  from  the  door.  Accordingly,  Sam- 
uel left  home  when  a  small  lad,  and  from  that 
time  until  twenty  years  old  earned  his  living 
as  best  he  could,  working  at  any  honest  em- 
ployment. The  year  before  attaining  his  ma- 
jority he  obtained  a  situation  with  Mr. 
Charles  Davis,  who  hired  him  for  seven 
months,  agreeing  to  give  him  ten  dollars  a 
month.  At  the  end  of  the  time  Mr.  Davis 
gave  him  seventy-three  dollars,  presenting 
him  with  three  dollars  for  his  faithfulness. 
Hiring  the  Davis  mill,  he  then  sawed 
shingles  at  the  rate  of  fifty  cents  per  thousand 
and  board,  sawing  day-times  and  bunching 
nights.  The  ensuing  spring  he  began  buying 
and  manufacturing  lumber,  buying  at  first  but 
a  few  trees  at  a  time,  gradually  enlarging  his 
operations;  and  in  1842  he  had  cleared  above 
his  expenses  nine  hundred  dollars.  Mr.  Dow 
then  bought  one-half  interest  in  the  Nathaniel 
A.  Davis  saw-mill,  mortgaging  it  to  secure 
payment,  and  running  into  debt  for  the 
Charles  Davis  siiingle-mill.  lie  worked  in- 
dustriously, saved  every  penny  possible,  and 
four  years  later  had  both  mills  paid  for. 
He  continued  his  investments  in  lumber, 
bark,  and  wood  until  1857,  when  he  disposed 
of  his  Ijuildings  to  W.  S.  Davis  for  nine  hun- 
dretl  dollars,  and  sold  his  mills  to  Daniel 
Milton.  Ill  the  same  year  he  erected  a  resi- 
dence at  a  cost  of  thirty-seven  hundred  dollars. 
During  the  Rebellion,  when  the  draft  came  to 
raise  the  town  quota  for  the  Eleventh  New 
Hampshire  Regiment,  he  had  just  passed  the 
age  limit;   but  he  voluntarily  gave  five  dollars 


SAMUEL    H.    DOW. 


i;i<»(;k  Ai'iiKAl, 


I'A'II'AV 


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to  e;icli  Vdliinlccr  recruit,  thus  paying  out  over 
two  liuiulrcil  ami  lifty  dollars.  The  Select- 
iiRTi  icfusin<(  to  pay  the  town  ])ounty,  not  hav- 
ing been  so  instructed  by  vote,  he,  in  company 
with  {'"ranklin  Simoiuls,  Joshua  George, 
Stepiicn  Ikirtlett,  and  George  Jones,  signed 
bonds  to  protect  the  soldiers,  whom  the  town 
officials  subsequently  jiaid  by  borrowing 
twenty-seven  hundred  dollars,  which  Mr.  Dow 
had  lying  in  the  Warner  Hank.  When  tliis 
bank  suspended,  he  had  on  de[K)sit  some  four- 
teen thousand  dollars,  which  he  invested  in 
the  l-'irst  National  Savings  ]5ank  of  Concord, 
N.II. 

About  this  time  Mr.  IJow  purchased  a  large 
tract  of  wood  and  timber  land  in  I'^ast  Canaan, 
and  for  several  years  did  an  extensive  busi- 
ness in  getting  out  lumber,  running  mills, 
etc.  lie  bought  large  lots  of  land  in  other  lo- 
calities, chietiy  in  Canaan  antl  Warner,  and 
after  cutting  off  the  timber  held  the  land  for 
new  growth.  In  later  years  he  i)ai(l  a  good 
deal  of  attention  to  his  farm,  on  which  he 
settled  in  iS/Q,  residing  therefrom  that  time 
on  until  his  demise.  He  erected  nearly  all 
the  buildings  at  15agley  Station,  l)ut  persist- 
ently refused  to  have  the  name  of  the  place 
changed  to  Dow,  as  his  friends  desired.  He 
also  made  many  other  wise  investments  of  his 
money,  owning  a  store  in  Davisville,  besides 
erecting  three  large  business  blocks  in  Con- 
cord; wliich  are  still  in  the  possession  of  his 
iieirs.  He  was  a  strong  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, but  never  accepted  public  office. 

Mr.  Dow  was  actively  interested  in  the  wel- 
fare and  advancement  of  the  town  in  which  he 
lived,  and,  though  earnestly  opposed  to  the 
expenditure  of  the  town's  funds  for  purposes 
of  doubtful  value,  was  one  of  the  foremost  to 
push  forward  and  aid  with  generous  financial 
contributions  all  projects  that  promised  to  be 
beneficial.    The    late    Franklin    Simonds    gave 


twenty  thousand  dollars  as  a  fund,  tiie  inter- 
est to  be  used  in  defraying  the  expenses  of  a 
free  high  school  in  Warner,  provided  the  town 
would  erect  a  suitable  building.  Mr.  Dow 
and  Gilman  Bean  gave  bonds  to  the  amount 
of  ten  thousand  dollars,  Mrs.  Simonds  adding 
five  thousand  dollars  more;  and  the  town  built 
a  fine  school-house,  which  cost,  including  the 
land,  ten  thousand  dollars,  Mrs.  Simonds  giv- 
ing five  thousand  dollars;  John  Robertson, 
two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars;  C.  G.  Mc- 
Alpine,  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars;  George 
Jones,  two  hundred  and  fifty  dollars;  Reuben 
Clough,  thirty  dollars;  and  others,  smaller 
sums;  Mr.  Bean  and  Mr.  Dow  paying  the  bal- 
ance, amounting  to  over  two  thousand  dollars 
apiece. 

Mr.  Dow  was  thrice  married.  His  first 
wife,  Harriet  C. ,  daughter  of  Daniel  Currier, 
died  a  few  years  after  marriage,  leaving  two 
chiltlren,  namely:  Fanny  C,  who  married 
Oscar  L.  Rand,  and  has  two  children  — 
Shirley  and  Blanche  E.  ;  and  Ilervey  S.,  who 
died  October  8,  i8gi,  at  the  age  of  forty-two 
years.  Hervey  S.  Dow  was  for  many  years 
associated  with  his  father  in  the  lumber  busi- 
ness, having  personal  charge  of  the  mills  in 
Canaan.  He  left  a  widow,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Bertha  Barney,  and  three  children 
—  Fdith  M.,  Pearl  E.,  and  Florence  B.  Mr. 
Dow's  second  wife,  Matilda  Sojjhronia  Currier, 
a  sister  of  his  first  wife,  died  after  a  compara- 
tively few  years  of  wedded  life,  leaving  no 
children.  On  July  29,  1856,  Mr.  Dow  mar- 
ried Miss  Emily  Rand,  who  was  born  in  Hop- 
kinton,  N.H.,  May  17,  1S38.  Her  parents. 
Smith  and  Miriam  (Goodhue)  Rand,  subse- 
c[uently  removed  to  Warner.  Mrs.  l-lmily  R. 
Dow  still  occupies  the  pleasant  family  resi- 
dence at  Bagley.  She  has  two  children  — 
Herman  A.  and  Emily  G.  Herman  A.  Dow, 
who   resides  with  his  mother,    succeeded    his 


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father  in  the  care  of  the  farm  ami  the  lumber 
business.  He  married  Stella  G.  Wright;  and 
they  have  one  child,  Samuel  H.  Emily  G. 
Uow  is  the  wife  of  Fred  II.  Savory,  and  has 
two  children  —  Fred  A.  and  Miriam  E. 
Savory. 

(5  Thomas  t.  penniman  was  a  weii- 

^1  to-do  farmer  and  wool-grower  of  Plain- 
field.  A  native  of  this  town,  he  was 
born  January  19,  1823.  After  completing  his 
education  in  the  schools  of  Plainfield,  he 
turned  his  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits, 
and  assisted  his  father  in  carrying  on  the  home 
farm.  He  eventually  inherited  the  property, 
and  under  his  energetic  management  it  was 
made  to  yield  a  handsome  profit.  The  estate, 
situated  upon  elevated  ground,  contains  three 
hundred  acres  of  land  and  substantial  build- 
ings, all  in  good  repair.  While  he  was  en- 
gaged in  general  farming  and  stock-raising, 
he  devoted  his  chief  efforts  for  many  years  to 
the  raising  of  sheep  for  the  sake  of  their 
wool.  His  fine  pastures  afforded  excellent 
grazing  for  the  .sheep.  As  he  went  into  the 
business  upon  an  extensive  scale  and  at  a 
time  when  wool-growing  was  one  of  the  best 
paying  industries,  it  brought  him  considerable 
wealth.  His  crops  of  hay  and  grain  were 
among  the  best  to  lie  found  in  this  locality, 
and  his  other  farm  products  were  of  a  superior 
quality.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican; 
and,  though  his  party  was  in  the  minority 
here,  he  steadfastly  upheld  its  jjrinciples  and 
supported  its  candidates.  As  an  honorable, 
upright,  and  liberal-minded  citizen  he  had 
the  respect  of  his  fellow-townsmen.  He  was 
a  regular  attendant  of  the  Congregational 
church.  His  death  on  January  24,  1886, 
when  he  was  sixty-three  years  old,  was  gen- 
erally regretted  in  Plainfield. 

Mr.     Penniman   wedded    Mary   Ann    .Smith, 


who  was  born  in  Unity,  N.H.,  December  15, 
1842.  Her  parents  were  Frederick  P.  and 
Losha  W.  (Morris)  Smith.  The  father,  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Claremont,  was  born  in 
Unity,  N.H.,  July  30,  1814,  and  the  mother 
in  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  in  December,  1819.  Mr. 
Penniman  was  the  father  of  seven  chiklren, 
namely:  Thomas,  born  June  19,  1871;  Flora 
Belle,  born  Julys,  1872;  Dorinda  W.,  Ixjrn 
March  21,  1874;  Frederick  S.,  born  April  19, 
1875;  Mary  Lizzie,  born  October  19,  1876; 
Henry  N.,  born  January  18,  1879;  and  Morris 
G.,  born  P^ebruary  15,  1881.  Thomas,  who 
is  engaged  in  farming  and  teaming,  married 
Mary  W.  Curtis,  daughter  of  Hartley  Curtis, 
of  Cornish,  and  has  one  son,  Thomas  Ken- 
neth, born  March  10,  1895.  Flora  Belle, 
who  was  for  some  time  a  successful  teacher, 
is  now  the  wife  of  Norman  C.  Penniman,  of 
Cornish.  Dorinda  W.  is  a  student  at  the 
Kimball  Union  Academy.  Frederick  S.  is 
assisting  upon  the  farm.  Mary  Lizzie,  Henry 
N.,  and  Morris  G.  are  residing  at  home.  The 
elder  children  were  educated  at  the  Kimball 
Union  Academy,  Meriden ;  and  Henry  N.  is 
now  attending  that  institution.  Mrs.  Thomas 
T.  Penniman  is  residing  with  her  children 
at  the  homestead. 


I'HRAIM  P.  GOSS,  a  prosperous  farmer, 
fruit-grower,  and  dairyman  of  llen- 
iiiker,  was  born  November  27,  1844, 
on  Pork  Hill,  in  the  northern  part  of  this 
townshijj.  He  is  a  son  of  Luther  (ioss, 
whose  father,  Ephraim  Goss,  when  he  was  a 
young  man,  came  here  from  Lancaster,  Mass. 
Ephraim  was  one  of  the  first  in  complying 
with  the  call  to  arms  that  resounded  through 
the  colonies  after  the  fights  at  Concord  and 
Lexington,  and  subsequently  rendered  the  ser- 
vices of  one  good  man   in  the  war  of  indepen- 


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(leiicc.  On  coming  to  Hcnniker,  he  lived  for 
a  time  on  the  farm  now  owned  Ijy  Mrs.  Robert 
IJ.  Rice.  Afterward  he  bought  the  property 
on  I'ork  Hill  known  as  the  old  Goss  home- 
stead, now  owned  and  occupied  by  one  of  his 
grandsons,  where  he  spent  his  remaining 
years,  and  tlieil  August  2,  1838.  His  wife, 
Ruth  Campbell  Goss,  a  daughter  of  Ainos 
and  Anna  Campbell,  who  survives  him,  died 
March  8,  iSCii.  They  had  eleven  children,  of 
whom  l.utluT  was  the  eighth  in  the  order  of 
birth. 

IvUther  Goss,  born  in  lienniker,  January  30, 
1801,  and  brought  up  as  a  farmer,  was  occu- 
pied in  agriculture  throughout  the  rest  of  his 
life.  After  his  marriage  he  bought  a  farm 
adjoining  the  parental  homestead  on  Pork 
Hill,  on  which  he  subsecpiently  resided  until 
his  death  on  September  22,  1865.  The  an- 
cestral acres  descended  to  Cyrus  Goss,  a 
brother  of  Luther  Goss,  whose  son,  Franklin 
Goss,  now  owns  and  occupies  the  estate, 
l-uther  Goss  married  Sallie  Colby,  who,  after 
surviving  him  many  years,  passed  away  Janu- 
ary 19,  1S84,  at  the  venerable  age  of  eighty- 
one  years.  She  lived  on  the  farm  some  four 
years  after  the  death  of  her  husband,  when  she 
sold  the  property,  and  removed  to  the  village 
with  her  daughter,  Helen  C.  She  was  the 
mother  of  seven  children,  namely:  Solon,  who 
died  in  infancy;  Lydia  C,  the  wife  of  Rufus 
Putnam,  of  Contoocook;  Helen  C,  who 
keeps  house  for  her  brother  Ephraim;  Julia 
M.,  who  married  Charles  S.  Foster,  and  died 
at  the  age  of  thirty-five  years;  David  P.,  who 
died  in  infancy;  ICIizabeth  M.,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Fitz  E.  Cogswell,  of  Concord,  N.H.; 
and  Fphraim  P.,  the  twin  brother  of  I'Hiza- 
beth,  and  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Fphraim  P.  Goss  completed  his  schooling 
at  the  Hennikcr  Academy,  and  at  the  age  of 
nineteen   years   began   teaching,    intending  to 


pursue  a  professional  career.  iiis  lather's 
death  occurring  soon  afterward,  a  radical 
change  in  his  plans  was  made,  his  services 
being  needed  at  home.  Me  returned  to  the 
farm,  which  he  managed  until  it  was  sold,  four 
years  later.  He  then  worked  for  a  time  at 
the  carpenter's  trade,  making  his  home  in  the 
village  with  his  mother,  until  he  established 
a  home  of  his  own.  Since  his  marriage  he 
has  resided  on  his  present  farm.  This  prop- 
erty, which  was  originally  owned  by  Abel 
Connor,  and  which  was  the  lifelong  home  of 
I''ayette  Connor,  the  uncle  of  Mrs.  Goss,  is 
one  of  the  most  noted  estates  in  tliis  vicinity. 
Although  the  house  has  been  altered  in  many 
respects,  the  front  remains  the  same  as  when 
built  by  the  original  owner,  nearly  a  century 
ago.  Mr.  Goss  carries  on  general  farming, 
devoting  much  attention  to  his  dairy,  and 
selling  the  cream.  He  raises  a  good  deal  of 
fruit,  for  which  his  farm  is  especially  famed, 
and  where  was  grown  the  first  grafted  in 
Hcnniker  by  Abel  Connor.  On  June  19, 
1876,  Mr.  Goss  married  Miss  Sarah  E.  Con- 
nor, who  was  born  in  North  Hcnniker,  De- 
cember 2,  1854,  daughter  of  A.  Whitney  and 
Harriet  (Spofford)  Connor,  and  grand-daugh- 
ter of  Abel  Connor.  She  died  August 
19,  1 89 1,  after  a  long  and  painful  illness 
of  several  months,  leaving  one  child,  Julia 
Mabel,  who  is  now  attending  the  high  school. 
Mr.  Goss  is  a  strong  Republican  in  politics. 
He  is  active  in  his  party,  attending  all  the 
county  and  State  conventions,  and  was  Select- 
man for  four  years.  He  has  been  an  influen- 
tial worker  in  the  temperance  cause  as  a 
member  of  the  Sons  of  Temperance.  He  is 
likewise  a  member  of  the  local  grange  and  of 
the  Order  of  the  Golden  Cross.  For  thirty 
years  he  has  sung  in  the  choir  of  the  Congre- 
gational church,  with  which  he  united  when 
si.xteen  years  of  age.      An   intellectual,  well- 


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read  man,  of  affable  manners  and  upright 
character,  he  is  popular  wherever  he  is 
known. 


/^TTlMAN  C.  morgan,  a  farmer  of 
\}S)  I  Hopkinton,  Merrimack  County, 
N.H.,  was  born  September  lo,  1S30, 
in  Hartford,  Vt.,  being  a  son  of  Nathaniel 
and  Mehitable  (Colby)  Morgan.  His  pater- 
nal grandfather,  Nathan  H.  Morgan,  was  born 
October  27,  1765,  in  Pembroke,  N.  H.  Four 
years  later  his  father  and  mother,  who  were 
English,  came  to  Hopkinton,  and  settled  in 
the  unbroken  forest  in  the  south-west  part  of 
the  town.  At  that  time  there  were  no  roads, 
but  only  foot-paths,  indicated  by  spotted  trees 
for  a  guide.  Nathan  H.  Morgan  remained  on 
the  old  homestead  from  the  time  of  coming 
here  with  his  parents  until  his  demise,  Octo- 
ber 31,  1 8  50.  His  wife,  Mary  Emerson 
Morgan,  was  born  March  30,  1770,  and  died 
December  5,  1833.  They  had  twelve  chil- 
dren, namely:  Timothy,  who  was  born  March 
12,  1790,  and  died  in  1871;  Nathaniel,  the 
first,  born  October  2,  1791,  died  May  18, 
1792;  Nathaniel,  the  second,  born  April  5, 
1793,  died  May  4,  1872;  Abigail,  born  April 
I3»  '795;  Nathan,  born  March  21,  1797,  died 
October  6,  1828;  Smith,  born  March  18, 
1799;  Betsey,  born  December  25,  1800;  Mary, 
born  February  4,  1803,  died  in  June,  1885, 
the  wife  of  John  Currier;  Rachel,  born  Janu- 
ary 12,  1805;  Jeremiah,  born  December  20, 
1805;  Mahala,  born  March  29,  1809;  and 
James,  born  September  4,  181 1.  Of  these 
Mahala,  the  wife  of  Pcabody  Webber,  of 
Manchester,  N.  H.,   is  the  only  survivor. 

Nathan  H.  Morgan  was  an  energetic,  tire- 
less worker  in  his  day,  doing  much  of  the 
pioneer  labor  of  clearing  the  land,  and  for 
many  years  was  one  of  the  most  influential 
men    of    the    neighborhood.      Many    were    the 


pleasant  hours  whiled  away  by  his  grand-chil- 
dren, listening  to  his  stories  of  the  pleasures 
and  dangers  of  pioneer  life  in  his  time,  and  of 
all  the  circumstances  connected  with  his  early 
life  and  the  progress  of  the  town.  The  old 
homestead  remained  in  the  family  for  three 
generations,  the  successive  owners  being 
Nathan  H.  Morgan,  Timothy  Morgan,  and 
Richard  F.  Morgan. 

Richard  F.  Morgan  was  one  of  the  most 
prominent  and  enterprising  citizens  of  the 
town.  He  held  many  positions  of  trust  in  the 
town,  and  served  acceptably  to  all  as  Select- 
man and  School  Committee  for  many  terms, 
and  was  one  of  the  foremost  members  of  the 
Baptist  church. 

Nathaniel  Morgan,  son  of  Nathan  H.,  born 
in  Hopkinton,  April  5,  1793,  married  Mehit- 
able Colby,  daughter  of  Daniel  and  Elizabeth 
(Oilman)  Colby,  of  Henniker,  September  7, 
1822.  Three  years  afterward  he  went  to  Ver- 
mont, where  he  lived  until  1832.  Returning 
then  to  Merrimack  County,  he  settled  first  in 
Henniker,  where  he  lived  for  twenty  years, 
and  then  came  back  to  Hopkinton,  where  he 
remained  until  his  death.  May  4,  1872.  His 
wife  outlived  him  a  score  of  years,  passing 
away  January  11,  1S93,  being  ninety-si.K  years 
of  age.  She  was  a  pensioner  of  the  War  of 
1812.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  Mary  Ann,  Edwin,  Julia 
A.,  and  Gilman  C. 

Oilman  C.  Morgan  came  to  Hopkinton  with 
his  parents  in  1853.  He  married  September 
12,  1855,  Miss  Eva  L.  Merrill,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Emily  E.  (Emerson)  Merrill,  of 
Hopkinton,  where  Mrs.  Morgan  was  born. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morgan  have  but  two  children 
living;  namely,  Charles  N.  and  Willis  E. 
They  have  lost  four  children:  Oliver  A.,  who 
(lied  at  the  age  of  four  years;  Edwin  IL,  at 
the  age  of  twenty-three  years;   Arthur  \V.,  at 


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the  age  of  eighteen;  and  Irwin  A.,  at  the  age 
of  sixteen  years. 

In  politics  Mr.  Morgan  is  a  gold  bug  and  a 
Republican,  altliough  he  was  reared  in  the 
Democratic  faith,  his  lather  having  been  a 
steadfast  adherent  (if  tiiat  party.  I'^ven  in  boy- 
hood he  woulil  never  acl<nn\vlctige  when  away 
from  iiome  that  he  was  a  Democrat.  Not- 
withstanding the  presence  of  many  good  men 
in  tiiat  party,  there  seemed  to  be  an  element 
in  its  organism  that  was  exceedingly  distaste- 
ful to  him;  and  discerning,  as  he  thought  at 
that  time,  a  greater  degree  of  intelligence  and 
refinement  in  the  masses  elsewhere,  he  conse- 
quently found  more  congenial  associates  out- 
side its  ranks.  In  later  years  he  has  found  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party  to  be  more 
in  accord  with  his  own  mature  convictions. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morgan  are  of  a  social  nature. 
They  are  members  of  Union  Grange,  he  hav- 
ing served  as  Master  for  three  terms.  In  re- 
ligion he  is  liberal  in  his  views.  He  attends 
the  Congregational  church,  of  which  Mrs. 
Morgan  is  a  member. 


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"ON.      CIIARLE.S      C.      K];NRICK, 

.State  Senator,  is  one  of  the  most 
prominent  citizens  of  I'"ranklin, 
N.  II.  He  was  born  April  8,  1844,  fourtli  son 
of  Sleiihen  and  Clarissa  A.  (Hlanchard)  Ken- 
rick.  His  [lateinal  grandfather,  John  Ken- 
rick,  who  was  born  December  17,  1764,  was 
a  native  of  Amesbury,  Mass.  He  married 
.Sarah  Colby,  of  the  same  place,  born  January 
25,  1 771,  and  had  nine  chiUlren,  of  whom 
.Stephen,  father  of  Charles  C,  was  the 
youngest.  John  Kenrick  died  in  Amesbury  in 
1806,  and  his  widow  married  David  Marsh. 

Ste[)lien  Kenrick  was  born  June  15,  1806, 
in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  came  to  Franklin 
when  a  young  man.      After  remaining  here  a 


short  time,  he  went  to  Mclndoc's  Falls,  Vt., 
where  he  was  for  a  few  years  engaged  in  bus- 
iness; and  from  there  he  went  to  Hangor,  Me. 
Later,  returning  to  I'ranklin,  he  was  married 
December  29,  1833,  to  Clarissa  A.  IJlanchard. 
He  then  went  into  business  in  the  town,  and 
continued  thus  engaged  for  the  greater  part  of 
his  life.  He  was  a  very  prominent  citizen, 
and  held  various  positions  of  importance.  He 
was  President  of  the  Hillsborough  National 
Bank,  and  also  of  the  Concord  &  Portsmouth 
Railroad.  His  death  took  place  on  August  4, 
1S84,  and  that  of  his  wife  October  12,  1893. 
They  were  the  parents  of  seven  children  — 
t^benezer  B. ,  Ebenezer  B.  (second),  Stephen 
B. ,  Charles  C,  John  Smith,  Dr.  Timothy 
P'rancis,  and  Clarissa  Ann.  The  first  l-^ben- 
ezer  B.  was  born  March  3,  1837,  and  died  Au- 
gust 16,  1838;  and  libenezer  B.,  second,  was 
born  November  6,  1838,  and  died  P'ebruary  9, 
1839.  Stephen  B.  was  born  April  9,  1842, 
and  married  Lizzie  A.  Rowe,  of  Plymouth, 
N.  H.  He  was  interested  in  a  railroad,  the 
Fort  Madison  (la.)  &  Green  Iby  (Wis.),  of 
which  he  was  superintendent.  He  died  Janu- 
ary 30,  1896,  at  his  home  in  Clinton,  la., 
where  his  wife  still  resides.  John  Snn'th 
Kenrick  was  born  October  28,  1846,  and  died 
August  10,  1847.  Timothy  Francis  Kenrick, 
born  July  8,  1849,  was  graduated  at  Dart- 
mouth College  and  also  at  Utica  Medical  Col- 
lege. He  practised  a  few  years  in  this  coun- 
try, and  then  went  abroad  and  became  the 
medical  adviser  of  some  foreign  nobleman. 
In  this  capacity  he  travelled  considerably, 
spending  some  time  in  Rome  and  Naples  es- 
pecially. He  died  at  Naples,  January  29, 
1879,  in  his  thirtieth  year.  The  Doctor  was 
a  man  of  culture  and  wide  intelligence,  with 
bright  prospects  before  him.  The  circum- 
stances of  his  death  in  a  foreign  land  seemed 
to  render  it  doubly   sorrowful.      Clarissa  Ann 


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Kenrick  was  born  November  8,  1852,  and  died 
August  1 1,  1853. 

Charles  C,  the  special  subject  of  the  pres- 
ent article,  was  educated  in  the  academies  at 
Boscavven  and  New  London,  N.  H.  He  was 
a  great  lover  of  horses,  and  started  out  when  a 
young  man  in  the  livery  business  at  Franklin 
I'alls,  in  which  he  was  engaged  until  1894. 
He  still  remains  in  the  stock  business,  being 
a  breeder  of  fine  horses  and  cattle,  and  owning 
some  of  the  finest  horses  in  the  State.  He  be- 
came interested  in  farming,  and  now  pursues 
it  on  a  large  scale,  employing  a  number  of 
hands  to  carry  on  the  work.  He  is  connected 
with  the  Franklin  Savings  Bank  of  Franklin 
Falls.  He  also  has  a  keen  aptitude  for  the 
real  estate  business,  and  at  present  has  the 
largest  interests  in  that  line  of  any  one  in 
the  city.  He  has  built  and  now  owns  many  of 
the  finest  business  blocks  and  dwellings  both 
in  Franklin  and  Franklin  Falls.  His  own 
residence  in  the  former  place  is  a  beautiful 
one,  and  stands  without  an  equal  in  the  town. 
In  political  matters  Mr.  Kenrick  has  always 
shown  an  active  interest,  being  a  stanch  Re- 
publican. He  was  Representative  from 
Franklin  for  two  years,  and  was  also  on  the 
]?oard  of  Selectmen  several  years,  being 
Chairman  of  the  Board  in  1886.  He  was 
elected  State  Senator  for  the  terms  of  1897 
and  1898.  He  is  identified  with  social  organ- 
izations as  follows:  he  is  a  member  of  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  and  was  charter  member 
of  St.  Andrew's  Lodge  at  Franklin  Falls.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  A.  O.  U.  W.  at  the  same 
place.  ]5oth  he  and  his  wife  attend  the  Con- 
gregational church  at  I'ranklin. 

Mr.  Kenrick  was  married  August  5,  1894, 
to  Arabelle  Rowe  Morgan,  of  Gilford,  N.  II. 
She  was  born  November  26,  1849,  daughter  of 
Jauies  and  Lucinda  (Harper)  Rowe,  the  former 
of  Gilfortl,   and   the   latter  of   New  Hampton, 


N.  H.  Mr.  Rowe,  who  was  a  farmer  most  of 
his  life,  died  August  19,  1893,  his  wife's  de- 
cease having  occurred  in  1868.  They  had  si.x 
children  —  George  W. ,  Charles  C. ,  Mary  E., 
Sarah,  Clara  A.,  and  Arabelle.  Of  these,  the 
first-born,  George,  is  a  farmer  in  Manchester, 
N.H.  ;  Charles  is  a  farmer  in  Methuen, 
Mass.  ;  Mary  is  the  widow  of  John  McDonald, 
and  lives  in  Cambridgeport,  Mass.  ;  Sarah  is 
the  widow  of  Eugene  Spaulding,  and  lives 
with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kenrick ;  and  Clara  is  not 
living.  Mr.  Kenrick  has  no  children,  but  has 
a  niece  living  with  him,  Florence  May  Spauld- 
ing, born  June  10,  1884,  who  is  a  very  at- 
tractive child. 

Mr.  Kenrick  is  decidedly  the  most  widely 
known  and  successful  man  of  a  large  com- 
munity. He  has  many  and  varied  interests, 
and  his  spirit  and  energy  are  adequate  for 
whatever  he  undertakes.  He  is  a  most  pros- 
perous and  substantial  citizen,  and  his  influ- 
ence has  made  itself  felt  in  many  ways  for 
the  good  of  the  public. 


■i 


HARLES  GOULL:),  an  extensive  and 
prosperous  agriculturist  o'f  Hopkinton, 
was  born  March  8,  1823,  on  the 
farm  where  he  now  resides,  son  of  Captain 
Moses  and  Hannah  (Currier)  Gould.  He  rep- 
resents one  of  the  oldest  families  of  this  sec- 
tion of  the  county.  His  ancestor,  Joseph 
Gould,  was  one  of  the  original  proprietors  of 
Hopkinton,  where  he  bought  land  while  yet 
a  resident  of  South  Hampton,  N.H.  Josejih 
died  shortly  after  his  purchase;  and  his  widow 
with  her  family  of  five  sons,  all  young  men, 
came  here  in  1754,  each  son  making  a  separate 
settlement.  Joseph  Gould  was  born  in  South 
Hampton,  being  either  the  son  or  grandson  of 
the  emigrant  ancestor,  Christopher  Gould,  who 
came  to  this    country    from    luigland,  locating 


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69 


ill  lIami)loii,  N.I  I.  Tlic  five  sods  of  Joseph 
were:  Moses,  l^lias,  Gideon,  John,  and  Chris- 
toplier,  all  of  whom  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  married,  and  reared  families. 
Some  descendants  of  each  arc  now  living  in 
Merrimack  County.  Several  of  these  formerly 
si)el]ed  their  name  Goold.  One  of  them,  Na- 
thaniel (i<iol(l,  who  settled  in  Chicago  in 
1S38,  going  there  on  the  old  steamer  "Mad- 
ison," was  the  last  surviving  charter  mem- 
ber of  Dearborn  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  his 
death. 

Moses  Gould,  the  grandfather  of  Charles, 
soon  after  coming  here  purchased  the  ancestral 
homestead  at  Hopkinton  in  1754.  His  mother 
made  her  home  with  liini.  Li  1760  or  there- 
about, besides  building  a  substantial  Ikjusc 
with  solid  oak  timbers  which  are  still  in  use, 
forming  the  frame  for  the  present  residence, 
he  cleared  the  timber  from  quite  a  large  por- 
tion of  the  land.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
fifty-four  years.  His  widow,  in  maidenhood 
Joanna  Davis,  who  attained  the  age  of  eighty- 
two  years,  lived  with  the  Shakers  at  Canter- 
bury from  181 8  until  1836.  She  bore  her 
husband  three  children,  namely:  Moses,  the 
father  of  Charles;  Jonathan,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  twenty-two  years;  and  Lnoch,  who 
married  Lydia  Rowell,  and  lives  with  his  fam- 
ily in  liradford,  N.H.  Captain  Moses  Gould 
spent  his  entire  life  of  seventy-five  years  on 
the  old  homestead,  carrying  on  general  farm- 
ing and  lumbering.  In  his  younger  days  he 
trained  in  a  compan)'  of  the  State  militia,  serv- 
ing as  Captain  for  several  years.  He  brought 
his  bride,  Hannah  Currier,  a  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel Currier,  of  Warner,  N.  H.,  to  the  home 
farm,  where  she  resided  until  her  death  at  the 
age  of  eighty-two  years.  Here  they  reared 
their  family  of  five  children,  namely:  Joanna, 
who  married  Ambrose  Chase,  and  died  in 
Hopkinton,    aged  eighty  years;  Abigail,    who 


was  the  wife  of  Kzn  Terrill,  of  I'cnacook,  and 
died  when  si.\'ty  years  old;  Hannah,  who  died 
in  young  womanhood  ;  Martha,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Franklin  I'"rost,  of  Penacook,  and  died 
at  the  age  of  si.\ty-five  years;  and  Charles, 
twin  brother  of  Martha  and  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

Charles  Gould  received  a  fair  education  at 
the  Hopkinton  Academy.  Afterward  for  a 
period  of  twoscorc  years  he  was  engaged  dur- 
ing the  winter  seasons  as  a  teacher  in  the 
county  schools.  He  was  Captain  for  a  time 
in  the  Fortieth  New  Hampshire  militia,  in 
which  his  father  had  previously  been  an 
officer.  He  has  also  served  many  terms  as  one 
of  the  Superintending  School  Committee.  In 
1859  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men. For  some  time  he  has  been  Master  of 
the  local  grange.  In  the  management  of  his 
farm  he  has  shown  good  judgment.  Besides 
making  desirable  improvements  he  has  added 
more  land  to  the  original  hundred  acres.  In 
his  large  dairy  he  keeps  high-grade,  Guernsey 
cattle,  and  has  every  modern  facility  for  mak- 
ing butter,  which  he  produces  at  the  rate  of 
one  hundred  pounds  per  week.  This  product 
brings  him  the  average  price  of  thirty  cents  a 
pound  the  year  round.  At  the  World's.  Fair, 
held  in  Chicago  in  1893,  it  received  a  high 
award,  the  merits  ranking  almost  to  the  ma.xi- 
mum  on  every  point  counted.  He  received 
the  World's  Columbian  E.xposition  Medal  for 
his  exhibit,  standing  the  highest  of  any  in 
New  Hampshire,  and  ranking  third  among  the 
whole  number  of  competing  States.  He  has 
likewise  carried  away  several  first  prizes  at 
State  fairs.  In  politics  Mr.  Gould  has  been 
a  free  silver  man  for  years,  and  in  the  last 
Presidential  campaign  was  an  earnest  supporter 
of  W.  J.  Bryan.  He  is  very  liberal  in  his  re- 
ligious beliefs  and  an  active  member  of  the 
Swedenborgian  church. 


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On  November  4,  1847,  Mr.  Gould  married 
Miss  Ruth  Mill,  daughter  of  Thomas  Hill,  of 
this  town.  Mr.  Hill  and  his  father  owned  the 
Contoocook  water-power  for  many  years.  He 
was  a  veteran  of  the  Revolution,  serving  in 
all  the  important  battles,  including  that  of 
Bunker  Hill;  and  he  afterward  received  a  pen- 
sion from  the  government.  Mrs.  Gould  and 
Mrs.  Samantha  Spalding,  daughter  of  Stephen 
Putney,  were,  in  1896,  living  daughters  of 
Revolutionary  soldiers  in  Hopkinton.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Gould  became  the  parents  of  seven 
children  —  Moses  C,  Louis  A.,  Charles 
Henry,  Clara  1.,  Robert  T.,  Helen  A.,  and 
Herbert  J.  Moses  C.  is  a  dentist  at  Seneca 
Falls,  N.  Y.  ;  Louis  A.,  born  April  26,  1852, 
attended  the  university  at  Syracuse,  N.Y.,  for 
two  years,  afterward  receiving  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  in 
1880.  He  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
at  Ovid,  N.  Y. ,  and  in  1889  settled  in  Farmer 
Village,  the  same  State,  where  he  is  in  prac- 
tice at  the  present  time.  He  was  for  many 
years  President  of  the  Seneca  County  Medical 
Society,  and  for  nine  years  was  Coroner  of 
that  county.  Charles  Henry,  a  stone-cutter 
of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  built  the  armory  in  Bos- 
ton. Clara  I.  is  the  wife  of  Otto  L.  Bullard, 
of  Bellingham,  Mass.  Robert  T.  is  living  on 
the  homestead.  Helen  A.  is  the  wife  of 
George  A.  Newton,  of  Ilenniker,  N.  H.  ;  and 
Herbert  J.  resides  with  his  iiiother,  Charles 
H.,  in  Cambridge,  Mass. 

Robert  T.  Gould,  born  RTay  23,  1863,  has 
continued  in  business  with  his  father,  and  has 
now  the  entire  charge  of  the  farm.  He  is  very 
energetic  and  progressive,  the  present  e.xten- 
sive  butter  business  conducted  on  the  farm 
being  the  result  of  his  enterprise.  He  was 
educated  in  the  Contoocook  Academy,  after 
which,  making  up  his  mind  to  devote  his  time 
to  agricultural    jiursuits,    he   settled     near   liis 


father,  building  a  neat  residence  on  the  farm 
in  1894.  On  April  3,  1895,  he  married  Miss 
Mary  M.,  daughter  of  John  F.  and  Nellie 
(Putney)  Currier,  of  Hopkinton.  She  is  a 
lady  of  culture  and  a  graduate  of  the  Concord 
High  School,  lioth  Robert  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  local  grange,  in  which  he  has 
been  Master.  Very  active  in  the  grange  work 
of  the  county  and  State,  he  has  attended  the 
National  Grange,  and,  with  his  father,  has 
been  present  at  the  meeting  of  the  State 
Grange. 


f^OHN  M.  COLE,  a  well-known  farmer 
and  real  estate  speculator  of  Plainfield, 
was  born  here,  August  3,  1836,  son  of 
Daniel  and  Lucinda  (Bryant)  Cole.  The  Cole 
family  is  of  German  origin.  The  great-grand- 
father of  John  M.  was  Ebenezer  Cole.  The 
grandfather,  Daniel  Cole,  was  one  of  the  pios- 
perous  farmers  of  Plainfield  in  his  day,  and 
also  followed  the  trades  of  tanning,  currying, 
and  shoemaking.  He  fought  for  inde]icndence 
in  the  Revolutionary  War,  taking  part  in  thir- 
teen engagements;  and  he  received  for  his  ser- 
vices a  pension,  which  after  his  death  was  ex- 
tended to  his  widow.  He  and  his  family 
came  up  the  river  upon  a  horse  sled,  and 
were  among  the  pioneers  of  this  section.  At 
his  death  he  was  ninety  years  old.  He  mar- 
ried lulith  Wilbur,  and  liis  family  consisted 
of  si.x  children,  all  now  deceased;  namely, 
Stephen,  Wheeler,  Enos,  John,  Daniel,  and 
Hannah.  Stephen  became  a  physician,  and 
practised  in  Concord,  N.H.,  for  a  number  of 
years.  He  married  in  that  town,  and  later 
settled  in  Vermont,  where  he  passed  the  rest 
of  his  life.  Wheeler  went  to  Ohio,  and  be- 
came a  prosperous  farmer.  He  married  in 
that  State,  and  left  a  daughter.  Enos  mar- 
rietl  and  settled  in  ]?urlington,  Vt.  John  was 
in    business    in    Lowell,    Mass.,    and    Nashua, 


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7' 


N.II.,  for  a  number  of  years.  Me  married 
Lucy  I'ike,  of  Concord,  N.II.  Hannah  be- 
came the  wife  of  Jo.seph  Spaulding,  an  exten- 
sive farmer  of  I'lainfieiil,  and  reared  a  family. 
Daniel  Cole,  the  father  of  John  M.,  was 
Ijorn  in  I'lainfield.  He  succeeded  to  the 
ownership  of  his  father's  property,  and  during 
the  active  period  of  his  life  was  engaged  in 
general  farming  and  stock-raising.  He  served 
as  Overseer  of  the  Poor  and  Highway  Sur- 
veyor for  a  number  of  years,  and  was  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace.  In  politics  he  supported  the 
Republican  party,  and  his  religious  belief  was 
the  Haptist  creed.  He  lived  to  be  seventy- 
three  years  old,  and  left  a  good  estate,  to- 
gether with  a  record  for  honesty  and  integrity, 
of  which  his  descendants  may  well  be  proud. 
Daniel  Cole  was  twice  married.  His  first 
wife  was  Patty  Johnson,  who  bore  him  si.x 
children;  namely,  Sarah,  Martha,  Abel, 
George,  Harriet,  and  Daniel  W.  Sarah  mar- 
ried l^arl  Westgate,  a  farmer  of  Flainficid, 
and  had  a  family  of  six  children.  Martha 
wedded  Alfred  Hannis,  a  school  teacher  of 
Claremont,  N.H.,  and  reared  a  family.  Abel, 
who  engaged  in  farming,  wedded  Marcia 
Houghton,  of  Windsor,  Vt.  George,  who 
followed  agriculture  successfully,  married 
Samantha  .Souther,  of  I'lainfield.  Both  are 
now  deceased.  Harriet  is  now  the  widow  of 
Nathan  Souther,  late  of  Lowell,  Vt.  Daniel 
W.  resided  upon  a  farm  in  Cornish,  and  died 
in  that  town.  He  married  Ardel  Spencer,  a 
native  of  I'lainfield;  and  a  daughter  survives 
him.  Daniel  Cole's  second  wife,  Lucinda 
Pryant  Cole,  became  the  mother  of  five  chil- 
dren—  John  M.,  Homer,  Marcia,  Wilbur,  and 
one  that  died  in  infancy.  Homer  follows  the 
trade  of  a  painter  and  paper-hanger  in  Plain - 
field.  He  married  Mrs.  E.  Harris,  a  widow  of 
Windsor,  who  has  had  no  children.  Marcia, 
who    is    no     longer     living,    married     George 


Chase,  of  Windsor,  a  mason  by  fratle;  and  she 
had  two  children.  Wilbur,  who  is  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  in  Cornish,  married  Clara  Hook,  of 
that  town,  and  has  one  son. 

John  M.  Cole  acquired  a  comnion-schooi 
education,  and  since  early  manhood  has  been 
engaged  in  farming.  He  succeeded  to  the 
homestead,  where  he  continued  to  reside  some 
five  years  after  his  father's  death.  He  then 
sold  it  to  Charles  Kenyon,  and  bought  the 
Coburn  place  in  Cornish.  This  property  he 
sold  to  William  Kinsman  a  year  later,  and 
purchased  the  Woodard  farm  in  Plainfield. 
He  had  resided  there  about  fifteen  years,  when 
he  sold  that  property  to  William  True,  and 
bought  the  Jordan  farm,  located  upon  the  River 
Road.  After  disposing  of  the  Jordan  place  to 
Ralph  Morgan  some  two  years  ago,  he  pur- 
chased the  Burrage  farm,  where  he  now  re- 
sides. His  custom  in  these  transactions  was 
to  improve  the  estate  after  buying  it,  and  then 
to  sell  it  at  a  good  profit.  He  now  owns  a 
farm  of  one  hundred  acres,  with  substantial 
buildings,  from  which  a  view  may  be  obtained 
of  the  Ascutney  Mountains  and  the  village  of 
Hartland.  Vt. ,  upon  the  opposite  shore  of  the 
Connecticut  River.  He  has  made  a  specialty 
of  raising  sheep  and  cattle,  and  he  has  been 
quite  successful  in  general  farming. 

Mr.  Cole  married  Jane  Bugbee,  who  was 
born  in  Hartland,  Vt.,  December  27,  1836, 
and  was  educated  at  the  Kimball  Union  Acad- 
emy. Her  grandfather  was  a  Revolutionary 
soklier.  Her  father,  George  Bugbee,  who 
was  born  in  Cornish,  Vt.,  in  181 3,  and  was  a 
prosperous  farmer  in  that  town,  died  in  1882. 
He  married  Eunice  Lanphire,  who,  born  in 
Hartland,  Vt.,  in  1803,  died  in  1869,  her 
only  child  being  Jane.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cole 
have  four  children,  as  follows:  George  A., 
born  March  14,  1S63;  Daniel,  born  March  11, 
1867;  Samuel  W. ,  born  March   iS,  1868;  and 


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Lizzie  J.,  born  December  23,  1870.  George 
A.,  who  is  engaged  in  agriculture  in  Plain- 
field,  married  Hattie  Royce,  and  has  two  sons 
—  Charlie  and  Leonard.  Daniel  is  a  resident 
of  this  town.  Samuel  W.,  who  is  a  travelling 
salesman  for  a  jewelry  house,  married  Ida  M. 
Jenkins,  of  Attleboro,  Mass.  Lizzie  J.  mar- 
ried Harley  McCrillis,  a  confectioner  of 
White  River  Junction,  Vt. 

Mr.  Cole  has  served  upon  the  School  Board 
and  in  other  town  ofifices.  Politically,  he 
supports  the  Republican  party,  and  in  his 
religious  views  is  a  Baptist.  He  is  well 
informed  upon  all  current  topics,  and  is  es- 
pecially interested  in  family  history  and  the 
preservation  of  relics.  He  has  in  his  posses- 
sion several  old  deeds  and  mortgages.  Among 
the  deeds  is  one  conveying  property  from  John- 
son to  Cole,  bearing  the  date  of  December 
25,  1819.  Another  deed  is  from  Walker  to 
Daniel  Cole,  dated  April  4,  1806.  He  also 
has  the  will  of  his  grandfather,  dated  July  20, 
1S39,  and  probated  l)y  Judge  rutnain,  and  the 
paper  relating  to  his  enlistment  and  his  dis- 
charge from  the  Continental  army. 


M 


AVID  A.  SARGENT,  a  hotel-keeper 
in  Croydon,  was  born  January  5, 
1S29,  in  (rrantham,  N.  H.,  son  of 
Moses  and  Mary  (Clement)  Sargent.  His 
paternal  grandfather  was  one  of  the  early 
settlers  of  Warner,  N.H.  The  father  was 
born  in  Warner,  May  i,  1788,  and  remained 
there  for  some  time,  carrying  on  general  farm- 
ing. Later  he  removed  to  (irantham,  where 
he  spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  While  a 
Republican  in  politics,  he  never  held  public 
ofifice.  He  died  in  1849,  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
one  years.  His  wife  Mary,  who  was  born  in 
Warner,  December  3,  1788,  died  in  1870,  at 
the  advanced   age  of  eighty-two  years.      Both 


were  members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
Church  of  Grantham.  Their  nine  children 
were  born  as  follows:  Seth  C,  May  12,  1815; 
Benjamin,  July  12,  1817;  Moses  C,  Septem- 
ber 30,  1819;  Aaron,  June  18,  1821;  Rozilla, 
February    3,     1823;   Elizabeth    C,    December 

19,  1824;  John  C,  October  21,  1826;  David 
A.,    January   5,    1829;    Almira    N. ,    E'ebruary 

20,  1831.  Of  these  children  the  survivors 
are:  lilizabeth   C,    David   A.,  and  Almira   N. 

David  A.  Sargent  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Grantham.  He  was  afterward 
engaged  in  general  farming,  carrying  on  the 
farm  after  the  death  of  his  father,  and  contin- 
uing there  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1862  be 
started  in  the  hotel  business  in  the  same  town, 
running  the  Grantham  House  for  si.x  and  one- 
half  years.  Then  he  disposed  of  that  property, 
and  in  1870  located  in  Croydon,  where  he  has 
since  lived.  He  has  conducted  the  hotel  there 
for  the  past  twenty-six  years.  He  is  a  liberal 
in  his  religious  views.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  has  been  Town  Cleik  for  the 
past  two  years.  On  April  8,  1853,  Mr.  Sar- 
gent married  Mary  A.  Clark,  who  was  born  in 
Grantham,  daughter  of  Asa  Clark,  and  died 
in  1885.  Subsequently  he  married  Diana  M. 
Wallace,  a  native  of  Vermont,  who  died  in 
1 891.  Darwin  A.  Sargent,  son  of  the  first 
wife,  born  in  i860,  was  engaged  in  general 
farming,  and  resided  in  Croydon.  He  married 
Mabel  A.  Allen,  and  died  in  1895,  leaving 
his  wife  with  three  children  —  OtisC,  Roy 
A.,  and  Dora  M.  Mr.  Sargent  is  a  self-made 
man  and  one  who  has  the  respect  of  his  towns- 
men. He  is  a  very  pleasant  man  to  meet,  and 
is  one  of  the  oldest  business  men  in  Croytlcm. 
His  hotel,  which  is  very  homelike,  accommo- 
dates twenty  guests.  It  is  but  a  short  drive 
from  Austin  Corbin's  park,  and  n)any  visitors 
aniuiall)'  stoji  with  him  and  enjoy  the  imuin- 
tain  scenery. 


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(5>r  XDkl'W  J.  SILVICK,  senior  i)artiicr 
LLI  ill  the  firm  of  Silver  &  Hall,  Goss- 
'  ''V._,  ville,  and  an  ox-member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  legislature,  was  born  in  Dcerficld, 
N.H.,  May  9,  1835,  son  of  Joseph  M.  and 
Sarah  S.  (Chase)  Silver.  The  latter,  natives 
respeetively  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  Deer- 
field,  were  both  born  in  the  year  i.Soo.  Jo- 
seph M.  Silver  moved  to  Deerfield  when  quite 
young  and  learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  The 
active  portion  of  his  life  was  devoted  to  that 
calling.  He  owned  a  good  farm,  which  he 
also  cultivated  with  succes.s,  and  lived  to  the 
age  of  eighty-eight  years.  In  politics  he 
acted  with  the  Republican  party.  His  wife, 
Sarah,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Nathan  Chase,  of 
Deertield,  became  the  mother  of  seven  chil- 
dren, of  whom  there  arc  living:  Abbie  C, 
John  \\'.,  Andrew  J.,  Horace  C,  and  Charles 
\V,  Abbie  C.  is  the  wife  of  C.  W.  Prescott, 
of  Raymond,  N.H.  John  W.  married  Hattie 
Chase,  of  Chester,  N.H.;  and  his  children 
are:  Walter  II.  and  Charles  P.  Horace  C. 
first  married  I\Iary  K.  Prown,  and  subse- 
quently Mrs.  Josephine  White,  a  native  of 
Tilton,  and  the  widow  of  Charles  H.  White. 
Neither  wife  is  now  living.  Charles  W.  mar- 
ried Abbie  Arlin,  of  Manchester,  N.H.  Mrs. 
Josejjh  M.  Silver  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
two.  .She  and  her  husband  were  members  of 
the  Congregational  church. 

Andrew  J.  Silver  completed  his  education 
at  the  Pittsfield  Academy.  After  assisting 
his  father  for  a  short  time,  he  became  a  clerk 
in  a  general  store  at  Suncook  \'illage,  in  the 
town  of  Pembroke;  and  later  he  worked  in  the 
same  capacity  at  llookset.  During  the  latter 
part  of  the  Civil  War  he  was  clerk  at  the 
naval  store  connected  with  the  United  States 
Navy  Yard  at  Portsmouth.  After  the  war  he 
followed  the  same  occupation  for  a  short  time 
longer,    and  then   established    a  general   store, 


which  he  conducted  for  a  year.  In  1870  he 
went  to  Epsom,  and  formed  a  |)artner.sliip 
with  Jacob  F.  Robinson,  the  firm  of  Silver  & 
Robinson  conducting  a  thriving  bu.sincs.s  for 
thirteen  years.  He  then  associated  himself 
with  Charles  S.  Hall,  his  pre.scnt  partner,  and 
the  firm  of  Silver  &  Hall  have  since  had  a 
profitable  trade  in  (iossville. 

On  November  30,  1870,  Mr.  Silver  married 
Juliette  E.  Jame.s,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  G. 
James,  of  Deerfield.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Silver 
have  one  son,  Harry,  who  was  born  .Septem- 
ber 2,  1 882.  During  the  years  1878  and  1879 
Mr.  Silver  represented  P-psom  in  the  legis- 
lature, and  was  the  first  Republican  member  of 
that  body  from  this  town.  He  has  been  Post- 
master in  Gossville  since  1881.  He  is  con- 
nected with  Rockingham  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M., 
of  Candia,  N.  H.,  and  has  occupied  all  of  the  im- 
portant chairs  in  I^vergreen  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
of  Short  Falls.  He  ranks  among  the  leading 
business  men  of  Epsom,  and  his  political  ser- 
vices are  highly  appreciated  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen. 


ARRI:N  SARGENT,  a  brick  manu- 
facturer of  Allenstown,  and  a  son 
of  Sterling  and  Sarah  (Gault)  Sar- 
gent, was  born  in  this  town,  September  i, 
1837.  The  genealogy  of  the  Sargents,  who 
are  of  luiglish  origin,  is  directly  traced 
through  eight  generations  to  Richard  Sargent, 
who  is  supposed  to  have  been  an  officer  in  the 
royal  navy  of  England.  The  first  ancestor  to 
come  to  America  was  William  Sargent  (first), 
who  was  born  in  England  about  the  year 
1602,  and  first  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass. 
Later  he  moved  to  Newbury,  and  still  later  to 
Hampton,  N.H.  A  more  extended  accotmt 
of  the  Sargent  family  will  be  found  in  the 
sketch  of  the  life  of  Philip  Sargent.  The 
great-grandfather    of    Warren      Sargent,    also 


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named  Sterling,  was  born  in  Salisbury,  Mass., 
May  25,  1 73 1.  When  a  young  man  he  settled 
in  Allenstown,  where  he  followed  agriculture 
during  the  active  period  of  his  life,  and  lived 
to  a  good  old  age.  He  was  three  times  mar- 
ried. By  his  first  union,  contracted  with 
Lydia  Coffin,  there  were  five  children,  of 
whom  Philip  was  the  youngest.  On  Septem- 
ber 24,  I7<S5,  he  married  Mehitable  Davis,  a 
native  ot  Amesbury,  Mass.  His  third  mar- 
riage, which  was  performed  February  i  i, 
1788,  united  him  to  Mary  Andrews,  of  Pem- 
broke, N.  H.,  who  died  in  February,   1820. 

Philip  Sargent,  the  grandfather  of  Warren, 
was  born  in  Allenstown,  March  21,  1765. 
He  was  a  prosperous  farmer,  resided  in  this 
town  throughout  his  entire  life,  and  died 
P'ebruary  21,  1820.  In  1793  he  married 
Sally  Perrin,  a  native  of  Pembroke,  who  had 
one  child.  Sterling.  Sterling  Sargent,  who 
was  born  in  Allenstown,  March  20,  1794, 
enlisted  for  service  in  the  War  of  1812  as  a 
drummer,  joining  in  1814  Captain  Sam- 
uel Collins's  company,  and  subsequently 
served  in  John  Montgomery's  brigade  under 
General  Nathaniel  Fisk,  receiving  promotion 
to  the  rank  of  Drum  Major.  After  his  return 
from  the  army  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture 
of  brick  in  Allenstown,  and  afterward  followed 
that  business  successfully  for  many  years  in 
connection  with  farming.  A  stanch  supporter 
of  the  Democratic  party,  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Selectmen  for  a  number  of  years, 
and  was  a  Representative  to  the  legislature 
from  this  district  for  eight  consecutive  terms. 
He  was  well  advanced  in  Masonry.  At  the 
age  of  seventy-four  he  died.  His  wife  Sally, 
whom  he  married  December  29,  18 14,  was  a 
daughter  of  Matthew  Ciault,  of  Hooksct, 
N.H.,  who  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  She  became  the  mother  of 
eleven   children,     five     of     whom     are     living; 


namely,  Philip,  Mrs.  Sally  llartwcll,  Mrs. 
W.  F.  Head,  Warren,  and  Abbie.  Abbie  is 
the  wife  of  Nathaniel  B.  Emery,  of  Pembroke, 
N.H.,  and  has  two  children  —  Frederick  P. 
and  Nathaniel  B.,  Jr.  Mrs.  Sterling  Sargent 
died  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven.  Beth  she  and 
her  husband  were  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church. 

After  attending  the  common  schools  of  his 
native  town  for  the  usual  period,  Warren  Sar- 
gent completed  his  education  in  New  London, 
N.  H.  Then  he  worked  upon  the  home  farm 
until  1861,  when  he  went  to  California,  where 
he  remained  for  over  two  years.  At  the  ex- 
piration of  that  time  he  returned  to  Allens- 
town, and,  forming  a  partnership  with  his 
brother  Philip,  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
brick.  In  1891  his  brother  withdrew  from  the 
firm,  and  since  that  time  W'arren  has  carried 
on  business  alone.  He  owns  and  occujiies 
a  farm  of  eighty  acres,  which  he  cultivates 
successfully. 

On  April  2,  1868,  Mr.  Sargent  was  united 
in  marriage  with  P'annic  E.  Knowles,  of' 
Pittsfield,  N.  H.  She  died  January  11,  1895, 
leaving  no  children.  On  June  9,  1896,  he 
married  for  his  second  wife  Mrs.  P'lorence  L. 
Staples  Brown,  daughter  of  James  Staples,  of 
Danversport,  Mass.  In  politics  Mr.  Sargent  is 
a  Democrat.  He  takes  a  lively  interest  in  the 
prosperity  and  welfare  of  the  town,  and  is  con- 
nected with  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry.  Mrs. 
Sargent  is  a  niember  of  the  Baptist  church. 


ILLIAM  BROOKS  WARD  will 
be  readily  called  to  memory  as  a 
leading  resilient  of  Plainfield.  He 
was  born  in  Groton,  Mass.,  May  8,  iSiS, 
son  of  William  and  Rebecca  (Barrett)  Ward. 
The  father,  who  was  a  prosperous^  farmer  in 
Plainfield,  was  twice  married.      His  first   mar- 


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i"ia<;c  was  contracted  witli  Rebecca  Barrett, 
and  the  maiden  name  nf  his  second  wife  was 
Rebecca  Boynton.  His  children,  three  by 
each  marriafje,  were:  William  15.,  l\ebccca, 
Sarah,  Innjamiii  I".,  Alfre'd,  and  Cyrus.  I<ie- 
becca  married  Norman  Smith,  a  tanner  of 
I.empster,  N.II.,  and  had  two  children.  All 
the  members  of  this  family  are  now  deceased. 
Sar;'.h  is  the  wife  of  George  C.  I'n-eman,  a 
successful  farmer  of  IMainfield,  and  has  three 
children  liviii,<;.  Benjamin  F.  successively 
mariied  ivlna  Davis  and  Lizzie  1'.  .Siiauldin;^. 
Mis  second  wife  had  one  son,  I'"re(l  S.,  who  is 
a  jihysician  in  New  York.  Alfred,  who 
wedded  Mary  Burnap,  of  this  town,  .-ind  was 
a  farmer  in  a  Western  State,  died  some  two 
years  ago,  leaving  one  child.  Cyrus,  who  for- 
merly conducted  a  baker)',  and  retired  from 
active  business  some  time  since,  wedded 
Martha  Thornton,  of  Springfield,  Vt. 

William  I^rooks  Ward  was  graduated  from 
the  Kimball  Union  Academy.  He  then  en- 
gaged in  educational  work,  and  taught  scliool 
in  Louisville,  Ky. ,  for  nine  years.  Returning 
to  Plainfield,  he  purchased  his  father's  farm, 
in  the  management  of  which  thereafter  he 
proved  himself  an  industrious  and  capable 
farmer.  His  natural  ability  and  fine  scholarly 
attainments  made  him  especially  eligible  for 
thj  public  service.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Selectmen  for  one  year.  He  was 
several  times  a  candidate  for  Representative 
to  the  legislature,  but  his  party  was  in  the 
minority.  Much  interested  in  military  mat- 
ters, he  was  Captain  of  a  Plainfield  company 
of  militia.  An  esteemed  member  of  the  ]?ap- 
tist  church,  lie  sang  in  the  choir  for  many 
years.  Mr.  Ward  married  Maria  P.  P^uller, 
who  was  born  in  Plainfield,  November  g, 
1833.  Her  education  was  completed  at  the 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  jirevious  to  her 
marriage  she  was  very  successfully  engaged  in 


teaching  school.  .She  ha.s  had  six  children, 
as  follows:  William  II.,  born  June  15,  1855; 
Arthur  !•".,  born  June  26,  1856;  Fred  B., 
born  October  3,  185.S,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Herbert  I'..,  born  I-'ei^ruary  4,  1862;  ]5en- 
jamin  V.,  born  February  28,  1865;  and  Julia 
M.,  born  March  15,  1872.  The  five  surviving 
children  were  educated  at  the  Kimball  Union 
Academy  and  other  well-known  schools. 
William  H.,  who  is  now  a  milk  dealer  in  Bos- 
ton, married  Alice  Delancey,  and  has  one 
daughter,  Gladys  N.  Arthur  ]•".  resides  at 
the  homestead,  and  carries  on  the  farm. 
Herbert  K.,  vvho  was  graduated  from  the 
academy  in  1881,  after  pursuing  a  course  at 
Eastman's  Business  College,  Poughkecp.sie, 
taught  school  for  some  time,  and  about  ten 
years  ago  became  an  employee  in  the  well- 
known  jewelry  store  of  New  York  City  con- 
ducted by  the  Messrs.  Tiffany,  where  he  is 
now  the  superintendent.  Benjamin  F.,  who 
was  in  the  meat  business,  died  of  consump- 
tion, March  29,  1890.  Julia  AL  is  now  the 
wife  of  William  IL  Skinner,  of  Windsor,  Vt. 
The  father,  William  Ikooks  Ward,  died  Sep- 
tember 18,  1892,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four 
years. 

liNJAMIN  GLIXES,  a  prosperous 
general  farmer  and  stock-raiser  of 
N'orthfickl,  was  born  in  this  town, 
October  3,  1839,  son  of  Jacob  and  Klmira 
(Glover)  Glines.  His  great-grandfather  was 
jirobably  the  first  settler  in  Northfield. 
Grandfather  Abram  Glines  was  a  lifelong 
resident  of  the  town.  The  father,  now  de- 
ceased, who  was  occupied  in  farming  through- 
out the  active  period  of  his  life,  was  twice 
married.  The  maiden  name  of  his  first  wife 
was  Nanc)'  Glines.  His  second  marriage  was 
contracted  with  Elmira  Glover,  who  bore  him 
eight    children.        Of     these    two    are    living, 


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namely:  Benjamin,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
and  Nancy,  who  married  George  Stewart,  and 
lives  in  Franklin.  The  others  were:  Jacob, 
Elmira,  Isaac,  Darius,  Jacob  (second),  and 
Nancy  (first).  The  mother  married  for  her 
second  husband  John  B.  Glover,  a  native  of 
Canterbury,  N.H.,  born  in  1814,  who  now  re- 
sides with  his  step-son  in  Northfield.  Her 
death  occurred  in  1S89. 

Benjamin  Glines  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  Northfield.  After  his 
marriage  he  resided  in  Canterbury  for  a  year, 
and  then  returned  to  Northfield,  where  he  has 
since  been  engaged  in  agriculture.  In  1885 
he  moved  to  his  present  farm  of  one  hundred 
and  sixteen  acres.  Here  he  carries  on  gen- 
eral farming,  dairying,  and  stock-raising.  On 
April  28,  i860,  Mr.  Glines  married  Annie 
L.  Robinson-,  who  was  reared  by  her  hus- 
band's step-father,  John  B.  Glover.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Glines  have  had  seven  children  — 
Willie,  Charles,  Frank,  Burt,  Nellie,  Ida, 
ant!  Benjamin.  Willie  married  Etta  La 
Baron,  of  Sanbornton,  and  is  now  a  carpenter 
in  Tilton,  N.  H.  ;  Charles  wedded  Mary 
Brown,  and  is  following  the  same  trade  in 
Waltham,  Mass.  ;  Frank,  who  wedded  Mary 
Leaman,  of  Laconia,  lives  in  Northfield;  Burt 
married  Ena  Randall,  and  is  residing  in  Can- 
terbury; Nellie  died  at  the  age  of  si.xteen 
years;  Ida  dieil  at  the  age  of  two  years;  and 
Benjamin  is  living  at  the  homestead.  Mrs. 
Glines  has  adopted  a  daughter,  Rosa  Tappen, 
who  was  born  August  i,  1892.  In  jiolitics 
Mr.  (jlines  is  a  Democrat.  II is  wife  is  a 
member  of  the  Bapti.st  church. 


I.ICAVITT    CAIN,    M.D.,    born    Sep- 
tember  26,    1859,  in  Goshen,  Sullivan 
County,  son  of  George  W.  and  Cynthia 
J.  (Leavitt)  Cain,  is  an  esteemed  i)iiysician  of 


Newport.  The  father,  a  native  of  Unity, 
N.  H.,  after  dealing  in  dry  goods  for  some 
time,  became  a  farmer.  He  now  resides  in 
Newport.  In  politics  he  takes  an  independent 
course.  The  mother,  who  came  from  Grant- 
ham, N.H.,  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six 
years.  Both  parents  were  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church.  Of  their  two 
children  Willie  G.,  the  younger,  a  graduate 
of  Dartmouth  in  the  class  of  1883,  and  living 
in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  is  a  physician. 

J.  Leavitt  Cain  grew  up  on  a  .farm  in 
Croydon,  and  received  his  education  in  the 
district  schools  and  at  Kimball  Union  Acad- 
emy. In  1883  he  graduated  from  the  medical 
department  of  Dartmouth  College,  and  in  the 
following  year  took  a  post-graduate  course  in 
New  York  City.  He  first  located  in  Grant- 
ham, where  he  remained  until  1889.  In 
that  year  he  came  to  Newport,  where  he  has 
been  successful  in  building  up  a  good  practice. 
He  covers  a  large  territory,  visiting  the  sick 
for  fifteen  miles  through  the  surrounding 
country.  He  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  lead- 
ing physicians  of  the  county.  He  supports 
the  Democratic  party  in  politics,  is  a  Mason 
of  Mount  Vernon  Lodge  and  of  .Sullivan 
Commandery  at  Claremont,  and  belongs  to 
the  I.  O.  O.  F.  at  Newport. 


\Cy\;/ IIITTH'R  BROTHICRS,  of  Hopkin- 
ton,  comprising  Nahum  Milton 
Whittier  and  Leon  Dayton  Whit- 
tier,  who  are  extensively  engaged  in  sawing, 
planing,  and  the  manufacture  of  shingles  and 
other  forms  of  lumber,  are^sons  of  Jacob  and 
Harriet  (Sanborn)  Whittier.  The  father  was 
born  in  Hock,  now  I_)an\'ilk',  N.II.,  in  1820. 
He  was  a  son  of  James  VVhillier,  a  cousin  of 
John  G.  Whittier,  the  jioet,  and  his  wife, 
Hepsibah  (Hunt)  Whittier,  both   of   Danville. 


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Reared  in  his  native  town,  Jacob  lived  there 
until  he  was  about  thirty  years  of  age.  Then 
he  removed  to  IIo[)kinton,  locating  on  the 
Jewett  road.  In  I  cS6o  lie  bought  the  present 
home  farm,  and  was  here  engaged  in  farming 
and  shoemaking  for  a  time.  On  October  24, 
1S62,  he  enlisted  fiu'  the  Civil  War  in  the 
Si.xtcenth  New  Hampshire  Volunteer  Infantry, 
going  at  once  with  his  comrades  to  New  Or- 
leans, where  he  was  stationed  for  the  most  of 
the  time  he  was  in  the  service.  With  his 
health  undermined  by  the  enervating  climate 
and  the  privations  of  army  life,  he  was  honor- 
ably discharged  ;  and  he  returned  to  his  family 
just  three  days  prior  to  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred August  18,  1863.  In  August,  in  1843, 
he  married  Miss  Harriet  Sanborn,  daughter  of 
Teter  and  Lucinda  (C(dlins)  Sanborn,  of  Dan- 
ville. They  became  the  ])arents  of  five  chil- 
dren, namely:  Nahuni  Milton,  one  of  thc- 
subjects  of  this  sketch,  who  has  never  married  ; 
Ausebia  Angeline,  now  the  wife  of  Sidney  S. 
Upham,  of  Concord,  and  the  mother  of  two 
children  —  Sidney  Ethel  and  Burton  Thomas; 
Charles  luncry,  who  died  at  the  age  of  three 
and  one-half  years ;  Emma  Aldana,  who  mar- 
ried Arvin  Samuel  Roundy,  of  Concord,  and 
has  one  child,  Waldo  Sidney;  and  Leon  Day- 
ton, the  other  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Nahum  Milton  worked  for  a  time  in  his 
younger  days  as  a  carpenter,  being  afterward 
engaged  in  the  milling  business  with  Amos 
Frye.  In  1S85  he  formed  a  partnership  with 
his  brother,  Leon  D.  Whittier,  who  had  also 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  Having  estab- 
lished the  present  well-known  firm  of  Whit- 
tier Brothers,  they  purchased  a  mill,  put  in 
improved  machinery,  and  embarked  in  their 
present  profitable  enterprise.  In  March, 
1894,  the  mills  were  burned,  entailing  a  loss 
of  two  thousand  dollars  above  their  insurance. 
Messrs.  Whittier,  with  characteristic  energy, 


at  once  replaced  the  building  with  a  larger 
one,  and  jjut  in  first-grade,  modern  ef.|uip- 
ments.  While  they  own  about  one  hundred 
and  twenty  acres  of  land,  they  devote  the  most 
of  their  time  to  their  mill,  employing  from 
four  to  six  men  in  their  busy  season,  and 
keeping  lw(j  the  year  round.  Besides  lumber 
they  manufacture  cider,  of  which  in  1896  they 
put  out  two  thousand  barrels. 

Nahum  has  not  married,  and  lives  on  the 
home  farm.  Leon  Dayton  on  December  24, 
1887,  wedded  Miss  Hattie  M.  Story,  daughter 
of  Moses  and  Harriet  D.  (Story)  Story.  Both 
brothers  are  gifted  musicians,  and  have  been 
connected  at  different  times  with  local  bands. 
Nahum  at  the  jiresent  time  is  leader  of  the 
Ilopkinton  band,  and  both  are  now  members 
of  an  orchestra.  The  house  they  occupy  was 
erected  by  their  father,  who  left  it  in  an  un- 
finished condition  when  he  went  to  the  war. 
It  has  since  been  remodelled  and  enlarged,  and 
a  new  barn  and  other  farm  buildings  have  been 
erected.  Their  widowed  mother,  who  sur- 
vived her  husband  more  than  three  decades, 
died  December  6,  1895,  aged  seventy-one 
years. 


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(^OHN  LANGDON  SWETT,  M.D.,  a 
leading  physician  of  Newport,  was 
born  in  Claremont,  N.H.,  February  17, 
1 8 10,  son  of  Josiah  and  Hannah  (Healy) 
Swett.  The  grandfather,  Josiah  Swett,  a 
farmer,  was  an  early  settler  of  Wenham  and 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  mar- 
ried Prudence  Richards,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
sixty-four  years.  He  was  a  Baptist  and  very 
rigid  in  his  belief.  His  son  Josiah,  born  in 
176S,  also  followed  farming.  Josiah  went 
from  Wenham  to  Claremont  when  about 
twenty- five  years  of  age,  and  in  the  latter  town 
spent  the  remainder  of  his  life.  He  owned 
a  good  farm,  and  was  an   industrious  worker. 


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A  Methodist  in  religious  faith,  he  was  yet 
tolerant  and  liberal.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Jeffersonian  Democrat.  He  died  at  the  age 
of  seventy-five  years.  His  wife,  Hannah, 
born  September  24,  1771,  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty-three.  They  had  ten  children  —  Sally, 
Hannah,  Elizabeth,  Clarissa,  Joseph,  Mehit- 
able,  Marilla,  Mary,  John  L.,  and  Josiah. 

Dr.  Swett  received  his  early  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Claremont  and  at  acad- 
emies in  Meriden,  N.H.,  and  Wilbraham, 
Mass.  Subsequently  he  taught  school  for  two 
years,  after  which  he  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine with  Dr.  Tolles  and  Dr.  Kittridge,  of 
Claremont.  Then  he  took  the  medical  lect- 
ures at  Dartmouth  College  and  at  Philadel- 
phia, and  graduated  from  the  Jefferson  Col- 
lege in  I\Iarch,  1836.  In  the  summer  of  the 
same  year  he  located  at  Newport,  where  he 
now  resides.  In  the  forty-five  years  of  his 
professional  career  he  accjuired  a  most  lucra- 
tive practice  and  the  reputation  of  one  of  the 
best  physicians  in  the  vicinity.  He  is  now 
practically  retired,  as  he  limits  his  profes- 
sional visits  to  a  few  old  friends. 

On  May  24,  1842,  Dr.  Swett  married  Eliz- 
abeth Kimball,  who  was  born  March  5,  1824, 
daughter  of  John  Kimball,  of  15radford.  She 
died  June  7,  1S52.  They  had  four  children, 
namely:  Frances  M.,  now  the  wife  of  Charles 
C.  Shattuck,  of  California;  John  K. ,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  four  months;  Elizabeth, 
who  died  when  thirteen  months  old;  and 
William  K.,  who  died  in  California,  July  15, 
1876,  at  the  age  of  twenty-four.  It  is  further 
stated  of  William  that  he  was  a  physician, 
that  he  married  July  6,  1873,  and  that  at  his 
death,  besides  his  widow,  he  left  two  sons: 
John  Langdon,  born  August  17,  1S74;  and 
William  Kimball,  born  June  10,  1876.  Dr. 
Swett  married  again  June  2,  1853,  Rebecca 
Beaman,  of  Princeton,  Mass.,  iwrn  November 


15,  1822,  daughter  of  Ephraim  Beaman.  She 
died  on  June  8,  1891,  leaving  no  children. 
The  Doctor  has  been  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Medical  Society  for  nearly  sixty 
years,  and  was  its  President  for  some  time. 
He  is  an  honorary  member  of  several  other 
medical  associations  in  the  vicinity,  in  Cali- 
fornia, in  the  Rocky  Mountains,  and  on  the 
Pacific  Coast.  He  is  an  old-school  Democrat 
and  a  member  of  the  F.  &  A.  M.,  Mount 
Vernon  Lodge,  Newpoit.  For  many  years  he 
has  held  an  honored  place  in  the  Congrega- 
tional church.  He  is  a  self-made  man,  ac- 
tive, energetic,  and  good.  His  daughter  has 
had  three  children:  Elizabeth  K.,  who  died 
at  twenty-three  years  of  age  ;  Jane ;  and  Charles 
C,  born  January  ig,  1879. 


ISRAEL  G.  MARDIN,  one  of  Aliens- 
town's  most  able  and  successful  farmers, 
was  born  in  this  town,  January  9,  1826. 
His  parents,  Israel  and  Rachel  (Ham) 
Mardin,  were  natives  respectively  cf  Aliens- 
town  and  Epsom,  N.H.  The  paternal  grand- 
father, Israel  Mardin  (first),  a  native  of  Ports- 
mouth, N.  H.,  settled  in  AUenstown,  and  here 
carried  on  a  good  farm  until  his  death,  which 
occurretl  when  he  was  forty  years  old.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Democrat.  He  married 
Sally  Doust,  a  native  of  Deerfield,  and  reared 
a  family  of  five  children,  none  of  whom  are 
living.  His  wife,  who  was  a  memlier  of  liie 
Congregational  church,  reacheil  the  age  of 
eighty -two  years. 

Israel  Mardin  (second),  the  father  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  reared  to  farm  life 
at  the  homestead.  On  succeeding  to  the  farm, 
he  cultivated  it  successfully  during  the  active 
period  of  iiis  life.  He  took  an  active  part  in 
political  affairs,  and  was  elected  a  Rejiresenta- 
tive  to  the   legislature  for  two  terms  l)y   the 


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Democratic  party.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
sixty-live.  His  wife,  R.ichel,  a  daughter  of 
George  Ham,  of  l^jsom,  made  iiim  the  father 
of  seven  children,  five  of  whom  are  living; 
namely,  Harrison  15.,  William  U.,  Israel  G., 
John,  and  James  C.  Harrison  15.  married 
Ann  Gove,  of  VVentworth,  N.H.,  and  lias  one 
son,  Charles;  William  D.  married  Caroline 
Monahan,  of  I-'rancestovvn,  N.H.,  and  has  five 
children  —  Frank,  George,  lunma,  Nellie, 
and  Carrie;  John  marrieil  Mllen  L.  i-'lint,  of 
Alienstown,  and  his  children  are:  John, 
Mabel,  and  Hattie  A.  ;  James  C.  married 
Sarah  Wiggins,  of  Deerfielil;  and  she  is  the 
mother  of  two  children  —  ]5urt  and  Rachel. 
Mrs.  Rachel  Mardin  lived  to  be  eighty-one 
years  old.  She  and  her  husband  were  attentl- 
ants  of  the  Congregational  church. 

Israel  G.  Mardin  was  reared  and  educated 
in  Alienstown.  After  leaving  school  he  was 
employed  in  a  brickyard  for  a  time.  Subse- 
quently he  took  up  farming,  which  has  since 
been  his  principal  occupation.  In  iS8i  he 
purchased  his  present  farm  of  one  hundred 
and  thirty  acres.  The  tillage  portion  of  it  is 
devoted  chiefly  to  the  raising  of  hay  and 
grain. 

On  March  31,  1853,  Mr.  Mardin  wedded 
Hannah  J.  Giles,  daughter  of  Paul  S.  Giles, 
of  Northwood,  N.H.  They  have  no  children. 
In  politics  Mr.  Mardin  is  a  Democrat.  He' 
has  served  as  Supervisor  of  the  Check  List  and 
as  Highway  Surveyor.  One  of  the  leading 
farmers  of  Alienstown,  and  possessing  many 
admirable  qualities,  he  has  the  esteem  and 
confidence  of  his  fellow-townsmen. 


(sffOHN  S.  1-"0RD  was  a  well-known 
farmer  and  lantl-owner  of  Danbury.  A 
native  of  Grafton,  N.H.,  and  a  son  of 

Archibald  F.  and  Polly  (Searle)  Ford,  he  was 


born  October  15,  1.S24.  His  grandfather, 
Robert  Ford,  one  of  a  large  family  of  children, 
was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  Grafton,  where 
he  secured  a  grant  of  land,  and  thereafter  cul- 
tivated it  until  his  death.  Robert  married 
Mary  Riddle,  and  they  reared  a  family  of  four 
sons  and  three  daughters. 

Archibald  Ford,  like  his  father,  was  a 
farmer.  After  the  birth  of  his  son  John  he 
moved  to  Danbury,  where  he  spent  the  latter 
part  of  his  life,  and  died  June  15,  1S7S.  lie- 
sides  cultivating  his  land,  he  made  important 
highway  surveys.  His  other  children  were: 
Mary  S.,  George  N.,  Charles,  and  Robert. 
Mary,  now  Mrs.  N.  \V.  Flanders  and  a  widow, 
lives  at  Wilmot  F'lat,  and  has  two  sons  — 
Charles  F.  and  James;  Robert  lives  at  Camp- 
ton,  N.H.,  and  has  four  children;  George, 
now  deceased,  left  eight  children. 

John  S.  F'ord,  who  was  the  eldest  of  his 
])arents'  chiUlren,  was  educated  in  the  Dan- 
i)ury  schools  and  in  Franklin  Academy;  and 
he  lived  on  the  homestead  until  he  was 
twenty-two  years  of  age.  When  the  Northern 
Railroad  was  being  built,  he  was  employed  on 
the  gradings  and  on  the  stone  work.  Later 
he  was  made  station  agent,  and  he  has  had 
charge  of  a  lunch-room  in  the  depot.  In  1S76 
he  returned  to  the  farm  which  he  inherited 
from  his  father.  Here  he  raised  some  stock, 
principally  cows  and  sheep.  The  proprietor 
of  about  twelve  hundred  acres,  he  was  one  of 
the  largest  land-owners  in  the  section.  Some 
years  ago  he  drove  cattle  from  Massachusetts 
up  here  to  pasture. 

In  1847  Mr.  Ford  married  Julia  Litchfield, 
daughter  of  George  and  Lucy  (Randall)  Litch- 
field, of  Scituate,  Mass.  An  adopted  son, 
George  A.,  died  January  ig,  1885,  leaving  a 
wife  and  three  children.  Mr.  Ford  was  Town 
Treasurer  for  a  number  of  years.  In  1866-67 
he   represented   the   town    in   the  State  legis- 


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lat-iire.      He   was   a   Mason    in   good   standing 
In   politics   he   was   a   Democrat,    and   he  cast 
his   first  ballot    for   President    in    184S.       He 
died  March  26,   1897. 


ENRY  K.  JENNEY,  a  farmer  of 
North    Charlestown,    was   born    April 

^  *  19,  1847,  in  Plainfield,  this  county, 

son  of  E.  O.  Jenney.  The  Jenney  family  is 
one  of  the  oldest  in  the  county.  Silas 
Jenney,  the  grandfather  of  Henry  K.,  settled 
in  Plainfield,  and  carried  on  a  large  farm 
there.  E.  O.  Jenney,  his  son,  bought  a  farm 
in  the  eastern  part  of  Plainfield,  and  lived 
thereon  until  1S59.  Then  he  moved  to  the 
northwest  part  of  the  same  town,  and  bought 
another  farm.  He  raised  sheep  and  cattle  on 
a  large  scale,  and  he  died  in  1S76. 

Henry  K.  Jenney,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  received  his  knowledge  of  the  rudi- 
ments in  the  district  schools  of  Plainfield. 
Then  he  attended  Meriden  Academy  two 
terms  each  year  for  three  years,  working  on 
his  father's  farm  for  the  balance  of  the  year. 
At  the  age  of  twenty,  starting  out  in  life  for 
himself,  he  worked  in  his  native  town  for  a 
time.  In  the  spring  of  1870  he  left  his  home 
and  removed  to  Charlestown,  where  he  was 
employed  on  the  farm  of  Thomas  \Vhi[)ple  for 
two  years.  Then  he  bought  a  part  of  the 
Whipple  farm,  and  he  has  since  been  success- 
fully engaged  in  its  cultivation.  During  his 
residence  here  Mr.  Jenney  has  bought  and  sold 
several  farms  in  the  village.  Recently  he 
bought  the  remainder  of  the  Whipple  farm, 
containing  one  hunched  acres.  Also,  for  the 
past  twenty  years  he  has  been  actively  en- 
gaged in  buying  and  selling  stock  of  all  kinds. 
He  is  a  stanch  Republican,  has  served  on 
Town  Committees,  and  is  at  present  one  of 
the  Selectmen.      A  prominent   memljcr  of  tiie 


Methodist  church,  he  serves  the  society  in  the 
office  of  Director.  He  is  a  charter  member  of 
the  Sugar  River  Grange,  No.   196. 

On  June  14,  1872,  Mr.  Jenney  married 
Helen  WhijDjDle,  daughter  of  Thomas  Whip- 
ple, of  Charlestown.  They  have  one  child, 
Mary  Alice,  born  May  30,  1873,  who  is  a 
graduate  of  Steven's  High  School,  and  has 
taught  school  in  Claremont  and  Charlestown 
for  the  past  three  years.  Tlie  Whipple  fam- 
ily have  been  connected  with  the  town  of 
Charlestown  since  1725,  when  Moses 
Whipple,  great-grandfather  of  Mrs.  Jenney, 
settled  there.  He  was  a  prominent  man  in 
the  Revolutionary  War.  Mrs.  Jenney  has  in 
her  possession  to-day  the  original  documents 
appointing  him  Colonel  in  the  Colonial  army, 
signed  by  King  George  III.,  and  counter- 
signed by  Governor  Wentworth,  of  New 
Hampshire.  Thomas  Whipple,  who  success- 
fully followed  the  occupation  of  surveyor,  was 
superintendent  of  the  Charlestown  schools  for 
thirteen  consecutive  years  and  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace  for  thirty-five  years.  He  dieil 
March  i,  1S70.  Mr.  Jenney  is  regarded  as 
one  of  the  prominent  residents  of  the  town. 


ILLIAM  DORR  SMITH,  propri- 
etor of  .Smith's  Business  College  of 
Concord,  was  born  in  Wilmington, 
Vt.,  I-'ebruary  22,  1867,  son  of  Francis  R.  and 
Jeanette  (Powers)  Smith.  His  father  was  a 
native  of  Wilmington.  His  mother  was  born 
in  Marlboro,  Vt.  His  paternal  great-grand- 
father, Jabez  Smitii,  born  at  Dover,  Mass., 
was  grandson  of  Caleb  .Smitii,  l)orn  at  Need- 
ham,  Mass.,  in  1720.  His  paternal  great- 
grandmother,  Chloe  Richanls,  born  at  Ded- 
ham,  Mass.,  was  a  direct  descendant  of  Ed- 
ward Richards,  born  in  luigland  in  16 10. 
Williaiu  Don-  .Smith  began  his  education  in 


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the  public  schools  of  Wilmington,  and  later 
attended  Glenwood  Academy  at  West  IJrattle- 
horo.  At  the  age  of  twenty  he  began  teach- 
ing ill  the  public  schools  of  Newfane,  and 
later  taught  for  some  time  in  the  jjublic 
schools  of  15rattleboro,  Vt.  Soon  after  gradu- 
ating from  lliiimaiVs  Business  College  of 
Worcester,  Mass.,  he  accepted  a  position  there 
as  teacher,  and  remained  thus  employed  for 
four  years.  Soon  after  leaving  there  he  came 
to  Concord,  N.II.,  and  opened  the  commercial 
school  known  as  Smith's  ]5usiness  College. 

Des[)ite  the  discouraging  [irospects  and 
piophecies,  he  has  by  c|uiet  ami  persistent  ef- 
furt  succeeded  where  others  have  failed,  in 
building  up  a  thriving  institution  that  is 
to-day  regarded  as  an  important  factor  in  the 
education  of  the  young  people  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

Mr.  Smith  has  always  been  a  Rei)ui)lican 
in  politics. 

§1';RKMIAH  GARVIN,  of  Chichester, 
an  ex-member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature  antl  a  veteran  of  the  Civil 
War,  was  born  January  3,  1842,  at  the  family 
hvjmesteatl  on  Garvin  Hill,  where  he  now  re- 
sitles,  son  of  Jesse  and  Eunice  (Lcavitt)  Gar- 
vin. ,  The  father,  a  native  of  I'embroke, 
N.H.,  was  reared  upon  a  farm  near  Garvin 
l'"alls,  Pembroke.  When  a  young  man  he  was 
engaged  for  several  years  in  rafting  logs  on 
the  Merrimac  River.  Subsequently  turning 
liis  attention  to  agricultural  pursuits,  he  pur- 
chased a  large  farm  in  Chichester.  This 
property,  situated  in  the  southern  part  of  the 
town,  is  known  as  Garvin's  Hill,  which  is 
twelve  luuidred  feet  above  the  level  of  the  sea. 
In  1840  Jesse  Garvin  erected  the  present  sub- 
st.uitial  brick  residence,  which  is  still  one  of 
the  principal  landmarks  in  Chichester;  and  he 
resided  here  for  the  rest   of  his  life.      He  was 


twice  married.  His  first  wife,  in  maidenhood 
named  Morrison,  and  who  was  a  native  of 
Pembroke,  bore  him  two  children.  Of  these 
Wilson  D.  survives,  and  resides  in  Concord, 
N.II.  He  wedded  Olive  Ann  Lcavitt,  of 
Chichester,  and  his  children  are:  William, 
I'2tta,  Idalctte,  and  Ajonzo.  Jes.se  Garvin's 
second  wife,  Eunice  (Leavitt)  Garvin,  a 
daughter  of  Jonathan  Leavitt,  of  Chichester, 
became  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  of 
whom  there  are  living  —  Benjamin,  Nancy, 
Lucretta,  Solomon  L.,  Mary,  John  E.,  Ann 
Maria  and  Jeremiah  (twins),  and  ICmma  L. 
Benjamin  married  Adeline  Kimball,  of  Hills- 
borough, N.H.,  ami  has  four  sons  —  Jefferson, 
Herbert,  I*" rank,  and  Jesse.  Nancy  is  now 
the  widow  of  Moses  O.  Pearson,  late  of  Man- 
chester, N.lL;  and  her  children  are:  Nellie, 
Elizabeth,  and  Bertha.  Lucretta  is  the  widow 
of  James  P.  Eaton,  late  of  Ivnfield,  N.H.,  and 
has  one  daughter,  Kate  Pearl.  Solomon  L. 
married  Sarah  Keith,  who  came  from  the 
West,  and  has  three  children  —  George,  Sarah, 
and  Perley.  Mary  is  the  widow  of  Charles 
Goss,  late  of  Salem,  Mass.;  and  her  children 
are:  Charles,  Mary,  and  Perley.  Ann  .Maria 
is  now  the  widow  of  Charles  B.  Bradley,  late 
of  Manchester,  N.II.,  and  has  no  children. 
Emma  L.  married  Abraham  Ellwood,  of  Illi- 
nois, and  has  four  children  —  Mildred,  Sally, 
I'^mma,  and  Leonard.  Jesse  Garvin  died  on 
the  homestead  in  Chichester,  at  the  age  of 
seventy-four  years;  and  his  wife  lived  to  be 
eighty-seven.  In  politics  he  was  orginally  a 
Jackson ian  Democrat,  but  later  he  supported 
the  Republican  party.  Both  he  and  his  wife 
were  members  of  the  Congregational  church. 
Jeremiah  Garvin  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  his  native  town.  After  leav- 
ing school  he  was  employed  as  a  farm  as- 
sistant in  Derry,  N.  H.,  for  eight  years.  In 
1864  he  enlisted   in   Company   C,   First  New 


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Hampshire  Heavy  Artillery,  and  subsequently 
served  in  the  Civil  War  with  the  rank  of  Cor- 
poral. At  the  close  of  the  war  he  returned  to 
his  native  State,  settled  in  Manchester,  and 
was  afterward  engaged  in  the  milk  business 
and  in  teaming  for  eighteen  years.  About 
the  year  1883  he  was  appointed  Superintendent 
of  the  City  Farm,  a  position  which  he  occu- 
pied for  the  ensuing  five  years.  He  then  had 
charge  of  the  Hillsborough  County  Farm  for 
over  five  years,  after  which  he  returned  to  the 
homestead  in  Chichester,  which  he  had  bought 
in  1886.  This  property,  containing  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres  of  land,  is  one  of  the 
most  desirable  estates  in  the  locality.  Besides 
carrying  on  general  farming  he  accommodates 
a  number  of  select  summer  boarders.  His 
residence,  which  has  a  magnificent  view  of 
mountain  scenery,  is  patronized  to  its  fullest 
capacity  during  the  heated  term.  Mr.  Garvin 
is  an  active  supporter  of  the  Republican  party. 
He  served  as  a  special  police  officer  in  Man- 
chester for  five  years,  and  represented  that 
city  in  the  legislature  from  1874  to  1877. 
He  was  also  Road  Agent  for  four  years,  and 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men of  Chichester  for  two  years.  Experi- 
enced in  public  affairs,  he  is  now  President  of 
the  Republican  Club  of  this  town. 

On  June  13,  1862,  Mr.  Garvin  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Georgietta  Coburn,  daughter 
of  Isaac  and  Eliza  C.  (Nesmith)  Coburn,  of 
Londonderry,  N.H.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Garvin 
have  had  four  children,  of  whom  three  are  liv- 
ing— •  I'ldward  J.,  Laura  E.,  and  Charles  E. 
Mr.  Garvin  is  connected  with  Hillsborough 
Lodge,  No.  2,  L  O.  O.  F.,  of  Manchester, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  encampment.  He  has 
been  a  comrade  of  Louis  Bell  I'ost,  G.  A.  R., 
of  Manchester,  since  its  organization ;  and  he 
is  associated  with  Chichester  Grange,  Patrons 
of  Husbandry. 


T^HARLES  A.  LANGMAID,  a  promi- 
l  jp  nent  dairy  farmer  of  Chichester  and 
V»r  ^  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men, was  born  upon  the  farm  he  now  owns  and 
occupies,  December  13,  1851,  son  of  Edward 
and  Mary  J.  (Blake)  Langmaid.  His  grand- 
father, Edward  Langmaid,  who  for  a  number 
of  years  kept  a  tavern  at  Hampton  P^alls, 
N.H.,  moved  to  a  farm  of  fifty  acres  situated 
in  Chichester,  and  was  there  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits  for  about  two  years.  He  died 
at  the  age  of  forty-two.  The  grandfather's 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Mehitable 
Dodge,  reared  six  children.  Of  these  Sam- 
uel, the  only  survivor,  who  served  as  a  Captain 
in  the  Civil  War,  married  and  had  two  daugh- 
ters —  Helen  and  Clara.  Mrs.  Mehitable 
Langmaid  lived  to  the  age  of  eighty-three 
years.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional  church. 

Edward  Langmaid,  father  of  Charles  A., 
was  born  in  Hampton  Falls.  The  active  por- 
tion of  his  life  was  devoted  to  tilling  the  soil; 
and  he  resided  for  the  most  of  the  time  in 
Chichester  until  his  death,  which  occurred 
when  he  was  seventy  years  old.  In  politics 
he  was  a  Democrat,  and  his  connection  with 
the  public  affairs  of  this  town  lasted  through  a 
long  period.  He  was  elected  to  all  the  im- 
portant town  offices,  was  a  Representative  to 
the  legislature,  and  was  serving  as  Town 
Treasurer  at  the  time  of  his  death.  He 
was  unusually  successful  as  a  farmer,  and  he 
acquired  considerable  property.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  church.  His 
first  marriage  was  with  Mary  J.  Blake,  a 
daughter  of  General  James  Blake,  of  Chiches- 
ter. She  died  in  1856,  aged  al)out  thirty- 
eight  years,  leaving  three  chiklren  —  Edwarti, 
Sarah  M.,  and  Charles  A.  Edward  married 
Jacintha  M.  Sanborn,  of  Chichester,  and  has 
one  daughter,  I'llizabeth  M.      Sarah   M.  is  the 


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wife  of  Elbridge  G.  W.  Bartlett,  of  Yonkcrs, 
N.Y.,  and  has  no  children.  Charles  A. 
Lanf^ninid's  father  wedded  for  his  second  wife 
Mrs.  l-'.liza  I.add  Mead,  widf)w  of  T.  J.  Mead, 
late  of  Concord,  N.II.  By  this  union  there 
was  one  son,  Albert,  who  is  no  lon<^er  living. 
Charles  A.  Langmaid  acquired  his  educa- 
tion in  the  schools  of  his  native  town.  When 
a  young  man  he  began  to  assist  in  managing 
the  homestead  farm,  thereiiy  receiving  a 
knowledge  of  agriculture  that  has  since  been 
very  useful  to  him.  lie  now  owns  about  two 
hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  excellent  land,  of 
which  the  cultivated  i)art  is  very  fertile.  He 
makes  a  sjiecialty  of  dairy  farming,  and  deals 
quite  extensively  in  milk.  On  November  ,26, 
1879,  he  was  united  in  marriage  with  Fallen 
A.  .Sanborn,  daughter  of  Jacob  S.  and  I'Mvira 
R.  L.  Sanborn,  of  Chichester.  Politically, 
Mr.  Langmaid  is  a  Democrat.  He  served  as 
Town  Clerk  for  four  years,  was  Treasurer  for 
three  years,  and  in  1.S96  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  .Selectmen.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Langmaid  are  connected  with  Chichester 
Grange,  and  are  members  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church. 


ISAAC  H.  LONG,  a  popnlar  and  pros- 
^  perous  farmer  of  Claremont,  was  born 
here,  March  27,  1S41,  son  of  Charles  F. 
and  Caroline  J.  (Hubbard)  Long.  The  grand- 
father, Simeon  Long,  the  captain  of  a  whaling- 
vessel,  came  to  Claremont  from  New  Bedford 
about  the  year  1810.  His  son,  Charles  F. , 
born  in  Nantucket  in  1801,  learned  the 
printer's  trade  in  New  Bedford,  but  after- 
ward on  account  of  failing  health  went  to  sea. 
For  twenty-three  years  thereafter  he  served  on 
a  merchant  vessel,  rising  in  time  to  the  rank 
of  caiitain.  In  1843  he  returned  to  Clare- 
mont and  took  up  farming.  He  was  a  Repub- 
lican in  ]nditics,  and   he  represented   his   town 


in  the  legislature  for  one  year.  He  married 
Miss  Caroline  Jones  Hubbard,  who  was  born 
in  1803,  daughter  of  Isaac  Hubbard,  a  leading 
man  of  the  town.  George  Hubbard,  the  ma- 
ternal great-grandfather  of  Isaac  H.  Long,  was 
a  Lieutenant  in  the  Revolution,  and  came  to 
Claremont  among  the  early  settlers  when  his 
son  Isaac  was  eight  years  old.  Isaac,  the 
grandfather,  died  in  Claremont  in  i86r,  leav- 
ing four  children;  namely,  Amos  C,  the 
Rev.  Isaac  G.  Hubbard,  Caroline,  and  Sarah. 
He  was  a  prominent  citizen,  and  held  various 
public  fjffices.  Charles  l-'.  Long  died  in  1809 
at  the  age  of  si.xty-cight.  His  wife  survived 
him  inilil  the  year  1880.  Their  three  chil- 
dren are:  Charles  H.,  Charlotte,  and  Isaac  H. 
Charlotte  lives  with  Isaac  on  the  old  Hubbard 
estate  settled  by  their  great-grandfather  in 
1778. 

Isaac  H.  Long  attended  the  public  schools 
and  Kimball  Union  Academy  at  Meridcn, 
N.II.  When  his  school-days  were  over,  he 
spent  two  years  in  the  employ  of  the  Old  Col- 
ony Railroad  Company.  Upon  his  return  to 
Claremont  he  took  np  his  residence  on  the  old 
homestead,  where  he  still  lives,  cultivating  a 
part  of  the  original  farm  of  four  hundred 
acres,  and  generally  improving  the  estate. 
Mr.  Long  has  been  much  in  public  life.  In 
1878  he  became  Selectman,  and  held  that 
office  for  twelve  years  successively,  being 
Chairman  of  the  Board  for  most  of  the  time. 
He  has  been  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  some 
time  and  County  Commissioner  since  1891. 
While  he  is  a  strong  Republican,  he  is  a 
favorite  with  both  parties;  and  he  is  popnlar 
among  the  townspeople.  He  has  acted  as 
guardian,  administrator,  and  e.xecutor  in  set- 
tling many  estates.  Courteous  and  kind  to 
all,  with  always  the  same  genial  manners,  he 
made  a  model  Selectman.  He  is  a  straight- 
forward and  a  wise   counsellor  and  a  man   of 


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pronounced  integrity.  He  married  Louisa  M. 
Delano,  daughter  of  Henry  F.  Delano,  of 
Cambridge,  Mass.  She  died  April  i,  1895. 
Mr.  Long  is  a  member  and  a  regular  attendant 
of  the  Episcopal  church. 


'rank  J.  FRENCH,  who  owns  a  dairy- 
farm  in  Northfield,  and  supplies  a  large 
milk  route,  was  born  in  Gilmanton, 
N.  H.,  March  30,  1855,  son  of  Sylvester  F. 
and  Mercy  E.  (Hayes)  French.  The  father,  a 
native  of  Gilmanton,  in  early  life  was  a  shoe- 
maker, and  resided  in  Dover,  Rochester,  and 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  for  some  years.  He  finally 
returned  to  Gilmanton,  and  is  now  occupying 
a  farm  on  Shepard's  Hill.  His  wife,  Mercy, 
who  was  born  in  Strafford,  N.H.,  has  had 
three  children  —  P^rank  J.,  Jeremiah  S.,  and 
Eliza  O.  Jeremiah  S.  married  Ida  Locke, 
and  is  a  carpenter  in  Gilmanton.  Eliza  O. 
married  William  Hartford.  Neither  is  now 
living. 

Frank  J.  French  received  his  education  in 
the  Dover  grammar  school.  Four  years  later 
he  went  to  Concord,  where  he  was  employed 
in  the  Eagle  Hotel  for  a  year.  The  succeed- 
ing two  years  were  spent  at  his  father's  farm 
in  Gilmanton.  Afterward  for  several  years 
he  was  an  overseer  at  the  New  Hampshire 
State  Prison.  In  November,  1881,  he  pur- 
chased his  present  farm  in  Northfield.  On 
this  property,  which  contains  one  hundred  and 
twenty-five  acres  of  land  and  is  especially  well 
adapted  for  dairy  purposes,  he  keeps  fifteen 
milch  cows,  devoting  his  attention  chiefly  to 
the  milk  business,  and  supplying  a  large  num- 
ber of  regular  customers  in  Tilton. 

On  January  5,  1879,  Mr.  F"rerich  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Nettie  Munscy.  She 
was  b(jrn  in  Gilford,  N.II.,  August  16,  1860, 
daughter    of    the     Rev.    John     G.    and    Olive 


(Mooney)  Munsey,  of  Laconia.  Mr.  Munsey 
has  retired  from  the  ministry.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
French  have  one  son  —  Harold  M.,  who  was 
born  December  31,  1884,  and  is  now  attending 
school  in  Laconia.  Well-advanced  in  Ma- 
sonry, Mr.  French  is  a  member  of  Doric 
Lodge,  No.  78,  of  Tilton,  St.  Omer  Chapter, 
Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  Franklin,  and  Mount 
Horeb  Commandery,  Knights  Templar,  of 
Concord.  He  is  also  connected  with  Belknap 
Lodge,  No.  18,  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  of  Tilton.  Both  he  and  Mrs. 
French  are  members  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist 
church. 


B 


ANIEL  YEATON,  one  of  the  lead- 
ing farmers  of  Epsom  and  the 
Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men, was  born  in  this  town,  January  6,  1839, 
son  of  John  Veaton  (third)  and  Sarah  (Bick- 
ford)  Yeaton.  Flis  ancestors  for  several  gen- 
erations were  prosperous  tillers  of  the  soil  in 
this  State;  and  his  great-grandfather,  John 
Yeaton  (first),  was  a  pioneer  settler  in  Epsom. 
John  Yeaton  (second),  grandfather  of  Daniel, 
a  native  and  lifelong  resident  of  this  town,  was 
one  of  the  successful  farmers  of  his  day,  and 
owned  considerable  property.  In  politics  he 
supported  the  Democratic  party,  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  church.  He 
was  about  eighty-one  years  old  when  he  died. 
The  first  of  his  three  marriages  was  contracted 
with  Rebecca  Bickford,  who  died  when  about 
twenty-five  years  old,  leaving  two  sons,  of 
whom  John  (third)  was  the  eldest.  The  sec- 
ond marriage  was  made  with  Betsy  Towlc, 
who  bore  him  three  children,  none  of  whom 
are  living.  The  third  wife  was  the  widow  of 
William  Yeaton,  who  had  no  children. 

John  Yeaton  (third),  born  in  l{i)som,  No- 
vember 29,  1804,  was  reared  to  agricultural 
pursuits,  which   he   followed   energetically  and 


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successfully  iluriiit;  the  active  period  of  his 
life.  He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-six  years, 
leaviiifi;  a  good  estate.  A  ]ironiinent  and  in- 
fluential man  in  the  cuinniunity,  he  took  an 
active  part  in  securing  the  election  of  capable 
town  officers.  At  first  he  acted  with  the  Free 
Soil  party,  and  then  became  a  Republican. 
lie  was  a  member  of  the  I'ree  Will  baptist 
church.  His  first  wife,  .Sarah  Bickford  Yea- 
ton,  whom  he  married  December  25,  1828,  was 
a  daughter  of  Samuel  Bickford,  of  ICpsom. 
She  (lied  at  the  age  of  forty-nine  years,  leav- 
ing si.\  children  —  William,  James,  Daniel, 
Sarah  Iv,  Vienna  K.,  and  Betsey  A.  William 
married  Caroline  B.  Trijjp,  of  Epsom,  who 
bore  him  two  children:  Ina,  now  deceased; 
and  Alma.  He  enlisted  in  the  Eighth  New 
IIam]ishire  Regiment,  and  died  in  the  Civil 
War.  James  Yeaton  wedded  Martha  Randall, 
of  Deerfield,  N.  IT.,  for  his  first  wife,  who  bore 
him  I-ldwin  R.  His  second  wife,  in  maiden- 
hood Annie  R.  Crockett,  of  Concord,  N.  H., 
had  three  children — John  C,  Helen  E.  P., 
and  George  H.  Sarah,  now  deceased,  mar- 
ried James  L.  Bartlett,  and  had  four  daughters 
—  Susan  N. ,  Sarah  A.,  Lizzie  E.,  and  Nettie 
M.  Vienna  K.  is  now  the  widow  of  Elbridge 
Batchcldcr,  late  of  Epsom,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren—  George  E.  and  Edith  G.  Betsey  A. 
married  for  her  first  husband  Thomas  B. 
Robinson,  of  Iqjsom,  by  whom  she  had  two 
children  —  Burt  and  Jennie.  She  is  now  the 
wife  of  John  Brown,  of  Northwood,  N.  H. 
For  his  second  wife  John  Yeaton  (third)  mar- 
ried I\Irs.  Caroline  Cilly,  the  widow  of  Samuel 
Cilly,  late  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  a  sister  of 
his  first  wife.  The  chiUlrcn  by  his  second 
imion  were:  Stella  R.,  who  is  no  longer  liv- 
ing ;  and  Fred  W. 

Daniel  Yeaton  attended  the  school  in  his 
native  town,  and  at  an  early  age  began  to 
assist  on  the  farm.      He  has  always   resided  at 


the  homestead,  an<l  has  given  his  attention  to 
genera!  farming.  As  a  practical  and  success- 
ful agriculturist  he  ranks  among  the  foremost 
in  Epsom.  He  owns  other  valuable  real  estate 
in  this  town  in  addition  to  the  home  property. 
On  May  8,  1872,  he  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Annie  B.  Rowel).  She  is  a  daughter  of 
Asa  and  Abigail  S.  (Moulton)  Rowell,  late  of 
Chichester,  N. H.,  who  were  prosperous  farm- 
ing people.  Her  father  lived  to  be  sixty-nine 
years  old,  and  her  mother  attained  the  age  of 
fifty-five.  Of  their  four  children  three  arc 
living,  Mrs.  Yeaton  being  the  eldest.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Yeaton  have  three  children:  Alfred 
D.,  born  March  5,  1874;  Minot  R.,  born  July 
25,  1878;  and  Alice  B.,  born  July  24,  188.3. 
Mr.  Yeaton  is  one  of  the  active  members 
of  the  Republican  party  in  this  section.  For 
two  years  he  has  served  as  Town  Treasurer, 
and  he  was  elected  to  the  Board  of  Selectmen 
in  1895.  Pie  displays  an  ability  in  public 
affairs  that  commends  him  to  the  voters  irre- 
spective of  party,  and  he  is  highly  esteemed  as 
a  worthy  and  useful  citizen.  Both  he  and 
Mrs.  Yeaton  are  members  of  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church. 


(J||'SAAC  N.  ABBOTT,  a  prominent  farmer 
^  I  and  dairyman  of  Concord,  was  born  on 
eJJL  Dimond  Hill,  January  4,  1835,  son  of 
Joseph  S.  and  Esther  (Farnum)  Abbott.  His 
grandfather,  Samuel  Abbott,  one  of  the  early 
settlers,  locating  near  Long  Pond,  was  a 
farmer,  and  passed  all  his  life  here,  witness- 
ing during  eighty  years  many  and  great 
changes.  A  mere  hamlet  when  he  came,  he 
lived  to  see  Concord  a  prosperous  and  progres- 
sive town  and  to  note  the  promise  of  its 
present  largely  developed  industries.  The 
Merrimac  was  then  a  pure  mountain  stream 
unspanned  by  bridges;  and,  instead  of  the  un- 
ceasing hum  of  the  great   factories  that  now 


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line  its  bank,  was  heard  only  the  swish  of 
waters  or  the  occasional  plash  of  a  plunging  of 
otter.  Samuel  Abbott  married  Mary  Story, 
and  she  became  the  mother  of  three  boys  and 
three  girls,  all  of  whom  grew  to  maturity. 
Joseph  S.  was  his  eldest  son.  When  only 
fourteen  years  of  age  Joseph  ran  away  from 
home,  and  went  to  West  Concord,  where  he 
remained  until  he  reached  his  majority.  He 
learned  carpentry,  and  became  one  of  the 
smartest  tradesmen  of  Concord.  He  built  the 
station  of  the  Concord  Railroad  that  was 
burned  some  years  ago,  and  also  the  machine 
shop,  which  is  still  in  use.  In  1S27  he  came 
to  Dimond  Hill,  and  there  spent  the  latter 
part  of  his  life,  dying  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
eight  years.  He  married  Esther  Farnum,  of 
West  Concord,  and  became  the  father  of  two 
children:  Almira  F. ,  now  deceased;  and 
Isaac  N.  Abbott. 

Isaac  N.  Abbott  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  and  Hopkinton  and  New  London 
Academies.  After  leaving  school  he  success- 
fully taught  for  four  years  in  Hopkinton  and 
Concord.  Since  then  he  has  been  a  farmer, 
and  has  done  quite  an  extensive  business.  In 
1882  he  built  a  fine  barn,  and  ten  years  later 
he  erected  a  substantial  and  well -finished  resi- 
dence. He  has  about  thirty  acres  under  culti- 
vation, and  besides  carrying  on  general  farm- 
ing he  docs  a  large  milk  business.  He  mar- 
ried Martha  .Smith,  daughter  of  Aaron  Smith 
and  Eliza  Ann  (Sherburne)  Smith,  of  Ports- 
mouth, and  has  three  children — Almira  F., 
Joseph  N.,  and  Helen  S.  Almira  is  now  the 
wife  of  Alfred  Clark,  a  Road  Commissioner, 
and  has  two  daughters  —  Esther  F.  and 
Mabel. 

In  politics  Mr.  Abbott  is  a  Republican,  and 
his  first  Presidential  vote  was  cast  for  Joiin  C. 
Fremont  in  1856.  He  takes  a  warm  interest 
in   all    jiublic  affairs,  and   has   held   nuniermis 


public  offices  of  trust  and  responsibility.  He 
was  in  the  Common  Council  in  1864  and  1865, 
and  was  its  President  for  one  year.  In  1875 
he  was  Alderman,  and  in  1887  he  represented 
the  town  in  the  legislature.  He  has  been  on 
the  School  Board  for  fourteen  years,  and  he 
was  school  district  clerk  for  forty  years, 
probably  holding  that  office  longer  than  any 
other  man  in  the  State. 


^AMES  LUTHER  JENNA,  a  successful 
farmer  and  esteemed  resident  of  Lang- 
don,  is  a  native  of  Worcester,  Mass. 
He  was  born  April  20,  1861,  son  of  George 
W.  and  Mary  (Harriman)  Jenna.  James 
Jenna,  father  of  George  W. ,  born  in  the  town 
of  Grantham,  Sullivan  County,  followed  the 
occupation  of  farmer.  He  married  Hannah 
Cram,  who  bore  him  three  children —  George 
W.,  Julia,  and  Luther.  Julia  died  at  the  age 
of  twenty,  and  Luther  died  in  childhood. 

George  W.  Jenna,  who  was  born  in  Pomfret, 
Vt.,  I'ebruary  2,  1833,  and  spent  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  W'ashington  County,  Ver- 
mont, was  a  carpenter  and  a  farmer.  In  Au- 
gust, 1864,  he  enlisted  in  Company  G,  Sixth 
Vermont  Regiment,  and  served  in  the  Civil 
War  until  July,  1865,  participating  in  the 
battle  of  Cedar  Creek  and  a  number  of  other 
engagements.  He  was  an  attend;inl  of  the 
Congregational  church.  His  wife,  Mary 
Harriman  Jenna,  was  jjorn  in  Ciuirlotte,  Vt., 
November  30,  1833,  and  is  still  living.  She 
bore  her  husband  nine  children;  namely, 
George  B.,  James  L.,  Carl  W.,  Martha  V., 
William  R.,  Martin  I.,  Horace  V.,  Mary  M., 
and  Myrtie  L.  George  B. ,  a  farmer,  is  mar- 
ried, lives  in  Langdon,  and  has  one  child. 
Carl  W.,  a  plumber  in  Leominster,  Mass.,  is 
married  and  has  one  child.  Martha  V.  is  the 
wife  of  James  E.   Pierce,  a  railioad  man  living 


F.IOOKAI'IIICAI,    R1';VIE\V 


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in  I'itchburg,  Mass.,  and  has  two  cliildron. 
William  K.,  a  farmer  of  Langclon,  is  married 
and  lias  two  children.  Martin  I.,  a  plumber 
in  l'"itchburg,  Mass.,  is  unmarried.  Horace 
v.,  unmarried,  is  engaged  in  farming  in  Lang- 
don.  Mary  M.  is  the  wife  of  George  Will- 
iams, a  farmer  of  Langdon,  and  has  no  chil- 
dren. And  Myrtie  L.,  the  wife  of  Milton 
Dodge,  a  farmer  of  y\cworth,  X.  II.,  has  no 
children. 

James  Luther  Jenna  received  his  education 
in  Duxbury,  Vt.,  after  which  he  worked  out 
on  farms  for  six  years.  Since  then  he  has 
successfully  conducted  a  farm  of  his  own. 
He  came  to  Langdon  eight  years  ago.  In 
September,  i88g,  Mr.  Jenna  married  Mrs. 
Viona  L.  Chase,  widow  of  March  Chase,  who 
was  a  wealthy  farmer  and  an  influential  resi- 
dent of  Langdon.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Moses 
Knight,  of  Langdon,  and  was  born  in  Chester, 
Vt.,  July  4,  1858.  She  had  a  twin  sister 
named  Viola  A.  Knight.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jenna 
are  the  ]xuents  of  three  children,  namely: 
Irving  L.,  born  June  16,  1890;  Mildred  A., 
born  October  23,  1891;  and  Burton  L.,  born 
October  17,   1894. 


rr;)ll  ON.  JAMJ-:S  B.  TENNANT,  one  of 
the  most  prominent  business  men  of 
lipsoni  and  an  ex-member  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Senate,  was  born  in  Deer- 
field,  N.  H.,  May  26,  1847,  son  of  Arthur  and 
Ruth  O.  (Sanborn)  Tennant.  He  comes  of 
English  stock.  His  great-grandfather  was  an 
early  settler  in  Portsmouth,  N.  H.  Thomas 
Tennant,  the  grandfather,  who  was  born  in 
Haverhill,  N.  H.,  April  10,  1771,  owned  and 
cultivated  farms  in  Wentworth  and  Hampton, 
N. II.,  during  the  active  period  of  his  life. 
His  last  days  were  passed  in  Wentworth,  and 
he  was  about   eighty  years   old  when    he  ilied. 


He  married  Sarah  G(jodvvin,  who,  born  in 
Wentworth,  March  12,  1777,  died  at  the  age 
of  seventy-six.  He  and  his  wife  reared  seven 
children,  of  whom  Arthur,  James  B.  Tcn- 
nant's  father,  was  the  third-born.  Of  these 
the  only  survivor  is  William,  who  married 
Harriet  Libby,  of  Rumney,  N.  H.,  and  has 
three  children — -Ira,  Helen,  and  Lula. 

Arthur  Tennant  was  born  in  Wentworth, 
September  18,  18 12.  When  a  very  young 
man  he  learned  the  cooper's  trade,  which  he 
afterward  followed  in  connection  with  farming. 
At  first  he  settled  in  Pembroke.  Later  he 
moved  to  lipsom  and  then  to  Decrfield,  where 
he  continued  to  till  the  soil  for  several  years. 
He  was  largely  interested  in  the  live-stock 
business,  and  was  also  engaged  in  lumbering 
to  some  extent.  He  was  a  man  of  considerable 
prominence  in  public  affairs,  having  served  as 
a  Selectman  and  in  other  town  offices;  and  he 
was  one  of  the  first  supporters  of  the  Republi- 
can party  in  this  State.  His  death,  which 
occurred  in  Pembroke,  April  9,  1S80,  caused 
general  regret,  as  he  was  highly  esteemed  as 
an  able  and  upright  business  man.  His  re- 
mains were  interred  in  Deerfield.  Arthur 
Tennant  first  married  Ruth  O.  Sanborn, 
daughter  of  John  Sanborn,  a  pioneer  settler  of 
Deerfield.  Of  the  ten  children  born  to  this 
luiion,  two  are  living — Emma  O.  and  James 
B.  Emma  O.  is  the  widow  of  Charles  B. 
Fowler,  late  of  Pembroke;  and  her  son,  Alvah* 
T.  Fowler,  is  now  a  student  at  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege. For  his  second  wife  Arthur  Tennant 
married  Lizzie  P'ellows,  of  Deerfield,  who  had 
no  children.  Both  he  and  his  first  wife  were 
members  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 

James  B.  Tennant  acquired  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  of  Deerfield. 
Subsequently  he  was  a  pupil  of  the  Pembroke 
Academy  and  the  New  Hamjjton  Institute, 
duly  graduating   from    the    latter    school.      In 


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1869  he  established  himself  in  general  mer- 
cantile business  in  Epsom,  and  now  conducts 
a  well-stocked  country  store.  He  is  also  ex- 
tensively engaged  in  the  lumber  business  as 
a  member  of  the  firms  of  Tripp  &  Tennant  & 
Tripp  and  Fellows  &  Tennant.  One  of  the 
firms  controls  large  tracts  of  timber  land  in 
New  Hampshire  and  Vermont,  and  also  owns 
and  operates  saw-mills  in  various  places  for  the 
manufacture  of  lumber.  Another  enterprise 
of  Mr.  Tennant's  is  brick-making,  which  he 
carries  on  in  Tcmbroke.  He  is  a  director  of 
several  insurance  companies  and  of  the  .Sun- 
cook  Valley  Railroad.  He  has  been  station 
agent  at  Short  Falls  since  1S69,  and  is  now 
one  of  tlie  oldest  station  agents  on  the  Concord 
&  Montreal  Railway.  From  1870  to  1889  he 
was  Postmaster  at  Short  Falls.  This  position 
he  resigned  when  elected  to  the  State  Senate, 
and  Mrs.  Tennant  has  since  held  that  ap- 
pointment. In  politics  Mr.  Tennant  is  a  Re- 
publican. From  1882  to  1888  he  was  one  of 
the  Commissioners  of  Merrimack  County.  He 
was  elected  a  State  Senator  in  1889,  and  was  a 
member  of  the  House  of  Representatives  for 
the  years  1891  and  1893,  taking  part  in  the 
last  annual  and  the  first  biennial  session  of  the 
legislature.  He  has  never  sought  for  a  town 
office ;  but  after  the  death  of  the  Town  Treas- 
urer, who  was  elected  to  serve  the  present 
year,  he  was  jiersuaded  to  take  charge  of  the 
town's  finances  for  the  unexpired  term. 

On  February  10,  1873,  Mr.  Tennant  was 
united  in  marriage  with  ]"'.lla  M.  I'owler. 
.She  is  a  daughter  of  .Samuel  and  IClvira  N. 
(Critchett)  I-'owler,  of  I<>psom,  who  had  six 
children,  of  whom  there  are  living  —  James 
W.,  Horace,  and  Josie  M.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Tennant  have  no  children.  Mr.  Tennant  is  a 
Mason  of  the  thirty-second  degree.  He  has 
occupied  all  the  important  chairs  in  Fvergreen 
Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  1'".,  Epsom,  and   was  its  Sec- 


retary for  several  years;  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  local  grange  of  the  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry. In  the  course  of  his  life  he  has  vis- 
ited nearly  every  State  in  the  Union,  includ- 
ing the  extreme  southern  part  and  the  Pacific 
slope,  thereby  greatly  enhancing  his  knowl- 
edge of  the  wealth  and  business  possibilities 
of  the  country. 


OLONEL      RUFUS      P.     COPPS,      a 


veteran  agriculturist  of  Hopkinton, 
and  one  of  its  most  honored  and 
respected  citizens,  was  born  January  13,  18 iS, 
in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  a  son  of  Moses  and  Mary 
(George)  Copps.  It  is  said  that  this  branch 
of  the  family  originated  with  a  little  boy  who 
was  found  wandering  around  the  streets  of 
Boston,  finely  dressed  in  velvet  clothes,  and 
who,  it  is  supposed,  was  put  ashore  from  an 
Iinglish  vessel  in  the  harbor.  He  could  give 
no  name,  but  was  adopted  by  a  man  named 
Copp,  from  whom  Copp's  Hill,  at  the  North 
End  in  Boston,  was  named.  John  Copp,  a 
descendant  of  this  little  waif,  was  a  lifelong 
farmer  of  Plaistow,  N.H.,  where  he  married  a 
Miss  Sarah  Pollard. 

Moses  Copps  was  a  shoe  manufacturer  in 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  for  some  years.  In  1820 
he  removed  to  New  Hampshire,  living  first 
for  a  year  in  Dunbarton,  and  then  coming  to 
Hopkinton,  where,  with  the  exception  of  one 
year  spent  in  Weare,  he  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing on  land  lying  just  south  of  the  present 
home  of  Colonel  Copps.  In  1842  he  and  the 
Colonel  bought  the  [ncsent  homestead  prop- 
erty, which  then  had  many  of  the  buildings 
now  standing.  The  house,  erected  about 
eighty  years  ago  by  the  Silver  family,  was 
made  from  brick  manufactured  on  the  farm  by 
the  Silvers,  and  is  now  the  only  brick  resi- 
dence in  Hopkinton.  Moses  Copps  afterward 
lived  retired  on  this  farm  until    his   demise  in 


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1863,  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-five  years. 
He  had  a  large  family  of  children,  namely: 
ICmeline,  who  married  Daniel  Hailey,  and  re- 
moved to  Augusta,  Me.  ;  Sarah  Jane,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  Ignatius  VV.  Fellows,  a 
jeweller,  of  llopkinton ;  Abigail  M.,  who 
married  John  Clement,  of  West  Amesbury, 
now  Merrimac,  Mass.,  and  has  a  son,  Jacob 
i\Udvin  Clement,  the  manager  of  Colonel 
Copps's  farm  for  tlie  past  two  years;  Mary, 
who  married  Jonathan  I?.  iMiicrson,  of  this 
tiiwn,  and  died  in  Washington,  N.ll.;  f'.liza- 
beth,  wild  married  Henry  1).  White,  of  Pena- 
cook,  and  died  in  Concord,  N.H.:  Rufus  P., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Harriet,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Jonatlian  Severance,  of  Washington, 
N.H.;  Florantha,  who  died  in  childhood; 
Kllen  M.,  who  died  soon  after  her  marriage 
with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Smith,  a  Baptist  minister; 
and  Myra  Frances,  who  is  the  wife  of  George 
VV.  Pierce,  and  resides  in  Henniker.  The 
mother  survived  her  husband  about  ten  years, 
dying  at  the  age  of  eighty-three. 

Rufus  P.  Copps  was  reared  antl  educated  in 
llopkinton,  having  been  but  three  years  old 
when  his  parents  came  here.  After  attaining 
his  majority,  he  spent  some  time  in  Ames- 
bury,  Mass.,  and  then  went,  after  a  short  visit 
with  his  parents,  to  Bethlehem,  N.Y.,  where 
he  taught  school  one  entire  year  and  for  two 
or  three  winter  terms  after  he  had  liegun  farm- 
ing. In  1841  he  returned  to  the  parental 
roof,  and  soon  bought  his  present  estate  in 
company  with  his  father.  l''or  ten  years 
thereafter  he  spent  his  winters  as  heretofore, 
teaching  in  near-by  schools,  often  receiving 
but  fifty  cents  a  day  for  his  services,  and 
boarding  at  liome.  I^ater,  when  the  crops 
had  all  been  harvested,  be  worked  winters  at 
bottoming  shoes  as  long  as  the  business  con- 
tinued profitable;  and,  being  at  home,  he  took 
care  of  the   cattle,  and   performed   the   neces- 


sary farm  chores  at  the  same  time.  It  was  his 
jiractice  to  buy  stock  ready  cut  from  the  large 
manufacturers  of  leather,  and  sell  the  shoes 
together  at  .so  much  a  pair,  the  price  usually 
averaging  eight  or  nine  dollars  for  a  set  of 
sixty  pairs.  He  has  also  been  engaged  to 
some  extent  in  lumbering,  and  of  late  years 
he  has  made  a  specialty  ot  dairying.  At  the 
age  of  eighteen  he  joined  the  Rifle  Militia 
Company,  in  which  he  served  first  as  Orderly 
Sergeant.  Afterward  he  became  successively 
Adjutant  of  the  regiment,  Major,  Lieutenant 
Colonel,  and  finally  Colonel  of  the  I'ortieth 
New  Hampshire  Regiment,  which  command 
he  belli  for  two  years.  The  I-'orticth  was  com- 
posed of  some  of  the  brightest  and  bravest 
men  of  the  towns  of  llopkinton,  Henniker, 
and  Warner. 

Colonel  R.  P.  Copps  has  always  been  a 
Democrat  in  [lolitics  and  an  earnest  sup- 
porter of  his  party.  He  has  been  a  subscriber 
of  the  Piitriot  since  it  was  established,  having 
prior  to  that  time  taken  Iliirs  Patriot,  the 
leading  organ  of  the  Democratic  party.  For 
three  successive  years  from  1858  he  was  Se- 
lectman of  his  town;  and  in  1861  he  was  a 
Representative  to  the  General  Court,  where 
though  he  was  not  a  public  speaker  he  did 
efficient  work  on  different  committees.  He  has 
likewise  served  for  some  years  as  Justice  of 
tiic  Peace. 

On  September  14,  1843,  Colonel  Copps 
married  Miss  Melissa  Flanders,  who  was 
born  in  Bradford,  N.H.,  daughter  of  Nathaniel 
and  Betsey  (Wright)  F' landers.  She  died 
September  15,  1S94,  aged  seventy-three  years, 
leaving  no  children.  Although  Colonel  and 
Mrs.  Copps  were  not  parents,  they  nearly 
iilways  had  some  child  in  their  household  to 
whom  they  gave  the  same  care  and  advantages 
they  would  to  an  own  son.  One  of  these  was 
!  James  M.  Putnam,  who  lived  with  them  from 


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the  age  of  fourteen  till  he  was  twenty-one, 
and  is  now  receiving  one  thousand  dollars  a 
year  as  manager  of  a  farm  in  Andover,  Mass. 
Another  was  John  Brown,  who  lived  in  the 
household  from  the  age  of  sixteen  to  twenty, 
and  who  is  now  in  Michigan.  Arthur  M. 
Dustin,  a  blacksmith  of  Contoocook,  who 
went  to  live  at  the  Colonel's  when  he  was  a 
little  fellow  of  nine  years,  still  remains  with 
him,  and  now  owns  the  homestead.  He  has 
likewise  had  several  other  boys  in  his  family, 
to  each  of  whom  he  gave  a  good  home,-  and 
otherwise  sedulously  cared  for. 


-j^ENJAMIN  HENRY  FULLER,  one 
of  I'lainfield's  most  extensive 
farmers  and  an  ex-member  of  the 
New  flampshire  legislature,  was  born  in  this 
town,  February  20,  1S48,  son  of  Benjamin  L. 
and  I'ersis  C.  (Freeman)  Fuller.  His  grand- 
father, Benjamin  Fuller,  who  was  a  native  of 
Connecticut,  moved  with  his  family  to  Plain- 
field  early  in  the  present  century.  Grand- 
father Benjamin  married  Rachel  Boyd,  who 
was  also  born  in  Connecticut.  Their  children 
were:  Naomi,  Esther,  James,  and  Benjamin 
L.  Naomi  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  years; 
Esther  married  Cranston  Lewin,  a  native  of 
Connecticut,  who  followed  farming  and 
butchering  in  this  town,  and  she  reared  a  fam- 
ily; James  was  blind  from  the  age  of  fourteen 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  when  he  was 
sixty-one  years  old. 

Benjamin  L.  P'ullcr,  father  of  Benjamin  II., 
was  born  in  Connecticut  in  June,  1802.  He 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Plainfield  and 
Lebanon,  N.IL;  and  he  assisted  his  father 
upon  the  farm  until  he  became  its  owner  by 
purchase.  He  was  quite  extensively  engaged 
in  raising  cattle  for  the  home  market  and  for 
the  Brighton   market   in    Massachusetts.     He 


also  raised  sheep  and  horses.  A  man  of 
unusual  energy  and  industry,  and  giving  his 
entire  time  to  his  business,  he  accumulated 
considerable  wealth.  His  death,  which  oc- 
curred in  1878,  was  mourned  as  the  loss  of  an 
honorable,  upright  man  and  a  useful  citizen. 
Absorbed  in  his  business  affairs,  he  took  no 
part  in  politics.  He  attended  the  Baptist 
church.  A  member  of  the  Masonic  Lodge  at 
Cornish  P"lat,  he  was  buried  with  the  rites  of 
that  fraternity.  His  wife,  Persis,  who  was 
born  in  Cornish,  N.H.,  in  1805,  had  seven 
children,  namely:  Sarah,  born  March  2,  1831; 
Ann,  who  died  when  eight  months  old; 
Maria,  born  November  9,  1833;  Alfred,  born 
April  15,  1837,  who  died  in  infancy;  Laura, 
born  April  22,  1S39;  Julia,  born  April  8, 
1842;  and  Benjamin  H.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Sarah  married  Augustus  Hodgeman, 
of  Vermont,  a  prosperous  farmer,  and  had 
four  sons;  Maria  became  the  wife  of  William 
Ward,  a  farmer  of  Plainfield,  and  had  six  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  living;  Laura  died  in 
1861  ;  and  Julia  married  Albert  Gilson,  an 
industrious  farmer  of  Hartland,  Vt.,  and  had 
eight  children,  of  whom  five  are  living.  Mrs. 
Benjamin  L.   P"uller  died  in  1884. 

After  completing  his  education  at  the  Kim- 
ball Union  Academy,  Benjamin  Henry  P^uIIcr 
immediately  began  to  assist  in  carrying  on  the 
farm.  Since  the  deatli  of  his  father  he  has 
managed  the  jiroperty.  As  the  result  nf  his 
early  training  and  practical  experience  his 
farming  has  been  most  jirofitable.  The  estate, 
containing  nearly  three  hundred  acres  of  land, 
is  one  of  the  few  farms  along  the  banks  of  the 
Connecticut  River  that  has  not  been  purchased 
for  summer  residences  by  wealthy  men  from 
New  York  or  Boston.  The  buildings  are 
among  the  finest  in  this  section;  and  the 
house,  which  is  built  upon  high  ground  over- 
looking the   village    of    Hartland,    Vt.,    com- 


BIOGRAI'HICAL    REVIEW 


OS 


niaiids  a  view  ol    the   adjacent   niduntains   and 
valleys. 

( )n  I'ehruary  23,  1R69,  Mr.  ]'"iiller  was 
uniled  ill  marriage  with  Julia  K.  I'^-^glcstonc, 
born  May  4,  1848,  daughter  ol  Lorenzo  liggle- 
stone,  of  15oston.  Aden  Lcroy  Fuller,  the 
only  child  of  this  union,  was  born  November 
14,  1S71.  After  finishing  his  education  at 
White  River  Junction,  Vt.,  he  entered  the 
service  of  the  l'"itchburg  Railroad  Comi^any  as 
a  fireman.  He  is  now  a  locomotive  engineer  in 
the  yard  of  that  company  in  Uoston.  He  is 
widely  known  among  railroad  men,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fi'aternity.  He  mar- 
ried ]5crtha  1  lairington,  of  Groton,  Mass., 
daughter  of  Albert  Harrington,  of  that  town. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Aden  L.  Fuller  attend  the  bap- 
tist church.  Mr.  Benjamin  H.  Fuller  is  a 
Democrat  in  politics.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Selectmen  for  three  years,  and 
for  two  years  of  that  time  he  was  its  Chairman. 
He  represented  this  town  in  the  legislature  in 
1 89 1,  serving  therein  upon  the  Committee  on 
Fducation.  One  of  the  most  active  and  influ- 
ential leaders  in  local  affairs,  he  has  the  es- 
teem and  confidence  of  his  fellow-townsmen. 


iCORGE  W.  RICE,  one  of  Henniker's 
S I  most  able  and  prosperous  farmers, 
was  born  in  this  town,  January  17, 
1825,  son  of  Jacob  and  Louisa  (Howe)  Rice. 
His  grandfather,  Elijah  Rice,  a  Revolutionary 
patriot,  was  an  early  settler  in  Henniker.  An 
account  of  his  jwrents  and  of  the  ancestry  of 
I'llijah  Rice  will  be  found  in  the  biography  of 
Harrison  A.  Rice,  which  appears  elsewhere  in 
this  work.  George  W.  Rice  passed  his  youth 
in  attending  school  and  working  upon  the  farm. 
He  was  still  young  when  his  parents  moved  to 
the  property  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his 
brother,    Harrison   A.    Rice.      At   the  age    of 


twenty-one  he  went  to  Manchester,  N. IL, 
where  he  worked  at  butchering  for  two  years. 
Ujion  his  return  to  Henniker  he  bought  a 
small  farm,  which  is  now  the  home  of  \V.  15. 
Barnes.  A  .short  time  later  he  entered  the 
meat  business,  selling  at  wholesale  ui  the 
Manchester  market  and  conducting  a  retail 
business  in  this  t(jwn.  While  carrying  on  the 
butcher  business  for  nine  years,  he  gradually 
got  a  f(K)thold  in  lumbering.  At  length  he 
sold  his  farm  and  business  to  W.  B.  Barnes, 
and  thereafter,  for  nearly  forty  year.s,  gave  his 
whole  time  to  that  industry.  ]}esides  cutting 
and  hauling  the  timber,  he  operated  a  saw-mill 
at  Hillsborough  Bridge  for  several  years;  and 
he  retired  from  that  business  some  three  years 
ago.  I'larlier  in  his  life  he  purchased  a  farm 
on  the  outskirts  of  the  village,  and  resided 
upon  it  until  1S74.  Then  he  again  took  up  his 
residence  in  the  village,  but  continued  engaged 
in  agriculture.  He  still  gives  his  personal 
attention  to  his  property.  In  all  he  owns 
seven  hundred  acres,  which  include  his  farm  of 
one  hundred  and  fifteen  acres,  two  other  tracts, 
and  some  timber  land.  Several  tenements  at 
Hillsborough  Ikidge  are  also  his  property. 
For  several  years  he  was  engaged  in  furnishing 
railroad  ties,  piles,  etc.  ;  and  he  dealt  in  cattle, 
which  he  sold  in  Manchester,  Nashua,  and 
Lowell. 

On  June  6,  1848,  Mr.  Rice  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Abbie  Colby,  daughter  of  Levi 
and  Betsey  Colb)',  of  Henniker.  She  died 
July  4,  1893,  leaving  four  children.  These 
were:  Susan  I..,  who  married  George  C.  Bunt- 
ing, of  Manchester;  Nellie  A.,  who  is  the 
widow  of  Walter  I'restin,  and  resides  in  this 
town;  James  G.,  who  is  now  engaged  in  farm- 
ing in  Hopkinton,  N.  H.  ;  and  Edwin,  who 
resides  at  home.  In  politics  Mr.  Rice  is  a 
Republican.  I"or  many  years  he  was  a  promi- 
nent party    leader.      Upon    many   occasions  he 


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saved  the  part)'  from  defeat  by  his  own  per- 
sonal exertions.  When  Representative  to  the 
legislature  in  iS68  and  1869,  he  rendered  able 
services  to  his  constituents  and  the  community 
in  general.  A  self-made  man,  he  has  shown 
that  energy  and  ability  properly  applied  will 
overcome  the  most  adverse  circumstances.  He 
fully  merits  the  high  esteem  in  which  he  is 
held  by  his  fellow-townsmen. 


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URTI.S  W.  BENNETT,  one  of  the 
■  rr  busy  farmers  and  prominent  residents 
^>r  ^  of  Pittsfield,  was  born  in  Epsom, 
N.  U.,  January  i,  1832.  His  parents  were 
Jeremiah  and  ]3etsey  (Marden)  Bennett,  na- 
tives respectively  of  New  Hampton  and 
EiJsom.  Daniel  Bennett,  grandfather  of 
Curtis  W. ,  was  a  lifelong  resident  of  New 
Hampton.  He  owned  a  good  farm,  and  was 
occupied  in  its  cultivation  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  when  he  was  fifty  years  old. 
Politically,  he  supported  the  Democratic  party; 
and  in  his  religious  views  he  was  a  Tree  Will 
Baptist.  He  and  his  wife  reared  a  family  of 
six  children. 

Jeremiah  Bennett  attended  school  in  his 
native  town.  After  finishing  his  studies,  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  at  the  carpenter's 
trade.  He  settled  in  Flpsom,  where  he  fol- 
lowed his  trade  for  many  years,  and  was  also 
engaged  in  farming.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Democrat.  His  wife,  Betsey,  became  the 
mother  of  five  children,  of  whom  Curtis  W. , 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  only  one 
living.  Jeremiah  liennctt  was  seventy-eight 
years  old  at  his  death,  and  his  wife  lived  to 
be  seventy-six.  They  attended  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church. 

Curtis  W.  Bennett  was  educated  in  Epsom. 
He  then  learned  the  shoemaker's  trade,  and 
afterward  followed    it    in    his  native  town   for 


several  years,  together  with  farming.  In  1863 
he  moved  to  Pittsfield,  and  has  since  devoted 
his  time  exclusively  to  agricultural  pursuits. 
He  owns  seventy  acres  of  desirable  land,  thirty 
acres  of  which  is  under  tillage  and  is  very 
fertile.  On  July  9,  1863,  Mr.  Bennett 
wedded  Mrs.  Caroline  Berry,  widow  of  John 
Berry,  late  of  Pittsfield.  By  her  first  union 
Mrs.  Bennett  has  two  daughters  —  Georgia  and 
May  A.  Georgia  is  the  wife  of  the  Rev. 
R.  S.  Mitchell,  of  Stoneham,  Mass.,  and  has 
one  son  —  Guy.  May  A.  is  now  Mrs.  ]?enja- 
min  Lane,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  has  one  son 
—  Roy.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bennett  have  four 
children;  namely  Alice  E.,  John  C,  Charles 
W. ,  and  Frank  E. 

As  a  supporter  of  the  Democratic  party  Mr. 
Bennett  is  Cjuite  active  in  local  public  affairs, 
and  he  has  served  upon  the  Board  of  Select- 
men and  in  the  office  of  Road  Surveyor.  He 
is  a  Methodist  in  his  religious  views,  and  Mrs. 
Bennett  is  a  Calvinist  Baptist.  His  son, 
John  C.  Bennett,  is  a  member  of  Catamount 
Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  of  Pittsfield. 


/3)eORGE  W.  S.  DOW,  an  enterpris- 
\  pT  ing  box  manufacturer  of  Henniker 
and  the  Chairman  of  the  Board  of 
Selectmen,  was  born  in  this  town,  March  9, 
1 84 1,  son  of  Jonathan  anil  Anna  P.  (Peaslee) 
Dow.  Jonathan  Dow,  Sr. ,  who  was  a  son  of 
David  Dow,  of  Weare,  N.  H.,  settled  in  Hen- 
niker at  the  beginning  of  the  present  century. 
On  December  23,  1807,  he  married  Sally 
Plummer,  a  native  of  this  town.  Jonathan 
Dow,  Jr.,  the  father  of  George  W.  S. ,  born  in 
Henniker,  December  5,  18 14,  became  a  pros- 
perous farmer  and  a  successful  lumbeinian, 
and  resided  here  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred I'ebru  iry  5,  1873.  His  wife  Anna, 
whom  he  married    September  29,   1836,  was  a 


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native  nf  Wcnic,  1 1  illsbdroiigh  County.  She 
became  tlie  niother  of  five  children,  namely: 
y\nn  Maria,  who  married  John  Ciarland ; 
George  W.  S. ,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Jackson  V.  ;  Jolm  V.  ;  and  Mary  K. 

George  W.  S.  Dow  resided  at  home  and  as- 
sisted ui)nn  the  farm  until  he  was  twenty-one 
years  oUl.  lie  then  began  work  by  the  day 
fill'  lliiam  JJavis,  with  whom  he  remained  one 
year.  He  ne.xt  entered  the  employ  of  Horace 
Gibson,  a  mackerel  kit  manufacturer,  and  some 
years  later  became  a  partner  in  the  business. 
In  1890,  after  the  death  of  his  partner,  he 
bought  of  John  Gutterson  a  bo.\-mill  located 
near  the  kit  factor),  and  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  manufacturing  shoe  cases.  The  mill 
privilege  he  owns  was  first  utilized  as  far  back 
as  1766,  when  Silas  Barnes  began  the  con- 
struction of  a  dam,  and  completed  it  in  1773. 
In  1774  a  saw-mill  was  erected  here  by 
Harnes,  who  later  s(5ld  it  to  Captain  Timothy 
Gibson.  The  latter  built  a  permanent  dam, 
put  in  stones,  and  ran  a  saw  and  grist  mill, 
with  Mben  Howe  as  the  first  miller.  Since 
Timothy  Gibson's  time  the  mills  have  been 
ownetl  by  Daniel  Kimball,  William  M.  Davis, 
Lieutenant  Joel  Howe,  Captain  James  Yauld- 
ing,  Micah  Howe,  Oliver  Jacobs,  Adams  & 
Silver,  Joseph  P.  Dow,  and  John  Gutterson. 
About  1.S20  Timothy  Sprague  erecteil  a 
carding-mill  close  by  Mr.  Dow's  lower  mill, 
so  that  the  same  niillrace  served  for  both. 
Sprague  sold  it  to  Morrison  &  Woods,  from 
whom  it  passed  in  tiun  to  Luther  Hathorn, 
S.  Little,  -Silas  ]5arncs,  Sylvanus  Sumner, 
Jacob  Lancaster,  Jt)hn  Niel,  and  Hiram  M. 
Davis.  Davis  converted  it  into  a  powder  keg 
manufactory  in  1852,  and  some  years  later  sold 
it  to  Horace  Gibson.  Here,  in  company  with 
Gibson  and  William  Abbott,  Mr.  Dow,  its 
present  owner,  manufacturetl  large  c(uantities 
of  mackerel  kits.      Mr.  Dow  makes  shoe  bo.xes. 


which  he  ships  by  the  carload  to  various  fac- 
tories. He  uses  annually  from  one  hundred 
thousand  to  one  hundred  and  eighty  thou.sand 
feet  of  lumber,  which  he  cuts  and  .saws  him- 
self. He  also  saws  building  material,  all  the 
pieces  of  which  are  marked  and  numbered  and 
ready  to  put  together.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Democrat.  He  was  a  Representative  to  the 
legislature  in  1880  and  1881,  during  which 
time  he  served  upon  the  Committee  on  the 
Normal  School.  He  is  a  prominent  figure  in 
the  district,  county,  and  State  conventions,  is 
Chairman  of  the  Town  Committee,  and  has 
been  a  Selectman  for  the  past  nine  years, 
being  at  the  ])resent  time  the  Chairman  of 
the  Board.  That  his  public  .services  are  duly 
appreciated  is  indicated  by  the  fact  that  Hen- 
niker  contains  a  Republican  majority  of  from 
twenty-five  to  seventy-five  votes. 

On  November  9,  1862,  Mr.  Dow  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mary  L.  Hoyt,  daugh- 
ter of  Nathan  Hoyt,  a  cooper  by  trade.  She 
is  a  native  of  Bradford,  N.  II.,  but  has  resided 
in  this  town  for  the  greater  part  of  her  life. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dow  are  the  parents  of  seven 
children;  namely,  George  II. ,  William  K., 
Charles  H.,  Orrin  H.,  Fred  D.,  Blanche  M., 
and  Percy  D.  Mr.  Dow  has  filled  all  of 
the  principal  chairs  in  Crescent  Lodge, 
I.  O.  O.  v.,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Lodge  of  New  Hampshire.  Mrs.  Dow 
is  a  member  of  the  Lodge  of  the  Daughters  of 
Rebecca. 


4^»^» 


RANCIS  MORRILL  CUTTING,  who 
died  on  November  15,  1888,  was  a 
valued  citizen  of  Newport,  Sullivan 
County.  He  was  born  in  the  neighboring  town 
of  Croydon,  November  28,  1825,  a  son  of 
P'rancis  and  Keziah  (Hudson)  Cutting.  His 
grandfather,  Benjamin  Cutting,  who  enlisted 
in   the   Continental   army  when   a   young   man. 


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was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Croydon. 
Francis  Cutting,  son  of  Benjamin,  was  born  in 
Croydon,  and  there  spent  his  life  of  seventy- 
eight  years.  He  owned  about  five  hundred 
acres  of  land,  and  was  extensively  engaged  in 
farming  and  stock-raising.  His  first  wife, 
Keziah  Hudson,  a  native  of  Goshen,  N.H., 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-si.x ;  and  he  subse- 
quently married  Miss  Mary  Rollins.  By  the 
first  wife  he  had  nine  children,  by  the  second 
two;  and  of  the  whole  family  seven  are  now 
living. 

Francis  Morrill  Cutting  grew  up  on  a  farm, 
acquiring  his  education  in  the  schools  of  his 
native  town.  After  reaching  man's  estate,  he 
engaged  in  farming  and  cattle-raising,  pur- 
chasing land  in  the  western  part  of  Newport. 
A  wise  manager,  square  in  his  dealings,  and  a 
good  practical  farmer,  he  had  a  valuable  prop- 
erty, comprising  some  five  hundred  acres,  his 
farm  in  Newport  alone  covering  one  hundred 
acres.  In  politics  Mr.  Cutting  was  a  Demo- 
crat, in  religious  belief  a  Methodist.  He  was 
a  man  of  sterling  character,  conscientious  and 
honest,  and  was  respected  by  all  who  knew 
him. 

Mr.  Cutting  was  married  July  25,  1855,  to 
Hannah  A.,  daughter  of  Dimmick  and  Hannah 
(Colby)  Baker.  She  was  born  in  Meriden, 
N.  H.,  October  4,  1832.  Mrs.  Cutting  is  a 
member  of  an  old  New  England  family.  Her 
ancestors  came  from  England.  Joseph  Baker 
was  born  April  13,  1678,  and  lived  to  a  ripe 
old  age.  He  married  Hannah  Tomroy,  July 
8,  1702.  She  died,  leaving  two  children  ;  and 
he  married  Abigail  Bissell,  who  bore  him 
nine  children.  The  Hon.  Dr.  Oliver  Baker, 
a  son  of  Joseph  Baker  by  liis  second  wife, 
was  Mrs.  Cutting's  grandfather.  He  was 
born  in  Tolland,  Conn.,  and  was  one  of  the 
early    settlers    of    Meriden,    N.  II.      He    died 


October 


181  I.      His   brother   served    in   the 


Revolutionary  War,  and  was  taken  jirisoner  by 
the  British  and  nearly  starved,  having  nothing 
but  raw  frozen  turnips  to  eat  while  confined  in 
an  old  church  in  New  York.  He  offered  his 
silver  watch  for  another  turnip,  but  was  re- 
fused. When  he  was  released,  Oliver  carried 
him  home,  some  of  the  way  on  his  back.  He 
afterward  died  of  small-po.x. 

Dr.  Oliver  Baker  married,  November  23, 
17S0,  Dorcas  Dimmick,  who  died  October  19, 
1849.  They  were  the  parents  of  ten  children. 
Dimmick  Baker  was  born  in  'Meriden,  March 
18,  1793-  A  shrewd  business  man,  a  good 
farmer,  a  successful  stock  dealer,  and  a  pros- 
perous merchant,  he  amassed  a  large  estate  for 
those  days.  He  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
three.  His  wife,  Hannah  Colby,  was  born 
February  7,  1794,  and  died  March  17,  1856. 
They  were  the  parents  of  five  children  —  Elias, 
Edward,  Hannah,  Helen  F. ,  and  Cyrus  E. 
Three  of  these  are  living:  Mrs.  Hannah  A. 
Cutting,  of  Newport,  N.  H.  ;  Dr.  Cyrus  E. 
Baker,  of  Claremont,  N.  H.  ;  and  Mrs.  Helen 
F".  Cutting,  of  Newport,  N. H.  The  Baker 
homestead,  a  grand  old  place,  located  near 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  where  all  the  chil- 
dren received  a  liberal  education,  all  becom- 
ing teachers,  is  now  owned  by  the  fifth  gen- 
eration. Dimmick  Baker  was  a  Republican. 
He  was  connected  with  the  Congregational 
church. 

Mr.s.  Hannah  A.  Baker  Cutting  has  resided 
in  the  village  of  Newport  since  1892.  She 
still  owns  the  farm  which  her  husband  culti- 
vated, retaining  it  for  the  sake  of  old  associa- 
tions. An  active  and  liberal  member  of  the 
Methodist  church,  .she  gave  the  electric  lights 
now  used  in  the  chnich  edifice,  and  was  instru- 
mental in  making  the  present  parsonage  a  part 
of  the  church  property.  She  has  long  been 
active  in  Sunday-school  matters,  and  has 
served  as   President   of   the    Ladies'  Aitl  Soci- 


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99 


cty,  I)cing  a  woman  with  jiowcrfiil  will  for  the 
iij;ht  everywhere.  It  is  almost  needless  to 
add  that  she  wins  the  esteem  of  all  with  whom 
she  is  brought  in  contact. 


tp)Th:NRV     C.    1?ARTL1':TT,     a     leading 
r^rj       farmer   of    llill,    N  11.,   was    horn    in 

Ay^  \ .  this     town,     July     25,     1845.      Mr. 

l^artlett's  family  traces  its  ancestry  back  to 
Colonial  times.  His  iiatenial  grandfather, 
Daniel  l^artlett,-  was  born  in  Plaistow,  N.  H., 
August  15,  1775,  married  June  3,  1801,  and 
came  from  that  town  to  Hill  on  horseback, 
witli  his  wife,  Ruth  (jile  I^artlett,  mounted 
behind,  in  the  fashion  of  that  early  day.  lie 
settled  on  Mason  Hill,  where  he  built  a  small 
house  and  took  up  a  large  tract  of  wild  land. 
Full  of  the  stirring  progressive  spirit  of  the 
pioneer,  he  was  soon  able  to  put  up  a  larger 
frame  house;  and  he  had  an  e.xtensive  farm 
well  cleared  before  his  death.  He  lived  to  be 
seventy-nine  years  old,  and  had  nine  children 
— -Susan,  Ezekiel,  Sally,  Moses,  Gertrude, 
Ruth,  Huldah,  Daniel,  and  John,  of  whom  the 
only  survivor  is  Daniel,  who  resides  in  Sagi- 
naw, Mich.,  where  he  has  erected  several  fine 
residences.  Susan  and  SaMy  were  successful 
school  teachers. 

Moses  Bartlett,  second  son  of  Daniel  and 
Ruth,  received  his  education  in  the  jniblic 
schools  of  Hill,  and  then  went  to  Massachu- 
setts, where  he  was  engaged  in  the  stone- 
cutting  business  for  four  years.  At  the  end  of 
this  time  he  returned  to  his  native  town  and 
bought  a  farm  on  Dickerson  Hill.  Later  he 
sold  that  place  and  purchased  the  Colonel  Ray 
estate,  where  his  son,  Henry  C.,  was  born. 
He  repaired  the  buildings  of  this  property  and 
spent  tlie  remainder  of  his  life  here,  passing 
away  at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-one  years. 
Having    embraced    religion   early    in    life,    he 


ever  maintained  a  strictly  religious  integrity, 
dying  in  full  triumph  of  his  faith.  His  wife 
Charlotte,  the  daughter  of  Moses  Webster, 
was  forty-si.v  years  old  when  she  died.  Her 
father  is  said  to  have  been  a  distant  kinsman 
of  the  great  Daniel  Webster.  Mo.scs  and 
Charlotte  (Webster)  Bartlett  had  six  children, 
namely:  Samuel  W. ,  whose  residence  is  situ- 
ated on  I'ranklin  Street,  Concord,  N.  H.,  who 
has  been  a  faithful  employee  of  the  Northern 
Railroad  for  over  thirty  years;  Cyrus  W.,  who 
lives  in  Franklin,  N.  H.,  near  the  Kendrick 
farm;  La  Roy  D.,  not  living;  Henry  C.  ;  Flla 
R.,  whose  home  is  in  Methuen,  Mass.  ;  and 
John  W.,  of  Hill  Centre. 

Henry  C. ,  the  fourth  son  as  the  names  are 
here  given,  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools.  He  began  work  with  the  late  J.  P. 
Jones  in  Georgetown,  Mass.,  who  for  many 
years  Was  one  of  the  leading  lawyers  of  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  but  afterward  returned  to  his 
home  in  Hill  and  purchased  the  old  homestead 
of  two  hundred  acres. 

Mr.  Bartlett  married  Etta  Louise,  the  only 
daughter  of  Daniel  B.  and  Mary  (Dearborn) 
Bartlett,  March  11,  1S75.  He  devotes  him- 
self diligently  to  his  farm  and  home,  and  is 
also  faithful  to  his  duties  as  a  citizen.  In 
l)olitics  he  is  a  stanch  Republican,  having  cast 
his  first  Presidential  vote  for  General  Grant  in 
1868.  He  has  been  an  officer  of  the  School 
Board'  of  Hill  and  a  Commissioner  of  High- 
ways, is  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,  and  is  ever  found  a  person  of  open 
mind  and  honest  convictions. 


STeorgk  H. 


/ST'eORGK  H.  FAIRBANKS,  a  farmer 
yj^r  of  Newport,  was  born  in  Frances- 
town,  N.  H.,  June  4,  1S30,  son  of 
Jabez  and  Sally  (Bixby)  Fairbanks.  The 
father,  born  in  Francestown,    N.  H.,    Februarv 


BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


24,  17S8,  lived  there  for  some  time,  carrying 
on  general  farming  and  working  at  his  trade  of 
millwright,  and  holding  communion  with  the 
Congregational  church.  He  was  a  great  tem- 
perance man.  In  ]iolitics  he  was  a  Republi- 
can, and  he  was  a  Selectman  of  Francestown. 
In  1840  he  removed  to  Newport,  where  he  re- 
mained during  the  latter  part  of  his  life. 
Here  he  became  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  For  his  first  wife  he  mar- 
ried Sally  l^i.xby  on  January  2,  18 14.  She 
was  born  January  29,  17S2,  and  died  in  1S39, 
December  2.  For  his  second  wife  he  married 
I'olly  Bi.xby,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  He 
died  May  10,  1874,  having  survived  his  second 
wife,  whose  death  occurred  January  26,  1863. 
By  the  first  marriage  there  were  five  children, 
namely:  Elmira,  born  December  18,  1814, 
who  died  May  30,  1846;  Sarah  A.,  born 
December  16,  1818,  who  died  in  April, 
1885;  Eliza  J.,  born  March  5,  1821,  who 
died  August  30  in  the  same  year;  Mary  E., 
born  January  29,  1826,  who  died  October 
12,  1873;  and  George  H.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

George  H.  Fairbanks  came  to  Newport  when 
but  nine  years  of  age,  and  there  subsecjuently 
received  the  larger  part  of  his  education. 
While  his  principal  occupation  has  been  gen- 
eral farming,  he  worked  at  a  trade  in  the  vil- 
lage of  Newport  for  a  period  of  twenty  years. 
On  his  farm  of  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres, 
most  of  which  is  under  cultivation,  he  has 
made  many  improvements.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Ke[Hiblican.  He  has  served  in  the  State 
legislature  both  as  Representative  and  Sen- 
ator, and  he  has  been  a  County  Commissioner 
since  1893.  lie  is  a  member  of  the  Otld  Fel- 
lows Sugar  River  Lodge.  On  October  19, 
1853,  he  married  Eunice  Chapin,  who  died 
March  12,  1854.  He  contiacted  a  second 
marriage  November  19,    1855,  with    Helen    M. 


Nourse,  who  was  born  August  18,  1829, 
daughter  of  Daniel  and  Margaret  (Wilson) 
Nourse,  of  Acworth,  N.  H.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Fairbanks  have  been  active  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church  for  many  years. 
Their  four  children  are:  Charles  H.,  Mary 
H.,  George  A.,  and  Burton  E.  Of  these  chil- 
dren Charles  H.  was  born  November  28, 
1856,  and  lives  in  Newport.  He  married 
Emma  L.  Howe,  February  i,  1881,  and  they 
have  three  children  —  M.  Gertrude,  Arthur 
R.,  and  Alice  K.  George  A.,  born  March  24, 
1863,  belongs  to  the  firm  of  Fairbanks 
Brothers  of  Rochester,  N.  H.  On  October  12, 
1 885,  he  married  Margaret  A.  Gilmore,  of 
Newport,  and  now  has  three  children  —  Helen 
M.,  Marion  S.,  and  Harold  G.  Mary  H.,  born 
January  26,  1861,  died  August  i,  1863;  and 
Burton  E.,  born  November  15,  1870,  died 
November  16,  1889.  Mr.  Fairbanks,  Sr. ,  has 
been  a  stirring,  active  man  all  his  life;  and 
he  enjoys  the  esteem  of  his  fellow-townsmen. 


I  LAS  P.  THOMPSON,  an  extensive 
v7>  farmer  of  Franklin,  was  born  in  this 
town,  March  11,  1842,  son  of  An- 
drew C.  and  Eliza  (Perkins)  Thompson.  His 
father,  who  was  born  in  P'ranklin  in  1804, 
spent  his  active  period  in  agriculture,  and 
passed  his  last  days  in  Andover,  N.  IL,  where 
he  died  in  1892.  His  mother,  who  was  born 
in  Kennebunkport,  Me.,  in  1806,  died  in 
1S46.  She  w'as  the  first  wife  of  his  father, 
who  after  her  death  contracted  a  second 
marriage  with  Mehitable  S.  Harvey,  of  San- 
bornton,  N.  II.  Mehitable  Thomjison  died 
December  29,  1886.  The  seven  children  of 
Andrew  C.  Thomjjson  were:  Oliver  M., 
Thomas  P.,  Addie  W.,  Henry  M..  Silas  P., 
Maria  H.,  and  .Saraii  I^Iizabetli,  all  born  of 
his   first    union.      Oliver    M.,    who    is    now    a 


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stone-cutter  of  Concord,  N.  1[.,  married  for 
his  first  wife  Abhie  Moody,  wiio  died  in  [866. 
Tiic  maiden  name  of  his  second  wife  was 
Abbie  h'landers.  Thomas  P.,  who  is  engaged 
in  fainiing  in  Tilton,  N.I  I.,  mairied  Alice 
C.  Cntlei'.  vXddie  \V.  is  now  the  wife  of  I-'. 
Locke,  a  farmer  of  15ristol,  N.II.  Maria  II. 
is  the  wife  of  Charles  M.  Thompson,  a  farmer 
of  Slrathan),  N.II.  Ilcnry  M.,  who  marrietl 
Selina  Sleeper,  is  a  prosperous  farmer  in 
Andover,  N.II.  Sarah  I'liizalieth  died  at  the 
age  of  twenty-two  years. 

Silas  ]'.  Tlinnipson  acquired  a  common- 
school  education,  and  resided  at  home  until 
twenty-two  years  old.  lie  was  for  a  time 
engaged  in  teaching  school  in  Salis])ury,  N.II. 
Then  he  went  to  Minneapolis,  Miini.  During 
his  residence  there  he  was  in  the  insurance 
business  for  some  time,  and  was  Street  Com- 
missioner for  four  years.  Upon  his  return  to 
I'ranklin  he  settled  on  the  Colby  farm,  and 
lias  since  given  his  attention  to  general  farm- 
ing, lie  has  improved  the  property,  which 
contains  two  hundred  acres,  and  in  addition 
to  raising  the  usual  crops  he  runs  a  dairy  and 
breeds  horses.  On  November  i6,  1873,  he 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Martha  A.  Colby, 
who  was  born  in  Franklin,  June  7,  1S41, 
daughter  of  Ezekiel  and  Tabitha  (Smith) 
Colby.  Mrs.  Thompson  is  the  mother  of  five 
children,  as  follows:  h'.rnestO.,  born  Decem- 
ber 2^,  1874,  now  engaged  in  agricultural  pur- 
suits in  Franklin;  (irace  M.,  the  wife  of 
X'ernon  15.  Hlake,  of  this  town;  Minneola, 
born  May  28,  1879,  who  is  attending  school  in 
New  Hampton,  N.II.;  Luther  C,  born  July 
21,  1881,  who  is  at  home;  and  Katie  L., 
born  I'"ebruary  23,  1S88,  also  at  home.  Po- 
litically, Mr.  Thompson  is  independent. 
While  residing  in  Salisbury  he  was  a  member 
of  the  School  Committee,  and  he  is  now  a  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace.      He   is  connected  with   the 


grange  in    Mill.      Mrs.  Thomp.son  is  a  member 
of  the  Christian  church. 


•Nin'  PhlAKSON  K(JLI-F,  a  promi- 
nent   lawyer  of  Concord,    N.  M.,    was 

^^  1  b(jrn  in  ]<oscawen,  this  State,  Feb- 
ruary 13,  1S21.  His  parents  were  Henjamin 
and  Margaret  (Searles)  Kolfe.  Benjamin 
Rolfe,  Sr.,  his  paternal  grandfather,  was  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  lioscawen,  whither  he  came 
in  1769  all  the  way  from  Newbury,  Mass.,  on 
horseback.  His  wife  rode  behind  him  on  a 
liillion,  and  their  housekeeping  and  personal 
necessaries  were  carried  on  the  same  horse, 
this  being  the  ordinary  meth(jd  of  travelling 
in  those  early  Colonial  times  in  New  England. 
She  returned  alone  through  Chester,  N.  H., 
and  left  him  in  the  forest  to  begin  the  pioneer 
work  of  clearing,  planting,  and  building. 
The  new  home  in  Boscawen  was  soon  estab- 
lished, and  they  there  spent  the  remainder  of 
their  lives.  The  Rev.  Jonathan  Searles,  Mr. 
Rolfe's  grandfather  on  the  maternal  side,  was 
a  graduate  of  Harvard  College  and  the  first 
minister  ever  settled  in  the  town  of  Salisbury. 
He  baptized  Daniel  Webster  and  his  brothers 
and  sisters.  Margaret  Searles,  afterward  Mrs. 
Rolfe,  attended  the  district  school  with  the 
future  Statesman,  and  was  his  warm  personal 
friend. 

Benjamin  Rolfe,  the  younger,  was  a  man  of 
versatile  parts,  and  carried  on  the  occupations 
of  carpentering,  pump-making,  and  farming. 
About  the  year  1840  he  removed  his  residence 
from  ]5oscawen  to  the  town  of  Hill,  N. H., 
where  he  purchased  a  farm  and  passed  the  re- 
maining seventeen  years  of  his  life.  He  died 
at  the  age  of  eighty-four.  By  his  wife,  Mar- 
garet Searles,  daughter  of  the  clergyman  men- 
tioned above,  he  became  the  father  of  a  family 
of   three  children;    namely,    Enoch   S.,  Henry 


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Pearson,  and  Charles  B.  Henry  Pearson 
Rolfe  is  the  only  one  of  the  three  now  surviv- 
ing. Charles  B.  Rolfe,  his  younger  brother, 
caught  the  gold  fever  at  the  time  of  the  dis- 
covery of  the  precious  metal  in  California, 
went  out  to  that  State  among  the  famous  pio- 
neers of  1849,  and  died  there  soon  after 
arriving. 

Henry  P.  Rolfe  in  his  youth  attended  the 
district  schools  of  Boscawen  and  the  New 
Hampton  Literary  Institution,  and  then  en- 
tered Dartmouth  College,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  the  class  of  1848.  Immediately 
entering  upon  the  study  of  the  law  in  the 
office  of  Judge  Fowler,  of  Concord,  he  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Merrimack  County  bar  in  May, 
1851,  and  continued  in  the  active  exercise  of 
his  chosen  profession  in  Concord  until  some 
time  in  the  year  1882,  when  he  met  with  a 
painful  carriage  accident,  in  which  he  was 
badly  kicked  in  the  head  by  an  unruly  horse 
and  sustained  severe  injuries  to  his  back. 
This  disaster  brought  on  a  severe  attack  of 
nervous  prostration,  which  compelled  him  to 
relinquish  the  greater  jiart  of  his  large  legal 
practice  and  from  which  he  has  never  entirely 
recovered. 

He  married  Mary  Rebecca  Sherburne,  the 
daughter  of  Robert  H.  and  Ruth  (Kimball) 
Sherburne,  of  Concord.  They  have  had  a  fam- 
ily of  five  children,  of  whom  only  two  survive 
to-day;  namely,  Robert  H.  and  George  IL 
Robert  H.  Rolfe,  the  elder  surviving  son, 
married  Grace  Stearns,  the  daughter  of  ex- 
Governor  Onslow  Stearns,  of  New  Hampshire, 
and  lias  one  child  —  Onslow  S.,  born  January 
16,  1895.  George  H.  Rolfe,  the  younger  son, 
married  ]5ertha  O.  Cawley,  of  Mill,  N.H., 
and  has  one  son — Hamilton  Cawlcy,  born 
December  6,  1894. 

Mr.  Henry  P.  Rolfe  was  an  active  Demo- 
crat in  tile  exciting  ante  bcllnin  times,  and  cast 


his  first  Presidential  vote  for  General  Lewis 
Cass  in  1848.  He  served  as  a  delegate  to  the 
Baltimore  Democratic  National  Convention 
that  nominated  Stephen  A.  Douglas,  "the 
little  Giant,"  for  President  of  the  United 
States;  and  he  was  himself  nominated  as  an 
elector.  In  a  public  meeting  held  at  Concord 
Mr.  Rolfe  introduced  Senator  Douglas  to  the 
people  of  New  Hampshire  in  a  speech  that  the 
latter  characterized  as  "one  of  the  happiest  in- 
troductions "  he  had  ever  had.  Upon  the 
firing  on  Fort  Sumter  at  Charleston,  S.C. ,  the 
first  overt  act  of  the  Southerners  that  opened 
the  Civil  War,  Mr.  Rolfe  left  the  Democratic 
party,  and  thenceforth  and  forever  transferred 
his  allegiance  and  political  support  to  the 
Republicans.  By  his  character  and  ability  he 
has  won  the  confidence  and  esteem  of  his  fel- 
low-citizens, who  returned  him  as  their  chosen 
Representative  to  the  New  Hampshire  legis- 
lature in  the  years  1853,  1863,  and  1S64.  In 
1854  he  was  elected  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Education,  and  the  ensuing  year  its  President. 
In  1869  he  was  appointed  by  President  Grant 
LTnited  States  District  Attorney  for  the  dis- 
trict of  New  Hampshire,  and  he  occupied  the 
office  five  years.  Mr.  Rolfe  has  always  been  a 
man  who  practised  the  strictest  temperance  in 
all  his  personal  habits,  never  having  used  to- 
bacco or  strong  drink  in  the  course  of  his  life. 
In  religion  he  is  an  ICpiscopalian,  and  is  a 
communicant  of  St.  Paul's  Church  in  Con- 
cord. At  one  period  of  his  life  he  was  an 
active  member  of  the  old  Dartmouth  "Pha- 
lanx," training  on  the  right  of  the  regiment 
and  right  of  his  company  as  the  tallest  man. 
He  belongs  to  the  fraternal  organizations  of 
the  Temple  of  Honor  and  the  United  Order 
of  Pilgrim  ]""athers,  and  was  tlie  first  Governor 
of  the  first  order  of  the  latter  lodge  ever  estab- 
lished in  the  State  of  New  Hampshire.  Mr. 
Rolfe   was   a   sympathetic  and   active   partici- 


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]);iiit,  lip  III  the  time  of  liis  accident,  in  all 
matters  relating;  to  the  welfare  and  higher 
ilevclopnient  of  Ccjncurd  ;  and  his  enforced  re- 
tirement from  [lublic  affairs  while  still  in  the 
midst  of  his  usefulness  has  occasioned  much 
regret  amont:  his  fellow-citizens. 


olon]':l   (;i;()K(;|':    h.    dana,   a 


retired  ICast  India  merchant  residing 
in  Newijort,  N.  11.,  was  born  in  Hos- 
toi),  .September  2,  1S37.  Son  of  the  late 
I'"raiu'is  iJana,  Jr.,  M.D.,  for  many  years  a 
practising  jihysician  in  Boston  and  Cambridge, 
he  comes  of  old  and  honored  Colonial  stock, 
being  a  member  of  the  Massachusetts  family 
of  this  name  that  has  given  to  the  country  so 
many  citizens  of  worth  and  distinction.  In  an 
article  recently  published  in  Miinsiy's  Mnii-a- 
ziiii-  it  is  well  stated  that  "of  all  American 
families  there  are  few  that  can  compare,  in 
number  of  men  eminent  in  various  sjiheres, 
with  the  Danas. "  Its  founder  was  Richard 
Dana,  who  settled  at  Cambridge,  Mass.,  about 
1640.  Continuing  the  quotation:  "The  lives 
and  records  of  those  of  his  progeny  who  have 
jicrpetuated  the  family  name  are  interwoven 
with  the  very  life  of  the  nation.  They  were 
soldiers  and  statesmen  ;  hands  that  helped  to  lay 
the  corner-stone  of  the  republic;  patriots  who 
rallied  at  Ikmker  Hill,  who  responded  again 
to  the  call  of  freedom  in  1S12,  and  who  in  our 
Civil  War  hastened  to  attest  their  right  to  the 
family  name  by  a  display  of  the  heroic  spirit 
of  their  sires. " 

Daniel  Dana,  the  fourth  son  of  Richard, 
owned  at  one  time  the  greater  part  of  Cam- 
bridge. This  possession  was  divided  among 
his  children.  Richaiil,  the  son  of  Daniel,  was 
a  prominent  jurist  and  patriot.  He  died  in 
1772.  His  son  Francis,  Sr. ,  was  the  first 
Chief  Justice  of  Massachusetts,  and  was   first 


United  States  Minister  to  Russia.  He  mar- 
ried Klizabcth,  daughter  of  William  Kllery, 
a  signer  of  the  Declaration  of  Independence. 
He  had  three  children  —  Francis,  Fdminnl, 
and  Richard  Henry.  The  latter  was  one  of 
the  founders  of  the  North  Aiiurican  Rcvieto 
and  author  of  the  "Buccaneer,"  etc.  The 
eldest  son,  I'rancis,  was  a  merchant,  and 
spent  many  years  in  Russia  and  Hamburg. 
He  married  .Soiihia,  daughter  of  President 
Willard  of  Harvard  College,  and  had  by  her 
four  children  —  Sophia  (afterward  wife  of 
(icorge  Ripley,  literary  editor  of  the  New 
York  Tribune),  Mary  Elizabeth,  Francis,  and 
Joseph. 

Francis  Dana,  Jr.,  the  father  of  the  Colonel, 
graduated  from  Harvard  College,  as  did  his 
father  before  him.  He  took  up  the  study  of 
medicine  at  the  Harvard  Medical  School,  and 
became  a  physician  of  high  rank  in  Boston  and 
Cambridge.  He  married  Isabella,  daughter 
of  Moses  Ilazen  White,  and  grand-daughter  of 
Dr.  John  Frink,  of  Rutland,  Mass.  In  relig- 
ion he  was  an  Episcopalian.  He  lived  to  the 
age  of  seventy-two  years.  Of  his  four  chil- 
dren Francis  and  William  died  young.  The 
others  are:  Isabella,  who  resides  in  Boston; 
and  George  H. 

Before  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  George 
H.  Dana  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits 
in  the  EaSt  Indies.  He  returned  to  his 
native  land  in  1861  to  join  the  Northern 
forces,  enlisting  in  the  Thirty-second  Massa- 
chusetts Regiment  as  Second  Lieutenant. 
During  the  war  he  engaged  in  twenty-seven 
battles,  and  was  seriously  wounded  in  the  arm 
at  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  For  one  year  he 
was  on  detailed  duty,  and  during  a  part  of  that 
time  served  on  the  staff  of  his  cousin,  General 
N.  J.  T.  Dana.  He  was  made  Lieutenant 
Colonel  for  his  meritorious  conduct  and 
bravery  in  battle,  and  his  military  record  is  an 


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honor  to  himself  and  to  his  noble  lineage. 
At  the  close  of  the  war  he  resumed  his  busi- 
ness relations  with  his  partners  in  the  I^ast 
Indies,  and  remained  there  until  1S71.  Re- 
turning to  the  United  States,  he  took  up  his 
residence  in  Newport,  N.H.,  spendinghis  sum- 
mers at  Lake  Sunapee,  where  he  has  large  real 
estate  interests. 

Colonel  Dana  was  married  in  1865  to  Fran- 
ces Matson  Burke,  daughter  of  Edmund  Burke, 
of  Newport.  Her  father  was  an  eminent  law- 
yer, a  member  of  Congress,  and  a  political 
writer  of  national  importance.  He  was  Com- 
missioner of  Patents  under  the  administration 
of  President  Polk.  To  Colonel  and  Mrs.  Dana 
one  son  has  been  born,  the  fifth  Francis.  He 
is  a  graduate  of  the  Harvard  Law  School  and 
a  member  of  the  Suffolk  County  bar.  After 
two  years  spent  in  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion he  accepted  a  professorship  at  the  St. 
Paul's  School  at  Concord.  He  is  a  young 
man  of  brilliant  literary  attainments,  and  has 
already  published  many  well-received  stories 
and  poems.  His  first  novel,  just  completed, 
has  been  published  by  Harper  Brothers. 


■I.  WILLIAM  H.  BARTLETT, 
ormerly  an  Associate  Justice  of  the 
Supreme  Court  of  New  Hampshire, 
was  born  in  Salisbury,  N.  H.,  August  20, 
1827.  His  paternal  ancestry  were  prominent 
in  early  Colonial  affairs,  and  several  of  them 
served  in  the  Continental  army  during  the 
Revolutionary  War.  A  brother  of  Judge 
]5artlett  was  at  one  time  President  of  Dart- 
mouth College.  An  extended  account  of  the 
family  will  be  found  in  the  History  of  the 
Town  of  Salisbury. 

Mr.  ]5artlctt  graduated  from  Dartmouth 
College,  on  which  occasion  he  was  the  vale- 
dictorian  of  his  class.      His  law  studies  were 


pursued  with  Judges  Perley  and  Bellows. 
After  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  entered 
upon  the  practice  of  his  profession  with  an 
energy  that  soon  placed  him  in  the  foremost 
rank  among  his  legal  associates  in  Merrimack 
County.  He  not  only  displayed  the  essential 
qualities  which  characterize  an  able,  forcible 
advocate,  but  he  became  noted  for  his  profound 
scholarship  and  thorough  understanding  of  the 
elementary  principles  of  law.  In  1861  he 
was  appointed  to  a  seat  upon  the  Supreme 
]5ench.  This  important  position  he  filled 
ably  and  impartially  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  September  24,   1867. 

On  May  8,  1856,  Judge  Bartlett  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Caroline  Baker,  who  survives 
him.  She  was  born  in  Concord,  daughter  of 
Abel  and  Nancy  (Bradley)  Baker,  old  and 
highly  esteemed  residents  of  this  city.  Abel 
Baker  took  a  prominent  part  in  public  affairs, 
served  as  Representative  to  the  legislature,  and 
acted  as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  many  years. 
He  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy-three  years. 
His  wife,  who  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-nine,  was 
a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Kate  (Green)  Brad- 
ley. The  Green  family  once  owned  that  part 
of  the  capitol  grounds  adjoining  Main  Street, 
and  Mrs.  Bartlett's  mother  remembered  when 
the  present  site  of  the  State  House  was  a  po- 
tato field.  Nathaniel  Bradley  Baker,  only  son 
of  Abel  and  Nancy  (Bradley)  Baker,  was  Gov- 
ernor of  New  Hampshire  in  the  )'ear  1853. 
He  died  in  1876,  leaving  a  widow  and  four 
children,  each  of  whom  has  occupied  promi- 
nent positions  in  different  sections  of  the 
country. 

yfRANK     R.     WOODWARD,   a     widely 

I    [5      known    manufacturer  ami   a   prominent 

resident  of  Hill,  was  born  in  the  town 

of  Salisbury,  February  9,  1845,  son  of  Daniel 

S.  Woodward,  of  that  place.     Ancestors  of  his 


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oil  hotli  the  maternal  and  pntcrnal  lines  were 
brave  ami  gallant  soldiers.  His  great-grand^ 
father  Woodward,  the  first  representative  of  the 
family  in  this  country,  who  canu;  liere  from 
Ireland  in  the  first  half  of  the  last  century, 
and  settled  in  Maine,  fought  in  the  war  of  the 
Revolution;  and  his  sons,  Stephen  and  Jesse, 
foiinlit  in  the  second  war  with  England. 
Daniel  Woodward,  a  son  of  Jesse,  married 
Dorcas,  daugiiter  of  luioch  Adams,  of  Salis- 
bury, who  fought  in  the  war  of  Independence 
fnim  April,  1775,  until  its  close.  In  1848 
Daniel  moved  to  Penacook,  then  called 
Fisherville,  and  later  to  Franklin. 

I'"rank  R.  Woodward  received  his  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Franklin  and  at  Noyes 
Academy.  In  1S68  he  went  to  Manchester, 
wiierc  he  was  employed  as  superintendent  of 
the  Forsaith  Latch  Needle  Factory.  Two 
years  later  he  purchased  the  business,  and  in 
1872  he  moved  the  plant  to  Hill.  In  the  fol- 
lowing year  he  sold  tiie  needle  factory  in  order 
to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of  glass-cutters 
and  other  light  hardware.  He  has  continued 
in  this  line  of  business  up  to  the  present  time, 
gaining  a  wide  reputation  in  Europe  as  well 
as  in  this  country.  The  establishment  of  the 
factory  in  Hill  has  stimulated  the  other  indus- 
tries of  the  town,  and  has  been  of  great  bene- 
fit in  giving  employment  to  many  workmen. 
Other  advantages  have  come  through  Mr. 
Woodward's  personal  efforts  and  private  be- 
neficences. In  1884  he  laid  out  and  graded 
Pleasant  Hill  Cemetery,  which  occupies  a 
beautiful  location  upon  a  hill  overlooking  the 
village,  dedicating  it  to  the  memory  of  his 
eldest  daughter.  May,  who  died  May  2,  1884, 
at  the  age  of  thirteen  years.  Previous  to  this 
there  had  been  no  cemetery  in  town  worthy  of 
the  name,  and  it  is  greatly  appreciated  by  the 
residents.  In  1885  he  erected  in  the  village 
a  fine  block   containing  a   large  hall,  a  store, 


and  a  number  of  tenements.  Two  years  later 
he  was  engaged  in  making  a  large  addition, 
but  before  the  work  was  completed  the  entire 
structure  was  burned.  Mr.  Woodward  has 
also  built  a  system  of  water-works,  with  which 
he  supplies  water  from  springs  on  his  property 
to  all  the  villagers  who  desire  it.  Connected 
with  the  pipes  also  are  hydrants  for  protec- 
tion against  fire,  and  the  supply  and  pressure 
of  water  is  excellent.  When  the  village 
church  was  burned  some  years  since,  Mr. 
Woodward  gave  the  society  the  lot  and  foun- 
dation for  the  new  edifice,  and  took  charge  of 
its  building. 

Outside  his  manufacturing  business  Mr. 
Woodward  is  greatly  interested  in  agricultural 
pursuits.  He  owns  two  farms,  one  in  the 
village  of  Hill  and  one  three  miles  outside. 
On  these  farms  there  is  produced  large  quan- 
tities of  milk,  which  is  sold  readily  at  the  cars. 
Mr.  Woodward  is  a  charter  member  and  the 
first  Overseer  of  Pemigewasset  Grange,  No. 
107;  and  he  has  served  as  its  Master,  Secre- 
tary, and  Lecturer.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
Merrimack  County  Pomona  Grange,  of  various 
Masonic  bodies,  of  the  Odd  Fellows,  the 
Knights  of  Pythias,  the  Red  Men,  and  the 
Good  Templars.  In  the  Good  Templars  he  is 
a  charter  member  of  Hill  Lodge,  and  for  a 
number  of  terms  has  been  Chief  Templar. 

Mr.  Woodward  has  been  twice  married. 
The  five  children  of  his  first  marriage  are  de- 
ceased. The  present  Mrs.  Woodward,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Ella  E.  Hilpert,  has  one 
son,  Harold  A.,  born  April  29,  1888.  Mr. 
Woodward  belongs  to  the  Christian  Church 
of  Hill,  and  is  a  life  Director  of  the  society. 
He  has  charge  of  the  church  property,  and  has 
been  superintendent  of  the  Sunday'-school 
since  it  started,  nine  years  ago.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat.  Keenly  alive  to  all  the 
public  interests  of   his  town,  he  has  taken   an 


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active  part  in  its  affairs.  He  has  served  it 
on  its  ]5oard  of  Education  and  in  tlie  capaci- 
ties of  Supervisor  and  Postmaster;  and  he 
represented  it  in  the  State  legislature  in 
1S84.  As  the  town  is  strongly  Republican, 
his  election  to  the  legislature  was  remarkable 
testimony  of  the  great  esteem  in  which  he  is 
held  by  his  townsmen  of  all  parties. 


SRA  CUTTING  EVANS,  a  well-known 
printer  and  publisher  of  Concord,  was 
born  in  Hill,  NTT,  April  16,  1841,  son 
of  Jonathan  and  Olive  Aiken  (Cutting)  Evans. 
His  parents  were  natives  of  the  State,  and 
have  resided  in  Merrimack  County  over  fifty 
years.  On  the  paternal  side  Mr.  Evans  is  a 
descendant  of  John  Evans,  who  served  in  most 
of  the  important  battles  fought  in  Northern 
New  England  during  the  struggle  for  Ameri- 
can independence.  The  Cutting  family  is 
an  old  and  highly  reputable  one;  and  John 
O.  Cutting,  the  maternal  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  served  as  a  soldier  in 
the  War  of  1812,  and  was  a  prominent  resi- 
dent of  Concord  in  his  day. 

Mr.  Evans  attended  the  public  schools  of 
Concord  until  he  was  fourteen  years  old,  and 
then  cntei'ed  the  employ  of  McFarland  & 
Jenks,  publishers  of  the  Nczv  Ilaiiipshiir 
'Statesman.  On  August  13,  1S62,  he  en- 
listed as  a  private  in  the  Twelfth  Regiment, 
New  Hampshire  Volunteers,  for  service  in 
the  Civil  War.  The  regiment  joined  the 
Army  of  the  Potomac  at  Pleasant  Valley,  Md., 
and  participated  in  all  its  battles.  After  the 
battle  of  Gettysburg,  in  company  with  the 
Second  and  Fifth  New  Hampshire  Regiments, 
it  was  sent  to  Point  Lookout,  Md.,  where  it 
was  quartered  some  eight  months,  waiting  for 
recruits.  When  again  ordered  to  active  duty, 
it   was    attached    to   the   Army  of    the  James, 


under  the  command  of  General  Butler.  After 
participating  in  the  engagements  at  Drury'.s 
Bluff,  Bermuda  Hundred,  and  Swift  Creek,  it 
was  transported  to  White  House  Landing,  and 
was  with  General  Grant  at  the  battle  of  Cold 
Harbor.  It  was  also  present  at  the  siege  of 
Petersburg,  where  Mr.  Evans  was  promoted  to 
the  post  of  principal  musician,  and  at  the 
capture  of  Richmond.  On  June  21,  1865,  it 
was  mustered  out  of  the  service.  After  his  re- 
turn from  the  army  Mr.  Evans  resumed  his 
connection  with  the  printing  business  in  Con- 
cord, first  entering  the  employ  of  William 
Butterfield,  publisher  of  the  Nciv  Hampshire 
Patriot.  Afterward  he  was  in  the  employ  of 
the  Independent  Democrat,  People,  and  Indepen- 
dent Statesman.  His  political  affiliations  have 
been  with  the  Republican  party  since  reach- 
ing his  majority,  and  his  vigorous  advocacy  of 
its  principles  has  been  exceedingly  valuable 
to  it  in  this  part  of  the  State.  He  was  elected 
to  the  legislature  for  the  years  1895  and  1896. 
He  was  also  public  printer  during  the  years 
1 891    and    1892. 

On  August  3,  1865,  Mr.  Evans  wedded 
Helen  G.  Rowe,  a  native  of  Concord.  Of  the 
four  children  born  to  them,  two  are  living — 
Mabel  Y,  and  Ira  Leon.  Mr.  Evans  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Eureka  Lodge,  No.  7,  F.  &  A.  M.  ;  of 
White  Mountain  Lodge,  No.  5,  I.  O  O.  F.  ; 
of  Concord  Lodge,  No.  8,  Knights  of  Pythias, 
of  which  he  is  a  Past  Chancellor;  and  of  the 
A.  O.  U.  W.  He  is  a  Past  Commander  of 
E.  E.  Sturtevant  Post,  No.  2,  Grand  Army  of 
the  Reiuiblic;  was  delegate  at  large  to  the 
National  Encampment  at  San  I""rancisco  in 
188.1.;  and  he  has  served  as  Aide-de-caniji  upon 
the  staff  of  the  department  commander.  He 
was  for  five  years  connected  with  the  National 
Guard  ;  and  he  is  the  publisher  of  the  ]'eterans' 
Advoeate,  which  was  established  in  1884,  and 
which    is    the   (jnly   newspaper   issued    in    New 


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Ilanijishiic  devoted  to  the  interests  of  the 
Grand  Army  of  tlie  Republic  and  its  auxil- 
iaries. 


^\C^;/I!.IJAM  CLARK,  formerly  Judge 
of  Probate  for  Sullivan  County,  was 
born  ill  Claremont,  March  6,  1819, 
son  of  Moses  and  Fanny  (I'atterson)  Clark. 
Mis  ancestors  on  both  sides  were  pioneer  set- 
tlers of  Londonderry,  N.  IL  Moses  Clark,  a 
native  of  Londonderry,  came  when  a  young 
man  to  Claremont,  and  settled  upon  a  farm 
situated  on  the  old  road  to  Newport.  He  fol- 
lowed agriculture  with  success  for  the  rest  of 
his  life,  and  was  one  of  the  able  farmers  and 
useful  citizens  of  his  day.  In  his  religious 
views  he  was  a  Universalist.  lie  was  the 
father  of  ten  children,  si.x  sons  and  four 
daughters. 

In  his  boyhood  William  Clark  attended  the 
disti-ict  school  for  several  months  each  year. 
He  assisted  upon  the  farm  until  he  was 
twenty-one  years  old.  Then  he  apprenticed 
himself  to  Rufus  Carlton  to  learn  the  butcher- 
ing and  meat  business.  A  year  later  he  went 
to  work  in  the  same  business  for  Philemon 
ToUes,  with  whom  he  remained  three  years. 
After  this  he  engaged  in  business  for  him- 
self, and  built  up  a  large  trade,  which  he 
maintained  alone  for  eight  or  nine  years,  and 
for  three  years  in  partnership  with  Henry  C. 
Cowles.  In  this  period  for  some  time  he 
drove  a  meat  wagon  through  the  surrounding 
towns,  and  each  winter  his  route  extended  as 
far  as  Concord.  Selling  out  to  his  partner  in 
1857,  he  was  afterward  engaged  in  the  whole- 
sale grain  and  flour  trade  with  Albert  H.  Dan- 
forth  for  about  fifteen  years.  In  1871  he  re- 
tired after  an  active  business  career  of  thirty 
years,  and  devoted  his  attention  to  other  in- 
terests. He  was  employed  in  probate  affairs 
for    many    years,    acting  as   administrator  for 


some  of  tile  largest  estates  in  Sullivan 
County.  From  1853  to  1868  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Selectmen,  and  he  was  Chair- 
man of  the  Hoard  for  ten  years  of  that  time. 
In  1863  he  was  appointed  United  States 
Deputy  Assessor  of  Internal  Revenue  for  this 
district,  and  afterward  held  that  position  for 
nine  years.  He  was  Town  Clerk  in  1871, 
1872,  and  1873,  during  which  time  the  town 
records  were  kept  in  a  manner  that  reflected 
the  highest  credit  upon  him.  In  1876  he  was 
appointed  Judge  of  Probate,  a  position  which 
he  held  until  his  death.  The  Supreme  Court 
never  reversed  a  single  decision  of  his  from 
which  appeal  had  been  made.  He  was  a  Di- 
rector of  the  Claremont  National  Hank  for 
fourteen  years  and  of  the  Sullivan  Savings 
Institution  for  twenty-nine  years. 

Judge  Clark  married  Esther  A.  Bosworth, 
who  survives  him.  She  was  born  in  Royal- 
ton,  Vt.,  daughter  of  Jarvis  and  Bershey 
(Crowell)  Bosworth.  Jarvis  Bosworth,  who 
was  a  native  of  Rehoboth,  R.I.,  settled  in 
Royalton,  Vt.,  where  he  resided  for  the  rest 
of  his  life.  An  able,  upright,  and  fair- 
minded  business  man,  possessing  excellent 
judgment  and  a  thorough  knowledge  of  finan- 
cial matters,  Mr.  Clark  was  especially  well 
fitted  to  preside  over  the  Probate  Court.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and 
of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
He  died  at  his  home  in  Claremont,  May  30, 
1883. 


LIV1-:R  p.  WILSON,  a  retired  busi- 
ness man  and  a  prominent  resident  of 
Dunbarton,  was  born  in  this  town, 
October  17,  1836,  son  of  Thomas  and  Mary 
(Mills)  Wilson.  The  grandfather,  John  Wil- 
son, who  was  the  first  of  the  family  in  this 
town,  was  reared  upon  a  farm,  and  acquired 
the  trade  of  shoemaking.      An  industrious  and 


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thrifty  man,  it  was  his  custom  to  attend  to 
the  farm  duties  through  the  day,  and  make  or 
repair  shoes  for  the  farmers  in  his  locality 
until  late  at  night.  He  was  for  many  years  a 
Deacon  of  the  Congregational  church,  and  he 
lived  to  a  good  old  age.  He  married  Anna 
H.  Kimball,  of  Hopkinton,  and  reared  a  fam- 
ily of  eleven  children. 

Thomas  Wilson,  who  was  also  a  native  of 
Dunbarton,  attended  school  until  he  was  seven- 
teen years  old.  Afterward  for  a  time  he 
assisted  his  father  upon  the  farm.  Later  he 
served  an  apprenticeship  at  the  carpenter's 
trade,  which  he  followed  as  a  journeyman  for  a 
few  years.  Then,  relinquishing  that  calling, 
he  engaged  in  a  mercantile  business  in  Dun- 
barton,  and  carried  on  a  prosperous  trade  for 
several  years.  The  profits  of  this  business, 
together  with  the  income  of  a  large  farm  which 
he  conducted  at  the  same  time,  had  placed  him 
in  very  comfortable  circumstances  before  his 
death.  This  event,  which  occurred  when  he 
was  seventy-five  years  old,  was  the  result  of 
an  accident.  He  rendered  faithful  and  effi- 
cient service  as  Town  Treasurer  and  Collector 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  he  was  active  in  the 
Congregational  church.  His  wife,  Mary,  who 
was  a  daughter  of  Reuben  Mills,  of  Hamp- 
.stead,  had  eight  children,  of  whom  five  are 
living. 

'  Oliver  P.  Wilson  acquired  a  common- 
school  education,  and  at  the  age  of  sixteen 
began  life  as  a  farm  assistant.  After  follow- 
ing the  latter  occupation  for  two  or  three 
year.s,  he  went  to  Manchester,  where  he 
learned  photograjjhy,  and  worked  at  the  busi- 
ness for  three  year.s.  Then,  returning  to 
Dunbarton,  he  entered  his  father's  store  as 
a  partner,  and  opened  a  photograph  gallery. 
Upon  the  death  of  his  father  he  became  the 
sole  proprietor  of  the  store,  which  he  prosper- 
ously   conducted    for    twenty-five    years.       In 


1S90  he  sold  out  to  his  son-in-law,  and  retired 
from  active  pursuits.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  and  his  father  acted  as  agents  for  the 
Olzendam  Hosiery  Company  of  Manchester, 
during  which  time  they  supplied  some  fifty 
families  with  work  in  that  line.  He  has  also 
been  an  extensive  dealer  in  real  estate,  having 
bought  and  sold  a  large  number  of  farms  in 
this  section. 

In  1856  Mr.  Wilson  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Nancy  ¥.  Chamberlain,  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Eliza  Chamberlain,  of  Goffstown, 
N.  H.,  and  has  reared  two  children.  In  1873, 
1874,  1S75,  and  1876  Mr.  Wilson  was  elected 
Town  Treasurer,  and  Collector  in  1874,  1S75, 
1878,  1882,  1883,  1884,  1889,  1891,  and  1897; 
and  for  twenty-five  years  he  served  as  Post- 
master, the  office  having  been  located  in  his 
store.  He  has  also  acted  as  Constable  and 
Justice  of  the  Peace.  Prominently  identified 
with  the  First  Congregational  Church,  he  has 
been  its  treasurer  and  collector  as  well  as  the 
treasurer,  superintendent,  and  librarian  of  the 
Sunday-school. 


Rh:KMAN  CUTTING,  a  prosperous 
farmer  of  Newport,  was  born  in  Croy- 
don, N.H.,  Jul}'  19,  i82r,  son  of  I'ran- 
cis  and  Keziah  (Hudson)  Cutting.  His 
grandfather,  Benjamin  Cutting,  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  Croydon,  was  an  energetic  and 
successful  farmer;  and  he  served  his  country 
in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Benjamin  and  his 
wife,  Anna  Bemas  Cutting,  died  at  the  re- 
spective ages  of  eighty-eight  antl  ninety  years. 
Of  their  thirteen  childien  none  are  now  living. 
Francis  Cutting,  who  was  ne.xt  to  the  young- 
est, followed  his  father's  occupation,  that  of 
farming.  lie  was  also  an  extensive  stock 
dealer,  in  fact,  doing,  it  is  claimed,  the 
largest     business     in     that     line     in    Sullivan 


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(■()Ui)ty.  Ilis  propcity  consisted  (if  cij^lit  liun- 
(Irod  acres  of  land.  In  religion  lie  was  of 
the  Methodist  I']piscopal  belief,  and  in  poli- 
ties lie  was  a  Democrat.  On  his  seventy- 
eighth  birthday  he  died  on  the  farm  where  he 
was  horn.  Mis  wife  lived  to  be  seventy-si.\ 
years  of  age.  'I'hey  had  nine  children  — 
tiirce  (lauij;htci's  and  six  sons.  I'ive  of  these 
children  are  now  living,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  being  the  eldest.  The  others  are: 
.Shepherd  Cutting,  of  Newport;  Addison  Cut- 
ting, of  Croydon;  Mr.s.  Diantha  \'oung,  the 
wife  of  Israel  Young,  of  New]iort ;  and  Mrs. 
I'hilinda  I'ike.  The  others  were:  Alfred, 
Ireua,    iMorrill,    and    l-'lan. 

Freeman  Cutting  grew  up  on  the  old  farm 
in  Crovdon,  receiving  his  education  in  the 
town  schools.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he 
puichascd  one  huiulred  and  twenty-one  acres  of 
land  adjoining  his  father's  property  in  New- 
port. After  living  on  this  estate  for  eleven 
vears,  he  sold  it  and  bought  another  in  Clare- 
niont,  on  which  he  resided  for  eight  years. 
At  the  end  of  that  time  he  moved  back  to 
Newport,  and  in  1871  he  bought  the  pro[)crty 
on  which  he  now  resides.  It  contains  four 
lumdieil  acres,  which,  taken  with  what  he 
owns  elsewhere,  makes  about  nine  hundred 
acres  .belonging  to  him.  lie  has  one  of  the 
best  sets  of  farm  builtliiigs  in  the  town,  and 
the  appearance  of  thrift  and  progress  is  visible 
everywhere.  He  has  worked  with  untiring 
energy,  made  a  great  many  improvements,  and 
keejis  up  well  with  the  times.  In  this  lies 
the  secret  of  his  success.  He  deals  extensively 
in  cattle,  and  is  a  leading  stock-raiser.  At 
present  he  has  seventy-five  head  of  cattle  on 
his  farm,  and  he  makes  a  specialty  of  the  milk 
industry.  Giving  his  personal  attention  to  all 
the  details  of  the  farm  management,  the  best 
results  are  in  tliis  way  secured. 

Mr.  Cutting  was   married    in    1S43  to  Kmily 


A.  Hubbard,  vvjio,  born  in  Charlcstown, 
N.  H.,  in  1823,  daughter  of  Oliver  Hubbard, 
died  A|)ril  17,  1894.  Their  ten  children  arc 
all  living;  namely,  Dcnnison,  Kmily,  )<ihn, 
Iklah,  Louis,  Achar,  Zilpha,  Sarah,  Abbie, 
and  Viola. 

Mr.  Cutting  takes  an  interest  in  the  welfare 
of  the  community.  He  was  I'irst  Selectman 
of  New|iort  for  several  terms.  Overseer  of  the 
Poor  for  the  same  length  of  time,  and  he 
served  acceptably  in  the  capacity  of  Tax 
Collector. 


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LI,I':\  bRANCES  KVANS,  of  Krank- 
in,  whose  intelligence  and  worth  com- 
mand the  highest  esteem  of  her  large 
circle  of  friends  and  accjuaintanccs,  was  born 
June  27,  1S45,  in  Sanbornton,  N.  II.,  daugh- 
ter of  lulward  and  Phoebe  (Morrison)  Evans. 
Her  ancestors  were  prominent  among  the 
pioneers  of  Belknap  County.  Miss  lu'ans's 
father,  a  native  of  Sanbornton,  generally 
known  as  Master  Evans,  for  a  number  of  years 
successfully  taught  schools  in  Andover  and 
Sanbornton;  and  many  of  his  pupils  have  at- 
tained [iromincnce  in  business  and  professional 
life.  For  thirty-seven  years  Mr.  Evans  re- 
sided at  the  Morrison  farm  in  his  native  town. 
He  died  of  apople.xy,  September  14,  1S72, 
aged  seventy-seven  years.  Having  done  much 
for  the  general  good  of  the  community,  he  was 
generally  mourned.  His  wife,  Phuebe,  who 
was  also  a  native  of  Sanbornton  and  a  daugh- 
ter of  David  Morrison,  died  August  16,  1S75, 
aged  seventy-five  years.  Her  noble  and  un- 
selfish character  was  demonstrated  in  her 
cvery-day  life,  and  her  charity  was  dispensed 
liberally  among  the  needy  and  suffering. 
While  residing  with  her  son  in  Boston,  she 
suddenly  became  conscious  of  her  approaching 
end,  and,  at  her  desire,  was  brought  to  her  old 
home  in  Sanbornton.      Here  her  last  days  were 


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]5eacefully  spent  in  waiting  for  the  final 
moment,  of  which  she  had  no  fear.  She  had 
formerly  sung  in  the  church  choir,  and  in  this 
period  the  singing  of  sacred  songs  seemed  to 
revive  her  memories  of  the  past  and  was  a 
source  of  much  consolation. 

Edward   and   Phcebe  (Morrison)    ICvans  were 
the   parents   of   eight  children;   namely,    Ran- 
som  Flagg,    Edward  Dustin,  Lucy  Ann,  Mary 
Jane,  Sarah,  Susan,  George  Sullivan,  and  Ellen 
Frances.      Ransom  Flagg  Evans,  born  January 
9,    1824,    who  became  a  member   of    the    firm 
Sands,  Furber  &  Co.,  and  was  connected  with 
the  wholesale   and   retail    produce  business   in 
Faneuil    Hall   Market,    Boston,    for  over   forty 
years,    died    suddenly    in    1896.      He   not   only 
improved   the  old  homestead,    but    generously 
provided    for  the    comfort    of   his   relatives    in 
Sanbornton.       The    ICvans    family    monument 
in  the  new  cemetery  in  Fran-klin,  placed  there 
by  him  in  1880,  is  one  of  the  most  costly  and 
imposing  shafts  erected   in   this  vicinity.      Ed- 
ward Dustin    L^x'ans,  born    May  16,   1826,  mar- 
ried  Frances   Perley,  of   New   Bedford,  Mass., 
and  resided  in  that  town   until -a  year  previous 
to  his    death,    which    occurred    December    25, 
1859,  at   the  age  of   thirty-three  years.      Lucy 
Ann  Evans,  born  October  19,   1831,  on  March 
12,   1865,  married  Jacob  Fnttler,  who  was  born 
August  19,   1839,  and    is  now  a  member  of  the 
firm    of    Sands,    Furber   &   Co.      Mr.  and    Mrs. 
I-'olller,    who    reside    at    57    Chestnut    Street, 
Boston,    have   two    children :    Frances     Belle, 
born   July   16,    1866;  and    Milton    l-^ans,  born 
April    14,    1869.      Mary  Jane   Evans,  who   was 
born    June    9,     1834,     married    Nathaniel    M. 
Colby,  an  extensive  farmer  of    P'ranklin,   N.LI. 
.Sarah    Evans,  born  A])ril   9,   1836,  on    Novem- 
ber   16,     1870,    married    Beniah    B.    Davidson, 
who  was   born    in    Iloldcrness,  N.  IL,  July  31, 
1835.      They  reside  at  tlie  old   homestead,  and 
have  one  of  the  finest   residences   in   Sanborn- 


ton. Susan  Evans,  born  April  22,  1838,  died 
March  2,  1854;  and  George  Sullivan  Evans, 
born  November  i,  1840,  died  June  23,  1857. 
Ellen  Frances  Evans,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  spends  much  of  her  time  with  her 
sisters  in  Boston  and  Sanbornton,  and  she  also 
makes  frequent  visits  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  P. 
Thompson  in  Franklin. 


t^TAZEN  B.  MARTIN,  a  highly  re- 
r^4  spected  resident  of  L^ranklin  and  a 
-l^  \^_^  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  was  born 
in  Bradford,  Vt. ,  March  17,  1834,  son  of  Ben- 
jamin and  Sally  (Barker)  Martin.  Both  par- 
ents, as  well  as  the  gran'dfather,  Levi  Barker, 
were  natives  of  Bradford.  The  latter  was  a 
farmer  and  a  cooper.  Benjamin  Martin  died 
in  1S63,  and  his  wife  died  in  1864.  Of  their 
twelve  children,  five  died  young.  Those  who 
lived  to  maturity  were:  Bailey,  Benjamin 
Franklin,  Alba  G.,  the  Rev.  Albert  LI.,  Lydia 
S.,  Catherine,  and  Hazeii  B.  Bailey  wedded 
Mary  Mclntire,  and  died  at  the  age  of  thirty- 
six  years.  Benjamin  Franklin  lived  in 
Athens,  Ohio.  The  Rev.  Albert  II.,  who 
married  for  his  first  wife  Abigail  Pickett,  of 
Bradford,  Vt.,  and  for  his  second  Maria 
Leavitt,  of  Franklin,  and  died  Jauuar}'  19, 
1895,  had  i)reached  fifty-three  years  as  a 
Christian  minister.  Lydia  S.  married  Har- 
ran  Wilmot,  and  both  are  now  deceased. 
Catherine  and  her  husband,  John  Mclntire, 
have  also  passed  away. 

Hazen  B.  Martin  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools,  and  resided  at  home  until 
seventeen  years  old.  He  worked  as  a  farm 
assistant  until  twenty-two,  and  tiicn  went  to 
Manchester,  N.IL,  wiiere  lie  later  learned  tiie 
moulder's   trade. 

The  seventh  volunteer  in  Manchester,  he 
enlisted   on   Ajjril    22,   1S61,    in    tlie    Abbott's 


IlloCKArillCAL    REVIKW 


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Guards,  wliicli  were  mustered  into  llie  Second 
New  I  lampsliire  l\Cf^imcnt  as  Cnnipany  I. 
Ilis  active  service  in  the  Civil  War  l)c<;an  in 
August  of  ilie  same  year,  wlien  lie  marched 
with  ilis  regiment  from  Washington  to  tlic 
fiont.  He  paiticipatcd  in  the  first  battle  of 
Hull  Run,  aiul  was  present  at  the  liattles  of 
Yorktown,  Williamsburg,  b'air  Oaks,  the 
seven  days'  fight,  and  Malvern  Hill.  In 
y\ugust,  1S62,  he  was  taken  prisoner  and  con- 
fined for  six  weeks  in  Libby  Prison.  After 
his  release  he  was  taken  to  Fortress  Monroe, 
where  he  suffered  a  long  illness.  When  re- 
stored to  health,  he  was  transferred  to  Annap- 
olis, Md.  Later  he  went  to  Camp  b'almouth; 
and  in  March,  1S63,  he  came  home  on  a  fur- 
lough. He  was  discharged  in  the  following 
June  at  Concord  on  account  of  physical  disa- 
bility. 'I'he  illness  contracted  in  the  army 
continued  with  him  for  many  months  after. 
In  1865  he  returned  to  Manchester,  and  later 
resumed  his  trade  in  Nashua.  I'rom  that  cit)' 
he  went  to  Bridgeport,  Conn.,  where  he 
worked  as  long  as  his  health  permitted. 
Then  he  obtained  employment  of  a  less  ardu- 
ous nature  upon  a  railroad.  An  accident  laid 
him  up  for  six  months.  In  1873  he  settled  in 
Franklin,  ujion  what  is  known  as  the  Dimond 
farm..  Since  then  he  has  followed  agriculture 
and  peddled  tinwaic  upon  the  road. 

Mr.  IVIartin  has  been  three  times  married. 
His  first  marriage  was  made  with  Martha 
Tuttle,  of  Manchester.  His  second  united 
him  to  Kate  Dimond,  of  Franklin.  His  pres- 
ent wife  was  formerly  Mrs.  Carrie  Hildreth 
Harvey.  She  was  born  in  Bethlehem,  N.H., 
April  21,  1847,  daughter  of  Klias  and  Hannah 
(Nourse)  Hiklreth,  of  whose  seven  children 
Sarah,  Carrie,  and  Addie  are  living.  Mrs. 
Martin's  first  husband  was  G.  W.  Wesley,  of 
Bethlehem,  N.  H.,  who  belonged  to  the  third 
generation  from   Charles  and  John  Wesley,  the 


foundcns  of  Methodism.  He  died  October  20, 
1867,  leaving  one  son,  George  W.  Mrs.  Mar- 
tin's second  husband  was  Uaniel  Harvey,  who 
died  in  1880.  By  his  first  marriage  Mr.  Mar- 
tin has  three  children —  Koscoc,  IClla  F.,  and 
Anion  H.  By  his  present  union  he  has  one 
daughter  —  Minnie  May,  ])orn  July  29,  18S6. 
Politically,  Mr.  Martin  is  a  Republican.  He 
is  a  member  of  Granite  Lodge,  No.  i, 
I.  O.  O.  v.,  of  Nashua;  of  the  Pilgrim 
Fathers,  the  Good  TemjiJars,  and  the  grange; 
and  he  is  a  comrade  of  George  F.  Swett  Post, 
No.  38,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Franklin. 


^Ji:NRY  EASTMAN  CHAMBI':RLIN. 
the  Superintendent  of  the  Concord 
Street  Railway,  was  born  in  New- 
bury, \'t. ,  May  28,  1854,  son  of  Charles  and 
Ruth  (I'^astman)  Chamberlin.  His  father  was 
a  native  (jf  Newbury,  and  his  mother  was  born 
in  Haverhill,  N.H.  ;  and  he  is  a  lineal  descend- 
ant, on  the  maternal  side,  of  Roger  Eastman, 
the  founder  of  the  family  in  America.  He 
attended  the  public  schools  of  Newbury,  \'t., 
and  Haverhill,  N.H.,  until  he  was  fourteen 
years  old.  In  1869  he  went  to  Union  City, 
Ind.,  where  he  entered  the  employ  of  the 
Belle  Fontaine_  Railroad  Comjiany  as  a  mes- 
senger boy,  and  rose  to  the  position  of  tele- 
gra[)h  o]icrator.  In  1870  he  took  charge  of 
the  office  in  Anderson,  Ind.,  and,  after  work- 
ing in  a  similar  capacity  for  the  company  at 
various  points  along  their  line,  he  in  1S73 
came  to  Concord,  and  entered  the  train  des- 
patcher's  office  of  the  Northern  New  Hamp- 
shire Railroad.  In  1875  he  was  appointed 
station  agent  at  P'isherville  (now  Penacook), 
and  held  that  position  until  April,  1893,  when 
he  resigned  in  order  to  accept  the  superintend- 
ency  of  the  Concord  Street  Railway. 

On    November    23,     1875,    Mr.    Chamberlin 


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wedded  Mary  E.  Livongood,  of  Union  City, 
Ind.  She  is  now  the  mother  of  three  chil- 
dren; namely,  Myla,  lyla,  aiul  Ruth  Eliza- 
beth. In  politics  Mr.  Chamberlin  is  a  Re- 
publican. In  1892  he  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  from  Ward  One  for 
two  years,  and  in  i8g6  he  was  elected  member 
of  the  State  legislature  for  two  years.  He  is 
connected  with  Contoocook  Lodge,  No.  26, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  I'enacook  ;  with  Penacook  En- 
campment, No.  3,  of  Concord  ;  and  with  J.  S. 
Durgin  Camp,  No.  7,  Sons  of  Veterans.  As 
a  railway  official  he  has  won  the  esteem  and 
friendship  of  the  general  public,  with  whom 
he  is  very  popular;  and  his  efforts  to  improve 
tiie  .street  car  scr\ice  are  heartily  appreciated 
by  all. 

-^KNJAMIN  F.  PORTER,  a  member 
of  the  Board  of  Selectmen  of  Plain- 
field,  was  born  in  this  town,  August 
28,  1852,  son  of  Jabez  and  Eliza  F.  (Green) 
Porter.  The  Rev.  Micah  Porter,  the  father 
of  Jabez,  was  a  Congregational  minister,  who, 
after  preaching  in  Connecticut,  his  native 
State,  for  some  years,  was  called  to  Plainfield, 
where  he  ])asscd  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was 
also  a  cancer  doctor.  The  maiden  name  of 
his  wife  was  Elizabeth  Gallup,  and  his  chil- 
dren were:  Isaac,  Benjamin,  William,  John, 
Jabez,  Martha,  and  Phoebe.  The  five  sons 
.studied  medicine,  and  four  of  them  became 
l^ractitioncrs.  Isaac  located  in  Wisconsin, 
where  he  died;  and  his  chikhen  are  residing 
there  still.  Benjamin,  who  was  a  physician 
in  Northfield,  Vt.,  is  now  deceased.  William 
was  studying  medicine  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  occurred  when  he  was  thirty 
years  old.  John  settled  in  Du.xbury,  Mass., 
where  he  resided  for  the  rest  of  his  life,  and 
was  one  of  the  ])rominent  physicians  of  Plym- 
outh   County.      He  married   Ann  Thomas,  and 


reared  a  family.  Martha,  who  married  a  Mr. 
Walker  and  had  two  children,  settled  in  a 
Western  State.  Phcebe  died  at  about  the  age 
of  twenty-nine. 

Jabez  Porter,  father  of  Benjamin  I'.,  was 
born  in  Connecticut,  December  22,  1796. 
He  attended  the  Kimball  Union  Academy  and 
also  studied  medicine.  He  settled  upon  a 
farm  in  Plainfield,  where  for  many  years  he 
made  a  specialty  of  treating  cancers,  having  a 
sanitarium  in  which  to  board  and  attend  to  his 
patients.  In  this  connection  he  was  known 
throughout  the  New  England  States  as  a  suc- 
cessful specialist.  He  was  a  Republican  in 
politics,  and  he  served  for  a  number  of  years 
in  the  capacity  of  Collector  of  Taxes.  Jabez 
Porter  died  in  August,  18S6.  His  wife, 
Eliza,  was  born  in  Cavendish,  Vt.,  June  4, 
1 81 5,  daughter  of  Isaac  Green,  of  Plymouth, 
Vt.,  who  was  a  prominent  farmer  of  that  local- 
ity. She  bore  him  five  children  —  Amos  P., 
Jabez  A.,  Benjamin  F.,  Sophia  E.,  and  John. 
Amos  P.  died  at  the  age  of  three  years,  and 
Jabez  A.  when  twenty  months  old.  Sophia 
E. ,  who,  born  August  24,  1854,  died  Decem- 
ber 2,  1887,  was  the  wife  of  the  late  Harrison 
Jordan,  a  well-to  do  resident  of  Plainfield. 
John,  born  February  23,  1856,  who  completed 
his  education  at  the  Kimball  Union  Academy, 
and  is  now  occujjying  the  old  Porter  home- 
stead in  this  town,  married  Annette  Z. 
Rogers,  daughter  of  Daniel  Rogers,  an  indus- 
trious farmer  of  Ilartland,  \^t.,  and  has  four 
children  —  George  B.,  John  D.,  l{dwin  M., 
and  Harland  E.  Mrs.  Jabez  Porter  died  Sep- 
tember 7,    1872. 

Benjamin  !■".  Porter  acquired  his  education 
in  a  public  schod]  and  in  a  pi'ivate  school  of 
his  native  town.  He  assisted  upon  the  farm 
until  the  death  of  his  father.  After  managing 
tiie  property  for  some  time  in  company  with 
his  brother  John,  he  bought  the   Sjiencer  farm, 


CHARLES    WINCH. 


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where  he  now  resides.  lie  was  formerly 
engaged  in  raising  cattle  and  sheep,  but  of  late 
he  gives  his  attention  to  horse-breeding.  His 
energy  and  al)i]ity  as  a  general  farmer  enable 
him  to  m.ake  agriculture  a  most  profitable 
einphiynient,  and  he  ranks  among  the  well- 
to-do  residents  of  Plainfield.  Politically,  he 
acts  with  the  Republican  party;  and  for  a 
nimiber  of  years  he  has  served  the  town  ably 
and  faithfully  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Selectmen.  He  possesses  the  valuable  rem- 
edies used  by  his  father,  and  is  frequently 
called  upon  to  treat  patients  in  this  vicinity. 
Mr.  Porter  married  for  his  first  wife  Eliza 
L.  VVhittakcr,  who  was  born  in  Plainfield, 
March  3,  1856.  .She  died  October  21,  1.S77, 
leaving  no  children.  His  present  wife,  who 
was  before  marriage  Jennie  F.  Spaulding,  was 
born  in  this  town  January  26,  1867,  daughter 
of  .Alfred  Spaulding.  Mr.  Porter  is  connected 
with  the  Patr(ins  of  Husbandry,  and  is  a  mem- 
lier  of  tiie  Congregational  cliurch. 


jIIARLlvS  WINCH,  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  and  a  successful  farmer  of 
Langdon,  is  a  native  of  Sullivan, 
Cheshire  County.  He  was  born  November 
13,  1845,  son  of  Thomas  and  Clarissa  (Town) 
Winch.  The  family,  which  is  of  pjiglish 
origin,  was  founded  by  Samuel  Winch,  w-ho 
settled  in  Sudbury,  Mass.,  in  1670.  Caleb, 
the  great-grandfather  of  Charles,  was  born  in 
Framingham,  Mass.,  September  26,  1744.  In 
1768,  when  he  was  married,  he  removed  to 
Fitzwilliam,  where  he  resided  until  his  death 
in  1826.  He  was  a  man  of  means,  influential 
in  town  affairs  and  active  in  church  work. 
The  maiden  name  of  his  wife  was  Mehitable 
Maynard.  His  son,  John,  born  in  Fitzwill- 
iam, March  10,  1778,  was  a  prosperous  farmer 
and   took   an   acti\e   interest    in    town    affairs. 


John's  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Lucy 
Gary,  born  in  Leominster,  Mass.,  died  Sep- 
tember 13,  185  I.  John  and  Lucy  Winch  were 
the  parents  of  ten  children,' born  as  follows: 
Jeremiah,  February  23,  1805;  Lucy,  Decem- 
ber 5,  1806;  John,  September  9,  1808;  Suka, 
July  21,  1810;  Caleb,  April  19,  1812; 
Thomas,  March  2,  1814;  Esther,  March  11, 
181 7;  ]5et.sey,  March  31,  1818;  Nancy,  Octo- 
ber 25,  1820;  and  Abbie  A.,  September  2, 
1822. 

Thomas  Winch  was  born  and  educated  in 
Sullivan.  In  1855  he  came  to  Langdon,  and 
was  there  for  a  prolonged  period,  extensively 
engaged  in  general  farming,  cattle  and  sheep 
raising,  besides  being  very  active  in  town 
affairs.  He  was  Selectman  in  Sullivan  and 
Langdon,  and  Chairman  of  the  Hoard  in  each 
place,  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  ten  years, 
and  Representative  to  the  State  legislature  in 
1861-62.  His  death  occurred  August  8, 
i8g6,  in  his  eighty-third  year.  His  wife, 
Clarissa  Town  Winch,  who  was  born  in 
Stoddard,  N. II.,  October  28,  181 8,  now  lives 
in  Marlow,  N.  H.  Three  sons  and  a  daugh- 
ter were  born  of  their  union;  namely,  Charles, 
Thomas  D.,  IClla  M.,  and  George.  Thomas 
D. ,  born  in  Sullivan,  October  10,  1847,  com- 
pleted his  education  at  Kimball  Union  Acad- 
emy of  Meriden,  N.H.,  and  is  now  living  in 
Peterboro,  N.  H.,  being  a  member  of  the  large 
grocery  firm  of  Winch  &  Field.  He  married 
Josephine  Nichols,  of  Peterboro.  Ella  M., 
born  in  Sullivan,  August  28,  1849,  married 
George  C.  Friend,  a  successful  farmer  of 
Marlow.  She  died  January  10,  1894,  sur- 
\ivcd  by  her  husband  and  one  daughter, 
Blanche  Ina  P'riend.  George,  born  in  Lang- 
don, July  II,  1857,  attended  the  common 
schools  of  Langdon,  and  then  prepared  for  col- 
lege at  Kimball  Union  Academy  and  St. 
Johnsbury    Academy    of    \'ermont.       He   then 


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entered  Dartmouth  College,  and  was  graduated 
therefrom  thoroughly  equipped  for  his  chosen 
vocation  of  a  teacher.  He  began  teaching  in 
Haverhill,  N.  H.,  after  which  he  taught  for  a 
time  in  Fitchburg.  On  leaving  the  latter 
place,  he  became  principal  of  the  Varney 
School  of  Manchester,  N. H.,  which  position 
he  has  held  for  many  years.  He  was  married 
August  24,  1887,  to  Miss  Emily  Corinne 
1  [olden,  daughter  of  Charles  A.  Holden,  of 
Langdon,  and  has  one  child,  Emily  Josephine 
Winch. 

Charles  Winch  completed  his  education  in 
Kimlxdl  Union  Academy  of  Meriden,  N.  H. 
Keturning  home  then,  he  assisted  his  father 
in  the  work  of  the  farm  for  a  time.  Subse- 
quently he  engaged  in  teaching  school  in 
Westford,  Mass.  ;  but  he  finally  returned  to 
general  farming,  in  which  he  has  since  been 
profitably  engaged.  His  enterjirises  include 
dairying  and  stock-raising,  and  he  makes  a 
specialty   of  thorough-bred   cattle. 

On  September  8,  1875,  Mr.  Winch  married 
Miss  Abbie  L.  Hubbard,  who  was  born  De- 
cember 5,  1S46,  in  Sullivan,  daughter  of 
George  F.  and  Betsey  Hubbard,  of  that  place. 
They  have  five  children,  namely:  Elton  W., 
born  January  7,  1S77;  Walter  T. ,  born  June 
27,-1879;  Clara  A.,  born  I'ebruary  14,  iSSi; 
Bessie  E.,  born  May  24,  1883;  and  Helen  L., 
born  April  4,  1892.  Elton  and  Walter  are 
pupils  of  Cushing  Academy,  Ashburnham, 
Mass.  ;  and  Clara  and  Bessie  attend  the  gram- 
mar school  of  Marlow,  N.  H. 

The  Republican  party  has  no  stancher  su]i- 
jinrter  than  Mr.  Winch.  lie  was  suijcrintend- 
ent  of  schools  for  several  years.  He  has 
served  acceptably  in  the  capacity  of  Select- 
man. He  was  Ta.x  Collector  for  three  years. 
In  1895  he  was  a  Representative  to  the  .State 
legislature,  serving  on  the  Committee  on 
Agricultine.      For  one  year  he  was  a  member 


of  the  School  Board,  and  he  is  now  serving  as 
Town  Auditor  and  Justice  of  the  Peace.  The 
only  secret  society  he  has  connection  with  is 
the  Order  of  the  Golden  Cross.  An  esteemed 
member  of  the  Congregational  church,  he  has 
been  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  for 
seventeen  years. 


OHN  S.  HUBBARD,  a  manufacturer  of 
cigars  and  a  wholesale  and  retail  dealer 
in  cigars  and  tobacco  at  Concord, 
N.H.,  was  born  in  Greenville,  N.H.,  Decem- 
ber 18,  1838,  son  of  John  and  Mary  (Ken- 
nedy) Hubbard.  John  Hubbard,  his  grand- 
father, born  at  New  Ipswich,  N.  H.,  was  a 
distinguished  professor  of  mathematics  at 
Dartmouth  College  for  many  years.  He  at- 
tained a  good  old  age.  The  original  progen- 
itor of  the  Hubbard  family  in  America  came 
from  England  and  settled  in  Concord,  Mass. 
The  father,  also  a  native  of  New  Ipswich,  was 
a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College.  For  a  [lor- 
tion  of  his  life  he  taught  school  in  Dartmouth, 
and  always  lived  at  the  old  homestead,  which 
is  still  in  the  possession  of  the  Hubbard  fam- 
ily. His  death  occurred  in  i860.  By  his 
wife,  Mary,  he  became  the  father  of  seven 
children,  of  whom  Mary  A.,  William  E., 
Charles  L. ,  and  Louisa  J.  are  deceased.  The 
others  are:  George  H.,  who  resides  at  Man- 
chester, N.  H.  ;  Harriet  B. ,  who  married  Eu- 
gene C.  Gardiner,  of  Springfield,  Mass.,  and 
resides  in  that  town;  and  John  S.,  of  this 
sketch. 

After  receiving  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  New  Ipswich,  John  S.  Hubbard  learned 
cigar-making  at  Manchester,  where  he  re- 
mained until  1859.  l'"or  some  time  after  that 
he  followed  the  trade  in  vari(}us  places.  In 
May,  1861,  he  enlisted  as  a  j^rivate  in  Com- 
pany  K,    Tenth    Massachusetts    Infantry,    and 


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suhsciiucnlly  in  the  (^ivil  War  made  a  mnst 
creditable  record.  After  the  battle  of  Antie- 
tam  he  received  a  commission  as  Second 
Lieutenant  in  the  Tenth  New  Hampshire  Vol- 
unteers. After  I'"redcricl<sburg  he  was  pro- 
moted to  the  grade  of  First  Lieutenant.  Still 
another  well -deserved  promotion  followed 
these  honors,  when  lie  was  raised  to  the  rank 
of  a  Captain  and  placed  in  cuniniand  of  a  com- 
[xui)'.  At  Malvern  Hill  he  received  a  slight 
wound.  Drury's  Bluff  was  the  last  battle  in 
which  he  particiiiated.  After  leaving  the 
army,  he  returned  to  business.  In  1870  he 
went  to  Concord  and  began  to  manufacture 
cigars  and  deal  in  cigars  by  wholesale  and 
retail. 

Mr.  Hubbard  married  Clara  A.  Gilman, 
daughter  of  William  Gilman,  of  Concord. 
They  have  two  chikhen  —  Grace  L.  and 
Helen  ]•'.  Mr.  Hubbard  is  a  Gold  Democrat 
in  his  politics.  He  cast  his  first  Presiden- 
tial vote  for  Abraham  Lincoln.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Cirand  Army  organization  and  a 
prominent  Odd  Fellow.  In  religion  he  affil- 
iates with  the  Unitarians.  His  fellow-towns- 
men esteem  him  as  one  of  their  foremost  busi- 
ness men. 


OHN  FRANCIS  WF15STKR,  of  Con- 
cord, the  treasurer  of  the  Concord  & 
Montreal  Railroad,  was  born  in  Dor- 
chester, Mass.,  November  iS,  1837,  son  of 
Nathaniel  F.  and  Miriam  (Couch)  Webster, 
both  natives  of  Salisbury,  N.  H.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Savannah,  Ga. , 
and  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  comnleted  his  studies 
at  the  age  of  nineteen.  His  first  employment 
for  salary  was  that  of  book-keeper  for  Moure, 
Cilley  &  Co.,  hardware  merchants  of  this  city, 
with  whom  he  remained  for  a  year  and  a  half. 
On  March  14,  1.S57,  he  entered  the  employ  of 
the   Concoril    Railroad    Corjioration   as   cashier 


in  the  local  freight  office,  where  he  continued 
until  1862,  when  he  was  promoted  to  the  gen- 
eral freight  office.  On  May  i,  1865,  he  was 
made  cashier  of  the  road,  a  position  that  he 
subsequently  filled  for  nearly  twenty-five 
years.  In  September,  1889,  he  was  appointed 
to  his  present  office,  that  of  treasurer  of  the 
Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad.  His  long  ex- 
perience in  the  financial  department  of  a  carry- 
ing corporation  had  previously  qualified  him 
for  this  position.  He  is  now  a  well-known 
railroad  financier.  He  is  also  interested  in 
the  Mechanics'  National  Hank,  of  which  he  is 
a  Director,  and  in  the  Loan  and  Trust  Savings 
Bank  of  Concord,  of  which  he  is  a  Trustee. 
Politically,  he  is  a  Republican.  He  repre- 
sented Concord  in  the  legislature  during  the 
years  1889  and  i8go,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Aldermen  from  Ward  I*"our  in  1895, 
1S96,  1897,  and  1898. 

On  June  18,  1856,  Mr.  Webster  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Mary  J.  Cutting,  of  this  city. 
She  died  in  November,  1893,  leaving  four 
children,  namely :  Jennie  Margaret,  now  the 
wife  of  Edward  E.  Brown,  of  Concord  ;  Clara 
Helen,  the  wife  of  Joseph  S.  Mathews,  of  this 
city;  Jessie  Marion;  and  Frances  May.  Mr. 
Webster  was  again  married  February  6,  1S97, 
to  Miss  Stella  Hutchinson,  of  Manchester, 
N.H.  A  Mason  of  high  standing,  he  is  a 
member  of  Blazing  Star  Lodge,  No.  11;  of 
Trinity  Chapter,  No.  2,  Royal  Arch  Masons; 
of  Horace  Chase  Council,  No.  4,  Royal  and 
Select  Masters;  of  Mount  Iloreb  Commandery, 
Knights  Templar;  of  Edward  A.  Raymond 
Consistory,  of  Nashua ;  and  of  the  Royal 
Order  of  Scotland.  He  has  been  the  presid- 
ing officer  of  all  of  the  Masonic  bodies  in 
Concord,  and  Grand  Master,  Grand  High 
Priest,  and  Grand  Commander  of  the  State 
bodies.  He  is  one  of  the  few  whose  qualifica- 
tions enable    them    to    reach    the    thirty-third 


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degree,  which  was  conferred  upon  him  at  Bos- 
ton, September  17,  1885,  by  the  Supreme 
Council,  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite, 
for  the  Northern  Masonic  Jurisdiction  of  the 
United  States  of  America.  Mr.  Webster  is  a 
member  of  St.  Paul's  Episcopal  Church. 


J~>v  ANIKL  C.  WESTGATE,  a  promi- 
— 1  nent  resident  of  Plainfield  and  an 
^  ex-member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  was  born  in  this  town,  June  4, 
1857,  son  of  Earl  and  Sarah  Chase  (Cole) 
Westgate.  His  great-grandfather,  John  West- 
gate,  who  was  the  first  ancestor  of  the  family 
to  settle  in  Plainfield,  came  here  in  1778. 
John  married  Grace  Church,  of  Tiverton, 
R.I.,  a  descendant  of  Colonel  Benjamin 
Church,  who  commanded  the  Colonial  forces 
in  the  war  against  King  Philip.  They  were 
the  parents  of  eleven  children;  namely, 
Betsey,  John,  Eydia,  tlarl,  Priscilla,  Mary, 
George,  W'illiam,  Joseph,  Benjamin,  and 
Hannah.  P2arl  Westgate,  grandfather  of 
Daniel  C,  accompanied  his  parents  to  this 
town,  and  spent  the  active  period  of  his  life 
upon  the  farm  now  occupied  by  his  son.  Earl 
Westgate  (second).  He  married  P^lizabeth 
Waite,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Annie 
(Svvectser)  Waite,  of  Hubbardston,  Mass., 
and  was  by  her  the  father  of  si.v  children; 
namely,  I'llizabeth,  John,  Nathaniel  W., 
Anna  W. ,  George,  and  Earl. 

h:arl  Westgate,  Daniel  C.  Westgate's 
father,  was  born  in  Plainfield,  December  17, 
1808.  He  assisted  in  carrying  on  the  farm 
until  his  father's  death,  when  he  succeeded  to 
the  projjerty.  By  judicious  management  he 
obtained  a  good  income  from  the  estate. 
P'ailing  health  compelled  him  to  retire  Irom 
active  labor  some  years  since,  and  the  farm  is 
now  managed  by  his  son.      In    religious   belief 


he  is  a  Baptist,  and  he  has  been  a  Deacon  of 
that  church  for  fifty  years.  His  first  wife,  in 
maidenhood  Sarah  Chase  Cole,  who  was  born 
in  Plainfield,  November  24,  1S15,  daughter  of 
Daniel  and  Martha  (Johnson)  Cole,  died  Janu- 
ary iS,  1876.  The  maiden  name  of  his  second 
wife  was  Abigail  M.  Camp,  and  she  died  four 
years  after  her  marriage.  I^arl  Westgate  had 
si.x  children,  all  the  offsjjring  of  his  first 
union.  They  were:  William  H,  born  De- 
cember g,  1840;  Martha  E.,  born  January  9, 
1842;  Edith  S.,  born  June  29,  1846;  Julia 
A.,  born  August  8,  1848,  who  died  November 
19,  1865;  Mary  E.,  born  November  i,  1854, 
who  died  February  29,  1864;  and  Daniel  C, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  William  E.,  who 
attended  school  at  Kimball  Union  Academy, 
has  held  some  of  the  important  town  offices, 
and  is  now  County  Commissioner.  He  mar- 
ried Charlotte  E.  Bryant,  of  Cornish,  N.H., 
and  has  two  children — Earl  and  Martha  P). 
The  latter  is  now  the  wife  of  Pxlwin  M. 
Quimby.  Her  aunt,  Martha  \l.  Westgate, 
who  attended  the  academy  and  was  formerly 
a  successful  school  teacher,  is  now  the  widow 
of  Freeman  Holt,  late  of  Eyme,  N.H.,  and 
presides  over  her  father's  household.  ]{dith 
S.  Westgate,  who  is  the  wife  of  Carlos  D. 
Colby,  a  wealthy  farmer  of  Plainfield,  has  had 
eight  children,  seven  of  whom  are  living. 
Daniel  C.  Westgate  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  Plainfield  and  at  New  London, 
N.  H.  .Since  tiien  he  has  given  his  attention 
to  general  farming  at, the  homestead,  and  has 
had  the  entire  charge  of  the  farm  since  his 
father's  retirement.  He  is  one  of  the  Repub- 
lican ])arty  leaders  in  this  locality,  and  has 
served  the  town  ably  and  faithfully  as  Town 
Clerk  and  Treasurer.  y\lso  he  was  Select- 
man for  si.x  years,  having  been  Chairman  of  the 
IJoard  for  two  years  of  that  time;  and  he  repre- 
sented the  town  in  the  State  legislature,  where 


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he  served  on  the  Committee  on  Appropriations, 
lie  is  at  present  Master  of  l^low-mc-down 
Grange. 

On  June  13,  1.S7S,  Mr.  Westgatc  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Clara  J.  Stone,  who  was  born 
in  riainfield,  March  27,  1.S55,  daughter  of 
.Siijonioii  Stone.  She  is  now  the  mother  of 
two  daughters:  Mary  K.,  liorn  November  27, 
1879;  and  ]5essie  S. ,  l)orn  Octoljer  15,  1S83. 
Mary  E.  atteniled  Kimljall  Union  y\cademy, 
and  is  now  a  prominent  scliool  teaclicr  in  this 
town.      15essie  S.   is  still  attending  school. 


llIARI.lCS  F.  ADAMS,  the  junior 
proprietor  and  business  manager  of  the 
needle  factory  at  Hill,  was  born  at 
Ilill,  October  2,  1857,  youngest  son  of  the 
late  Harrison  Achuns.  The  grandfather,  Kus- 
sel  Adams,  a  farmer  by  occupation,  moved  to 
Hill  when  it  was  New  Chester.  His  wife, 
Susan  Fifield  Adams,  had  eight  children. 
Of  these  Harrison  Adams  was  one  of  the 
principal  founders  of  the  needle  factory. 
Associated  in  business  with  Harrison  were 
his  two  sons,  P.  C.  Shaw  and  Stephen  Wood- 
ward. 

Charles  F.  Adams  received  his  education  in 
the  district  schools  and  in  the  Choate  School 
of  Boston.  He  then  went  into  his  father's 
factory,  beginning  at  the  bottom  of  the  ladder. 
From  this  position  he  worked  his  way  up 
through  the  various  departments,  and  is  to-day 
the  manager  of  the  business.  It  is  claimed 
that  the  factory  employs  more  men  than  any 
olhei'  concern  in  town.  Mr.  Adams  married 
Miss  Henrietta  15.  Murrill,  a  daughter  of  Har- 
rison and  Olive  Morrill.  She  is  now  the 
mother  of  three  children  —  Heber,  George  E., 
and  Carl,  who  form  a  [deasant  family  group. 
Like  his  father  and  brother,  George  H.,  Mr. 
Adams  is  a  jMominent    figure  in  social   and    re- 


ligious organizations  and  a  prime  mover  in  all 
affairs  relating  to  the  civil  and  administrative 
welfare  of  the  town.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
present  legislature,  Selectman  of  the  town, 
and  Chairman  of  the  School  Hoard,  as  well  as 
an  active  Odd  Fellow.  In  politics  a  Rc|)ubli- 
can,  he  had  the  pleasure  of  casting  his  first 
Presidential  vote  in  1880  for  General  Garfield. 


SOSJCPH  L.  CALL,  who  was  a  leading 
resident  of  Franklin  and  dealt  largely 
in  cattle,  was  born  in  this  town,  Au- 
gust 31,  1840,  son  of  Hazen  H.  and  Mary 
(Thomas)  Call.  His  father  was  a  native  of 
Franklin;  and  his  mother  was  born  in  San- 
bornton,  N.  II.  His  parents'  family  comprised 
eight  children.  An  account  of  his  ancestry 
and  immediate  relatives  will  be  found  on  an- 
other jiage  in  the  biography  of  Dana  W.  Call. 
After  attending  the  common  schools  for  the 
usual  jieriod,  Joseph,  at  the  age  of  seventeen, 
began  to  work  as  a  farm  assistant  in  this  local- 
ity. When  twenty  years  old,  he  engaged  in 
the  cattle  business,  which  was  thereafter  his 
chief  occuixition.  He  became  one  of  the  best 
known  drovers  in  this  ]3art  of  the  State,  l-'or 
many  years  he  was  an  extensive  buyer  of 
cattle,  sheej),  and  hogs,  which  he  shipped  to 
Brighton,  Mass.  He  was  unusually  success- 
ful. Some  years  ago  he  settled  at  the  home- 
stead. He  owned  about  four  hundred  acres  of 
land,  and  at  the  time  of  his  decease  he  was 
one  of  the  largest  general  farmers  in  Franklin. 
In  October,  1861,  he  married  Ann  G.  Sever- 
ance. She  was  born  in  Salisbury,  N.  H.,  De- 
cember 25,  1841,  daughter  of  Stillnian  and 
Martha  (Lowell)  Severance.  Her  parents  re- 
sided in  Salisbury  until  1S50,  when  they 
moved  to  Franklin  and  settled  on  a  farm  in 
the  northern  part  of  the  town.  Stillnian  Sev- 
erance died   in    1862,  and    his    wife  in    1S81. 


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Mr.  and  Mrs.  Call  had  two  children,  namely: 
Cora  Belle,  born  in  1862,  who  i.s  now  the  wife 
of  Frank  \V.  Foster,  a  prosperous  farmer  of 
Hill,  N.H.  ;  and  Katherine  L.,  born  Decem- 
ber 12,  1S65,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Arthur 
B.  Simonds,  an  employee  of  the  needle  factory 
in  Hill.  Mrs.  Simonds  is  an  accomplished 
singer  and  teacher,  and  has  sung  in  different 
church  choirs  in  Concord  and  Nashua.  She 
and  her  husband  reside  with  her  parents.  Mr. 
Hall  died  June  16,   1897. 

Politically,  Mr.  Call  always  supported  the 
Democratic  party;  but  in  i8g6  he  voted  for 
McKinley  and  the  gold  standard.  He  ren- 
dered valuable  service  to  the  town  as  a  Select- 
man for  two  years.  The  family  are  connected 
with  the  grange  in  Hill.  Both  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Call  attended   the  Christian   church. 


lYRON  MOORE,  the  efficient  Post- 
master of  Concord,  was  born  in  this 
city,  October  30,  1844,  son  of 
James  and  Nancy  (Barr)  Moore,  both  of  whom 
were  natives  of  Goffstown,  N.H.  He  comes 
of  Scotch-Irish  ancestry.  His  earliest  pro- 
genitor emigrated  to  America  in  17 19,  set- 
tling in  Londonderry,  N.H.  He  obtained  his 
efiucation  in  the  public  schools  of  Concord, 
being  graduated  from  the  high  school  at  the 
age  of  nineteen  years.  Then  he  obtained  em- 
ployment in  the  stove  foundry  of  William  P. 
Ford  &  Co.,  with  whom  he  remained  for 
twenty  years.  During  a  part  of  the  time  he 
was  associated  in  the  firm  of  James  Moore  & 
Sons,  successful  hardware  merchants  of  this 
city.  In  1884  they  sold  out,  and  in  the  next 
year  Mr.  Moore  was  appointed  money  order 
clerk  in  the  post-office,  which  position  he 
held  for  about  two  years.  In  1894  he  was  ap- 
pointed Postmaster  by  President  Cleveland, 
and  he  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the  office  on 


June  \6  of  the  same  year.     This  position  he 
has  since  filled  most  acceptably. 

On  October  19,  1876,  Mr.  Moore  was  mar- 
ried to  Sarah  E.  Tucker,  of  this  city.  In 
politics  he  affiliates  with  the  Democratic 
party.  He  has  been  connected  with  Masonic 
organizations  for  thirty  years,  being  a  mem- 
ber of  Blazing  Star  Lodge,  No.  3,  Trinity 
Chapter,  R.  A.  M.  ;  and  of  Mount  Horeb  Com- 
mandery,  K.  T. 


OHN  TICKNOR  DUNCAN,  the  Treas- 
urer of  the  Kimball  Union  Academy, 
Meriden,  was  born  in  Plainfield,  De- 
cember 22,  1 83 1,  son  of  Samuel  B.  and  Ruth 
(Ticknor)  Duncan.  His  great-grandfather, 
James  Duncan,  born  in  1724,  resided  in 
Haverhill,  Mass.  James  married  Elizabeth 
Bell,  who  was  born  December  25,  1725,  and 
had  a  family  of  twelve  children.  Robert 
Duncan,  the  grandfather,  was  born  in  Haver- 
hill, May  21,  1760.  When  a  young  man  he 
settled  in  Plainfield.  He  married  Hannah 
Plmerson,  a  native  of  Haverhill,  and  became 
the  father  of  four  children  —  Samuel  B.,  John 
Thaxter,  Mary  A.,  and  Hannah  —  all  natives 
of  Plainfield.  John  Thaxter,  who  was  born  in 
1798,  and  followed  a  mercantile  business  in 
Vermont  for  a  number  of  years,  was  afterward 
engaged  in  the  manufacture  of  iron  in  New 
York  State,  and  died  in  1870.  He  married 
Fanny  Dennison,  and  had  a  family  of  six  chil- 
dren, four  of  whom  are  living.  Mary  A., 
born  March  23,  1800,  married  John  Bryant,  of 
this  town,  who  was  associated  with  Squire 
Kimball  in  a  mercantile  business  and  the 
woollen  manufacturing  industry.  She  lived 
to  be  ninety-one  years  old,  and  two  of  her  four 
children  are  living.  Hannah,  who  was  born 
in  1802,  married  Reuben  True,  one  of  the 
prosperous  farmers  and  prominent  residents  of 


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Plainficld  in  liis  day;  and  she  lived  to  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  ninety-four  years.  She  was  the 
mother  of  four  chihiren,  one  of  whom  is  living. 
Sannicl  1!.  Dinicaii,  jjoni  November  20, 
1795,  was  educated  in  the  schools  of  I'lainfield 
and  Haverhill,  Mass.  Soon  after  the  comple- 
tion of  his  studies  he  volunteered  to  serve  in 
the  War  of  181 2  as  a  substitute  for  his 
brother,  who  had  been  drafted.  P'or  thirty- 
five  years  he  was  a  Trustee  of  the  Kimball 
Union  Academy,  and  he  filled  the  position  of 
Treasurer  for  twelve  years.  He  died  Decem- 
ber 22,  1869.  His  wife,  Ruth,  was  born  in 
Lebanon,  N.H.,  in  1777,  daui;htcr  of  John 
and  Mabel  (Green)  Ticknor.  She  became  the 
mother  of  three  sons,  namely:  John  T-,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  Robert  H.,  born  No- 
vember 12,  1833;  and  Samuel  A.,  born  June 
19,  1836.  Robert  H.  prepared  for  his  col- 
legiate course  at  the  Kimball  Union  Acad- 
emy, and  was  graduated  from  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege, class  of  1S57.  He  studied  law  at  the 
I'oughkeepsie  (N.Y.)  Law  School,  and  is  now 
a  prominent  patent  attorney  in  New  York 
City.  He  married  Abbie  Vinning,  daughter 
of  Samuel  Vinning,  of  Holbrook,  Mass.;  and 
she  has  had  four  children,  three  of  whom  are 
living.  Samuel  A.  attended  the  Kimball 
Union  Academy,  and  was  graduated  from 
Dartmouth  with  the  class  of  1858.  After 
pursuing  a  course  at  the  Columbia  Law 
School,  he  was  engaged  in  teaching  at 
Quincy,  Mass.,  for  a  time,  and  was  for  two 
years  a  tutor  at  Dartmouth  College.  In  1862 
he  was  commissioned  Major  of  the  Fourteenth 
Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Volunteers,  was 
later  appointed  Colonel  of  the  Fourth  United 
States  Colored  Regiment,  and  retired  from 
the  service  with  the  rank  of  Brevet  Major- 
general.  During  the  years  1867  and  1S68  he 
was  special  agent  of  the  United  States  Treas- 
ury at  Washington,  wqs   E.Naminer  of   Patents 


from  1S68  to  1870,  and  Commissioner  of 
Patents  from  1870  to  1872.  Later  he  became 
associated  with  his  brother,  Robert  H.,  in 
New  York  City,  and  died  October  18,  1895. 
On  December  25,  1867,  he  married  Julia 
Jones,  of  Washington,  N.  IL;  and  she  became 
the  mother  of  five  chihiren,  three  of  whom  are 
living.  She  is  now  residing  in  Knglewood, 
N.J.  Mrs.  Samuel  B.  Duncan  was  ninety- 
four  years  old,  when  she  died  in  1871. 

After  graduating  from  the  Kimball  Union 
Academy  in  1S52,  John  Ticknor  Duncan  im- 
mediately turned  his  attention  to  agriculture. 
He  succeeded  to  the  home  farm,  and  has  since 
carried  it  on  with  success.  The  property, 
which  contains  about  fifty  acres,  is  located  in 
the  village  of  Meriden,  nearly  op])osite  the 
academy  and  adjoining  Dexter  Richard  Hall, 
where  many  of  the  students  board.  In  1870 
he  succeeded  his  father  as  Treasurer  and  Trus- 
tee of  the  academy.  This  institution  has 
from  one  hundred  and  fifty  to  one  hundred  and 
seventy-five  students  in  attendance.  De.xter 
Richard  Hall,  a  handsome  three-story  build- 
ing belonging  to  the  academy,  is  used  during 
the  vacation  season  for  summer  boarders.  Mr. 
Duncan  has  acted  as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 
and  Notary  Public  for  the  past  twenty  years. 
Politically,  he  supports  the  Republican  party. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Constitutional  Convention  of  1889.  ■ 


(^Tr-NDREW  J.  MITCHELL,  one  of 
fcjj  Lempster's  well-to-do  farmers  and 
'  *  V_^  an  e.x-member  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire legislature,  was  born  in  Acworth,  N.H., 
August  3,  1828,  son  of  William  L.  and  El- 
mira  (Moore)  Mitchell.  He  is  a  descendant 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  (Mitchell)  Mitchell,  who 
emigrated  from  Ireland,  and  located  in  Lon- 
donderry, N.  H.     William  and   Martha  (Wal- 


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lace)  Mitchell,  great-grandparents  of  Andrew 
J.,  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Acworth  in  1777. 
Jonathan  Mitchell,  grandfather  of  Andrew  J., 
and  a  native  of  Acworth,  spent  the  active 
period  of  his  life  engaged  in  agriculture.  He 
married  Nancy  Mitchell,  of  Francestown, 
N.H.,  and  his  children  were:  William  L.  : 
James  L. ;  Nancy,  who  died  in  Acworth; 
and  Jonathan  T. 

William  L.  Mitchell,  whose  birth  occurred 
in  Acworth  in  1804,  was  a  lifelong  resident  of 
that  town.  He  prosperously  conducted  a 
good  farm,  and  was  highly  respected  as  an  up- 
right man  and  a  worthy  citizen.  He  lived  to 
be  seventy-six  years  old.  His  wife,  Elmira 
Moore,  who  was  born  in  Lempster  in  1807, 
became  the  mother  of  ten  children,  as  follows: 
Andrew  J.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Will- 
iam L. ,  who  died  in  infancy;  Elmira  A.,  who 
died  young;  William  L.  (second),  who  mar- 
ried Jane  Elliott,  and  is  a  farmer  and  milk 
dealer  in  Littleton,  Mass.;  Levi  W.,  who 
married  Harriet  W.  Brown,  and  is  engaged  in 
agriculture  in  Mason,  N.H.;  Alma  A.,  who 
married  Herbert  L.  Piper,  of  Acworth,  and 
died  in  September,  1895;  Abram,  who 
wedded  Frances  Bailey,  of  Claremont,  N.  H., 
and  is  a  prosperous  farmer  in  Acworth:  Jona- 
tha-n  T. ,  who  is  also  engaged  in  farming  in 
that  town;  Nellie  J.,  who  did  not  reach  ma- 
turity; and  Clara  L. ,  who  married  George 
Miller,  neither  of  whom  is  living.  Mrs. 
William  L.  Mitchell  lived  to  be  seventy-seven 
years  old.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational church. 

Andrew  J.  Mitchell  was  reared  in  the  com- 
mon schools,  and  grew  to  manhood  in  Ac- 
worth.  He  resided  at  home  until  he  was 
twenty-seven  years  old,  assisting  in  carrying 
on  the  farm  and  working  to  some  extent  at 
shocmaking.  In  1858  he  bought  the  Way 
farm    in    Lempster,    where    he    now    resides. 


Since  then  he  has  enlarged  the  property  from 
one  hundred  and  five  to  two  hundred  acres, 
and  made  various  improvements  upon  the  land 
and  buildings.  In  addition  to  carrying  on 
general  farming,  he  raises  some  fine  cattle, 
manufactures  considerable  maple  sugar,  and 
cares  for  a  large  orchard.  In  politics  he  is 
an  active  supporter  of  the  Prohibition  party. 
He  has  served  as  Selectman  and  upon  the 
School  Board.  He  ably  represented  this  dis- 
trict in  the  legislature  during  the  3''ears  1876 
and  1877,  and  he  has  been  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  some  time. 

On  April  21,  1S57,  Mr.  Mitchell  was  joined 
in  marriage  with  Mary  M.  Whittemore.  She 
was  born  in  Wilton,  N.  H.,  September  28, 
1S27,  daughter  of  Abram  and  Martha  (Mar- 
shall) Whittemore,  the  former  of  whom  was  a 
native  of  Greenfield,  and  the  latter  of  Tewks- 
bury,  Mass.  Abram  Whittemore  was  exten- 
sively engaged  in  agricultural  and  mercantile 
pursuits.  The  erection  of  the  first  cotton- 
mill  in  New  Hampshire  was  due  to  his  energy 
and  enterprise.  Mrs.  Mitchell's  grandfather. 
Major  Amos  Whittemore,  was  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  and  served  at  Bunker  Hill.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mitchell  -have  three  children; 
namely,  Abraham  W.,  M.D.,  Martha  A., 
and  Nellie  J.  Martha  died  young.  Abraham 
W.  was  educated  in  Lempster,  Newport,  and 
Meriden,  N. H.  His  medical  studies  were 
begun  at  the  University  of  the  State  of  Ver- 
mont in  Burlington;  and  he  was  graduated 
from  the  New  York  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  1887,  taking  high  rank  in  a  class 
of  one  hundred  and  fifty-one  students.  He 
commenced  the  practice  of  his  profession  in 
Harrisville,  N.  H.,  where  he  remained  about  a 
year.  Since  then  he  has  resided  in  lapping, 
N.IL,  wdiich  he  now  represents  in  the  lower 
house  of  the  State  legislature.  He  married 
Harriett  V.  Perkins,  daughter  of  Dr.  Marshall 


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Perkins,  of  Marlow,  N.ll.,  and  lias  tlircc  chil- 
dren—  Avis  W.,  Karl  1'.,  and  Richard  A. 
Nellie  J.  Mitchell  is  now  the  wife  of  lulward 
L.  I'ikc,  who  is  manager  and  superintendent 
of  the  colli  storage  buildings  of  the  Provi- 
dence Freezing  Company,  Providence,  R.I. 
Mr.  Mitchell  is  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church;  and  he  is  connected  with  Cold 
River  Grange,  No.  ig,  Patrons  of  Husbandry, 
of  Acvvorth.  Mr.  Mitchell  has  had  a  busy 
and  useful  life,  and  his  industry  has  been  at- 
tended with  irood  financial  results. 


/^^TkORGE  W.  griffin,  of  Franklin 
\  pT  I'alls  village,  the  senior  member  of 
the  firm  G.  W.  Grififin  &  Co.,  and  a 
native  of  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  was  born  April  2, 
1839,  son  of  George  and  Alice  (Clark) 
Griffin.  George  Griffin  manufactured  wool  in 
Danville  and  Barnct,  Vt.,  for  several  years. 
Afterward  he  returned  to  Manchester,  the 
place  of  his  birth,  and  opened  a  store.  The 
latter  part  of  his  life  was  spent  at  York  ]3each. 
Me.  He  was  the  proprietor  of  the  Agamenti- 
cus  Hotel  there,  and  carried  it  on  until  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1885,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-three  years.  He  had  six 
children,  namely:  William  Henry,  the  eldest- 
born,  who  dietl  in  1866;  Almena  J.,  who  mar- 
ried Walter  Bailey,  a  merchant  of  Lancaster, 
N.H.  ;  Clara  A.,  who  married  Thomas 
Howard,  a  wheelwright  of  Manchester; 
George  W.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Georgia  A.,  George's  twin  sister,  who  died  in 
1865;  and  Hebcr  C,  a  mechanic,  who  mar- 
ried Ann  McKiver,  of  Franklin,  N.H. 

Mr.  Griffin  recci\ed  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  the  county.  When  twent}' 
years  of  age  he  engaged  in  the  manufacture  of 
needles  with  the  Hon.  Walter  Aiken,  remain- 
ing in  that  business  until  1S80       In  that  year 


he  and  P.  C.  Hancock  began  the  manufacture 
of  saws,  which  he  has  since  continued.  The 
firm's  product  includes  patent  scroll  and  hack 
saws  and  fine  jeweller's  saws.  On  November 
7,  i860,  Mr.  Griffin  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Miss  Addie  M.  Burgess,  of  Jay  Bridge, 
Me.,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  Burgess,  a  miller 
of  that  place.  His  children  were:  George 
A.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  seven  months; 
Raliih  B.  and  Ernest  L.,  who  are  employed  in 
their  father's  factory.  Mr.  Grififin  is  a  Mason 
of  Meridian  Lodge,  No.  60,  of  Franklin.  In 
politics  he  is  a  stanch  Republican,  and  he  is 
now  a  member  of  the  City  Council.  He  is 
connected  with  the  Baptist  church  at  Frank- 
lin. He  is  much  esteemed  by  friends,  neigh- 
bors, and  customers,  and  is  spoken  of  as  one 
of  the  successful  men  of  the  town. 


I:ANDER  VV.  COGSWELL,  an  influ- 
ential resident  of  Ilenniker  and  a  na- 
tive of  the  town,  was  born  Novem- 
ber 18,  1825,  son  of  David  and  Hannah 
(Haskell)  Cogswell.  After  receiving  his 
education  in  the  academies  of  Henniker  and 
I'rancestown,  he  taught  school  for  several 
terms.  In  1849  ^^  went  to  California.  Re- 
turning in  1854,  he  was  engaged  in  a  mercan- 
tile business  in  Ilenniker  until  July,  1861, 
when  he  was  appointed  route  agent  from  Hills- 
borough Bridge  to  Manchester. 

On  the  13th  of  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  as 
a  private  in  Company  D,  FHeventh  New 
Hampshire  Volunteers.  September  4,  1862, 
he  was  commissioned  Captain  of  the  same 
company;  and  on  August  20,  1S64,  he  was 
commissioned  Lieutenant  Colonel  of  his  regi- 
ment. Following  the  fortunes  of  the  regi- 
ment in  the  Ninth  Army  Corps,  he  partici- 
pated in  its  memorable  battles,  sieges,  and 
marches.     During  the  last  campaign    of    the 


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war  he  was  for  some  months  A.  A.  Inspector- 
general  on  the  staff  of  Major-general  S.  G. 
Griffin,  commanding  the  Second  Brigade,  Sec- 
ond Division  of  the  Ninth  Army  Corps. 

In  1866,  1867,  1870,  and  1871,  Mr.  Cogs- 
well represented  his  town  in  the  legislature. 
In  1 87 1  and  1872  he  was  State  Treasurer,  and 
from  1876  to  1 88 1  he  was  one  of  the  Savings 
Bank  Commissioners.  He  was  made  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace  in  1876,  and  he  has  held  several 
municipal  offices.  Besides  giving  much  time 
and  thought  to  public  questions  and  to  the 
discharge  of  his  official  duties,  Mr.  Cogswell 
has  been  an  active  member  of  various  organi- 
zations. He  was  elected  a  member  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Historical  Society,  and  he 
was  President  of  the  New  Hampshire  Anti- 
quarian Society.  F"or  many  years  he  was 
Master  of  Aurora  Lodge,  No.  43,  A.  F.  & 
A.  M.  ;  and  High  Priest  of  Wood's  Chapter, 
No.  14,  Royal  Arch  Masons.  Taking  an 
earnest  interest  in  educational  matters,  he  was 
often  Superintendent  of  Schools  and  a  member 
of  the  School  Board  for  several  years  under 
the  town  system.  Mr.  Cogswell  has  also  done 
considerable  literary  work.  He  is  master  of 
a  pleasing  style,  and  is  the  author  of  the 
History  of  Henniker,  N.  H.,  a  volume  of 
se\^ral  hundred  pages;  and  of  the  History 
of  the  Eleventh  New  Hampshire  Volunteers. 
In  addition  to  these  he  has  published  several 
addresses  delivered  by  him  before  various  so- 
cieties. On  the  17th  of  May,  1S53,  Mr. 
Cogswell  married  Mary  S. ,  daughter  of  Oliver 
and  Anna.  (Smith)  -Pillsbury,  since  which 
event  he  has  made  his  home  in  Henniker. 


P.    &    C.    W.    REDINGTON,     man- 
ufacturers of  carriage  hubs  at  Roby's 
•  Corner    in    Warner,    have   for    several 
years    continued    a    business    wliich    was    first 


established  in  Wenham,  Mass.,  by  Adam  Red- 
ington.  Adam  Redington,  grandfather  of 
Oliver  Patch  Redington,  whose  name  occupies 
the  place  of  senior  partner  in  that  of  the  firm, 
was  for  many  years  a  manufacturer  in  Wen- 
ham.  Afterward  he  removed  to  Sunapee,  Sul- 
livan County,  N.  H.,  where  he  established  a 
mill,  and  carried  on  his  work  until  his  death. 
He  was  succeeded  in  business  by  his  son 
John.  John  transferred  the  business  to  Hop- 
kinton,  and  thence  to  a  mill  on  the  North 
Road  in  Sutton,  where  his  son,  Oliver  P., 
assisted  him  and  learned  the  business. 

Oliver  P.  Redington  subsequently  engaged 
in  manufacturing  in  the  town  of  Andover,  this 
county,  two  years  later  locating  at  Roby's  Cor- 
ner. He  started  a  water-power  factory  on  the 
Warner  River,  about  three  miles  above  Water- 
loo, where  he  continued  the  manufacture  of 
wooden  bowls,  adding  that  of  excelsior.  Sub- 
sequently, after  enlarging  his  premises,  he 
began  making  hubs  and  clothes-pins  on  a  very 
small  scale.  Within  a  few  years  he  acquired 
such  a  large  trade  in  hubs  that  he  confined  his 
attention  entirely  to  their  manufacture.  For 
these  he  uses  elm  timber,  cut  in  New  Hamp- 
shire, made  into  blocks,  and  seasoned  by  a 
special  process,  a  large  stock  being  constantly 
kept  on  hand.  Abbott,  Downing  &  Co.,  of 
Concord,  use  the  hubs  exclusively.  However, 
seventy-five  per  cent,  of  the  factory's  output  is 
exported  on  orders  received  from  Australia, 
South  Africa,  New  Zealand,  and  other  dis- 
tant places.  During  the  last  five  years,  in 
spite  of  the  depressing  financial  condition  of 
the  country,  the  business  has  increased  fifty 
per  cent. 

Oliver  P.  Redington  was  a  well-read  and 
intelligent  man,  though  not  college-bred. 
Both  he  and  his  brotiicr,  John  S,  Redington, 
were  anxious  for  a  college  education;  Imt  Oli- 
ver, the  elder,  realizing  that  it  would   l:ic   im- 


HON.  JOHN    KIMBAIJ, 


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129 


possible  for  both  to  leave  home,  relinquished 
his  chance  in  favor  of  his  brother.  Oliver 
also  assisted  his  brother  pecuniarily,  so  that 
John  was  enabled  to  enter  Dartmouth,  of 
which  he  was  a  student  when  his  death  oc- 
curred, in  the  first  flush  of  manhood,  with  most 
flattering  prospects  of  a  brilliant  career  before 
him.  Subsequently  by  close  attention  to 
business  Oliver  acquired  a  competency.  He 
was  a  man  of  positive  opinions,  clear  and 
courageous  in  his  convictions,  and  a  valued 
member  of  the  Republican  party,  which  he 
joined  on  its  formation,  having  previously 
been   a  Whig.      He  died    May  3,    1891. 

Oliver  V.  liedington's  first  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Betsey  Morgan,  died  about 
five  years  before  he  did.  Afterward  he  mar- 
ried her  sister,  Hannah  Morgan.  His  chil- 
dren, all  born  of  his  first  marriage,  were: 
Mary  Frances,  who  was  educated  at  New  Lon- 
don, N.  H.,  and  afterward  taught  school  for 
some  years  in  the  States  of  Ohio,  Illinois,  and 
Pennsylvania,  and  is  now  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Samuel  J.  Hayes,  of  I'ittsburg,  Pa.  ;  Sarah, 
who  was  also  for  many  years  engaged  in  teach- 
ing, having  been  educated  in  the  Simond's 
High  School,  and  is  now  the  wife  of  C.  IC. 
Hadley,  the  Superintendent  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire l'"ruit  Company;  Annie,  who  died  un- 
married in  1877,  aged  twenty-si.x  years;  and 
Charles  Walter. 

Charles  Walter  Redington  attended  I5ryant 
&  Stratton's  Commercial  College  at  both 
Manchester  and  Concord,  receiving  a  fine  busi- 
ness education.  The  day  that  he  attained  his 
majority  he  was  taken  into  partnership  by  his 
father,  forming  the  firm  O.  P.  &  C.  W.  Red- 
ington. From  his  father  he  learned  every 
detail  of  the  business  of  which  he  is  now  the 
sole  proprietor,  having  charge  in  later  years 
of  the  outside  work.  On  the  well-improved 
farm,  where  he  employs  men  to  do  the  manual 


labor,  he  carries  on  general  farming,  making 
a  specialty  of  a  milk  dairy.  He  is  also  inter- 
ested in  the  New  Merrimack  Glove  Company 
and  the  New  Hamp.shire  ]'"ruit  Company  of 
Concord,  each  of  which  he  serves  as  Director. 
In  politics  he  is  an  earnest  advocate  of  the 
principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
usually  attends  all  party  conventions  in  this 
section  of  New  luigland.  On  March  7,  1878, 
Mr.  Redington  married  Miss  Ida  M.  Blood, 
daughter  of  A.  B.  and  Mary  Kvelinc  (Muzzey) 
Blood.  She  is  a  woman  of  culture,  and  for 
some  years  i)rior  to  her  marriage  taught  school 
in  this  vicinity.  Born  in  Newbury,  N. M., 
she  was  educated  in  Bradford,  where  her  jjar- 
ents  resided  many  years. 


ON.  JOHN  KIMBALL,  A.M.,  ex- 
mayor  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  a  man  of 
strong  character,  sterling  worth, 
and  more  than  ordinary  ability,  is  held  in 
high  esteem  by  his  fellow-citizens.  He  was 
born  in  Canterbury,  N.  H.,  April  13,  1821,  a 
son  of  Benjamin  and  Ruth  (Ames)  Kimball. 
The  Kimballs  have  been  domiciled  in  New 
Kngland  for  more  than  two  hundred  and  sixty 
years,  and  have  given  to  these  States  many 
intelligent  and  capable  men  and  women.  The 
first  immigrants  of  the  name,  Henry  and 
Richard  Kimball,  with  their  wives  and  chil- 
dren, fled  from  the  religious  persecutions  of  the 
Old  World,  and  found  freedom  and  prosperity 
in  the  new.  Joseph  Kimball,  who  was  of  the 
fifth  generation  in  America,  was  the  great- 
grandfather of  John  Kimball.  He  was  born  in 
Hxeter,  N.  H.,  and  died  in  Canterbury. 

John  Kimball  was  apprenticed  at  the  age 
of  seventeen  to  his  father's  cousin,  William 
Moody  Kimball,  to  learn  the  millwright's 
trade;  and,  as  he  had  a  natural  gift  for  me- 
chanics,   it    was    not    long    before    he    was    a 


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skilled  and  competent  workman.  He  was 
employed  as  a  millwright  in  Suncook  and 
Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  Lowell  and  Lawrence, 
Mass.  In  1848  he  took  charge  of  the  new 
machine  and  car  shops  of  the  Concord  Rail- 
road in  this  city.  In  1850  he  was  master 
mechanic;  and  he  efficiently  acted  in  that  ca- 
pacity for  eight  years,  turning  his  attention 
then  from  mechanical  to  other  pursuits.  In 
the  railroad  service  his  practical  skill  and 
sound  judgment  were  in  constant  recjuisition, 
and  his  training  and  experience  there  were 
afterward  used  to  good  account  in  behalf  of 
the  city  and  State.  Pie  gradually  became  in- 
terested in  various  financial  and  political 
enterprises,  and  as  his  ability  became  recog- 
nized greater  responsibilities  devolved  upon 
him.  Tiiousands  of  dollars  were  intrusted  to 
him  as  guardian,  trustee,  administrator,  and 
executor,  and  never  was  a  trust  betrayed  or 
slighted;  and,  to  quote  from  a  local  paper, 
"as  Treasurer  of  the  New  Hampshire  Bible 
Society,  the  New  Hampshire  Orphans'  Home, 
and  various  other  such  institutions,  he  has 
been  trustworthy,  painstaking,  and  just." 
i-\jr  twenty-six  years  he  has  been  Treasurer  of 
the  Merrimack  County  Savings  Bank.  He 
has  been  for  a  number  of  years  a  Director  of 
the  Mechanics  National  Bank;  and  he  has 
filled  the  office  of  President  of  the  Concord 
Gas  Light  Company,  of  which  he  is  now 
Treasurer.  In  1880,  when  the  Manchester  & 
Keene  Railroad  was  placed  in  the  hands  of  the 
court,  the  late  Chief  Justice  Doe  appointed 
Mr.  Kimball  one  of  the  Trustees. 

Mr.  Kimball's  father  and  grandfather  were 
stanch  Whigs;  and  he  has  followed  the  family 
traditions,  giving  his  lifelong  allegiance  to  the 
Republican  party.  He  was  for  twenty-seven 
years  Treasurer  of  the  Republican  State  Com- 
mittee. In  1856  he  was  elected  to  the  Com- 
mon   Council,  of  this  city.      In    1857  he  was 


re-elected  and  chosen  President  of  that  body. 
In  185S  he  was  sent  to  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives from  Ward  Five,  where  he  has  al- 
ways made  his  home  since  he  took  up  his  resi- 
dence in  this  city;  and  he  was  re-elected  in 
1859,  and  presided  as  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  State  Prison.  I'rom  1859  to  1862 
he  was  City  Marshal  and  Tax  Collector  of. 
Concord;  and  his  administration  was  marked 
by  "promptness,  accuracy,  and  close  devotion 
to  the  interests  of  the  people.  "  In  1862  Pres- 
ident Lincoln  appointed  him  Collector  of  In- 
ternal Revenue  for  the  Second  District  of  New 
Llampshire,  comprising  Merrimack  and  Hills- 
borough Counties;  and  during  the  seven  years 
he  held  the  office  he  collected  and  paid  to  the 
Treasurer  of  the  Lhiited  States  nearly  seven 
million  dcdlars.  Me  was  for  eleven  years 
Moderator  of  Ward  Five,  an  impartial  and 
clear-headed  presiding  officer;  and  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  he  served  acceptably  as  moderator 
of  the  Union  School  District. 

In  1872  through  a  popular  movement  he 
was  elected  Mayor  of  Concord.  He  was  hon- 
ored with  re-election  in  1873,  187^,  and  1875, 
annua]  elections  then  being  the  law.  Imme- 
diately after  his  installation  as  Mayor  a  severe 
freshet  injured  five  of  the  seven  wooden  bridges 
over  the  Merrimack  and  Contoocook  Rivers. 
As  superintendent  of  roads  and  bridges  he 
repaired  these  structures  in  such  a  manner  as 
to  demonstrate  his  mechanical  knowledge,  re- 
placing the  insecure  bridges  by  substantial 
structures  that  defy  the  wear  and  tear  of  time 
and  travel.  During  his  administration  tiie 
water  sujiply  system  from  Penacook  Lake  was 
completed;  and  he  was  afterward  elected  one 
of  the  Water  Commissioners,  and  served  for 
fourteen  years  as  President  of  the  Board. 
While  he  was  Mayor,  also,  the  fire  dejiartment 
was  invested  with  new  dignity  by  the  city 
government,  the  central   fire  station  and  other 


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buildings  of  wliicli  llicy  aic  justly  pnuKl  huing 
erected  imdor  the  siipcivisidii  of  Mayor  Kim- 
ball. I'lldssDiii  llill  Cemetery  was  doubled  in 
si/.c,  the  main  llioroiighfares  of  the  city  were 
graded  and  impioved,  and  stone  culverts  re- 
placed the  primitive  wooden  ones  which  had 
served  for  years. 

In  1876  Mr.  Kimball  was  elected  a  member 
of  the  convention  to  revise  the  Constitution  of 
the  State,  and  served  as  Chairman  of  its  Com- 
mittee on  ]""inance.  In  1877  an  ajiiiropriation 
was  made  by  the  legislature  for  a  Jiew  State 
Prison  ;  and  upon  the  passage  of  the  law,  which 
was  a  carefully  guarded  one.  Governor  Benja- 
min !•'.  I'rescott,  with  the  advice  of  his  coun- 
cil, appointed  Mr.  Kimball,  Albert  M.  Shaw, 
and  Alfred  J.  I'illsbury  commissioners  to  carry 
the  law  into  effect.  Mr.  Kimball  was  chosen 
chairman  of  the  board.  Under  these  com- 
missioners the  present  penitentiary  was  com- 
pleted in  the  fall  of  1880,  every  dollar  appro- 
priated being  prudently  and  judiciously  e.\- 
jiended.  In  November,  1880,  Mr.  Kimball 
was  elected  to  the  State  Senate  from  the  Tenth 
Senatorial  District ;  and  when  the  Senate  was 
organized,  in  June,  1881,  he  was  chosen  Presi- 
dent. In  this  honorable  position  he  presided 
with  wisdom,  dignity,  and  courtesy.  He  was 
chairman  of  the  committee  that  built  the  high 
school,  and  he  has  rendered  such  services  to 
the  cause  of  popular  education  that  one  of  the 
handsomest  modern  school-houses  in  Concord 
has  been  named  in  his  honor  the  Kimball 
School.  Mr.  Kimball  was  honored  with  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  by  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1884.  He  is  a  Director  of  the  Repub- 
lican Press  Association  of  Concord. 

On  May  27,  1846,  he  was  married  to  Maria 
H.  Phillips,  of  Rupert,  Vt.,  who  died  Decem- 
ber 22,  1894.  He  has  since  married  Miss 
Charlotte  Atkinson,  a  lady  of  culture  and  re- 
finement.     His  only  child,  a  daughter  —  Clara 


Maria,  born  March  20,  1848  —  was  married 
June  4,  1873,  to  Augu.stine  R.  Ayers,  of  tliis 
city,  and  has  several  children. 

In  person  Mr.  Kimball  is  tall,  erect,  and 
reinarkably  well-preserved  for  a  man  of 
scventy-si.x.  He  is  a  total  abstainer,  and  his 
modes  of  life  are  regular.  He  is  firm  and 
decided,  with  strong  confidence  in  his  own 
judgment;  frank  and  downright,  always  giving 
right  the  precedence  of  policy;  somewhat  bluff 
in  manner,  but  never  discourteous;  open- 
hearted  and  free,  kindly  and  sensitive.  A 
careful  reader,  he  is  particularly  fond  of  gene- 
alogical and  historical  research;  and  he  speaks 
and  writes  with  precision.  Faithful  in  every 
relation  of  life,  inihlic  and  domestic,  he  is 
valued  and  loved  by  all.  Mr.  Kimball  has 
travelled  abroad,  and  is  one  of  the  most  cult- 
ured men  of  the  day.  In  1843  he  joined  the 
Congregational  church  at  his  old  home  in  Hos- 
cawen,  N.  H.  ;  and  for  a  great  many  years  he  has 
been  a  member  of  the  South  Congregational 
Church  of  Concord,  contributing  generously  to 
its  support. 


M 


R.  J.  H.  SANPORN,  a  retired 
physician  of  P'ranklin  I'alls,  was 
l)orn  in  Meredith,  N.H.,  September 
23,  iJ>Jc),  son  of  John  and  Susan  (Hubbard) 
Sanborn.  His  grandfather,  Jeremiah  San- 
born, ieinesented  Sanbornton  in  the  first  legis- 
lature, that  met  in  E.xeter  in  1784.  Highly 
prized  by  the  family  are  a  compass,  a  book  on 
surveying,  and  a  powder-horn  that  belonged  to 
Jeremiah,  all  over  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  years  old.  Another  cherished  relic  is  a 
pewter  platter  that  has  been  handed  down  in 
the  Hubbard  family  for  two  hundred  and 
sixty-five  years,  since  it  was  brought  over  from 
England. 

Dr.    John  Sanborn,    the   father   of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  article,  lived   in   Sanbornton   until 


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1 815.  Then  he  moved  to  Meredith,  N.  H., 
and  there  practised  medicine  till  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  1S70.  His  wife  died  in 
1866.  Of  their  four  children  the  third  died 
in  infancy.  The  others  were:  Jesse  Apple- 
ton,  Susan  Catherine,  and  J.  H.  Jesse  was 
a  physician  at  Plymouth,  and  is  now  deceased. 
Susan  Catherine  became  the  wife  of  Levi 
Leach,  both  of  whom  are  also  deceased. 

Dr.  J.  H.  Sanborn,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  received  his  early  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  Meredith  and  at  Gilmanton 
Academy.  Then  he  studied  medicine  with  his 
father  and  brother,  and  later  on  with  Dr. 
]-ienjamin  R.  Palmer,  of  Woodstock,  Vt. ,  and 
the  president  of  Vermont  Medical  College. 
At  the  end  of  the  four  years  spent  in  this  way 
he  then  went  to  Berkshire  Medical  College  at 
Pittsfield,  Mass.,  and  remained  there  from 
1850  till  1852.  He  also  attended  the  Medi- 
cal College  at  Woodstock,  Vt.  He  received 
his  medical  certificate  in  November,  1852, 
and  then  began  practice  with  his  father  in 
Meredith.  In  the  following  year  he  went  to 
Alstead,  and  had  been  there  three  years  when 
he  returned  to  Meredith,  and  practised  from 
1856  till  September,  1862.  He  was  then 
commissioned  as  Assistant  Surgeon  in  the 
army, 'and  continued  in  service  up  to  July, 
1S64,  when  he  was  honorably  discharged  on 
account  of  physical  disability.  He  returned 
to  Meredith,  and  was  there  engaged  in  his 
profession  until  January  20,  1874,  when  he 
came  to  Franklin  P"alls.  Here  he  has  re- 
mained since,  having  his  ofiRce  at  his  resi- 
dence. He  is  a  comrade  of  George  F.  Swett 
Post,  G.  A.  R.,  of  F'ranklin  P'alls;  and  he  is 
a  Royal  Arch  Mason,  having  membership  in 
Meridian  Lodge,  No.  60,  ¥.  &  A.  M.  He 
has  always  taken  an  active  interest  in  politics, 
and  has  the  remarkable  record  of  never  having 
missed   an    election.      He   has   been   a    stanch 


Republican  since  he  cast  his  first  vote  for 
l<"remont,  and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational church  at  Meredith. 

The  Doctor  was  married  May  16,  1854,  to 
Elizabeth  H.  Leach,  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Giles  Leach,  a  Congregational  minister  of 
Meredith.  Born  March  23,  1834,  she  died 
February  18,  1895.  Four  children  came  of 
this  union;  namely,  Giles  Leach,  Hattie  L., 
Susan  Lillian,  and  Elizabeth  Thompson. 
Giles  Leach,  born  March  26,  1855,  died  in 
August,  1855.  Hattie  L.,  born  June  21, 
1856,  became  the  wife  of  Edgar  A.  Jones,  who 
is  employed  in  the  counting-room  at  Aiken's 
Mill.  They  now  reside  with  the  Doctor. 
Susan  Lillian,  born  in  1861,  died  in  1S72; 
and  Elizabeth  T. ,  born  in  1S73,  died  January 
I7>   1887.     ^^ 

T^HARLES  A.  NEWTON,  a  well- 
I  St^  to  do  farmer  of  Unity  and  an  ex- 
V»^_^  member  of  the  State  legislature, 
was  born  in  Plainficld,  July  2,  1854,  son  of 
General  Charles  L.  and  Mary  M.  (Gilman) 
Newton.  His  grandfather,  Rufus  Newton, 
was  a  native  of  Grafton,  Mass.,  who  settled 
upon  a  farm  in  Plainfield,  and  there  resided 
for  the  rest  of  his  life.  Rufus  married  Polly 
Ryder,  and  reared  a  family  of  five  children, 
who  are  all  living.  They  are;  Charles  L., 
Rufus  G. ,  Francis  J.,  Adeline,  and  Ann. 

Charles  L.  Newton  was  born  in  Plainfield. 
When  a  young  man  he  engaged  in  farming. 
He  resided  in  his  native  town  until  1859, 
when  he  moved  to  a  farm  in  Unity;  and  the 
rest  of  his  life  was  spent  in  this  town.  He 
was  an  able  farmer  and  a  citizen  of  more  than 
ordinary  worth  and  ability.  He  attained  prom- 
inence in  military  affairs,  and  ranked  as  Major- 
general  in  the  State  militia.  General  Newton 
died  January  21,  1865.  His  wife,  Mary  M. 
Gilman   Newton,    was  born    in    Unity,    daugh- 


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ter  (if  Sewcll  nnd  Deborah  (Comstock)  Gil- 
man,  natives  respectively  of  Unity  and  New- 
port, \.  H.  Sewell  Gilman,  who  was  a  pros- 
perous farmer,  died  June  lo,  1S55;  and  his 
wife  (lied  January  26,  1S69.  Their  children 
were:  Henrietta,  Sylvester,  Randolph,  Mary 
M.,  and  Henry.  Of  these  the  only  survivor 
is  Mary  M.,  who  resides  with  her  son.  She 
has  had  two  children,  namely:  Annie  11., 
born  May  2S,  1849,  who  died  November  3, 
1S69;  and  Charles  A.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

Charles  A.  Newton,  having  begun  his  edu- 
cation in  Unity,  completed  it  by  attending 
sthool  in  Meriden  for  two  terms.  His 
father's  death,  which  occurred  when  Charles 
was  about  eleven  years  old,  caused  him  to 
undertake  the  management  of  the  farm  while 
still  }'oung;  and  his  early  experience  has 
proved  exceedingly  beneficial  to  him.  He 
now  owns  two  hundred  acres  of  fertile  land, 
which  he  devotes  to  general  farming  and  dairy- 
ing; and  he  keeps  an  average  of  fifteen  cows. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  he  is  a  lead- 
ing spirit  in  local  affairs.  He  was  a  Select- 
man in  1SS7,  Supervisor  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  represented  this  district  in  the 
legislature  in  1S89  and  1890.  He  was  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Selectmen  from  1891  to 
1897,  and  he  has  been  Moderator  at  town 
meetings  for  the  past  six  years. 

On  February  17,  1SS6,  Mr.  Newton  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Speedie  A.  Clough. 
She  was  born  in  Newport,  February  17,  1865, 
daughter  of  Reuben  M.  and  Sarah  (Griffin) 
Clough.  The  father,  who  was  a  native  of 
Unity,  died  in  February,  iSSS.  Mrs.  Clough, 
who  was  born  in  Newport,  N.  H.,  and  is  now 
residing  in  Unity,  has  had  three  children  — 
Abbie,  George  G. ,  and  Speedie  A.  The 
children  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Newton  are:  Charles 
Stark,   born   April    19,  1SS7;  Pcrlie  A.,   born 


January  20,  1S94;  and  Annie  A.,  born  Febru- 
ary 22,  1896.  Mr.  Newton  is  an  Odd  Fellow 
of  Sugar  River  Lodge,  No.  55,  and  Stony 
Brook  Encampment,  of  Newport ;  and  he  is 
connected  with  Sunapce  Mountain  Grange, 
Patrons  of  Husbandry,  of  Goshen,  of  which  he 
was  Master  in  1896. 


(^OR 


OKGK  E.  Sin:i'ARD,  of  Franklin 
i>  I  village,  who  is  a  prominent  lum- 
berman of  Merrimack  County,  was 
born  March  28,  1S40,  son  of  George  and  Abi- 
gail (Hill)  Shepard.  The  grandfather  was 
Ebenezer  Shepard,  a  farmer  and  a  lifelong 
resident  of  New  London,  N.  H.,  where  his  son 
George  was  born.  George  Shepard  became  a 
farmer,  and  lived  in  Wilmot  during  forty 
years  of  his  life.-  He  made  his  home  at  one 
time  in  New  London,  N.  H.,  and  later  moved 
to  East  Andover.  His  wife,  Abigail,  was  the 
widow  of  Edmund  Chadwick  and  a  daughter 
of  Edward  Hill,  a  carpenter  of  West  New- 
bury, Mass.  She  died  leaving  three  children. 
These^  were :  Emery  B.  Chadwick,  now  de- 
ceased, born  of  her  first  marriage;  Mary 
A.  Shepard,  born  of  her  second  marriage, 
April  18,  1834;  and  George  E. ,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  Mary  became  the  wife  of 
D.  M.  Hazen,  a  confectioner  of  Cambridge- 
port,  Mass.,  and  has  six  children  —  Frank, 
Katie  A.,  Mary  E.  (deceased),  George  E., 
Willie  W.,  andAbbie. 

George  E.  Shepard  was  well  educated  in  the 
academies  at  Andover  and  New  London.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  commenced  to  learn  the 
spinner's  trade  in  the  woollen  factory  of  John- 
son &  Colby  at  Wilmot,  N.  H.,  and  remained 
four  years  there.  Then  he  bought  an  interest 
in  the  mill,  when  the  firm  name  became 
Colby,  Shepard  &  Co.,  who  were  manufact- 
urers of    hosiery    and    full    cloth.      Six    years 


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later  he  sold  his  share,  and  bought  of  Richard 
Messer  a  sixth-interest  in  the  scythe  manu- 
factory at  Scytheville,  New  London.  He  was 
stock  buyer  and  salesman  for  about  three 
years,  when,  again  selling  his  interest,  he  re- 
turned to  the  woollen  industry,  removing 
with  Mr.  R.  O.  Messer  to  East  Andover,  with 
whom  he  manufactured  hosiery  for  three  years. 
Then  he  was  engaged  in  the  lumber  business 
with  his  cousin,  J.  Eli  Shepard,  at  New  Lon- 
don for  three  years,  after  which  he  became  the 
wood  and  tie  agent  of  the  Northern  Railroad, 
later  receiving  the  appointment  of  purchasing 
agent  for  the  ]3oston  &  Lowell  Railroad,  with 
which  company  he  continued  for  four  years. 
After  returning  to  East  Andover,  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  lousiness  with  several 
different  parties  until  in  1892,  when  he  went 
into  partnership  with  Walter  S.  Carr  and  Mr. 
Neal.  This  firm  has  an  office  at  Franklin. 
Mr.  Shepard  bought  his  present  home,  known 
as  United  States  Senator  Austin  F.  Pike 
Momestead,  where  he  has  lived  since  Novem- 
ber 25,  1893.  He  is  the  President  and  a 
Director  of  the  Beecher  Falls  I'urniture  Com- 
pany at  Beecher  Falls,  Vt.  In  January,  1896, 
when  the  Mayo  Knitting  Machine  and  Needle 
Company  was  organized,  Mr.  Shepard  became 
a  meni1)er.  He  is  a  Director  of  this  company, 
also  of  the  First  National  Bank;  and  he  is  a 
Trustee  of  the  Franklin  Falls  Savings  Bank. 

Mr.  Shepard  has  been  twice  married,  on  the 
first  occasion  to  Miss  Mary  A.  Johnson,  of 
North  Weare,  N.LI.  She  died  in  October, 
1885,  leaving  no  children.  On  January  11, 
1887,  he  contracted  his  second  marriage  with 
Carrie  S.  Scamans,  of  New  London,  daughter 
of  Daniel  S.  and  Frances  Mary  (Dodge)  Sea- 
mans.  Her  mother  died  March  ig,  1892;  and 
her  father  now  resides  in  New  London. 
Their  four  children  were:  Frances  Abbie,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  nineteen;  Carrie   S.,    now 


Mrs.  Shepard ;  Etta  Pearson,  who  married 
Bradford  J.  Dunbar,  a  salesman  residing  in 
Maiden,  Mass.;  and  John  A.,  who  married 
Kate  McDonald,  lives  in  New  London,  and 
has  four  children  —  Daniel  D.,  George  L., 
Agnes,  and  Frances  Mary.  Mr.  Shepard  is  a 
stanch  Republican.  He  is  connected  with  the 
King  Solomon  Lodge,  No.  14,  F.  &  A.  M. 
He  is  a  Director  of  the  Concord  A.\le  Com- 
pany in  Concord,  N.  H.  His  many  business 
interests  have  placed  him  among  the  leading 
men  of  I^'ranklin  and  Franklin  Falls. 


^AMES  E.  RANDLETT,  a  well-knowfl 
architect  of  Concord,  was  born  Septem- 
ber 5,  1846,  in  Quincy,  Mass.,  son  of 
James  S.  and  Abbie  O.  (Chase)  Randlett. 
The  father,  a  native  of  Gilford,  N.H., 
worked  at  his  trade  of  stone  cutter  for  a  num- 
ber of  years  in  the  stone  yards  of  Quincy. 
One  of  the  largest  and  most  important  build- 
ings in  whose  construction  he  assisted,  was 
the  custom-house  in  Boston,  Mass.  He  is 
now  living  retired  in   Concord,  N.H. 

His  wife,  Abbie,  who  came  from  Biddc- 
ford.  Me.,  has  had  three  children,  namely: 
Abbie  A.,  who  died  in  1865;  Henry  K.,  who 
resides  in  New  York  City;  and  James  ]{.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

James  E.  Randlett,  our  subject,  was  edu- 
cated in  the  district  schools  of  Quincy,  Mass., 
and  of  Gilmanton,  N.H.,  and  from  private 
tutors  in  the  evening.  Upon  the  breaking 
out  of  the  war  of  the  Rebellion,  when  only 
fifteen  years  of  age,  he  enlisted  as  a  drummer 
boy  in  Conijiany  B,  Twelfth  Regiment  of  New 
Hampshire  Volunteer  Infantry.  At  the  first 
opportunity  that  presented  itself  he  forsook 
the  drum  for  the  musket,  and  participated  in 
llie  battles  of  Fredericksburg  and  Chancellors- 
ville.       His     term    of     service     in     the    army 


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covered  tlircc  years.  On  its  expiratifjii  he 
went  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  there  learned  the 
carpenter  and  cabinet-maker  trades.  These 
ho  afterward  followeil  for  some  twenty  years. 
Having  subsequently  returned  to  Concord,  he 
was  the  first  man  to  receive  the  appointment 
of  letter-carrier  when  the  United  States  free 
letter  delivery  service  was  established  in  that 
city.  After  holding  that  position  for  about 
four  years,  he  resigned,  and  was  appointed  the 
keeper  of  the  State  House  at  Concord.  This 
office  he  resigned  after  two  years,  to  enter 
into  partnership  with  Kdward  Dow,  the  archi- 
tect. Since  Mr.  Dow's  death  in  July,  1894, 
Mr.  Randlett  has  continued  the  business 
alone.  He  has  designed  many  [irominent  and 
well-known  structures,  both  public  and  pri- 
vate, among  which  are  the  main  building  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Agricultural  College  at 
Durham,  the  town  halls  of  Antrim  and  Ep- 
ping,  and  the  Capital  Fire  Insurance  Build- 
ing. Numerous  business  blocks  in  the  towns 
of  Newport  and  Exeter  were  also  erected  on 
his  plans.  He  drew  the  plans,  and  built  at 
his  own  expense  a  fine  edifice,  which  was 
greatly  needed,  for  the  especial  use  of  the 
Young  Men's  Christian  Association  of  Con- 
cord, and  which  he  still  owns.  He  was  Ad- 
jutant of  the  Third  New  Hampshire  Regiment 
for  five  years.  At  one  time  he  was  the  Assist- 
ant Inspector  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Re- 
public, under  General  Cogswell. 

Mr.  Randlett  married  Gcorgie  Gray,  of 
Concord,  and  has  two  children.  His  son, 
Clarence  B. ,  who  at  onetime  was  Deputy  Sec- 
retary of  State  of  New  Hampshire,  and  now 
resides  at  Council  Bluffs,  la.,  married  l""lor- 
ence  Langmaid,  and  has  one  cliild,  William 
E.  Mr.  Randlett's  daughter,  Eli;^abeth  M., 
who  is  unmarried,  lives  at  home  with  her  par- 
ents. In  politics  a  Republican,  he  cast  his 
first    Presidential   vote   for   General    Grant    in 


1868.  He  is  a  comrade  of  Sturdcvant  Post, 
No.  2,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Concord ;  and  a  member 
of  the  K.  of  V.  and  K.  of  11.  Mr.  Randlett 
is  highly  esteemed  both  for  his  private  char- 
acter and  for  the  high  rank  he  has  taken  in 
his  i^rofessifjn. 

^OSi:i'H  VVARRI'IN  I'II-:RCE,  a  promi- 
nent resident  of  South  Cornish,  was 
born  August  18,  1837,  at  Winchester, 
N.H.,  son  of  Hosea  and  Verlina  (Putnam) 
Pierce.  On  the  maternal  side  he  traces  his 
ancestry  back  to  Israel  Putnam,  of  Revolution- 
ary fame,  and  to  General  Joseph  Warren,  the 
hero  of  Bunker  Hill.  His  grandfather,  Elihu 
Pierce,  born  in  Connecticut,  married  a  Torrcy, 
and  had  three  children.  I-'lihu  carried  on  a 
large  farming  business,  and  was  very  i)romi- 
nent  in  town  affairs  in  New  Salem,  Mass., 
where,  after  being  a  resident  for  the  greater 
part  of  his  life,  he  died.  He  was  Selectman 
and  Overseer  of  the  Poor  for  many  years.  His 
children  were:  Hosea,  Alvira,  and  a  daughter 
who  became  Mrs.  Putnam.  Alvira  married 
Silas  Spear,  of  Orange,  Mass.  Mrs.  Putnam, 
who  had  three  children,  died  at  New  Salem. 

Hosea  Pierce,  born  in  New  Salem  in  1801, 
was  a  physician,  having  graduated  from  a 
medical  college  at  Pittsfield,  Mass.  He  set- 
tled in  Winchester,  N.H.,  and  practised  there 
for  about  fifty  years,  acquiring,  it  is  claimed, 
the  largest  practice  of  any  physician  in  this 
section  of  the  State.  He  was  sent  as  Repre- 
sentative to  the  legislature  from  his  district 
for  two  terms.  By  his  wife,  Verlina,  he  was 
the  father  of  three  children  —  George  W., 
Elihu  P.,  and  Joseph  W.  George  W.,  who  is 
a  physician,  has  succeeded  to  his  brother's 
practice.  He  married  Maria  C.  Follett,  who 
had  by  him  four  children,  all  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing. The  other  brother,  Elihu,  born  at  Win- 
chester, lives  at  Springfield,  Mass.,  where  he 


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is  a  practising  physician.  He  has  been  three 
times  married.  The  first  wife  was  Maria 
Baker  Pierce,  and  his  present  wife  is  Emma 
Bulkird  Pierce.  Both  brothers  served  in 
the  Civil  War. 

Joseph  Warren  Pierce  was  educated  in  the 
[lublic  schools  at  Winchester  and  in  Mount 
Cassar  Academy  at  Swanzey,  N.  H.  He  after- 
ward studied  dentistry,  and  began  to  practise 
it  in  the  South,  where  he  worked  for  two  or 
three  years.  He  then  came  North,  and  lo- 
cated in  Winchester.  One  year  after  he  went 
to  the  military  school  at  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
and  from  there  into  the  army.  He  entered 
as  Second  Lieutenant  of  the  Fifth  Regiment 
of  United  States  Infantry,  and  was  in  action 
at  Fort  Harrison  and  Deep  Bottom,  and  was 
present  at  the  surrender  of  Petersburg,  at 
Bunkersville  Point,  Farnumville,  and  Ap- 
pomattox. After  the  war  Mr.  Pierce  was  en- 
gaged in  a  mercantile  business  for  fourteen 
years  at  Claremont,  and  then  bought  a  farm  in 
Cornish.  He  married  Mary  Emmeline  Fair- 
banks, of  Winchester.  His  only  child, 
Vcrlina  Relief,  who  was  born  September  27, 
1872,  married  Clyde  Rawson,  of  Cornish,  the 
superintendent  of  mills  at  Springfield,  Vt. 
Mr.  Pierce  never  held  a  public  office,  notwith- 
standing the  fact  that  he  takes  an  earnest  in- 
terest in  all  the  public  affairs  of  the  town. 
He  has,  however,  been  President  of  the  Re- 
publican Club  for  a  number  of  years  and  one 
of  the  supervisors  of  the  check  list  of  the 
town. 


OHN  C.  WEBSTER,  a  leading  resident 
of  Danbury,  was  born  in  I'elham, 
N.H.,  February  24,  1833,  son  of  John 
Webster  and  a  descendant  of  the  famous 
Webster  family.  The  first  Webster  in  this 
country  came  from  Ipswich,  luigland,  and  set- 
tled  in   Ipswich,   Mass.     John   C.    belongs  to 


the  eighth  generation  in  America.  The  pa- 
ternal grandfather,  Ebenezer,  went  when  a 
young  man  to  Pelham  from  Haverhill,  Mass., 
antl  there  cleared  and  settled  on  a  farm  given 
him  by  his  father.  Ebenezer  married  Eliza- 
beth Bradford. 

John  Webster,  also  a  native  of  Pelham,  was 
a  farmer,  and  lived  for  many  years  on  the 
homestead  cleared  by  P^benezer.  He  subse- 
ciuently  sold  his  place  at  Pelham,  and  re- 
moved to  Hudson,  where  he  died  in  his 
ninety-second  year.  His  wife,  Hannah  Cum- 
mings  Webster,  had  thirteen  children,  all 
born  on  the  homestead  except  the  youngest. 
Eleven  of  these  reached  maturity ;  namely, 
Elizabeth,  Moses,  Sally,  Lovice,  Lucy,  Kim- 
ball, Hannah,  John  C. ,  Nathan,  Willard,  and 
Orrin.  The  survivors  besides  John  C.  are: 
Elizabeth,  who  resides  in  Hudson,  the  widow 
of  Warren  Blodgett ;  Sally,  who  is  the  widow 
of  Simeon  Titcomb,  and  has  three  children  — 
Albert,  Charles,  and  Nellie;  Lovice,  who  is 
Mrs.  John  Baker,  of  Hudson,  and  has  three 
children  —  John  P.,  Willis,  and  Nettie  R. ; 
Lucy,  who  is  the  mother  of  five  children  and 
the  wife  of  Daniel  B.  .Cluff,  of  Haverhill, 
Mass. ;  and  Kimball,  who  is  married  and  has 
five  daughters. 

John  C.  Webster,  the  eighth  child  of  his 
parents,  received  his  early  training  in  the 
public  schools.  Later  he  studied  at  Hudson 
Academy.  He  then  engaged  in  the  shoe  busi- 
ness for  about  five  years,  and  afterward  lived 
in  Boston,  where  he  carried  on  a  business  in 
periodicals.  Returning  afterward  to  New 
Hampshire,  he  opened  a  general  merchandise 
store  at  Andover.  In  1863  he  came  to  Dan- 
bury,  wliere  he  has  since  lived. 

Mr.  Webster  has  been  twice  married.  The 
first  Mrs.  Webster,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Miss  Hannah  C.  Keniston,  had  one  son,  P'rank 
K.     The  name  of  his  present  wife  before  her 


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mariiajjc  was  Addic  L.  Currier.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Webster  have  a  daughter  by  adoption, 
Gertie  Jk'll.  Mr.  Webster  has  always  taken 
an  active  part  in  civil  affairs.  In  1890-91  he 
was  Sheriff  of  the  county.  A  re-elect if)n  to 
the  office  was  lost  by  only  one  vote.  Me  has 
served  in  the  more  important  town  offices,  hav- 
ing been  Town  Clerk  for  seventeen  years  and 
Selectman  for  ten  years.  In  1870-71  he  was 
a  member  of  the  legislature.  In  politics  he 
has  always  been  a  Democrat,  and  his  first 
Presidential  vote  was  cast  for  James  Buchanan 
in  1856.  He  is  an  esteemed  member  of  the 
Masonic  order. 


RTHUR  WILSON  SILSBY,  of  Con- 
cord, who  for  the  past  thirteen  years 
has  been  Judge  of  Probate  for  Merri- 
mack County,  was  born  in  Concord,  August 
28,  1851,  son  of  George  H.  PI.  and  Sarah  F. 
(Chickering)  Silsby.  He  is  a  direct  descend- 
ant of  Henry  Silsby,  who  emigrated  from 
England  about  the  year  1630,  and  settled  in 
Salem,  Mass.  Captain  Henry  Silsby,  great- 
grandfather of  Arthur  W.,  was  an  early  settler 
in  Acworth,  N.H.  He  served  as  a  soldier  in 
the  Revolutionary  War,  and  was  a  member  of 
the  Committee  of  Public  Safety.  His  son, 
Ozias,  Judge  Silsby's  grandfather,  was  a  Con- 
gregational preacher. 

George  H.  H.  Silsby,  the  father  of  Judge 
Silsby,  born  in  Hillsborough,  came  to  reside  in 
Concord  when  he  was  fifteen  years  old.  He 
was  a  stationer,  printer,  and  bnokbinder,  and 
followed  that  bu.siness  during  the  active  period 
of  his  life.  PI  is  wife,  Sarah,  who  was  born 
in  IJanvers,  Mass.,  descended  from  Revolu- 
tionary patriots.  Her  grandfather,  John 
Chickering,  participated  in  the  battle  of 
Bunker   Hill. 

■  .Arthur   Wilson    Silsby  acquired    his   educa- 
tion in  the   iiublic   and   hiq-h   schools   of   Con- 


cord. I  Ic  also  took  a  short  course  at  the  well- 
known  Phillips  Academy  in  Kxetcr,  N.H., 
and  fitted  for  college.  He  commenced  the 
study  of  law  with  the  firm  of  Minot,  Tappan  & 
Mugridge,  of  Concord.  Later,  after  complet- 
ing his  preparations  with  Mr.  Mugridge,  he 
was  admitted  to  the  Merrimack  County  bar  in 
August,  1877.  Thereupon  he  entered  into 
practice,  remaining  in  the  office  with  Mr. 
Mugridge  until  his  death,  which  took  place  in 
April,  1884.  On  September  14,  1883,  he 
was  appointed  Judge  of  Probate;  and  he  h^s 
since  presided  over  that  court  with  ability, 
and  gives  general  satisfaction.  His  deci- 
sions have  been  marked  by  an  earnest  desire 
to  accord  justice  in  all  cases  coming  before 
him,  and  he  has  shown  that  he  is  eminently 
qualified  for  this  responsible  office.  Judge 
Silsby  is  unmarried.  In  politics  he  supports 
the  Republican  party.  He  is  a  member  of 
the  Sons  of  the  Revolution. 


/STkorge   barstow  walki-:r,  a 

V  f5  I  leading  resident  of  Cornish,  comes 
of  a  family  whose  representatives 
have  been  distinguished  for  manly  Christian 
character  ant!  pure  lives.  His  grandfather, 
Peter  Walker,  lived  and  died  in  Cornish,  and 
was  one  of  the  prominent  farmers  of  this 
section.  Peter  had  four  children — Joseph, 
Moses,  Cyrus,  and  Eathan  —  none  of  whom 
are  now  living. 

Moses  Walker,  the  father  of  George  B.,  was 
born  in  Cornish  in  1812.  He  was  educated 
in  the  town  schools,  and  began  his  working 
life  as  a  farmer.  Later  he  did  a  large  busi- 
ness, and  became  very  prosperous.  Besides 
doing  more  or  less  general  farming,  he  raised 
high-bred  cattle  and  horses.  Throughout 
his  life  he  was  prominently  identified  with 
the    Democratic    party,    and    he    was    several 


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times  a  candidate  for  Selectman  on  the  Demo- 
cratic ticket.  He  was  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Martha 
Davis,  bore  him  one  child,  Henry  Warner 
Walker,  who  was  born  in  1831,  and  resides  in 
Conish,  engaged  in  farming.  The  second 
wife,  christened  Betsy  Bugbee,  was  the 
mother  of  seven  children;  namely,  George  B., 
Eliza  Ann,  ilartin  L.  and  I.ouis  N.  (twins), 
Melvin  Alanson,  Maria,  and  Luella.  Eliza 
married  Hiram  York,  resides  with  her  hus- 
band at  South  Cornish,  and  has  two  children 
—  Elmer  E.  and  Ida.  Mr.  York  is  one  of  the 
leading  farmers  of  the  town.  Martin  I.. 
Walker,  who  is  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Cor- 
nish and  a  Deacon  of  the  Congregational 
church,  married  Lizzie  Bailey,  and  has  twelve 
children.  Louis  Walker,  a  gunsmith  by  trade 
and  the  owner  of  considerable  property,  mar- 
ried Kate  Sawtelle,  and  resides  in  Ilion,  N.Y. 
Retaining  the  fondness  for  tlowers  that  char- 
acterized him  when  a  boy.  he  has  built  a  fine 
large  hot-house,  to  which  he  devotes  consider- 
able time.  He  is  and  always  has  been  a 
stanch  Democrat.  Melvin  Walker  married 
Lydia  Cole,  and  has  one  daughter,  Fannie. 
He  is  likewise  a  Democrat,  and  is  a  sturdy, 
enterprising  fanner.  ALaria  is  the  wife  of 
Henry  Fairbanks,  and  lives  in  Claremont. 
this  State.  Luella  is  now  the  widow  of  East- 
man Bean,  and  resides  in  Claremont  with  her 
daughter. 

George  B,  Walker  was  born  in  Cornish, 
August  29.  1841.  He  received  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  schools  of  his  nati\'e  town. 
Upon  startiiii,  aself,  he  became  a 

farmer  and  carpcnier.  lie  has  always  been  a 
busy  Juan:  and,  though  a  loyal  Democrat  and 
deeply  interested  in  the  affairs  of  the  town, 
his  many  business  interests  have  preventeil 
him  from  taking  any  very  active  part  in  poli- 
tics.     His  character  as  a  citizen  is  irrepro,ach- 


able,  and  he  has  many  w-arm  friends.  Mr. 
Walker  married  Lorette  Jackson,  of  Cornish, 
daughter  of  Newton  and  Ellen  (Chapman) 
Jackson ;  and  two  sons  have  bles.sed  the  mar- 
riage. The  elder  son,  John  Jackson,  was 
born  in  Cornish,  September  14,  1S71,  and 
died  May  2^,  1S88.  He  was  in  every  respect 
a  most  promising  young  man,  and  his  charac- 
ter from  childhood  showed  the  effects  of  his 
early  Christian  training.  At  the  time  of  his 
death  he  was  a  member  of  the  Christian  En- 
deavor Society  and  the  Church  Temperance 
Society  connected  with  the  church  in  which 
he  had  been  brought  up.  He  was  soon  to 
have  united  with  the  church.  The  younger 
son.  Homer  Xewton,  born  October  ii,  1S78, 
lives  at  home,  and  is  the  object  of  tenderest 
affection  of  his  parents.  He  w^orks  in  the 
saw'-mill,  and  is  ambitious  and  enterprising. 
Mrs.  Walker,  like  her  husband,  is  a  member 
of  the  Congregational  church,  and  an  active 
worker  in  its  benevolent  and  au.xiliary  so- 
cieties. Her  mother  is  still  living,  and  is 
now  Mrs.  Jacob  Beal. 


KXjAMIX  F.  GALE,  who  was  for 
^  ,  man)'  years  a  prominent  citizen  of 
Concord,  was  bom  May  13,  1S19. 
His  gr.uuifather,  Daniel  Gale,  a  son  of  Cap- 
tain Benjamin  Gale,  was  a  native  of  Haver- 
hill, Mass.  A  blacksmith  by  trade,  Daniel 
came  at  the  age  of  twenty  to  Concord,  and 
here  married  Ruth  Carter,  a  daughter  of  Dr. 
Ezra  Carter,  the  first  physician  of  Concord. 
The  father,  Benjamin  Gale,  kept  a  tavern  at 
the  corner  of  Warren  and  Main  Streets  in 
Concord  for  forty  years.  This  was  in  the 
daj-s  of  the  old  stage-coach,  before  the  rail- 
road was  built;  and  the  greater  part  of  the 
travellers  of  that  time  stopped  with  Landlord 
Gale.       He   had   an    extensive   acquaintance. 


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aiul  was  a  favorite  with  all  classes  of  people 
on  account  of  his  geniality  and  kindly  cour- 
tesy. He  moved  at  last  to  a  house  on  Pleasant 
Street,  where  he  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
seven  years,  leaving  the  reputation  of  a  be- 
nevolent man.  His  wife.  Prudence,  was  a 
daughter  of  James  Varnum,  a  soldier  who 
served  seven  years  in  the  War  of  Indepen- 
dence, and  a  comrade  of  ex-Governor  Pierce, 
of  this  State.  15enjamin  and  Prudence  Gale 
reared  six  children  —  James  \'.,  Ruth  C, 
lileanor  V.,  John  V.,  Henjamin  F.,  and  Levi 
\i.  The  only  one  of  these  now  living  is 
Eleanor,  who  resides  in  the  West,  nearly 
ninety  j'cars  of  age.  The  father  died  August 
II,  1856. 

Benjamin  F.  Gale  received  his  education 
from  the  district  schools  and  in  tlie  academies 
at  Francestown  and  Hopkinton.  Later  on  he 
taught  school  in  Francestown  Academy.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years  he  was  a  surveyor, 
and  went  to  the  West  in  order  to  secure  em- 
ployment in  the  government  land  surveys. 
Here,  however,  he  was  taken  sick  of  fever, 
and  was  obliged  to  return  home.  He  then 
bought  the  Kemp  pasture,  a  stretch  of  fifty 
acres,  all  being  good  house  lots.  Afterward 
for  a  number  of  years  he  was  engaged  in  the 
nui;sery  business,  and  was  prominent  in  town 
affairs.  Respected  for  his  integrity  and  good 
judgment,  his  fellow-townsmen  chose  him  to 
fill  important  town  offices.  For  four  3'ears  he 
was  City  Marshal.  In  1S63  and  1S64  he  was 
Mayor  of  the  city,  and  for  several  terms  he 
was  its  Representative  in  the  State  legis- 
lature. In  politics  Mr.  Gale  was  one  of  the 
Republican  leaders  in  this  section.  He  was 
Orthodox  in  religious  belief  and  a  constant 
attendant  of  the  Congregational  church. 

In  June,  1S46,  Mr.  Gale  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Julia  L.  Morse,  daughter  of 
Mark  and   Rebecca  (Campbell)  Morse.      Mrs. 


Morse  is  a  relation  of  S.  F.  M.  Morse,  the  in- 
ventor of  the  telegraph,  and  of  Pllijah  Morse, 
of  Canton,  the  ex-Congressman  and  philan- 
thropist. She  belongs  to  the  seventh  genera- 
tion descended  from  Samuel  Morse,  who  was 
the  progenitor  of  the  race  in  this  countrv.  and 
is  buried  at  Medfield,  Mass. 


TTAHARLFS  II.  FARNUM,  the  owner 
I   Ji        of  a  fine  farm    in  Concord,  comes  of 

V,^-^  ancestors  who  were  among  the  earli- 
est settlers  of  the  town.  He  was  born  upon 
the  patrimonial  estate,  December  30,  183S, 
son  of  Benjamin  and  Emily  (Farnum)  Far- 
num.  According  to  New  England  records 
the  first  bearer  of  the  name  in  this  country 
was  Ralph  Farnum,  who  came  from  Wales; 
while  the  first  representative  of  the  family  in 
Concord  was  Benjamin,  the  great-grandfather 
of  Charles  H.  Ephraim  Farnum,  the  grand- 
father, who  was  born  in  West  Concord  on  the 
estates  of  his  ancestors,  reclaimed  from  the 
wilderness  a  large  tract  of  land,  which  he  left 
to  his  heirs,  a  large  and  well-improved  prop- 
erty. He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years. 
He  married  Sarah  Brown,  of  Plymouth,  N.H., 
who  bore  him  six  chililren — Joseph,  Nancy, 
Benjamin,  Susan  D. ,  Lydia,  and  Luther. 
Luther,  who  died  March  15,  1S97,  at  the  ad- 
vanced age  of  eighty -one  years,  was  the  noted 
Professor  Farnimi,  who  had  been  connected 
with  the  Public  Library  of  Boston,  Mass.,  for 
more  than  forty  years. 

Benjamin  Farnum,  Jr.,  was  born  on  the 
family  estate  in  West  Concord,  and  received 
his  education  in  the  district  schools  of  his  na- 
tive town.  At  his  father's  decease  he  in- 
herited the  farm,  and  took  up  and  continued 
its  cultivation  and  improvement  from  the  stage 
where  his  father  had  dropped  it.  In  the  year 
1845  he   erected  a  fine  set  of   new  buildings. 


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which  are  still  standing.  He  was  regarded 
by  his  generation  as  an  able  and  progressive 
man,  and  he  carried  on  an  extensive  business 
in  farming.  For  more  than  forty  years  he 
was  a  Deacon  in  the  First  Concord  Congrega- 
tional Church,  and  he  attained  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-seven  years  and  seven  months. 
He  married  Emily  Farnum,  daughter  of  Moses 
and  Rhoda  (Carter)  Farnum,  and  reared  a 
family  of  six  children.  These  were :  George, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  fifteen  years;  Rhoda, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  years;  Charles 
H.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Cyrus  R.,  who 
lives  in  Concord;  Lewis  C,  a  resident  of  Mc- 
Gregor, la.,  who  married  Jennie  Tiffany,  and 
has  one  daughter,  Emily  F. ;  and  George  E., 
a  farmer,  living  in  Spencer,  la.,  who  married 
Josephine  Jacobs,  and  has  four  children  — 
Roswell,  Eugenia  F.,  Annie  E.,  and  Mattie  B. 

Charles  H.  Farnum  received  his  education 
in  the  public  and  private  schools  of  Concord 
and  at  Colby  Academy  of  New  London,  N.H. 
At  the  age  of  twenty-two  years  he  went  to 
California,  where  he  remained  three  and  a  half 
years  engaged  in  the  teaming  business.  In 
1863  he  went  to  Nevada,  and  was  there  some 
five  years,  teaming,  lumbering,  and  running  a 
saw-mill.  It  was  his  purpose  to  remain 
longer;  but,  on  paying  a  visit  to  his  home,  he 
yielded  to  the  earnest  solicitation  of  his 
mother,  and  took  up  his  residence  again  on 
the  homestead  estate,  where  he  still  lives. 

On  November  29,  1870,  which  is  memo- 
rable as  the  day  on  which  the  old  Concord 
church  was  destroyed  by  fire,  Mr.  Farnum  was 
united  in  marriage  to  Annie  L.  l'"arnum,  the 
daughter  of  Moses  H.  and  Judilii  (Kilburn) 
Farnum.  Mrs.  Farnum's  grandfather,  Enoch 
Kilburn,  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War.  Her  only  child  died  in  infancy. 
Mr.  Farnum  is  a  Republican  in  his  politics, 
and    he    cast    his    first    Presiilential    vote    for 


Abraham  Lincoln  in  1S60.  He  enjoys  the 
esteem  and  good  will  of  his  fellow-citizens, 
who  at  one  time  selected  him  to  represent 
them  in  their  City  Council. 


<^*^-» 


DWARD  BRYANT,  a  prominent  resi- 
dent of  Cornish,  was  born  in  this  town, 
P'ebruary  7,  1837,  son  of  Daniel  and 
Cloe  (Hildreth)  Bryant.  His  grandfather, 
Israel  Bryant,  born  in  Connecticut,  came  to 
Cornish  when  a  young  man.  Israel  and  his 
wife  were  the  parents  of  nine  children.  Of 
these  Daniel,  a  native  of  Cornish,  born  in 
1815,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of 
his  native  town.  After  completing  his  educa- 
tion he  engaged  in  farming.  Subsequently 
for  many  years  he  was  foreman  of  the  stock 
farm  of  Ebenezer  Pike,  having  charge  of  the 
best  blooded  cattle  in  the  country.  His  repu- 
tation was  that  of  a  man  who  thoroughly 
understood  how  to  secure  the  finest  results 
from  the  breeding  and  raising  of  fine-blooded 
animals.  Devoted  to  his  home,  he  did  not 
aspire  to  political  distinction.  His  religiolis 
views  were  liberal,  and  he  was  a  regular  at- 
tendant at  the  Universalist  church.  On  the 
first  day  of  May,  1834,  he  married  Cloe, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Hildreth,  of  Cornish. 
They  had  four  children  —  George,  Edward, 
Charles,  and  Charlotte.  George,  born  Janu- 
ary 22,  1836,  died  in  infancy;  Charles,  born 
October  3,  1838,  died  between  the  ages  of 
three  and  four  years ;  Charlotte,  born  in  Cor-, 
nish,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the 
town,  at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  at 
Windsor,  Vt.  Siie  married  William  K.  West- 
gate,  and  has  two  children  —  Earl  and  Martha, 
both  of  whom  are  married. 

Edward  Bryant  obtained  his  education  in 
the  pul)lic  schools  of  Iiis  native  town  and  at 
the  Claremont   Academy.      He    tiien    went    to 


SARAH     FORREST    CORRELL. 


Iil()(;i< AI'IIIC  \l,    KI'IVIKW 


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work  on  tlu'  larin  willi  liis  fallicr.  Upon  llic 
ilcath  of  the  latter  he  succeetled  to  the  man- 
agement of  the  ])r()[)erty,  which  lias  lieen  in 
his  charge  ever  since.  Like  his  father,  he 
prefers  the  cpiiet  of  iiis  own  fireside  to  the 
turmoil  of  public  life.  lleattentls  and  sup- 
ports the  Lfniversalist  church;  is  a  Mason  of 
Cheshire  Lodge,  No.  23  ;  and  was  for  a  time  a 
member  of  the  grange.  Mr.  Bryant  married 
Miss  Julia  Helen  Gilkey,  of  I'lainficld,  daugh- 
ter of  James  Gilkey.  ]5orn  August  5,  1S42, 
she  died  November  6,  iScS'q.  Her  four  chil- 
dren were:  James  D.,  Julia  Janettc,  Charles 
li.,  antl  John  G.  James,  the  eldest  son,  born 
March  i,  1861,  has  always  assisted  his  father 
on  the  farm.  Julia,  born  March  i,  1872,  is 
housekeeping  for  her  father.  Charles,  born 
April  21,  1873,  who  was  educated  at  Cornish 
and  Windsor,  went  into  the  hotel  business  as 
clerk,  and  has  been  connected  with  the  Wind- 
sor House  at  Windsor  and  with  hotels  in 
Claremont  and  Lowell.  John,  born  March  4, 
1875,  after  leaving  school,  learned  the  jew- 
eller's business,  but  was  subsequently  obliged 
to  give  it  up.  He  is  now  in  the  hotel  busi- 
ness in  Massachusetts. 


/^2)aWN  E.  GORRELL,  a  farmer  and 
V  1^  I  well-known  Republican  of  North- 
field,  was  born  May  16,  1S57,  son  of 
Clough  and  Sarah  (P^orrest)  Gorrell,  both  na- 
tives of  Northfield.  The  grandfather,  Gawn 
A.  Gorrell,  a  native  of  Salem,  Mass.,  was  the 
first  of  the  family  to  come  to  Northfield.  He 
settled  on  a  farm  near  the  home  now  occupied 
by  his  grandson,  and  resided  there  until  his 
death. 

Clough  Gorrell  was  also  a  farmer.  When 
quite  a  young  man  he  settled  on  the  Thomas 
Clough  farm,  where  his  son  now  lives,  and 
lived  there  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.      He 


died  May  20,  1890,  at  the  age  of  eighty  ycar.s. 
His  wife's  death  occurred  December  ig,  1888, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-four.  She  was  horn  -Sep- 
tember 8,  1 8 14,  daughter  of  William  and 
Nancy  (IJearborn)  h'orrest,  and  the  fourth  of 
the  nine  children  born  to  her  parents.  She 
joined  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  now 
of  Tilton,  and  was  subsequently  a  steadfast 
member  for  fifty-six  years.  A  woman  of 
energy  and  character,  she  was  a  faithful  wife 
and  one  of  the  kindest  of  mothers.  The  two 
children  born  to  them  both  grew  to  maturity. 
Addie,  the  elder,  married  Thomas  W.  Long, 
and  since  his  decease  she  has  lived  on  the 
Long  homestead  in  Northfield.  She  had  one 
child,  Marcia  E.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  seven 
years. 

After  finishing  the  course  of  the  Northfield 
public  schools,  Gawn  E.  Gorrell  studied  at 
Tilton  Seminary,  teaching  at  the  same  time 
in  the. district  schools.  On  the  death  of  his 
father  he  assumed  charge  of  the  homestead 
farm,  where  he  has  since  devoted  himself  to 
farming.  He  owns  one  hundred  and  fifty 
acres  of  land,  and  he  has  supplemented  the 
improvements  begun  by  his  father  with  new 
and  substantial  buildings.  Besides  carrying 
on  general  farming  with  success,  he  keeps  a 
profitable  dairy. 

Earnestly  interested  in  the  general  welfare 
of  his  native  town,  and  taking  an  active  part 
in  politics,  Mr.  Gorrell  has  served  in  some 
town  ofifices.  He  was  Selectman  in  1881-82, 
1883-84,  and  1891-92.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  School  Board  from  1S91  to  1S97,  and  he 
is  also  a  Trustee  of  the  Ionia  Savings  Bank  of 
Tilton.  An  Odd  Eellow  in  good  standing, 
he  is  a  member  of  Harmony  Lodge,  No.  65,  of 
Tilton,  and  of  Tilton  Encampment.  He  is 
also  a  member  of  Friendship  Grange,  No.  no, 
of  Northfield,  and  a  regular  attendant  of  all 
the  meetings  of  that  organization.      He  attends 


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the  Congregational  church;  while  his  sister, 
Mrs.  Long,  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist 
church.  It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  subject 
of  this  sketch  is  a  popular  man,  both  in  the 
town  and  in  the  county. 


ARTLETT  BROTHERS,  comprising 
Erastus  H.  and  Ai  J.  Bartlett,  are 
the  proprietors  of  the  Excelsior  Mills 
at  Warner.  The  plant  was  first  established 
by  these  gentlemen  in  1872  as  a  pail,  butter 
tub,  and  sap  bucket  factory.  The  original 
mill  was  destroyed  by  fire  in  1S73,  entailing  a 
loss  of  three  hundred  and  fifty  dollars  beyond 
their  entire  assets,  a  grievous  blow  to  the  two 
young  men  just  started  in  business.  Nothing 
daunted,  however,  they  commenced  again  on 
borrowed  money.  This  time  they  engaged  in 
the  manufacture  of  e.xcelsior  for  mattresses  and 
furniture,  in  which  they  have  since  built  up 
an  extensive  and  lucrative  business. 

In  making  excelsior  the  firm  uses  poplar 
wood,  which  is  obtained  anywhere  within  a 
radius  of  from  twenty  to  forty  miles  from  the 
village,  and  costs  five  dollars  a  cord.  They 
began  on  a  modest  scale,  their  output  at  the 
start  being  but  fifteen  hundred  pounds  of  ex- 
■'celsior  a  day.  Now  they  manufacture  five  tons 
in  the  same  length  of  time,  or  about  fourteen 
hundred  tons  annually.  The  water-power  has 
been  used  for  at  least  threescore  years,  there 
having  formerly  been  a  wheelwright's  shop 
here.  In  1893  the  present  mill  was  erected. 
One  of  the  finest  in  New  England,  it  cost, 
with  its  equi])ments  and  motlern  machinery, 
about  eight  thousand  dollars.  Two  other 
excelsior-mills  that  stood  near  by  when  this 
one  was  started  have  since  passed  out  of  exist- 
ence. The  Messrs.  J5artlctt  are  both  men  of 
good  business  ability,  energetic  anil  progres- 
sive, strictly  honest  and   upright   in   all   their 


transactions,  and  very  pleasant  people  to  deal 
with.  They  employ  nine  hands  in  their  work, 
and  are  themselves  busily  employed  all  the 
time.  They  have  also  invested  in  Contoocook 
valley  property,  being  interested  in  several 
houses  in  this  vicinity,  preferring  to  have 
their  wealth  where  they  can  look  after  it  them- 
selves. 

The  Bartlett  family  was  first  represented  in 
New  Hampshire  by  three  families,  who  came 
from  Massachusetts  to  the  town  of  Deering, 
Hillsborough  County,  soon  after  the  Revolu- 
tion, making  settlements  on  three  different 
hills.  Parker  Bartlett,  a  son  of  Stephen  Bart- 
lett, was  the  father  of  the  Bartlett  brothers. 
He  spent  the  larger  part  of  his  life  in  Deering. 
Later  in  life  he  came  to  the  village  of  Warner, 
where  his  death  occurred  in  i  S96,  at  the 
venerable  age  of  eighty-four  years.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Eleanor  Bartlett,  a  daughter  of 
Daniel  Bartlett,  of  Deering:  and  she  survive^, 
making  her  home  in  Warner. 

On  October  27,  1855,  Erastus  H.  Bartlett 
married  Miss  Jennie  E.  Orne,  of  New  Boston, 
which  was  also  his  birthplace.  They  have 
one  child,  Mary  Ellen.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  and  takes  an  active  part  in  local 
affairs,  having  served  several  years  as  Super- 
visor. He  is  very  prominent  in  Masonic 
circles,  belonging  to  Harris  Lodge.  He  was 
made  a  Mason  in  St.  Peter's  Lodge  at  Brad- 
ford, this  State,  and  for  thirteen  years  held 
one  of  the  most  important  offices  in  that  organ- 
ization, working  in  harmony  with  Colonel 
Mason  W.  Tappan.  St.  Peter's,  which  is  an 
old  and  noted  lodge,  was  visited  in  1824  by 
General  Lafayette. 

Ai  J.  Bartlett  was  born,  reared,  and  edu- 
cated in  New  Boston.  He  married  P"ebruary 
4,  1880,  Miss  Allic  Jones,  of  Welister,  N.II., 
and  now  has  three  children  —  l^'red  Ai,  Palmer, 
and    Mildred    Imogene.      Ai   J.    Bartlett    is  a 


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'15 


stanch  I'rohihitioiiisl  .'md  a  good  worker  in  the 
temperance  cause.  Me  is  an  active  member 
of  the  Congregational  church,  in  which  he  is 
serving  as  Deacon. 


^\Cj\;/  ILLIAM  D.  DOW,  an  influential 
resident  of  Cornish,  was  born  here, 
September  lo,  1857,  son  of  Lucius 
Harmon  and  Lucelia  A.  (Smith)  Dow. 
Grandfather  Jeremiah  Dow,  who  was  born  in 
the  State  of  Vermont,  had  a  family  of  nine 
children. 

Lucius  Dow,  born  in  Plainfield,  N.H.,  in 
1820,  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  of 
that  town  and  at  Kimball  Academy.  After 
his  marriage  he  came  to  Cornish,  and  here 
rented  a  farm,  on  which  he  spent  the  rest  of 
his  life.  He  was  a  leading  Democrat;  but, 
though  keenly  interested  in  the  affairs  of  the 
town  even  up  to  the  time  of  his  death,  he  was 
never  an  aspirant  for  office.  He  was  Orthodox 
in  religion,  and  he  attended  the  Congrega- 
tional church.  His  first  wife,  Lucelia, 
daughter  of  Cyrus  and  Hannah  Smith,  bore 
him  five  children  —  Abbie,  William,  Fred, 
Mary,  and  Martha.  His  second  wife,  chris- 
tened Isabella  Tracy,  a  daughter  of  Edward 
and  Alvira  Nutting,  is  now  deceased.  Abbie 
Dow,  born  October  10,  1853,  married  William 
Harlow,  a  well-known  farmer  of  Cornish,  and 
has  one  child,  Leroy  H.  Harlow,  born  July  6, 
1888.  Fred  Dow  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  at  Kimball  Academy  in 
Plainfield.  After  leaving  school  he  went  into 
Jewett's  grocery  store  as  a  clerk,  remaining  a 
year.  He  then  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  and 
obtained  employment  with  the  large  commis- 
sion house  of  which  he  is  now  a  partner.  He 
married  Mattie  Gamble,  of  Chicago,  and  has 
one  son.  His  sister,  Mary  Dow,  is  the  wife 
of    Dr.    William    Cain,    now     of    Cambridge, 


Mass.  Martha  Dow  married  Louis  Quimby, 
of  Unity,  N.H.,  a  groceryman,  and  has  two 
children. 

William  D.  Dow  worked  at  farming  for  a 
year  after  leaving  school.  In  1888  he  went 
to  California,  where  he  remained  two  years, 
engaged  in  farming  and  baling  hay.  He  re- 
turned East  on  account  of  the  poor  health  of 
his  father  and  for  the  purpose  of  taking 
charge  of  the  farm.  Ujjon  the  death  of  his 
father  he  succeeded  to  the  farm,  and  has  since 
conducted  it.  He  has  never  been  an  aspirant 
for  public  office.  However,  last  year,  when  a 
candidate  for  Selectman,  he  lacked  but  two 
votes  of  election.  He  is  a  prominent  member 
of  the  grange  of  Cornish.  The  first  of  Mr. 
Dow's  two  marriages  was  contracted  with 
Hattie  A.  Weld,  and  the  second,  which  took 
place  November  20,  1892,  with  Norah  E. 
Crosby,  of  Croydon,  N.H.  The  second  wife, 
the  present  Mrs.  Dow,  is  a  daughter  of  Gil- 
man  and  Eleanor  R.  (Lear)  Crosby.  She  has 
a  daughter,  Hattie  E.  Dow,  born  Augu.st  17, 
1896. 

*••••-» 

Y^ATHAN  PAGE  BUXTON,  a  well- 
I  =^  known  resident  and  a  prominent  agri- 
-i}P  \^  culturist  of  Henniker,  was  born 
March  5,  1829,  on  the  farm  and  in  the  house 
where  he  now  lives,  son  of  Daniel  and  Abi- 
gail (Page)  Bu.\ton.  He  comes  of  substantial 
New  England  stock.  His  grandparents, 
David  and  Ruth  (Peaslcy)  Bu.xton,  came  to 
Henniker  from  Newton,  Mass.,  in  1800. 
They  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  the 
Baker  family,  and  there  spent  the  remaining 
years  of  their  long  lives. 

After  marriage  Daniel  Bu.xton  lived  for  a 
few  years  in  that  part  of  Danvcrs,  Mass.,  now 
in  Peabody,  engaged  as  a  tiller  of  the  soil. 
In  1826  he  traded  with  his  wife's  brother, 
Enoch    Page,    his    farm    in    Danvers    for    the 


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homestead  on  which  his  son,  Nathan  Page 
Buxton,  now  lives.  Having  followed  his 
chosen  occupation  on  this  farm  until  pretty 
well  advanced  in  life,  he  bought  a  house  in 
North  Weare,  the  early  home  of  his  wife;  and 
there  both  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-seven 
years,  his  wife,  who  was  three  years  older 
than  he,  passing  away  first.  They  had  eight 
children,  namely:  Peace,  now  the  wife  of 
David  Osborne,  of  Port  Huron,  Mich. ;  Lydia, 
who  never  married,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
fifty-four;  Eliza,  now  deceased,  who  married 
William  H.  Gove,  also  deceased;  Maria  M., 
now  residing  in  Boiuid  Brook,  N.J.,  who  is 
the  widow  of  James  Denison,  late  of  New 
York  City;  Abbie  and  Hannah  M.,  both  un- 
married, who  reside  in  Weare;  Nathan  P., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  Daniel  M.,  a 
house -mover  of  Hillsborough,  N.  H.  Both 
parents  were  original  members  of  the  Society 
of  Friends  in  Henniker. 

Nathan  Page  Buxton,  the  only  member  of 
his  parents'  family  left  in  Henniker,  was 
reared  and  educated  on  the  homestead.  From 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years  until  his  marriage 
he  carried  on  the  home  farm  in  company  with 
his  brother.  When  ready  to  establish  a 
household  of  his  own,  he  bought  the  adjoining 
]?roperty.  Ou  this  he  subsequently  resided  for 
thirteen  years,  making  essential  improve- 
ments and  greatly  increasing  the  value  of  the 
estate.  Laboring  industriously  and  managing 
prudently,  he  acquired  some  money,  and  in 
1876  bought  the  homestead  from  his  brother. 
He  retained  possession  of  the  other  farm  until 
about  two  years  since.  The  house  in  which 
he  now  lives,  save  for  a  few  alterations  made 
by  his  father,  is  the  same  that  was  occupied 
by  his  grandfather.  It  is  in  a  fine  state  of 
preservation,  owing  to  the  substantial  cpiality 
of  the  material  put  into  it.  Mr.  Buxton  has 
one    hundred    and    four   acres    of    land,    well 


adapted  to  general  agriculture.  He  makes  a 
specialty  of  dairying,  shipping  his  cream  to 
Boston;  and  he  raises  his  own  cows,  his 
favorite  grade  being  the  Holstein  crossed  with 
the  Jersey.  On  the  property  is  a  fine  orchard, 
which  yields  a  good  deal  of  fruit. 

On  April  i,  1862,  Mr.  Buxton  married 
Miss  Cynthia  Daniels,  of  Henniker,  who 
was  born  in  Shipton,  P.O.,  Canada.  She 
died  three  years  later,  leaving  two  sons, 
namely:  Clinton  Averill,  who  is  a  machinist 
and  an  electrician,  and  resides  in  Winchester, 
Mass. ;  and  Frank  Edgar,  who  is  engaged 
in  garment  cutting  in  Holyoke,  Mass.  Mr. 
Buxton  contracted  a  second  marriage  on 
August  10,  1865,  in  Deering,  N.H.,  with 
Hannah  M.  Clough,  daughter  of  Elijah  and 
Abigail  Clough,  of  that  town.  The  children 
of  this  union  are:  Elmer  E.,  who  assists  in 
carrying  on  the  farm  ;  Maurice  E.,  who  is  em- 
ployed in  a  shoe  factory  of  Auburn,  Me. ;  and 
Alberto,  who  resides  at  home.  Mr.  Buxton 
has  been  a  firm  supporter  of  the  Republican 
party  since  early  manhood,  and  he  has  been  a 
delegate  to  several  conventions.  While  not 
an  aspirant  to  office,  he  served  acceptably  for 
two  years  as  Supervisor  of  the  town.  Still 
adhering  to  the  religious  faith  in  which  he 
was  reared,  he  attends  the  Quakers'  meeting- 
house, which  stands  near  his  farm.  Mrs. 
Buxton  is  a  member  of  the  Methodist  P'pis- 
copal  church  at  Henniker. 


'sfl'I'-SSE  WEBSTER,  who  was  an  esteemed 
resident  of  Henniker,  and  had  been  ac- 
tively engaged  as  a  tailor  in  this  town 
for  ujiward  of  threescore  years,  was  born  June 
7,  i8ii,  in  Newport,  Sullivan  County,  son  of 
John  and  Deborah  (Dow)  Webster.  He  is  a 
lineal  descendant  of  John  Webster,  who  was 
born    in   Wales,  August  9,   1714.     This  John 


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emigrated  to  America  in  company  willi  his 
lirother  ICbenezer,  the  paternal  grandfather  of 
the  eminent  statesman,  Daniel  Webster. 
John  was  one  of  tiie  settlers  of  Chester,  N.II., 
in  1735.  In  1750  lie  opened  the  first  store  in 
that  locality,  lie  was  very  active  in  the  war 
of  the  Revolution,  serving  as  Colonel  of  a 
regiment  in  the  army.  Colonel  Webster's 
son  Samuel,  the  ne.\t  in  line  of  descent,  being 
the  paternal  grandfather  of  Jesse,  was  born 
February  15,  1757,  in  Chester.  Early  in  life 
he  began  to  study  for  the  ministry,  which  he 
subsequently  entered.  After  his  marriage 
with  Hannah  Robie  he  was  settled  for  several 
years  in  Goffstown,  N.M.  Afterward  he  re- 
moved to  Newport,  N.II.,  where  he  reareil  his 
family.  His  son  John,  who  was  born  in 
Goffstown,  at  the  age  of  fourteen  removed 
with  his  parents  to  Newport,  where  he  after- 
ward resided  until  his  death  in  1839.  John's 
wife,  Deborah,  died  si.x  years  before  his  death. 

Jesse  Webster  grew  to  manhood  in  Chester, 
where  his  strong  influence  in  matters  of  re- 
form, more  especially  in  the  cause  of  temper- 
ance, was  early  shown.  Rum  at  that  time 
was  in  general  use;  and  he,  though  but  a  boy 
of  sixteen,  seeing  its  evil  effects  upon  the  men 
in  his  father's  employ,  took  a  decided  stand 
against  it,  and  decided  thereafter  to  take  no 
share  in  supplying  it  to  the  laborers.  In  the 
fall  of  that  year  his  father  went  to  Boston, 
leaving  to  Jesse  the  task  of  making  cider  from 
the  apples  stored  in  the  cellar  before  his  re- 
turn. On  finding  that  but  two  barrels  of  cider 
had  been  made  in  place  of  the  customary 
forty,  the  father  made  no  comment;  and  at  the 
close  of  the  haying  season  next  summer  he 
acknowledged  that  the  two  barrels  had  been 
sufficient,  the  work  having  been  done  more 
quickly  and  acceptably  and  with  less  friction 
tlian  ever  before. 

In  early  manhood  Mr.  Webster   learned  the 


taih^r's  trade  of  Samuel  Winkley  at  Mcridcn, 
N.H.  After  spending  some  time  in  Hills- 
borough, he  came  to  Ilenniker,  August  12, 
1836,  opening  a  tailor's  shop,  and  beginning  on 
a  modest  scale.  With  the  exception  of  two 
years,  from  1864  till  1866,  when  he  had  a  gen- 
eral clothing  store,  with  merchant-tailoring 
features,  in  Concord,  he  has  since  continued  in 
the  same  occupation.  For  nearly  twenty  years 
he  has  manufactured  custom  clothing,  at  times 
employing  as  many  as  three  hundred  girls. 
During  his  entire  business  career  more  than 
seven  hundred  girls  have  worked  for  him,  turn- 
ing out  vast  numbers  of  ordered  suits.  In  two 
families,  those  of  Silas  and  Isaac  Colby,  he 
has  clothed  four  generations.  In  the  sixty- 
second  year  of  his  business  career  he  made  a 
suit  for  a  child  of  the  fifth  generation.  He 
did  all  the  cutting  for  the  establishment,  each 
morning  finding  him  at  work;  and  he  manu- 
factured clothing  that  went  as  far  westward 
as  Arizona  and  Montana.  He  was  a  man  of 
fine  physique,  tall  and  erect,  in  all  things 
being  temperate,  well  preserved  in  mind  and 
body.  .  Having  a  deep  sense  of  religion,  he 
made  a  public  profession  of  faith  when  a 
young  man  of  nineteen  years,  uniting  with  the 
Baptist  church;  and  he  was  a  close  and  daily 
student  of  the  Bible.  Yet  his  disposition  was 
social  and  genial,  and  he  had  a  host  of  friends. 
I\Ir.  Webster  married  Susan  C.  Newell,  of 
Newport,  who  died  January  4,  1839.  She 
left  one  son,  Newell  H.  Webster,  now  of 
Helena,  Mont.  Besides  the  strong  and  reso- 
lute character  which  she  inherited  from  the 
Newel  Is,  she  possessed  much  personal  beauty, 
as  testified  by  her  portrait,  painted  when  she 
was  twenty -two.  On  May  7,  1840,  Mr. 
Webster  married  Jeannette  W.,  daughter  of 
William  S.  and  Betsey  D.  Woods,  of  Henni- 
ker.  After  seven  years  of  married  life  she 
also  died.      A   year   later   her  sister,    Lovilla 


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Woods,  became  the  third  wife  of  Mr.  Web- 
ster. She  died  May  4,  1893,  leaving  a 
daughter,  Susan  L. ,  who  married  Jacobs  S. 
Whitney,  January  23,  1872.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Whitney  now  reside  at  the  old  homestead. 
The  death  of  Mr.  Webster  occurred  March 
22,    1897,    in   his  eighty-sixth   year. 


§AMES  MARCUS  BENNETT,  who  was 
connected  by  marriage  with  two  of  the 
best  known  families  of  Claremont,  was 
born  in  New  Milford,  Conn.,  December  12, 
18  19.  When  a  young  man  he  settled  in  Can- 
ada, and  by  his  extraordinary  business  ability 
and  sterling  integrity  achieved  a  marked  suc- 
cess. He  engaged  in  the  hotel  business,  be- 
coming the  principal  owner  of  the  Tecumshi 
Hotel  at  London,  Ont. ,  the  largest  hostelry 
in  that  city.  His  business  brought  him  into 
personal  contact  with  men  of  prominence  in 
jniblic  life,  and,  becoming  a  citizen  of  Can- 
ada, he  joined  the  Reformed  party.  He  was 
elected  to  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  London, 
and  while  in  that  position  displayed  a  capacity 
for  public  affairs  which  placed  him  in  high 
repute  among  his  fellow-citizenS.  He  was 
unusually  prosperous  and  in  a  fair  way  of  se- 
curtng  an  independent  fortune  when  a  general 
business  depression  inflicted  reverses  upon 
him  from  which  he  never  recovered.  He  paid 
his  debts  manfully,  but  his  losses  proved  such 
a  severe  shock  to  his  nervous  system  as  to 
cause  his  death   in    1866. 

Mr.  Bennett  married  Sarah  N.  Grannis,  who 
survives  him,  and  who  is  now  residing  in 
Claremont.  She  is  a  daughter  of  George  and 
Susannah  (Strowbridge)  Grannis,  and  a  grand- 
daughter of  Timothy  Grannis,  an  account  of 
whom  will  be  found  in  a  sketch  of  Homer  1-2. 
Grannis,  which  appears  elsewhere  in  this 
work.      George  Grannis,  who  was  a  prosperous 


farmer  and  a  prominent  citizen  of  Claremont 
in  his  day,  died  in  1847,  aged  fifty-five  years. 
His  wife,  Susannah,  was  a  daughter  of  Colo- 
nel John  Strowbridge,  an  early  settler  in 
Claremont  and  a  man  noted  for  his  strict  in- 
tegrity and  courtesy.  He  married  Patience, 
daughter  of  Ephraim  Tyler  and  a  representa- 
tive of  a  highly  reputable  family  in  this  sec- 
tion. Their  children  were:  William,  John, 
Hiram,  Nancy,  Susannah,  Patience,  Betsey, 
and  Jeanette.  George  and  Susannah  (Strow- 
bridge) Grannis  had  four  children,  as  fol- 
lows: Susan  S.  ;  Charles  E.,  who  at  an  early 
age  was  drowned  in  the  Hudson  River;  Sarah 
N.,  who  is  now  Mrs.  Bennett,  and  is  the  only 
survivor;  and  George  PL,  who  died  at  the 
age  of  eleven  years.  Susan  S.  married  David 
Campbell,  a  man  of  wealth,  who  was  for  sev- 
eral years  a  United  States  government  official. 
She  died  leaving  three  children.  While  re- 
siding in  Canada,  Mrs.  Bennett  availed  her- 
self of  the  opportunity  of  learning  the  French 
language,  with  which  she  is  thoroughly  fa- 
miliar. She  possesses  estimable  qualities  of 
heart  and  mind,  and  is  highly  esteemed  by  her 
large  circle  of  friends  and  acquaintances. 


EWELL  C.  HUNTINGTON,  an 
enterprising  agriculturist  of  Henni- 
ker,  was  born  May  5,  1856,  on  the 
farm  which  he  now  owns  and  occupies,  son  of 
the  late  Pllijah  B.  Huntington.  He  is  of 
English  ancestry,  being  a  lineal  descendant 
of  Simeon  Huntington,  who,  accompanied  by 
four  sons,  sailed  from  England  for  America  in 
1633.  Simeon  died  on  the  voyage.  While 
one  son  returned  to  England,  the  others  — 
William,  Christopher,  and  Simeon  —  remained 
in  New  England.  The  last-named  son  settled 
in  Salisbury,  now  Amesbury,  Mass.,  in  1640. 
From  him  the  line  was  continued  by  William, 


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Jiilin,  \Villi;iin,  John,  Joliii,  and  ]5cnjaniin,  all 
(if  whom  were  born  in  Aniesbury. 

Jk'njamin  Huntington,  the  great-grandfather 
of  Sewell  C,  was  the  first  of  the  family  to 
conic  to  New  Hampshire.  He  located  in 
Weai'e,  H  illsborou^di  County,  which  he  made 
his  permanent  home.  Two  of  his  children, 
Jacob  and  Betsey,  came  to  Henniker.  Jacob 
Huntington,  the  grandfather,  born  September 
3,  1783,  in  Weare,  died  July  15,  1S57,  in 
Henniker.  On  May  4,  l8og,  he  married 
Iluldah  (lOve,  also  of  Weare,  and,  coming  to 
Henniker,  purchased  the  farm  where  his  son, 
Joseph  John  Huntington,  now  lives.  He  was 
a  man  of  imiuising  presence,  strong  and  vigor- 
ous, possessing  great  powers  of  endurance. 
Broad-minded  and  benevolent,  he  was  promi- 
nent in  the  I'"riends'  Society,  which  he  as- 
sisted in  establishing,  and  was  highly  es- 
teemed by  all.  His  first  wife  died  in  i8ig. 
His  second  wife,  Mehitabel  Heckling  Ihuit- 
ington,  ]iasscd  away  in  1S27.  He  was  sur- 
vived by  his  third  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Lavina  H.  Breed,  and  who  died  October 
'3i  '859.  Of  the  four  children  born  of  his 
first  marriage  Elijah  Brown  and  Elizabeth  at- 
tained maturity.  Of  the  second  wife's  chil- 
dren three  were  reared  —  Franklin  T.,  Iluldah 
G. ,  and  Joseph  John. 

Elijah  Brown  Huntington,  born  in  Henni- 
ker, June  15,  181  I,  spent  his  seventy-five 
years  of  life  in  this  town,  and  died  November 
9,  1 886.  From  his  earliest  years  he  was  en- 
gaged in  farm  work,  beginning  as  a  day 
laborer.  After  his  marriage  he  owned  for  a 
while  the  farm  now  occupied  by  his  brother. 
In  1842  he  purchased  the  homestead  of  his 
father-in-law,  Richard  Breed,  now  owned  and 
occupied  by  his  son  Sewell  C,  and  continued 
in  its  active  management  until  about  a  year 
prior  to  his  death.  The  main  part  of  the  pres- 
ent house  was  erected  by  Mr.  Breed,  who  sub- 


sequently enlarged  it  by  adding  the  original 
house,  which  was  built  more  than  a  hundred 
years  ago  on  another  part  of  the  farm.  While 
Elijah  B.  Huntington  was  not  an  active  poli- 
tician, in  his  earlier  life  he  sup]5orted  the 
Know  Nothing  party,  and  was  afterward  iden- 
tified with  the  Republican  party.  Of  his 
union  with  Mary  I'.,  daughter  of  Richard  and 
Bcthiah  (Huzzey)  Breed,  there  was  but  one 
child,  Sewell  C.  She  died  February  5,  1864. 
Afterward  his  household  affairs  were  put  in 
charge  of  a  housekeeper. 

Sewell  C.  Huntington  inherited  the  farm  of 
ninety  acres  lying  near  the  Quaker  meeting- 
house. To  this  he  has  since  added  the  ad- 
joining estate,  so  that  his  property  is  now  one 
of  the  most  valuable  in  the  vicinity.  An  in- 
telligent, clear-headed  man,  he  has  made  a 
success  of  farming,  his  annual  crops  of  grain, 
hay,  vegetables,  and  fruit  bringing  him  in  a 
fine  income.  He  was  married  September  21, 
1880,  to  Miss  Georgianna  Barker,  who  was 
born  and  reared  in  Hillsborough,  a  daughter 
of  Elbridge  G.  and  Mary  (Goodwin)  Barker. 
Eva  Mary  Huntington,  his  only  child,  is  a 
bright  young  miss  of  eleven  years.  Mr. 
Huntington  is  a  member  of  Crescent  Lodge, 
No.  60,  I.  O.  O.  F.  Mrs.  Huntington  has 
been  deaf  for  some  years;  but  in  spite  of 
this  difficulty,  which  is  a  great  drawback  to 
her  enjoyment,  she  is  a  most  pleasant  woman 
to  meet,  and  has  a  large  circle  of  friends. 
She  is  an  active  member  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church;  and  Mr.  Huntington  is 
identified  with  the  Friends'  church,  which  he 
has  attended  since  a  boy. 


ON.      ADDISON      NEWTON      OS- 
GOOD, a  well-known  and  prominent 
resident  of  Pembroke,  was  born  in 
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of  Ira  B.  and  Alice  (Prescott)  Osgood.  He 
belongs  to  the  seventh  generation  of  Osgoods 
in  this  country,  tracing  his  descent  to  Chris- 
topher Osgood,  a  native  of  Ipswich,  England, 
who  died  in  1650.  The  first  of  Christopher's 
two  marriages  was  contracted  with  Mary  Ever- 
ett, an  Englishwoman,  who  had  one  child  by 
iiim.  His  second  wife  was  Margery,  daughter 
of  Philip  and  Mary  (Winsley  or  Winslow) 
Fowler.  She  was  baptized  in  Marlboro,  Eng- 
land, May  25,  1615.  By  her  he  became  the 
father  of  five  children.  Christopher,  the 
fourth  child  and  the  next  in  line,  was  born  in 
Andover,  Mass.,  in  1643.  He  was  a  mill- 
wright by  trade.  An  active  and  prominent 
citizen,  he  was  Captain  in  the  militia,  and  rep- 
resented Andover  in  the  General  Court  of 
Massachusetts  in  1690.  He  died  in  1725. 
His  first  wife,  in  maidenhood  Hannah  Bel- 
knap, of  Lynn,  bore  him  six  children.  His 
second  wife,  Hannah  Barker  Osgood,  was 
the  mother  of  four  children.  His  third  wife, 
Sarah,  had  no  issue.  His  fourth  and  last, 
also  named  Sarah,  was  the  mother  of  six. 
Ezekiel,  son  of  Captain  Christopher  Osgood, 
and  the  great -great-grandfather  of  Addison 
N.,  was  born  in  Andover,  Mass.,  November  5, 
1679,  and  died  in  1741.  His  first  wife  was 
Rebecca  Wardwell,  and  the  Christian  name  of 
iiis  second  was  Mary.  Samuel  Osgood,  the 
second  of  his  seven  children  by  his  second 
wife,  and  the  great-grandfather  of  Addison  N., 
was  born  in  Andover,  May  27,  17 14,  and  died 
March  16,  1774.  He,  too,  was  twice  married. 
His  first  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Doro- 
thy Wardwell,  bore  him  five  children;  and  his 
second,  in  maidenjiood  Elizabeth  Abbott,  who 
died  September  27,   1792,  had  eight  children. 

Christojiher  Osgood,  the  youngest  cliild  of 
Samuel  and  Elizabeth  (Abbott)  0.sgoo(I,  born 
in  Andover,  April  25,  1769,  was  a  miller  by 
trade.      In  his  early  manhood  he  managed  the 


ferry  between  Concord  and  Pembroke.  Sub- 
sequently he  settled  on  a  farm  in  Pembroke, 
and  purchased  extensive  tracts  of  land  in  the 
part  of  the  town  now  called  Suncook.  Much 
of  this  land  was  covered  with  timber  at  the 
time  of  purchase,  and  he  dealt  extensively  in 
lumber  in  his  later  years.  He  was  a  promi- 
nent man  in  Pembroke,  and  took  an  active 
part  in  town  affairs.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Whig.  He  died  October  3,  1841.  His  first 
wife  died  childless.  His  second  wife,  a 
cousin  of  his  first  wife,  and  whose  maiden 
name  was  Annie  Abbott,  lived  to  be  quite  old, 
and  reared  four  children.  Both  she  and  her 
husband  were  members  of  the  Congregational 
church.  Ira  B.  Osgood,  the  youngest  of  his 
parents'  children,  was  born  in  Pembroke,  De- 
cember 30,  1804.  He  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing and  lumbering  during  a  great  part  of  his 
life,  and  he  owned  and  managed  a  saw-mill  in 
Allenstown  for  a  number  of  years.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  Republican.  He  died  in 
Allenstown,  October  29,  1S69.  Both  he  and 
his  wife  were  members  of  the  Congregational 
church.  Of  their  seven  children  there  are 
living  —  Warren  A.,  Charles,  Addison  N., 
and  Alva  L. 

Addison  Newton  Osgood  acquired  his  ele- 
mentary education  in  Allenstown,  and  studied 
the  advanced  branches  at  Pembroke  Academy. 
After  leaving  school  he  spent  three  years  in 
Boston.  In  i860  he  settled  in  Pembroke,  and 
engaged  in  lumbering,  preparing  his  lumber 
for  the  market  on  the  site  of  the  old  mill 
owned  by  his  father.  Until  1873  he  was  in 
partnership  with  another  gentleman.  Since 
that  date  he  has  managed  an  indejicndent  busi- 
ness. He  has  been  very  prosperous  in  iiis 
financial  enterprises,  and  owns  much  valuable 
real  estate  in  Pembroke  and  Allenstown. 
Mr.  Osgood  is  a  man  of  high  integrity,  and  is 
respected  wherever   he    is   known.      He    is    an 


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esteemed  member  oi  tlie  l\e|)uljlieaii  party, 
and  he  lias  been  lionored  with  eleetion  to  a 
number  of  offices.  As  a  member  of  the  I'em- 
broke  IJoaixI  of  Selectmen  he  was  in  office  for 
a  number  of  years,  and  lie  represented  the 
town    in   tiie   Icgislatuie   in    1878  and    1S79. 

Mr.  Osgood  was  marrietl  December  17, 
1865,  to  Mary  K.,  daughter  of  William  A. 
and  Julia  (Upham)  Thclps,  of  Pembrnkc.  lie 
has  taken  the  thirty-second  degree  in  Ma- 
sonry, and  is  a  Knight  of  Pythias  and  an  Odd 
Fellow.  lie  is  also  a  Patron  of  Husbandry, 
and  is  affiliated  with  the  grange  at  Pembroke. 
Both  he  and  Mrs.  Osgootl  are  members  of  the 
Methodist  church. 


(sffOIIN  S\VA.SI':Y,  formerly  a  well-known 
merchant  of  Claremont,  was  born  in 
Canterbury,  N.H.,  July  21,  1785.  He 
engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  in  Claremont, 
and  conducted  a  profitable  business  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  October  13,  1835,  at 
the  age  of  fifty  years. 

Mr.  Swasey  married  Sally  Robinson,  a  na- 
tive of  Epping,  N.H.,  and  a  daughter  of  Noah 
and  Sally  Robinson.  Mrs.  Swasey  became 
the  mother  of  si.x  daughters;  namely,  .Ann 
Elizabeth,  Sophia  Charlotte,  Sarah  Jane, 
Lydia  Ann,  Adeline  Maria,  and  Juliette 
Frances.  Ann  Elizabeth  married  Captain 
Alden  Partridge,  a  military  man  of  note,  who 
founded  a  military  college  in  Norwich,  Vi. 
Her  children  were:  George,  who  is  no  longer 
living;  and  Henry  V.  Sophia  Charlotte,  who 
became  the  wife  of  General  Edward  Phelps,  a 
prominent  resident  of  Cold  Brook,  Conn., 
died  in  1893.  Lydia  Ann  is  now  deceased. 
Adeline  Maria  married  Lieutenant  George  M. 
Colvocoresses,  who  was  in  the  United  States 
Navy  during  the  Civil  War,  and  remained  in 
the  service  after   its   close.     He  had   risen   in 


his  profession  to  a  position  from  which  his  ad- 
vancement would  have  been  rapid,  when  he 
was  accidentally  killed  in  Bridgeport,  Conn., 
while  on  his  way  to  New  York.  He  was 
twice  married,  and  had  four  children  by  his 
first  union.  Miss  .Sarah  Jane  Swasey  and 
Mrs.  Colvocoresses  are  residing  in  Claremont. 
Mrs.  John  Swasey  died  October  11,   1S53. 


M 


EACON  SAMUEL  W.  CART1':R 
and  his  brother,  Harrison,  well- 
known  natives  and  residents  of 
Ilenniker,  are  sons  of  Nathan  and  Margery 
(Wadsworth)  Carter.  Their  grandfather, 
Samuel  Carter,  who  was  born  in  Wilmington, 
Mass.,  in  1758,  settled  in  Hillsborough 
County  after  his  marriage.  Samuel's  wife, 
Ml  illy  Abbott  Carter,  was  born  May  iS,  1769, 
in  Londonderry,  N.H. 

Nathan  Carter  was  born  in  Hillsborough 
County.  When  a  young  man  he  settled  at 
Westboro  Corner  in  the  town  of  Henniker. 
He  was  a  carpenter,  and  he  followed  that  trade 
for  forty-three  years  as  a  contractor  and 
builder.  It  was  said  that  there  was  not  a 
house  in  the  town  that  he  had  not  worked  upon 
eitlier  as  buikler  or  jobber.  A  skilful  work- 
man, he  took  special  pride  in  executing  fine 
cabinet  work,  many  specimens  of  which  are 
still  in  the  family's  possession.  He  owned  a 
good  farm  at  Westboro  Corner,  where  his  shop 
was  located.  At  his  death  on  June  4,  1880, 
aged  eighty-four  years,  he  left  an  estate  val- 
ued at  ten  thousand  dollars.  Possessed  of  re- 
markable strength,  he  was  able  to  climb  to  an 
unusual  height  when  over  eighty  years  old, 
and  his  activity  continued  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death.  He  served  in  the  garrison  at 
Portsmouth  during  the  War  of  181 2,  and  in 
his  later  years  he  received  a  pension  from  the 
government.      His    wife,    Margery,    whom    he 


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married  November  24,  18 19,  was  a  daughter 
of  Aaron  and  Sally  (Wood)  Wadsworth.  She 
became  the  mother  of  seven  children,  namely: 
William  Harrison,  born  March  i,  1822,  who 
died  August  16,  1823;  Caroline  Matilda,  born 
July  8,  1824,  who  died  February  12,  1826; 
Samuel  Worcester,  born  February  6,  1827; 
the  Rev.  Nathaniel  Franklin  Carter,  born  Jan- 
uary 6,  1830,  who  is  now  Librarian  of  the 
Historical  Society  in  Concord;  Henry  Carle- 
ton,  born  November  30,  1834,  who  died  Janu- 
ary 21,  1894;  Harrison,  born  January  16, 
1S37;  and  William  Frederick,  born  November 
II,  1840,  who  died  April  14,  1859.  Henry 
Carleton  was  for  many  years  a  prominent  busi- 
ness man  of  Concord.  He  married  Clara 
Ferrin,  who  survives  him.  Nathan  and  Mar- 
gery Carter  were  both  members  of  the  Congre- 
gational church,  which  they  joined  respec- 
tively in  1825  and  1831.  Their  children 
received  strict  training  in  both  religion  and 
temperance.  The  mother  died  January  23, 
1892,    in   her  ninety -first  year. 

Harrison  Carter  succeeded  his  father  in  the 
possession  of  the  homestead,  and  resided  there 
until  1895.  In  that  year  he  sold  the  property 
to  a  cousin,  Finos  Carter.  He  is  well  in- 
formed upon  all  current  topics,  and  is  espe- 
cially familiar  with  local  history. 

Samuel  Worcester  Carter  resided  in  Brad- 
ford for  two  years  following  his  marriage.  In 
1852  he  settled  upon  a  farm  which  his  father 
owned,  and  which  adjoined  the  homestead. 
He  continued  to  till  the  soil  and  raise  poultry 
until  1891,  when  he  sold  his  property.  He  is 
now  living  in  retirement  in  the  village. 

On  February  i,  1849,  Samuel  W.  Carter 
married  Fidelia  H.  Smith,  who  was  born  in 
Langdon,  July  29,  1827,  daughter  of  Elias  and 
Matilda  (Stiles)  Smith.  While  serving  as  a 
privateer  during  the  War  of  18 12,  her  father 
was  captured    by  the    British,  and    was    held   a 


prisoner  on  board  a  war  vessel  and  on  the 
island  of  Bermuda  for  sixteen  months.  Mrs. 
Carter  resided  for  some  time  with  her  ma- 
ternal grandparents,  Moses  and  Mary  (Ken- 
ney)  Stiles,  in  Bradford,  where  she  became 
acquainted  with  her  future  husband.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Carter  have  one  daughter,  Ella  Matilda, 
who  was  born  August  2,  1856.  On  October 
19,  1876,  Ella  Matilda  Carter  married  Wallace 
A.  Howlet,  a  painter,  paper-hanger,  and  dec- 
orator, and  now  has  one  son,  Wilmer  Pfarri- 
son,  born  April  25,   1894. 

In  politics  the  Messrs.  Carter  are  Republi- 
cans. Harrison  Carter  served  as  Supervisor 
for  eight  years.  Both  are  earnest  advocates  of 
temperance  and  the  prohibitory  law.  Samuel 
W.  Carter  united  with  the  Congregational 
church  when  fifteen  years  old,  and  has  been 
a  member  for  about  fifty-four  years.  For 
twenty  years  he  has  acted  as  a  Deacon,  and 
has  been  very  active  in  Sunday-school  work. 


OHN  C.  SMITH,  a  successful  dairy 
farmer  of  Franklin,  was  born  in  this 
town,  May  2,  1842,  son  of  Charles  and 
Jeanette  (Mann)  Smith.  His  father,  who  was 
a  lifelong  resident  of  I-'ranklin,  and  owned  and 
successfully  conducted  a  good  farm  located  in 
the  southern  part  of  the  town,  died  in  Octo- 
ber, 1889.  His  mother,  a  native  of  Salis- 
bury, N.  H.,  had  five  children,  as  follows: 
John  C,  the  subject  of  this  sketch:  Elbridge, 
who  married  Emma  Calef,  and  died  October 
I,  1895;  Warren,  who  died  in  March,  1883, 
aged  twenty -nine  years;  Jane,  who  married 
Warren  Webster,  and  resides  at  the  home- 
stead; and  Charles,  who  was  drowned  in  the 
Merrimac  River  in  September,  18S9,  at  the 
age  of  twenty  years.  John  C.  .Smith's  motlier 
is  still  living,  and  resides  at  the  homestead 
with  her  daurrhtcr. 


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J(jhn  C.  Sniilli  bc;4an  his  cducaticjii  in  ihc 
common  schools,  and  completed  his  studies  at 
the  Tilton  Academy.  He  remained  at  home 
until  after  his  marriage.  Then,  settling  upon 
a  farm  on  Smith's  Hill,  he  resided  there  for 
twenty  years.  About  the  year  18S2  he  moved 
to  the  farm  he  now  occupies,  and  where  he  is 
largely  interested  in  dairying.  He  owns  two 
farms,  respectively  containing  two  hundred 
acres  and  seventy-five  acres,  the  soil  of  which 
he  has  greatly  improved.  lie  keeps  an 
average  of  twenty-five  head  of  cattle,  and  car- 
ries on  a  profitable  milk  business  in  I'"ranklin 
and  Franklin  Falls. 

On  January  3,  1862,  Mr.  Smith  was  joined 
in  marriage  with  Vesta  I..  Shaw,  who  was 
born  in  Salisbury,  May  14,  1838,  daughter  of 
Abram  and  Hannah  (Fifield)  Shaw.  Her 
father  was  a  native  of  Weare,  N.H.;  and  her 
mother  was  born  in  I'^ranklin.  Her  parents 
resided  upon  a  farm  in  Salisbury  for  many 
years,  and  tlied  in  that  town.  They  had  six 
children,  four  of  whom  are  living;  namely, 
Amos  F. ,  Calvin  G.,  Vesta  L.,  and  Amanda. 
Amanda  married  James  Morrison,  and  lives  in 
South  Dakota.  The  others  were :  Adeline  E., 
who  married  Adams  W.  Batchelder,  of  East 
Andover;  and  Mary  Saline,  who  was  the  wife 
of  Elbridge  Gerry  Emery.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Smith  have  had  three  children  —  Jabcz  R., 
Maud  Eveline,  and  Blanche  Ethelyn.  Jabez 
R.,  born  September  16,  1862,  married  T-"anny 
Fellows,  and  resides  in  Franklin.  INfauil 
Eveline,  who  was  born  January  25,  1869,  is 
now  the  wife  of  Walter  Woodward,  and  re- 
sides in  this  town.  Blanche  Ethelyn,  born 
August  I,  1883,  died  March  3,  18S5.  In  pol- 
itics Mr.  Smith  supports  the  Democratic 
party,  but  he  takes  no  interest  in  public  affairs 
beyond  casting  his  vote.  Both  he  and  Mrs. 
Smith  are  members  of  the  Congregational 
church. 


I.AYTON  r..  IIII.l.IARD,  a  leading 
resident  and  native  of  South  Cornish, 
was  born  November  26,  1863,  son 
of  Joseph  and  May  (Jkyant)  Hilliard.  His 
grandfather,  Joseph  Hilliard,  .Sr.,  was  a 
farmer  and  carpenter  and  a  prominent  man  in 
his  day.  In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat  and 
in  religion  a  Baptist.  His  wife,  Roxie  Day 
Hilliard,  bore  him  ten  children  —  Rufus, 
Hiram,  George,  Emmeline,  Betsy,  Ro.xie, 
Charlotte,  Jane,  Joseph,  and  Chester.  Rufus, 
who  was  a  farmer  and  carpenter,  was  born  in 
Cornish,  and  died  in  1894.  He  married 
Martha  McClurer,  and  had  two  children. 
Hiram,  a  farmer  and  a  Democrat,  married 
Belle  Demming,  and  had  a  family  of  si,\  chil- 
dren, all  of  whom  are  living.  George,  who  is 
a  farmer  at  Saxton's  River,  Vt.,  married  Lula 
Fletcher,  and  has  had  five  children.  Chester 
went  to  California  when  a  young  man,  and 
died  there.  Emmeline,  now  deceased,  mar- 
ried Ira  Procter,  of  Claremont,  and  had  one 
child,  who  is  living  in  Kansas.  Roxie  be- 
came the  second  wife  of  her  brother-in-law, 
Ira  Procter,  and  the  mother  of  three  children. 
Betsy  became  Mrs.  Adna  Keys,  of  Acworth. 
Both  she  and  her  husband  are  deceased,  while 
their  two  children  are  living  in  Minnesota. 
Charlotte,  who  married  Quartus  Fletcher,  had 
a  number  of  children,  and  is  living  at  New- 
port, this  State.  Jane  is  Mrs.  Amos  Richard- 
son, of  Cornish,  and  the  mother  of  three  chil- 
dren. Joseph  Hilliard,  father  of  Mr.  Clayton 
Hilliard,  married  May,  daughter  of  Aaron 
Bryant.  Their  six  children  were:  Ada,  Julia, 
Nellie,  Adna,  Clayton,  and  Luman.  Ada  is 
now  the  wife  of  Frank  Weld  and  the  mother 
of  one  child;  Julia  lives  at  home  with  her 
mother;  Nellie  is  now  IVIrs.  Herbert  Dem- 
ming, and  has  four  sons;  Adna  is  a  farmer, 
and  lives  at  home,  working  on  his  mother's 
estate;   Luman  married  Ida  York,  of  Cornish, 


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and    is   living    in    Clarcmont,    engaged    in   the 
livery  business. 

Clayton  15.  Milliard,  after  being  educated  in 
the  town  schools  of  Cornish,  began  life  for 
himself  as  a  farmer,  and  later  worked  in  the 
butcher's  business.  He  is  quite  prominently 
identified  with  the  politics  of  the  town,  and  is 
well  informed  on  all  questions  of  public  or 
local  interest.  The  community  had  the  ad- 
vantage of  his  services  in  the  capacity  of  -Se- 
lectman for  one  term.  Few  residents  are 
more  active  in  forwarding  movements  for  the 
general  welfare.  He  married  Sybil  Lear, 
daughter  of  William  and  Hannah  (Fletcher) 
Lear.  She  is  the  mother  of  two  children  — 
Ethel  Hilliard  and  Wallace  Hilliard.  Mrs. 
Hilliard's  mother  died  about  ten  years  ago. 


TT^APTAIN  JOHN  P.  KNOWLTON, 
I  Vp       a    retired   merchant   of    Sunapee,    was 

V>r  ^  born  in  that  town,  October  lo, 
1821,  son  of  Samuel  and  Betsey  (Pike) 
Knowlton.  The  grandfather,  Robert  Knowl- 
ton,  was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  New 
London,  N.H.,  and  a  loading  man  in  his 
time.  He  was  a  well-educated  man  and  a 
successful  school  teacher.  He  also  had  time 
to  attend  to  farming.  His  last  years  were 
spent  in  the  State  of  Lidiana,  where  he  died 
at  an  advanced  age.  He  married  a  lady 
named  Smith,  and  she  also  lived  to  a  good  old 
age. 

Samuel  Knowlton,  born  June  16,  1791,  was 
a  farmer,  and  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  Sunapee,  to  which  he  came  wiieii  he  was  a 
young  man.  He  was  also  engaged  in  hewing 
lumber,  saw-mills  being  then  very  scarce. 
His  religious  views  were  liberal,  and  he  was 
a  Jeffersonian  Democrat.  lie  filled  various 
offices  of  greater  or  less  importance  in  his 
town,   and  was  in  the  State  legislature  for  two 


years.  His  wife,  Betsey,  who  was  born  in 
New  London  in  1787,  September  11,  had 
three  children,  of  whom  John  P.  is  the  only 
survivor.  The  father  died  in  Sunapee,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1846,  and  the  mother,  August  28, 
1 88  I.  The  two  sons  not  living  were:  Dennis 
G. ,  born  September  23,  181  5,  who  died  April 
ir,  1894;  and  Moses  F.,  born  July  19,  1817, 
who  died  November  9,  1854.  Moses  F.  left  a 
daughter,  Ellen  A.,  who  is  a  successful  school 
teacher.  An  interesting  fact  about  these 
three  men  is  that  they  were  the  tallest  men  in 
the  town  of  Sunapee.  Dennis  was  six  feet, 
four  inches;  Moses,  six  feet,  seven  inches; 
and  John  P.,  six  feet,  six  inches. 

John  P.  Knowlton  received  his  education  in 
the  town  schools.  Then  he  took  up  farming, 
and  worked  on  the  home  farm  for  two  years, 
and  elsewhere  for  two  or  three  years.  His 
wages  were  not  large;  but  in  haying  time  he 
made  a  dollar  a  day,  which  was  considered 
very  good  pay.  Subsequently  he  became  in- 
terested in  a  mercantile  business,  and  entered 
into  partnership  with  his  brother  in  the  year 
1S44.  After  eight  years  or  more  he,  bought 
out  his  brother's  interest,  and  went  on  as  sole 
proprietor  until  1S62.  At  that  time  he  dis- 
posed of  the  business  altogether,  and  retired 
to  his  farm.  To-day  he  owns  a  fine,  small 
farm  of  twenty-five  acres,  and  has  also  a  com- 
fortable residence,  which  was  built  under  his 
personal  supervision.  In  1870  he  erected  the 
large  Knowlton  Block.  He  had  been  a  Di- 
rector of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Newport, 
N.H.,  for  several  years  when  he  resigned  the 
office,  lie  was  a|)pointed  I'ostmaster  in  1845, 
September  (2,  and  held  the  office  for  eleven 
years.  On  January  4,  184S,  Governor  Jared 
B.  Williams  created  him  Captain  of  the  mili- 
tia company  called  the  Sunapee  Guards.  The 
commission,  bearing  the  signatures  of  the 
Governor  and  the  Secretary  of  State,  Thomas 


JOHN     P.    KNOWLTON. 


i;i()(;k.\i'iiic.\i,   KKViKW 


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R.  TrcadwcU,  of  I'ortsmoiith,  is  carefully  pre- 
served by  the  Captain.  I''or  four  years  lie  was 
Town  Clerl<,  and  for  one  year  Town  Treas- 
urer. Ill  iX5^J'57  lie  served  as  State  Repre- 
sentative, and  he  was  a  Justice  oi  the  Peace 
for  several  years.  While  bound  to  no  partic- 
ular creed  in  religion,  he  inclines  to  the  Uni- 
versalist  belief.      In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 

Captain  Knowlton  was  married  October  23, 
1848,  to  Abby  S.,  who  was  born  in  New  Lon- 
don, April  16,  1826,  daughter  of  William  and 
Mary  (Stevens)  Morgan.  William  Morgan 
was  born  in  the  latter  town,  April  15,  1796, 
and  his  wife,  in  Newbury,  April  27,  1797. 
He  died  October  7,  1875,  and  she  died  No- 
vember 19,  1885.  They  had  eight  chiklrcn, 
three  only  of  whom  are  now  living.  These 
arc:  Belden  Morgan,  of  New  London ;  Simeon 
I"".,  of  Richland,  Cal.  ;  and  Mrs.  Knowlton. 
The  names  of  the  other  children  were: 
Thomas,  Marshall,  Franklin,  Marietta,  and 
Alonzo.      Mrs.  Knowlton  has  had  no  children. 

Captain  Knowlton  has  been  a  very  success- 
ful man.  Considering  the  fact  in  connection 
with  the  circumstance  that  at  the  age  of 
twenty-one  his  wt)rldly  possessions  amounted 
to  twenty-five  dollars,  no  further  proof  of 
his  industry  and  enterprise  is  necessary. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  have  a  large  circle  of 
friends. 


—«-•♦•-♦— 


§OHN  S.  RAND,  a  leading  business 
man  of  Pittsfield,  Merrimack  County, 
and  a  member  of  the  New  Hamjishire 
legislature,  was  born  in  Barnstead,  N.H., 
September  14,  1855,  son  of  Hiram  and  Harriet 
N.  (Iloyt)  Rami.  His  great-grandfather, 
Samuel  Rand,  was  a  native  of  Barnstead,  and 
a  farmer  and  a  mechanic  by  occupation.  The 
maiden  name  of  his  wife  was  Mary  Hill.  Of 
his  four  children  Moses  H.,  grandfather  of 
John  S.,  was  the  oldest.      Moses  H.   Rand  was 


brought  up  to  farming,  which  occupation  he 
followed  in  Barnsteatl  during  his  active  period. 
In  politics  he  acted  with  the  Democratic 
party,  and  in  his  religious  belief  he  was  a 
Free  Will  Baptist.  He  lived  to  reach  the 
age  of  over  eighty  years.  He  married  Ann 
Bunker,  a  native  of  liarnstead ;  and  her  death 
occurred  at  about  the  same  age  as  that  of  her 
husband.  She  reared  four  children,  three  of 
whom  are  living:  Dr.  Joseph  B. ;  Hiram;  and 
Mary,  who  married  Isaac  A.  h'letcher,  of 
Lowell,  Mass.  The  latter's  only  daughter, 
Anna  D.,  married  George  Rogers,  of  that 
city,  and  has  five  children. 

Hiram  Rand,  John  S.  Rand's  father,  grew 
to  manhood  in  Barnstead,  and  has  been  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits  from  an  early 
age.  At  the  present  time  he  owns  a  farm  con- 
taining fifteen  acres  of  fertile  land,  which  he 
cultivates  successfully.  His  wife,  who  was 
before  marriage  Harriet  N.  Hoyt,  a  daughter 
of  ]?enjamin  Hoyt,  of  Barnstead,  has  had  two 
children,  of  whom  John  S.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  is  the  only  one  living.  Hiram  Rand 
is  a  Republican  in  politics,  ami,  though  not 
an  office-seeker,  he  takes  an  active  interest  in 
local  affairs  and  the  cause  of  good  government. 
He  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  of  which  he  is  a  Deacon.  He 
is  also  superintendent  of  the  Sunday-schooL 

John  S.  Raud  was  educated  at  the  Pitts- 
field  Academy.  He  taught  schools  in  Pitts- 
field  and  Alton,  N.  H.,  and  on  Deer  Island, 
Boston  Harbor,  being  thus  engaged  for  about, 
two  years.  He  was  also  connected  with  a 
shoe  manufactory  in  Boston  for  a  time.  Since 
18S4  he  has  conducted  a  flourishing  dry-goods 
business  in  Pittsfield.  His  progressive  and 
enterprising  nature  has  led  him  into  various 
fields  of  business  activity,  and  he  is  now 
President  of  the  Pittsfield  Shoe  Company  and 
a  Director  of  the  Farmers'  Savings  Bank. 


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On  November  30,  1S79,  Mr.  Rand  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Hattie  M. 
Foote,  daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (East- 
man) Foote,  of  this  town. 

As  an  active  supporter  of  the  Republican 
party  Mr.  Rand  has  long  been  a  prominent 
factor  in  the  political  affairs  of  Pittsfield,  and 
he  was  elected  to  the  House  of  Representa- 
tives in  1896.  He  is  connected  with  Suncook 
Lodge,  No.  10,  I.  O.  O.  F.  His  religious 
affiliations  are  with  the  Congregational 
church,  of  which  Mrs.  Rand  is  a  member;  and 
he  was  formerly  superintendent  of  the  Sunday- 
school. 

IRY  A.  EMERSON,  the  President 
ind  Treasurer  of  the  Contoocook 
Valley  Paper  Company,  whose 
plant  is  located  in  West  Henniker,  was  born 
in  Concord,  N.H.,  May  i,  1837,  son  of 
Fenner  H.  and  Clarinda  B.  (Baker)  Emerson. 
His  father,  a  native  of  Rhode  Island,  was  con- 
nected with  the  paper  manufacturing  industry 
in  this  State  for  many  years.  Both  his  par- 
ents passed  their  last  years  with  him,  and  died 
in  Henniker. 

At  the  age  of  seventeen,  having  acquired  a 
good  practical  education,  Mr.  Emerson  began 
to  learn  the  business  of  paper-maker.  Com- 
mencing at  the  lowest  round  of  the  ladder  in  a 
paper-mill  of  Pepperell,  Mass.,  he  worked  his 
way  upward  through  the  various  departments 
until  he  had  acquired  a  good  knowledge  of 
the  trade.  He  was  later  employed  in  mills 
at  Leominster,  Mass.,  and  Franklin,  N.H. 
Finally  he  was  appointed  superintendent  of  a 
mill  in  Pepperell,  Mass.,  which  position  he 
occupied  for  three  years.  Having  saved 
some  capital  by  then,  he  was  desirous  of  en- 
gaging in  business  on  his  own  account,  and 
looked  about  for  a  suitable  place  in  which  to 
carry  out   his  purpose.      In    1871    he    became 


favorably  impressed  with  the  future  prospect 
of  a  paper-mill  in  Henniker.  With  P.  C. 
Cheney  &  Co.,  of  Manchester,  ami  II.  T. 
Hill  he  began  operations  in  an  old  mill  here; 
and  a  short  time  later  the  Nashua  Card  and 
Glazed  Paper  Company  secured  the  int(^rest  of 
Cheney  &  Co.  In  1872  the  Contoocook 
Valley  Paper  Company  was  incorporated  with 
a  capital  stock  of  seventy-five  thousand  dol- 
lars, and  a  large  mill  was  erected  in  West 
Henniker.  The  business  grew  in  importance; 
and,  as  Mr.  Emerson  gradually  acquired  the 
greater  part  of  the  capital  stock,  he  became 
the  President  in  1880  and  the  Treasurer  in 
1886.  The  plant  is  propelled  by  water,  hav- 
ing a  capacity  of  three  hundred  horse-power, 
more  than  half  of  which  is  utilized.  The 
annual  product,  which  is  of  a  superior  quality, 
amounts  to  about  seven  hundred  tons.  For 
the  past  fourteen  years  the  Contoocook  Valley 
Company  has  furnished  the  paper  used  in  the 
State  printing  office.  Mr.  Emerson  is  also 
interested  in  other  enterprises.  He  is  a  Di- 
rector of  the  Hillsborough  Electric  Light 
Company;  was  for  eleven  years  President  of 
the  Henniker  Spring  Water  Company;  owns 
stock  in  the  Walworth  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany, and  in  several  railroad  companies,  in- 
cluding those  of  the  Connecticut  River,  the 
New  York,  New  Haven  &  Hartford,  the  Con- 
cord &  Montreal,  the  New  Boston,  and  the 
Amoskeag;  and  he  has  also  invested  to  some 
extent  in  Western  securities.  In  1888  he 
built  the  Emerson  Block,  a  frame  structure  of 
three  stories.  In  1876  and  1878  he  was 
elected  a  Representative  to  the  legislature 
as  a  Democrat,  and  during  his  term  served 
upon  the  Committee  on  Corporations.  He 
continued  to  vote  with  the  Democratic  party 
luitil  1894,  when  he  became  a  Republican. 
In  the  last  national  campaign  he  was  an  active 
supporter  of  McKinley  and  sound  money. 


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On  JaiiiKuy  i,  \^f>.\,  in  Litclindcl,  N.IL, 
Mr.  luncrson  was  unitctl  in  marriage  with 
Louisa  M.  Lydston,  a  native  of  llillsiioroiigh 
County.  lie  is  the  rresidcnt  of  the  Ilenniker 
I'"rec  l.ilirary  Association,  which  occupies 
C|uarters  in  his  hh)ci<.  Included  in  his  house- 
iiolii  pro[)erty  is  a  library,  containing  about 
two  thousaiul  well-selected  volumes.  Me  has 
been  connected  with  the  Congregational 
church  since  coming  to  Ilenniker,  and  for  sev- 
eral years  he  sang  in  the  choir. 


ACA^/ A  I.I.AC  l".  1".  THRASHER,  a  wel 
known  business  man  of  I'lainfield, 
was  born  in  Cornish,  N.II.,  May 
It),  1S50,  son  of  Samuel  Powers  and  Ann  W. 
(Haven)  Thrasher.  His  great-grandfather 
was  Jacob  Thrasher,  a  native  of  Connecticut, 
who  first  settled  in  .Salisbury,  N.II.,  and 
later  in  Cornish.  The  maiden  name  of 
Jacob's  wife  was  I'lastman.  Numerous  de- 
scendants of  his  are  distril)uted  throughout 
Sullivan  County. 

John  Thrasher,  grandfather  of  Wallace  P., 
was  born  in  Cornish  in  1782.  He  was  a  sur- 
veyor and  a  stone  mason,  and  did  a  large  con- 
tract business  in  connection  with  farming. 
He  attended  to  a  large  amount  of  the  legal 
business  of  Cornish  and  adjoining  towns,  and 
was  a  man  of  much  natural  ability  and  good 
judgment.  His  death  occurred  in  1862.  He 
married  Betsey,  daughter  of  Peter  Walker,  of 
Cornish,  and  reared  a  family  of  six  children  — 
Martha,  Ithaniar,  P^sthcr,  .Sylvia,  Samuel,  and 
Dorothy.  Martha  became  Mrs.  Wheeler,  and 
resided  in  Newport  until  her  death.  Ithamar, 
who  was  a  large  dealer  in  furs,  and  travelled 
through  Vermont  and  New  Hampshire  pur- 
chasing goods,  died  in  Corinth,  Vt.,  in  1864, 
at  the  age  of  fifty-four  years.  He  wedded 
Mary  Ann   Cotton,    of   Cornish,  and   his   chil- 


dren were  named:  Benjamin,  PVancimore, 
lidwin,  Ilikn,  Annette,  Arthur,  Carrie,  and 
Henry.  His  sister  J-:sther,  who  became  the 
wife  of  Moses  Wright,  of  Cornish,  lived  in 
that  town  and  Unity,  had  a  large  family  of 
children,  and  died  in  the  latter  town.  Sylvia 
married  Sylvester  Stowell,  of  Cornish,  a  ma- 
chinist, who  followed  his  trade  in  Newport, 
N.II.,  and  died  leaving  one  daughter,  Eliza- 
beth. Dorothy  Thrasher  became  the  second 
wife  of  Sylvester  Stowell,  and  died  in  Unity. 

Samuel  Powers  Thrasher,  also  a  native  of 
Cornish,  was  born  in  October,  1815.  After 
completing  his  education,  he  learned  the  trade 
of  a  stone  mason,  and  subsequently  became  an 
extensive  contractor.  He  constructed  or  re- 
modelled nearly  every  bridge  upon  the  line  of 
the  Vermont  Central  Railroad.  He  also 
erected  churches,  .school-hcu.ses,  and  govern- 
ment buildings.  In  politics  he  always  be- 
longed to  the  Democratic  party,  and  he  was 
frequently  nominated  to  public  offices.  He 
was  finally  elected  to  the  State  Senate,  and 
was  a  member  of  that  body  at  the  time  of  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  Claremont,  April 
12,  1 87 1.  In  his  religious  views  he  was  a 
Universal ist,  and  he  took  a  deep  interest  in 
the  church  work.  In  Masonry  he  had  ad- 
vanced to  the  Royal  Arch  degree,  and  he  was 
buried  with  the  rites  of  the  fraternity.  He 
married  Ann  W.  Haven,  daughter  of  James 
and  Calista  Haven,  of  Newport,  N.H.  She 
became  the  mother  of  thirteen  children,  all  of 
whom  reached  maturity.  They  were  born  as 
follows:  Laura,  September  4,  1845;  Winfield 
Scott,  May  5,  1847;  Flora  A.,  October  3, 
1849;  Wallace  P.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Charles  H.,  January  10,  1S52;  Frank  P., 
September  10,  1853;  Ned,  January  30,  1855; 
James  B.,  September  29,  1856;  Samuel  P., 
May  9,  1858;  Emma  E.,  May  16,  i860; 
Elmer   J.,    January    22,     1862:     George     B., 


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September  3,  i  S63 ;  and  Nettie  M.,  January 
22,  1S65.  Laura  married  Henry  Seaver,  a 
farmer  of  Norwich,  Vt.,  and  died  May  30, 
1895,  leaving  four  children.  Winfield  Scott 
wedded  Mary  Allen,  daughter  of  the  lion. 
Norman  N.  Allen,  a  prominent  lawyer  and  an 
ex-State  Senator  of  Dayton,  N.Y.  He 
studied  law  in  the  office  of  his  father-in-law, 
with  whom  he  is  now  associated,  and  is  an 
expert  in  real  estate  and  medical  cases,  being 
largely  engaged  as  a  referee  throughout 
Western  New  York.  He  has  had  ten  chil- 
dren, nine  of  whom  are  living.  Flora  mar- 
ried Frank  L.  Simmonds,  a  native  of  Franklin, 
N.  H.,  who  is  now  a  machinist  in  Tilton. 
She  has  had  four  children,  of  whom  three  are 
living.  Charles  H.,  who  became  a  building 
contractor,  and  erected  many  residences  in 
Newton,  Mass.,  and  other  towns  adjoining 
Boston,  died  of  lockjaw  in  a  Boston  hospital, 
May  3,  1S92.  He  married  Ida  Dickinson, 
and  was  the  father  of  seven  children,  all  of 
'whom  are  living  in  Newtonville,  Mass. 
Frank  P.  is  a  member  of  the  Paris  Night  Robe 
Company,  Meredith,  N.H.  He  first  married 
Eva  Stevens,  of  Claremont,  who  was  the 
mother  of  three  children.  His  second  mar- 
riage was  contracted  with  Imo  Lanou,  of 
Irasburg,  Vt.,  who  died  some  two  years  ago. 
Ned  Thrasher,  now  a  prosperous  farmer  in 
Rindge,  N.  H.,  served  as  Postmaster  under 
both  the  Cleveland  administrations.  He  mar- 
ried lunma  L.  Walker,  of  Rindge;  and  four  of 
his  five  children  are  living.  James  B.,  who 
is  a  travelling  salesman  for  a  lasting-machine 
company  of  Boston,  and  has  had  a  large  expe- 
rience as  a  shoe  manufacturer,  now  lives  at 
North  Adams,  Mass.  He  married  Anna 
Glincs,  of  Claremont.  Samuel  P.  Thrasher 
is  now  the  Secretary  and  Manager  of  the  Con- 
necticut State  Law  and  Order  League,  and 
resides    iii    New    Haven.      When    cpiite   young- 


he  ran  away  to  sea;  and,  after  sowing  his  wild 
oats,  he  became  an  ardent  religious  worker 
and  a  temperance  reformer.  He  is  an  able 
and  eloquent  advocate  of  morality,  and  during 
the  past  year  has  delivered  over  two  hundred 
lectures.  He  is  now  travelling  in  Europe. 
By  his  marriage  with  Etta  Bristol,  of  New 
Haven,  he  became  the  father  of  six  children, 
four  of  whom  are  living.  Emma  E.  Thrasher 
is  an  instructor  of  stenography  in  Hartford, 
Conn.  Elmer  J.  Thrasher,  who  is  a  sign 
painter,  and  has  travelled  a  great  deal  in  the 
Western  States,  married  Esther  Her,  and  has 
three  children.  George  B.  Thrasher,  who 
died  in  June,  1S91,  was  a  mechanic  in  the 
employ  of  the  Winchester  Arms  Company  of 
New  Haven,  Conn.  Nettie  M.  Thrasher  is 
now  the  wife  of  Edwin  Sargent,  a  carpenter 
of  Rindge,  N.  H.,  and  has  three  children. 

Wallace  P.  Thrasher  began  his  education  in 
the  common  schools.  His  advanced  studies 
were  pursued  at  the  Kimball  L^nion  Academy 
and  the  Claremont  High  School.  Subse- 
quently, after  teaching  school  for  some  time, 
he  served  an  apprenticeship  at  the  wheel- 
wright's trade.  He  had  been  engaged  in  that 
business  and  that  of  casket-maker  for  twenty 
years,  when  five  years  ago  he  suffered  the 
loss  of  a  leg  by  a  carriage  accident.  He  is 
now  transacting  a  general  legal  business,  is  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace,  writes  considerably  for 
newspapers  and  magazines,  and  is  actively  in- 
terested in  political  affairs.  He  is  a  Demo- 
crat and  prominent  in  the  local  organization. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men, has  served  as  Town  Clerk,  was  upon  the 
School  Board  for  seven  years,  and  was  a  can- 
didate for  the  legislature  in  1892.  In  relig- 
ious belief  he  is  a  Univcrsalist. 

Mr.  Thrasher  married  lilliza  K.  Dickinson, 
who  was  born  in  Cambridgcport,  Mass.,  Oc- 
tober 21,    1850,  daughter   of   Aaron   antl    Lliza 


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(Marsliall)  Dickinson.  The  latter  is  a  native 
1)1'  Unit}',  \.  11.  Mr.  and  .Mrs.  Tliraslier  liave 
nine  ciiildren,  born  as  folhuvs:  Weston  M., 
January  iS,  1.S72;  Carlton  W.,  October  8, 
1.S73;  Manton  J.,  November  11,  1.S75;  Annie 
iM.,  Jinie  i:;,  1878;  Nettie  IC,  June  4,  1881; 
Harry  I).,  May  24,  1883;  Morris  M.,  June 
25,  18S5;  V\nva  H.,  August  23,  1891;  and 
Nina  L.,  l-'ebruary  15,  1894.  Weston  M.  is 
an  e.vpcrt  wood-worker,  and  resides  in  Lewis- 
ton,  Me. ;  Carlton  W.  is  in  a  general  store  in 
Windsor,  V^t. ;  and  Manton  J.  is  a  drug  clerk 
Jn  the  same  town.  The  others  reside  with 
their  parents. 


ARRISON  AM.SDICN  RICK,  a  suc- 
cessful   dairy    farmer    of     Ilenniker, 

-  V  _,  was  born  in  this  town,  June  18, 
1 8 16,  son  of  Jacob  and  Lovisa  (Howe)  Rice. 
The  Rices  are  descendants  of  Edmund  Rice 
and  his  wife,  Tamazine,  who  emigrated  from 
England  and  settled  in  Sudbury,  Mass.,  in 
1639.  The  great-grandfather  of  Harrison  A. 
Rice  was  Elijah  Rice,  son  of  Charles  and 
Rachel  Rice.  Charles  was  the  third  in  line 
from  Edmund.  Elijah  Rice  (second),  the 
granijlfather,  who  settled  in  Hcnniker  at  the 
beginning  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  was  a 
carpenter  by  trade.  He  served  at  the  battle 
of  Bunker  Hill,  and  was  commissioned  an  En- 
sign in  1779.  He  acc[uired  a  tract  of  land 
now  located  in  the  centre  of  the  village, 
affording  the  site  of  the  present  hotel.  His 
ileath  occurred  in  1805.  In  the  year  1779  he 
married  Margaret  Patterson,  who  died  Octo- 
ber 5,  1797.  He  subsequently  contracted  a 
second  marriage  with  Margaret  Stuart,  a  na- 
tive of  Warner,  N.  H.,  wlio  died  December  18, 
1859. 

Jacob  Rice  was  born  in  Hcnniker,  January 
-3i  ^7^7-     When  about  seven  years  old,  while 


visiting  the  family  of  Thomas  Urown,  a  neigh- 
boring farmer  whose  son  Nahum  was  a  deaf 
mute,  Jacob  learned  to  converse  by  signs  with 
the  boy.  This  .so  plea.se(l  Mr.  Urown  that  he 
agreed  to  do  well  by  Jacob  if  the  latter  would 
remain  with  him  until  lie  came  of  age.  Jacob 
accei)ted  the  proposition.  When  twenty-one 
years  old  he  began  to  work  by  the  month.  A 
year  later,  in  company  with  his  brothers, 
Isaac  and  James,  he  bought  a  farm ;  and  for 
some  time  he  assisted  in  its  cultivation,  be- 
sides working  for  others  when  opportunity 
|)ermitted.  The  farm  was  carried  on  by  them 
until  the  brothers  separated  by  marrying  and 
settling  elsewhere.  Jacob,  who  made  several 
changes,  eventually  purchased  of  Nahum 
Brown,  the  deaf  mute,  f(jr  seventeen  hundred 
dollars,  the  farm  upon  which  his  .son,  Harrison 
A.,  now  lives,  and  where  he  settled  in  March, 
1825.  Although  he  was  obliged  to  incur  a 
debt  in  order  to  secure  the  farm,  he  soon  freed 
it  from  encumbrance.  It  contained  one  hun- 
dred acres  of  land,  lying  upon  the  main  road, 
within  easy  reach  of  the  village.  A  strong 
and  able  farmer,  whose  industry  fully  equalled 
his  strength,  Jacob's  activity  continued  almost 
to  the  moment  of  his  death,  which  occurred 
7\pril  14,  1S79,  at  the  age  of  ninety-two.  In 
politics  he  was  originally  a  Democrat.  Later 
he  became  an  abolitionist  and  a  Republican. 
He  served  as  a  Selectman  for  the  greater  part 
of  the  time  between  1820  and  1837,  and  was  a 
Representative  to  the  legislature  in  the  years 
1828  and  1829.  In  July,  1810,  he  wedded 
Lovisa  Howe,  daughter  of  Micah  and  Lovisa 
(Amsden)  Howe.  She  became  the  mother  of 
five  children,  namely:  Adeline,  now  deceased, 
who  married  Jeremiah  Foster,  who  was  a 
farmer  and  surveyor,  and  is  also  deceased; 
Susan  Lovisa,  who  married  John  Smith  Mor- 
rill, and  died  in  Nashua,  N.H.,  two  years 
after  marriage;  Harrison   A.,    the  subject    of 


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this  sketch:  Maria  Wallace,  who  married 
Obadiah  E.  Wilson,  and  died  in  Henniker,  at 
the  age  of  forty-six;  and  George  W.,  who  re- 
sides in  this  town.  Mrs.  Jacob  Rice  died  in 
December,  1867,  aged  eighty-one  years. 

Harrison  Amsden  Rice  was  reared  and  edu- 
cated in  Henniker.  After  reaching  his  major- 
ity he  entered  into  partnership  with  his 
father.  In  time  he  acquired  by  purchase  the 
entire  farm,  together  with  the  stock  and  im- 
plements; and  since  then  he  has  carried  it  on 
upon  his  own  account.  By  adding  the  Eli 
Howe  farm  and  other  tracts  he  now  owns  five 
hundred  acres  of  good  land.  His  principal 
occupation  is  dairy  farming.  He  keeps  some 
fifteen  cows,  and  is  now  giving  his  attention 
to  the  breeding  of  Holstein  cattle.  Six  years 
ago  he  erected  a  new  house  upon  the  site  of 
the  old  Brown  residence.  He  has  also  built  a 
barn,  ninety  feet  in  length.  His  prosperity  is 
chiefly  due  to  untiring  energy  and  enterprise. 
It  is  worthy  of  note  that  he  was  the  first 
farmer  in  Henniker  to  purchase  and  use  a 
mowing  machine.  He  has  also  been  engaged 
in  lumbering  to  some  extent. 

Mr.  Rice  has  been  twice  married.  On  Jan- 
uary 23,  184s,  he  wedded  for  his  first  wife 
Susan  W.  Foster,  daughter  of  Zebulon  Foster. 
She  died  June  2,  1S67.  On  June  18,  1868, 
he  married  Charlotte  I.  Steele,  daughter  of 
Jeremiah  and  Irene  (Felt)  Steele,  of  Peter- 
boro,  Hillsborough  County.  Born  of  his  first 
union  are  John  Jacob  and  Adeline  Eliza. 
John  Jacob  occupies  the  Jacob  Rice  farm,  and 
carries  it  on  in  partnership  with  his  father. 
He  married  F^liza  J.  Sawyer,  and  has  two 
children.  The  latter  are:  Susan  Frances, 
born  December  17,  1877;  and  Ikrtha  Maria, 
born  October  14,  1886.  Adeline  T^iza  is  now 
the  wife  of  Edward  Connelly,  a  tinman  by 
trade.  Mr.  Rice's  present  wife  acquired  her 
education  at  Peterboro  Academy.     She  began 


to  teach  at  the  age  of  nineteen,  and  continuc( 
in  that  occupation  for  nearly  ten  years. 


Yp)TOMER     E.     GRANNIS    is    an    enter- 
l-^-l       prising  farmer  and  real   estate  owner 

_li®  V  residing  in  Claremont,  Sullivan 
County,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  for  many  years 
engaged  in  the  saw-mill  and  lumber  business. 
He  was  born  in  Claremont,  July  16,  1832,  son 
of  Solon  C.  and  Nancy  (Spaulding)  Grannis, 
and  belongs  to  one  of  the  oldest  families  in 
the  town,  being  a  great-grandson  of  Timothy 
Grannis,  Sr  ,  who  came  from  North  Haven, 
Conn.,  to  Claremont  in  1769. 

For  his  first  wife  Timothy  Grannis,  Sr., 
married  Sarah  Sumner,  daughter  of  Dr.  Will- 
iam Sumner.  She  died  June  25,  17S9;  and 
he  married  for  his  second  wife  Sarah  Nye,  of 
Tolland,  Conn.  Timothy  Grannis,  Sr.,  died 
May  7,  1827.  He  was  the  father  of  eleven 
children,  seven  by  his  first  marriage  and  four 
by  his  second. 

Timothy  Grannis,  Jr.,  eldest  son  of  Timo- 
thy, Sr. ,  and  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  in  Claremont,  June  30,  1772. 
In  his  earlier  years  he  taught  school  winters, 
and  tilled  the  soil  of  a  good  farm  in  West 
Claremont  during  the  intervening  summer 
seasons.  Possessing  a  good  education,  he  was 
somewhat  devoted  to  literary  composition  :  and, 
while  at  the  top  of  Ascutney  Mountain  in  1804, 
he  wrote  some  lines  in  blank  verse  commemo- 
rative of  the  occasion.  He  did  much  survey- 
ing for  the  town  and  for  private  parties,  and 
was  well  and  favorably  known  throughout  this 
region.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Selectmen  from  1821  to  1829  and  Represent- 
ative to  the  General  Court  in  1829-32.  He 
married  Phcebe,  daughter  of  Ebenezer  Rice, 
and  reared  a  family  of  five  children,  as  fol- 
lows:    Solon     C,    Laurens    A.,    Homer    P., 


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Sarali  M.,  and  Saiiuie'l  R.  II(Jinci-  I'.  Grannis 
removed  to  Canada  when  young.  Afterward 
he  went  South,  and  died  in  Alabama.  Sarah 
M.  Grannis  married  Leonard  Gilmorc.  Lau- 
rens A.,  who  was  a  large  land-owner,  died  in 
Guildhall,  Vt.,  in  October,  1896.  He  mar- 
ried for  his  first  wife  Mary  Johnson,  and  for 
his  second  Martha  Cole.  Samuel  R.,  who 
married  Caroline  Higbee,  settled  in  Minne- 
sota, and  passed  the  rest  of  his  life  in  that 
State. 

Solon  C.  Grannis,  father  of  Homer  li!.,  was 
Hifin  in  West  Claremont,  August  23,  1801. 
When  a  young  man  he  settled  upon  a  farm  lo- 
cated a  mile  north  of  his  father's  property,  and 
for  many  years  carried  on  agricultural  pur- 
suits upon  a  large  scale.  He  was  prominent 
in  public  affairs,  serving  upon  the  Board  of 
Selectmen  from  1843  to  1852,  being  Chairman 
of  that  body  for  some  time,  and  representing 
this  town  in  the  legislature  in  i860  and  1861. 
He  was  well  informed  concerning  the  history 
of  Claremont,  as  he  kept  a  record  of  all  im- 
portant events  that  transpired  in  the  town. 
He  acted  as  a  Warden  of  the  Union  Episcopal 
Church  for  over  forty  years.  Solon  C. 
Grannis  lived  to  be  ninety  years  old,  and  died 
March  7,  1892.  His  wife,  Nancy  Spaulding, 
was  a  daughter  of  Abel  Spaulding.  Abel  and 
his  brother  Joseph  served  in  the  Revolution- 
ary War,  and  tradition  has  it  that  Joseph 
Spaulding  fired  the  first  shot  at  the  battle  of 
Bunker  Hill.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Solon  C. 
Grannis  were  the  parents  of  eight  children, 
namely:  Sarah,  born  November  16,  1824;  Jo- 
seph S.,  born  January  26,  1828;  Martha  A., 
born  February  21,  1830,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  months;  Homer  E.,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch;  Martha  A.,  born  May  27, 
1834;  Nancy  J.,  born  April  3,  1836;  Charles 
C,  who  died  at  tlie  age  of  eighteen  months; 
and    George    C,    born     December    10,     1842. 


Sarah  married  Chester  I'.  .Smith,  and  died  in 
1864;  Joseph  S. ,  who  is  a  lawyer  in  Cleve- 
land, Ohio,  married  Eliza  Harrison;  Nancy 
never  married;  George  C.  married  Annis  Gil- 
more,  and  resides  in  Claremont;  Martha  A., 
who  formerly  taught  school,  became  the  wife 
of  Daniel  N.  Bowker. 


/^TeORGE  !■:.  MHJ.ER,  a  prominent 
Vp  I  resident  of  Pembroke  and  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  .Simpson,  Miller  & 
Co.,  general  merchants,  was  born  in  Deer- 
field,  N.H.,  October  30,  1850,  son  of  Eben- 
ezer  and  Mehitable  L.  (Dow)  Miller.  The 
grandfather,  Samuel  Miller,  spent  his  early 
life  in  Chichester,  N.  H.,  engaged  in  agricult- 
ural pursuits;  and  his  last  years  were  passed 
in  Brentwood,  N.  H.  The  maiden  name  of  his 
wife  was  Annie  Yeaton ;  and  he  had  a  family 
of  six  children,  of  whom  Ebenezer,  George  E. 
Miller's  father,  was  the  second-born. 

Ebenezer  Miller  grew  to  manhood  as  a 
farmer.  When  a  young  man  he  settled  upon  a 
farm  in  Deerfield,  where  the  rest  of  his  life 
was  spent  in  tilling  the  soil.  He  was  known 
and  respected  as  a  kind-hearted  neighbor  and 
a  useful  citizen.  In  his  later  years  he  acted 
with  the  Republican  party,  and  in  religious 
belief  he  was  a  Free  Will  Baptist.  His  wife, 
Mehitable,  who  was  a  native  of  Deerfield,  be- 
came the  mother  of  four  children,  of  whom 
Sarah  J.  and  George  E.  are  living.  Ebenezer 
Miller  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty-onc  years.  His 
wife  died  in  1S96,  at  the  age  of  seventy-four 
years. 

George  E.  Miller  acquired  his  education  in 
his  native  town.  After  leaving  school  he  re- 
sided in  Laconia,  N.  H.,  for  a  short  time. 
Then  he  came  to  Pembroke,  and  entered  the 
grocery  and  provision  business  as  a  clerk  for 
Emery  Brothers.     At  a  later  date  he  acquired 


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an  interest  in  the  firm  of  Johnson  &  Cyr,  with 
whom  he  remained  as  a  partner  for  seven 
years.  In  18S6  he  entered  into  partnership 
witli  LI.  T.  Simpson,  forming  the  firm  name 
of  Simpson,  Miller  &  Co.,  which  has  since 
conducted  a  thriving  business  in  Suncook. 

On  November  30,  1878,  Mr.  Miller  wedded 
Nellie  L.  Simpson,  daughter  of  Henry  T. 
Simpson,  his  business  associate.  They  have 
haJ  two  sons,  namely:  Walter,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  nine  months;  and  Henry,  who  lived 
three  years  and  six  months.  In  politics  Mr. 
Miller  is  a  Republican.  Althougii  he  is 
deeply  interested  in  local  affairs,  he  has  never 
sought  for  public  office,  and  has  frecjuently 
declined  nominations  thereto.  In  the  cam- 
paign of  1896  he  accepted  nomination  as  a 
candidate  for  Representative  to  the  legislat- 
ure, and  was  elected  for  the  years  -1897  and 
1898.  An  able  and  successful  business  man, 
he  is  esteemed  by  his  fellow-townsmen.  A 
Mason  of  the  thirty-second  degree,  he  is  a 
member  of  Jewell  Lodge,  No.  94;  of  Hiram 
Chapter,  No.  24 ;  of  Mount  Horeb  Comraand- 
ery,  Knights  Templar;  of  the  Consistory  at 
Nashua;  and  the  Mystic  Shrine  at  Boston. 
He  is  also  affiliated  with  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  Both  he  and  Mrs. 
Miller  attend  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 


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(^01  IN  B.  HOWARD,  formerly  a  car- 
penter and  builder,  who  is  now  living 
in  retirement  at  Franklin  Falls,  was 
born  in  Burlington,  Vt.,  May  13,  1828,  son  of 
ICzekiel  and  Nancy  (Burbank)  Howard.  The 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Connecticut,  first 
settled  in  Shelburnc,  Vt.,  and  later  in  Bur- 
lington. A  cariienter  and  bridge  builder,  the 
active  period  of  his  life  was  devoted  to  these 
callings.  He  died  in  Burlington  in  1832. 
His    wife,     Nancy,     who    was    a    native     of 


Grantham,  N.H.,  became  the  mother  of  five 
children,  of  whom  John  B.  and  Emily  are 
living.  Emily  is  the  wife  of  George  B. 
Mathews,  of  I""ranklin.  The  others  were:  Lo- 
retta,  who  married  Edward  Doxey,  now  a  resi- 
dent of  Elgin,  111.  ;  Charles  H.,  who  died  in 
Oregon;  and  Maria,  who  died  young.  Mrs. 
Ezekiel  Howard  married  for  her  second  hus- 
band Stillman  Clark,  of  Georgia,  Vt.,  and 
passed  the  rest  of  her  life  in  that  town. 

John  B.  Howard  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools.  While  still  young  he  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade  in  Burlington,  and  after- 
ward worked  as  a  journeyman  in  Grafton  and 
Worcester,  Mass.,  and  Nashua,  N.H.,  about  a 
year  in  each  place.  In  1S54  he  went  to  Min- 
neapolis, Minn.,  where  he  resided  until  1871, 
and  then  returned  to  Vermont.  He  resided  for 
a  time  in  Georgia,  from  which  town  he  re- 
moved to  St.  Albans;  and  in  1881  he  came  to 
Franklin  Falls.  Since  settling  here  he  has 
conducted  several  building  operations  in  this 
village,  in  Northfield,  and  in  Tilton;  and  he 
has  improved  his  own  residence,  located  on 
Franklin  Street.  He  retired  from  active  labor 
some  time  ago.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat, 
and  in  1892  he  served  with  ability  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Board  of  Selectmen. 

In  1856,  while  residing  in  Minneapolis, 
Mr.  Howard  contracted  his  first  marriage  with 
Emily  Arnokl.  She  was  born  in  Jamestown, 
N.Y.,  daughter  of  Henry  C.  and  ICliza  Ar- 
nold, the  former  of  whom  was  an  artist.  Both 
her  parents  are  now  deceased.  Mr.  Howard's 
second  wife,  whom  he  married  May  13,  1882, 
was  Arietta  Hathaway,  of  Boston,  Mass.  .She 
died  March  30,  1889,  leaving  one  daughter, 
Mabel  A.  The  latter  and  Maria  Albina,  his 
daughter  by  liis  first  wife,  reside  with  tiieir 
father.  Mr.  Howard  is  a  member  of  the  Ma- 
sonic lodge  in  Franklin  and  of  Mount  Horeb 
Commandery  of  Concortl. 


MOCkAI'IIICAl,    Kl'lVIKVV 


-OSICI'II  HENRY  D1':AR1?0RN,  one  of 
tlic  Icadinp;  farmers  and  influential  resi- 
dents of  Pembroke,  was  born  in  Deer- 
field,  N.ll.,  April  ig,  1849,  son  of  the  Hon. 
Joseph  J.  and  Sarah  (Jenncss)  Dearborn,  of 
Decrficld.  His  ancestors  on  the  father's  side 
have  for  many  generations  resided  in  New 
Hampshii-e.  The  first  of  the  Dearboi-n  fam- 
ily of  whom  there  is  any  authentic  knowl- 
edge was  Godfrey  Dearborn,  an  luigiishman, 
who  with  his  family  became  an  early  settler 
of  Hoston,  Mass.  He  afterward  moved  to 
^ixeter,  N.H.,  and  was  a  pioneer  farmer  in 
that  town.  His  son,  Henry,  married  Eliza- 
beth Merriam.  Samuel  Dearborn,  the  next 
in  line,  wedded  Mercy  Batchelder;  and  their 
son,  Nathaniel  Dearborn,  married  Mary  Batch- 
elder.  Edward  Dearborn,  son  of  Nathaniel, 
and  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  born  in  1749,  (lied  at  Kensington, 
N.H.  He  married  Susanna  Brown,  of  Ken- 
sington; and  one  of  their  children  was  Sewall, 
grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Sewall  Dearborn  was  born  February  26, 
1773,  in  Deerfield,  N.H.  In  early  manhood 
he  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Deerfield.  Ener- 
getic and  persevering,  he  acquired  a  good  es- 
tate. In  politics  he  supported  the  Democratic 
party.  In  his  religious  belief  he  was  a  Cal- 
vinist  Baptist.  His  death  occurred  in  Deer- 
field  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  years.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Dow,  a  native  of  Kensington,  and 
reared  a  family  of  five  children,  none  of  whom 
arc  living.  Mrs.  Sewall  Dearborn  li\'ed  to 
the  advanced  age  of  ninety-seven  years.  Jo- 
seph J.  Dearborn  was  born  in  Deerfield,  March 
8,  18 18.  When  a  young  man  he  entered  mer- 
cantile pursuits  in  his  native  town,  and  car- 
ried on  a  thriving  trade  for  some  years.  He 
then  went  to  Bangor,  Me.,  and,  after  carrying 
on  a  hardware  business  for  some  time,  re- 
turned aiiain  to    Deerfield.      His    latest   enter- 


prise was  a  shoe  manufactory,  which  he  cf)n- 
ductcd  successfully  until  his  retirement. 
He  died  in  Deerfield,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
two  years.  An  active  supporter  of  the  Repub- 
lican party,  he  served  the  town  in  the  capacity 
of  Selectman,  was  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  House  of  Representatives  and  of 
the  State  Senate.  He  attended  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  was  a  man  of  unusual  ability  as 
a  business  man,  and  his  character  and  integ- 
rity were  beyond  reproach.  The  first  of  his 
three  marriages  was  contracted  with  Sarah 
Jenncss,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Jcn- 
ness,  of  Deerfield.  She  died  at  the  age  of 
forty-nine  years.  Of  her  four  children  the 
only  survivor  is  Joseph  H.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  For  his  second  wife  Joseph  J.  Dear- 
born wedded  Hannah  G.  Chadwick,  of  De<^r- 
field.  She  bore  him  two  children,  neither  of 
whom  is  living.  Mrs.  Phoebe  Libby  Mc- 
Intire  became  his  third  wife. 

Joseph  Henry  Dearborn  began  his  educa- 
tion in  Pembroke,  and  fitted  for  college  at 
Phillips  Exeter  Academy.  At  Harvard  Uni- 
versity he  pursued  a  classical  course,  and 
graduated  with  the  class  of  1871.  Afterward 
he  was  engaged  in  the  dry-goods  business  in 
Boston  until  1880.  Since  that  year  he  has 
followed  agriculture  in  Pembroke.  Politi- 
cally, he  acts  with  the  Republican  party.  He 
has  been  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen. 
He  served  on  the  Board  of  Education  for  two 
years,  and  he  has  represented  this  town  in  the 
legislature.  For  some  years  past  he  has  been 
a  Trustee  of  Pembroke  Academy. 

On  November  g,  1880,  Mr.  Dearborn  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Sarah  Frances 
Stevens,  daughter  of  Josiah  and  H.  Ann 
(Head)  Stevens,  of  Manchester,  N.H.  Three 
children  have  been  born  of  the  union;  namely, 
Jenness  S.,  Joseph  Jewell,  and  Sarah  Eliza- 
beth.     .Mr.    Dearborn    is   connected   with    the 


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Masonic  fraternity,  the  Independent  Order  of 
Odd  Fellows,  and  Pembroke  Grange,  Patrons 
of  Husbandry.  His  many  estimable  qualities 
and  superior  intellectual  attainments  are  ap- 
preciated by  his  fellow-townsmen,  in  whose 
interests  he  has  labored  diligently  as  a  public 
ofificiaL  The  family  attend  the  Congrega- 
tional church. 


'OHN  F.  DAVIS,  Postmaster  of  Suna- 
pee,  was  born  here,  November  ii, 
1835,  son  of  Eli  and  Eunice  (Pingree) 
Davis,  The  grandfather,  Eli  Davis  (first), 
was  born  March  15,  1775,  in  Rowley,  Mass. 
He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers  of  Springfield, 
N.II.,  where  he  went  when  quite  a  young 
man,  and  where  he  carried  on  general  farm- 
ing. Later  he  removed  to  Plainfield,  N.H., 
where  he  spent  the  latter  part  of  his  life.  He 
married  Judith  Sanborn,  who  was  born  June 
6,  1776,  and  with  her  reared  ten  children.  A 
prominent  man,  he  served  the  town  in  several 
public  capacities,  including  that  of  legisla- 
tive Representative.  He  was  also  an  es- 
teemed member  and  Deacon  of  the  Baptist 
church.  He  died  October  22,  1848,  and  his 
wife  on  September  6,  i860. 

Eli  Davis  (second),  born  in  Springfield, 
N.H.,  December  29,  1807,  was  very  success- 
fully engaged  in  general  farming,  and  spent 
most  of  his  life  in  Sunapee.  In  politics  he 
was  a  Democrat,  but  held  no  iiublic  office.  In 
religious  belief  he  was  a  Universalist.  He 
married  Eunice  Pingree,  who  was  born  in 
Sunapee,  January  15,  1807.  She  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  Francis  Pingree,  who  was  an  early  set- 
tler, a  prominent  man,  and  a  public  official  of 
the  town.  Her  husband  died  on  April  25, 
1875;  and  her  death  occurred  March  31,  1893. 
They  had  six  children,  of  whom  four  are  now 
living.  They  were:  Ruth  A.,  born  Decem- 
ber  10,    1829;    Permilla   M.,    Ijorn   November 


12,  1831;  Eunice  M.,  born  November  8, 
1833;  John  F.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Mary  S.,  born  October  12,  1838;  and  Julia 
A.,  born  March  28,  1841.  Ruth  A.  is  the 
widow  of  James  W.  Trow,  and  at  present  re- 
sides in  Sunapee;  Permilla  M.  married 
Francis  S.  Trow,  and  died  October  7,  1894; 
Eunice  M.  is  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  Messer, 
and  lives  with  him  in  New  London;  Mary  S. 
married  Levit  S.  Pillsbury,  and  died  April  26, 
1 888;  Julia  A.  is  the  wife  of  Hiram  P.  East- 
man, and  lives  in  Sunapee. 

John  F.  Davis  was  educated  in  the  schools 
of  his  native  town.  Being  an  only  son,  he 
lived  at  home  until  he  was  twenty-three 
years  of  age.  He  then  engaged  in  the  man- 
ufacture of  shoe-stiffening  and  other  occu- 
pations. Later  on  he  carried  the  United 
States  mail  between  Sunapee  and  Sunapee 
Station,  being  mail  and  express  agent  for  a 
period  of  fourteen  years.  Afterward  he  was 
in  the  hotel  business  for  eight  years,  conduct- 
ing the  Runnells  Lake  View  House  and  the 
Maplewood.  He  was  next  engaged  in  a  mer- 
cantile business  for  a  while,  after  wiiich  he 
moved  to  George's  Mills,  a  part  of  Sunapee, 
where  he  has  resided  ever  since.  He  has  been 
Postmaster  here  since  1893  and  Ta.x  Collector 
for  three  years,  besides  which  he  carries  on 
the  express  business,  and  has  been  an  under- 
taker for  fifteen  years.  He  also  makes  a  busi- 
ness of  taking  summer  boarders,  liaving  ac- 
commodations for  ten  guests  and  a  livery  for 
their  convenience.  In  politics  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat. His  religious  views  arc  liberal  anil  not 
restricted  to  any  sectarian  creed.  He  is  a 
member  of  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  both 
the  Sunapee  and  Lake  Granges. 

On  I""ebruary  14,  1858,  Mr.  Davis  married 
Louisa  S.  Tucker,  who  was  born  in  Sunapee, 
October  13,  1S36,  daughter  of  Joseph  G.  and 
Ruih  (Gardner)  Tucker.     Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis 


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have  a  daiiglitcr,  Carrie  J.,  born  in  Sunapec, 
April  26,  1S59,  will)  is  now  tiic  wife  of 
Charles  H.  Loveland,  and  resides  in  Melrose, 
Mass.  Mr.  Davis  has  a  fine  place  at  Georj^e's 
Mills,  wliicli  is  a  beautiful  summer  resort  at 
tile  head  of  Lake  -Sunapee. 


ANA  W.  CALL,  a  prominent  farmer 
of  Franklin,  was  born  in  this  town. 


IB 

r-*"^  August  27,  1 847,  son  o[  llazen  11. 
^nd  Mary  (Thomas)  Call.  His  grandfather, 
Hazcn  Call,  who  was  a  lifelong  resident  of 
I'^raidvlin,  spent  his  active  period  in  tilling 
the  soil.  The  father  was  reared  and  educated 
in  this  town.  lie  was  engaged  in  farming 
and  lumbering,  and  died  October  2,  1888. 
Mis  wife,  Mary,  who  was  a  native  of  Sanborn- 
ton,  N.IL,  became  the  mother  of  eight  chil- 
dren-^Joseph  L.,  Calvin  T.,  Helen,  Dana 
W.,  Horace  M.,  Helen  V.,  David  S.,  and 
Frederick  W.  Joseph  L.  married  Ann  .Sever- 
ance, and  lives  in  h'ranklin;  Calvin  T.  mar- 
ried Olive  B.  Davis,  and  resides  in  this  town; 
Helen  died  at  the  age  of  nine  months;  Horace 
M.,  who  died  December  11,  1876,  married 
Eldora  Twombly,  of  Hill,  N.IL,  who  also 
died  leaving  one  daughter,  Helen  Luella; 
Helen  V.  died  at  the  age  of  si.xtecn  years; 
David  S.,  who  was  for  some  years  a  conductor 
on  the  Northern  Railroad,  and  is  now  living 
with  his  brother,  Dana  W.,  married  Inzie 
Straw,  who  is  now  deceased ;  Frederick  Will- 
iam, born  in  1855,  died  April  3,  1873.  The 
mother's  death  occurred  in  April,  1S90. 

Dana  W.  Call  was  ten  years  old  when  he 
went  to  Andover,  N.H.  Here  he  lived  with 
an  uncle  until  he  was  si.xteen.  He  acquired  a 
common-school  education.  After  leaving  An- 
dover he  entered  the  service  of  the  Northern 
Railway  Company,  with  which  he  remained 
steadily  until    1S70.      For  the  succeeding  fif- 


teen years  he  was  engaged  in  farming  and  rail- 
roading, kept  a  meat  market  in  Tilton,  and 
was  in  the  grain  business  in  Franklin  Falls. 
In  that  period  he  bought  his  present  farm,  con- 
taining one  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres  of 
excellent  land,  which  is  well  improved.  He 
makes  a  specialty  of  dairying,  raises  poultry, 
keeps  an  average  of  five  hundred  hens,  and 
ships  eggs  to  the  Boston  market.  He  also 
raises  some  fine  colts.  Politically,  he  sup- 
ports the  Republican  party;  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen  for  two 
years,  besides  serving  in  other  town  offices. 

Mr.  Call  has  been  twice  married.  On  June 
6,  1S69,  he  wedded  I'jnily  W.  Faton,  who 
died  December  11,  1S73.  .She  was  a  daugh- 
ter of  the  late  Wheeler  liaton,  formerly  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Franklin.  On  January 
29,  1876,  Mr.  Call  was  united  in  marriage 
with  his  present  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Nellie  ¥..  Bunton.  She  was  born  in  Sanborn- 
ton,  N.H.,  October  20,  1849,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Adeline  (Shaw)  Bunton,  natives 
respectively  of  Hookset  and  Sanbornton,  N.H. 
Charles  Bunton  followed  the  blacksmith's 
trade  in  Manchester  for  some  time,  and  for  ten 
years  carried  on  a  farm  in  Auburn,  N.H. 
His  wife  died  April  5,  1881;  and  he  is  now 
living  with  his  daughter,  Mrs.  Call.  Mr. 
Call's  children  by  his  first  marriage  were: 
Lola  H.,  who  married  Lee  Stackpole,  an  oper- 
ative in  a  needle  factory  at  Filmont,  N.^^; 
and  Mabel  K.,  now  the  wife  of  Alfred  M. 
Kelley,  of  Hill,  N.H.  Charles  Herman  Call, 
the  only  son  of  the  present  union,  was  born  in 
Franklin,  N.H.,  August  26,  1877,  and  is  now 
a  plumber  of  Franklin. 

Mr.  Call  is  a  member  of  Meridian  Lodge, 
No.  60,  F.  &  A.  M.;  of  Merrimack  Lodge, 
L  O.  O.  F.  ;  of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United 
Workmen,  the  Knights  of  Honor,  and  the 
grange  in  Hill.     He  is  in  religious  communion 


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with  the  Christian  church.  The  Call  family 
is  one  of  the  oldest  in  Franklin.  Among  sev- 
eral interesting  relics  left  by  his  ancestry  Mr. 
Call  has  in  his  possession  a  boat  chain  and  a 
chair  which  once  belonged  to  Daniel  Webster. 


JDWARD  O.  DAY,  an  influential  citi- 
zen of  Cornish,  Sullivan  County,  N.H., 
is  a  native  of  this  town.  He  was 
born  June  21,  1838,  his  parents  being  Hiram 
and  Louisa  (Wyman)  Day.  The  Day  family 
is  an  old  one  in  this  country,  and  the  name 
has  been  borne  by  several  generations  of  up- 
right men  and  women.  The  first  representa- 
tive in  America  was  Anthony  Day,  of  Glouces- 
ter, Mass.,  who  died  there  in  171 7,  at  the  age 
of  ninety-four  years.  His  son  Nathaniel  and 
the  ne.xt  two  in  line,  Benjamin  and  Benjamin, 
Jr.,  were  born  in  Attleboro,  Mass.  Peletiah, 
who  came  ne.xt  and  was  the  great-grandfather 
of  Mr.  Edward  O.  Day,  was  born  in  Norton, 
Mass. 

His  son  Rufus,  who  was  boi-n  in  Taunton, 
Mass.,  May  3,  1770,  and  died  November  16, 
1838,  was  the  first  of  the  name  to  settle  in 
Cornish.  Rufus  Day  was  twice  married,  his 
first  wife  being  Betty  Commings,  of  Cornish, 
by  whom  he  had  the  following  children:  Rox- 
anna,  Sylvia,  Rebecca,  Samuel  C,  Eliza, 
Hiram  A.,  Emmeline,  and  Lucinda.  Ro.k- 
ainia  Day  married  Joseph  Ililliard,  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  of  Cornish,  and  tiled  April  ig, 
1878.  Rebecca,  who  married  Saul  Wyman, 
died  July  i,  1881  ;  and  her  five  children  are 
likewise  dead.  .Sylvia  married  Joseph  Rich- 
ardson, a  farmer  and  brick  mason  of  Cornish, 
and  died  I-'ebruary  14,  1882.  Of  her  si.\  chil- 
dren one  is  living.  Samuel  C,  wlio  was  a 
shoemaker,  died  June  2,  1875.  His  wife, 
formerly  a  Miss  Wood,  is  deceased;  but  three 
children   arc    living,      liliza    married    Samuel 


Jones,  a  farmer  of  Montpelier,  Vt. ,  and  had 
five  children,  two  of  whom  are  living.  She 
died  May  23,  1890.  Samuel  Jones  is  also  de- 
ceased. Emmeline  married  Ariel  K.  Wood, 
and  died  July  16,  1887.  Her  husband  is  also 
deceased.  Four  of  their  children  are  living. 
Lucinda  married  Alvin  Commings.  They  are 
both  living,  and  have  two  children.  Betty 
Commings  Day  died  August  9,  1825;  and 
Rufus  Day  married  for  his  second  wife  Fhebe 
Choate  White,  who  died  March  3,  1839,  leav- 
ing no  children. 

Hiram  A.  Day,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  a  well-known  and  highly  re- 
spected farmer  of  Cornish.  He  was  a  Repre- 
sentative in  1883.  He  married  Louisa 
Wyman,  and  had  five  children  —  Edward  O., 
Henry  M.,  Charles  F.,  Caroline  L.,  and 
Martha  W.  Henry  Day,  born  in  Cornish, 
August  29,  1842,  married  Alice  H.  Peck. 
He  is  in  the  insurance  business  in  Lebanon, 
N.H.,  and  is  a  Representative  from  that  town 
at  the  present  session  of  the  legislature. 
Charles  l*".,  born  January  28,  1844,  enlisted 
as  a  private  at  Cornish  in  1S62,  in  Company 
E  of  the  Ninth  Regiment,  New  Hampshire 
Infantry,  and  afterward  became  Corporal.  He 
was  taken  prisoner  at  Poplar  Grove  Church, 
September  30,  1864,  and  died  December  25, 
1864,  at  Salisbury  Prison.  Caroline  L.,  born 
September  12,  1846,  resides  at  Cornish. 
Martha,  born  November  28,  185 1, 'has  lieen  a 
school  teacher  for  a  number  of  years.  Hiram 
A.  Day  died  January  10,   1895. 

Mr.  lulward  O.  Day  began  his  working  life 
as  a  tiller  of  the  soil,  and  has  been  interested 
in  agricultural  pursuits  up  to  the  present  time. 
He  is  a  successful  farmer  and  a  useful  citizen, 
being  well  informed  on  current  events,  and 
through  the  columns  of  ihe  daily  press  keep- 
ing in  touch  with  all  the  great  social  and  in- 
dustrial questions  of  the  day.      He  has  served 


MOODY    A.    PILLSBURY. 


JilOCRAI'lllCAl,    KKVII'.W 


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liis  town  as  Selectman  lur  nine  years;  and  in 
1.S93  lie  represented  it  in  the  State  legislature, 
where  he  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
Mileage.  He  has  been  Highway  Surveyor  for 
a  number  of  years.  ■  He  is  a  jiromincnt 
Mason,  and  has  held  all  offices  in  his  lodge 
up  to  that  of  Master.  He  is  an  attendant  of 
the  Baptist  church.  He  married  L.  Addic 
Spaulding,  who  was  born  November  2,  1843. 
Her  parents,  Siloam  and  Mahala  (Silloway) 
jif):iulding,  were  both  natives  of  I'lainfield, 
N.H.  A  singular  coincidence  in  their  lives 
is  that  both  were  born  in  the  same  town  in 
March,  that  they  were  married  in  March,  and 
that  both  died  in  the  month  of  March  in  the 
same  year,   1885. 


^0(~)DY  A.  riLLSBURY,  a  retired 
farmer  of  Webster  and  an  ex- 
member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  was  born  in  this  town,  September 
20,  1820,  son  of  Moody  A.  and  Abigail  Wil- 
kins  (Di.x)  I'illsbury.  His  grandparents, 
Daniel  and  Eunice  (Thurlow)  Pillsbury,  were 
natives  of  Newburyport,  Mass.  Daniel  I'ills- 
bury  and  a  brother  removed  to  Boscawen  in 
1788,  and  settled  on  land  now  traversed  by 
Water  Street.  He  was  a  carpenter  and  a  mill- 
wright, which  trades,  together  with  farming, 
be  followed  during  the  active  period  of  his 
life;  and  he  died  December  8,  1844.  His 
wife  died  October  27,  1847.  They  were  the 
parents  of  twelve  children,  of  whom  one  died 
in  infancy.  The  others  were:  Daniel,  Enoch, 
George  T. ,  Moody  A.,  Rebecca,  Paul  P.,  Jo- 
seph, Eunice,  Mary,  Sarah,  and  William  T. 

Moody  A.  I'illsbury,  Sr. ,  father  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Boscawen,  and 
reared  upon  a  farm.  He  followed  agriculture, 
and  also  operated  a  saw-mill  for  many  years. 
In    the    State    militia    he    was    a    Colonel    and 


later  a  Brigadier-general.  He  died  January 
8,  1863.  His  first  wife,  Abigail,  died  May  9, 
1852.  A  second  marriage  united  him  to 
Louisa  V.  Di.\,  his  first  wife's  sister,  now  liv- 
ing in  Webster,  and  ninety  years  old.  Timo- 
thy Dix,  the  father  of  both  wives,  was  for- 
merly a  resident  of  Boscawen.  He  moved  to 
Massachusetts  and  later  to  Canada,  where  his 
last  days  were  passed.  Moody  A.  and  Abi- 
gail Pillsbury  were  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, namely:  Moody  A.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  George,  born  October  17,  1823; 
Charles  W.,  born  June  7,  1S26,  who  was 
drowned  May  17,  1828;  and  Charles  S.,  born 
April  14,  1828.  George  married  Lydia  A. 
Marshall,  and  is  now  a  farmer  in  Tewksbury, 
Mass.  Charles  S.  wedded  Mary  Runals,  and 
is  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  in  London- 
derry, N.H. 

Moody  A.  Pillsbury  obtained  his  education 
in  a  common  school  and  a  private  academy. 
When  twenty-one  years  old  he  went  to  West 
Newbury,  Mass.,  and  for  some  years  was  em- 
ployed as  a  farm  assistant  in  that  vicinity. 
One  year  after  his  marriage  he  returned  to 
Webster,  where  for  some  time  he  was  a  clerk 
in  a  store.  His  principal  occupation,  how- 
ever, has  been  farming.  Formerly  he  and  his 
father-in-law  were  joint  owners  of  a  good  farm 
of  two  hundred  acres,  which  he  carried  on  for 
many  years  before  his  retirement  from  active 
labor. 

On  March  15,  1847,  Mr.  Pillsbury  was 
united  iii  marriage  with  Charlotte  Couch,  who 
was  born  in  Webster,  April  12,  1826,  daugh- 
ter of  Amos  and  Hannah  (Ray)  Couch.  Her 
father,  a  native  of  Salisbury,  N.H.,  settled 
upon  a  farm  in  Webster  in  1820,  and  some 
years  later  moved  to  Boscawen,  where  he  re- 
sided for  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  died  No- 
vember 29,  1883,  aged  ninety-two  years.  Her 
mother,  who  was   born  in  Hennikcr,  died  July 


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27,  1S53.  The  other  children  of  Mr.  Couch 
and  his  wife  were:  Hale,  who  died  August  29, 
1853;  Eunice,  who  died  November  22,  1888; 
and  Charles,  who  died  August  i,  1824.  In 
politics  Mr.  Pillsbury  is  a  Republican.  He 
served  with  ability  as  a  Selectman  for  six 
years,  was  Town  Clerk  for  one  year,  represented 
his  district  in  the  legislature  in  1887,  and  has 
been  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  the  past  twenty- 
five  years.  He  has  been  drawn  for  jury  ser- 
vice six  times.  Both  he  and  Mrs.  Pillsbury 
attend  the  Congregational  church,  and  are  ac- 
tively interested  in  church  work. 


I  LI  JAM  LAWI^IiNCE  FOSTER, 
a  well-known  lawyer  of  Concord, 
was  born  at  Westminster,  Vt. , 
June  I,  1823,  son  of  John  and  Sophia  (VVill- 
ard)  Foster.  His  grandfather,  Edmund 
Foster,  a  native  of  Reading,  Mass.,  graduated 
from  Yale  College  about  the  time  of  the  break- 
ing out  of  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  subse- 
quently took  part  in  the  battles  of  Lexington 
and  Hunker  Hill.  He  was  settled  as  minister 
over  one  parish  in  Littleton,  Mass.,  for  forty- 
seven  years;  and  he  died  in  that  town  in  the 
seventy-sixth  year  of  his  age.  He  married 
Phebe,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  William  Law- 
rence, of  Lincoln,  Mass.,  and  reared  a  family 
of  thirteen  children.  Three  or  four  of  the 
older  sons  served  in  the  War  of  1S12.  John, 
the  youngest  son,  who  was  born  in  Littleton, 
Mass.,  went  subsequently  to  Westminster, 
Vt.,  and  thence  to  Kcenc,  N.H.,  when  his 
son  William  was  but  two  years  old.  He  kept 
a  store  in  Keene  for  many  years,  served  as 
Sheriff  of  the  county  and  as  Register  of 
Deeds,  and  clied  at  the  age  of  fifty-six.  His 
wife,  Sophia,  a  daughter  of  Josiah  Willard, 
became  the  mother  of  three  children  :  William 
L.,    the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Sophia,    who 


died  in  childhood;  and  Susan,  who  is  the 
widow  of  Frank  G.  Littlefield,  and  resides  at 
Exeter,  N.H. 

William  L.  Foster  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  Keene  and  at  the  academies 
of  Walpole  and  Hancock,  N.H.  He  began 
the  study  of  law  at  Keene,  and  subsequently 
attended  the  Harvard  Law  School  at  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.  He  first  opened  an  ofifice  in 
Keene,  where  he  remained  until  1S53.  For 
four  years  he  served  as  Postmaster  and  for 
about  five  years  as  State  Reporter.  Since 
1853  he  has  resided  in  Concord.  From  1849 
to  1853  he  was  Clerk  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Senate.  He  was  a  member  of  the  legislature 
in  1862-63,  and  he  also  served  on  the  staff  of 
Governor  Dinsmore.  In  1869  he  was  ap- 
pointed Judge  of  the  Supreme  Court,  and  held 
it  until  his  resignation  in  1881.  He  has  been 
a  Republican  ever  since  the  formation  of  that 
party,  and  he  cast  his  first  Presidential  vote 
for  James  K.  Polk  in  1844.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  Episcopal  church,  is  popular  socially, 
and  belongs  to  Blazing  Star  Lodge,  F.  & 
A.  M.,  of  Concord. 

On  January  13,  1853,  Mr.  Foster  married 
Harriet  M.  Perkins,  daughter  of  Hamilton 
Perkins,  who  was  for  many  years  Judge  of  the 
Probate  Court  of  Merrimack  County.  By  her 
he  is  the  father  of  the  following  children: 
Elizabeth  !•'.,  now  the  widow  of  Edgar  H. 
Woodman,  formerly  Mayor  of  Concord;  Mary 
Bartlctt,  who  became  the  wife  of  Lieutenant 
William  A.  Marshall,  United  States  Navy; 
William  II.,  one  of  the  masters  of  St.  Paul's 
School  at  Concord;  and  Roger  Elliott,  who 
resides  in  Webster,  N.H.,  and  is  at  the  pres- 
ent time  a  member  of  the  legislature.  Mr. 
Foster  takes  a  keen  interest  in  all  matters 
pertaining  to  thevvelfare  of  his  adopted  city, 
in  which  he  is  highly  esteemed  as  a  useful 
and  high-minded  citizen. 


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ir.LTAM    DUNTON,  a  retired   man- 


ufacturer (if  Newport,  was  born 
in  Millbury,  Worcester  County, 
Mass.,  son  of  Moses  and  Zoa  (Pierce)  Dunton. 
Ilis  grandfather,  who  was  a  Revolutionary 
soldier,  and  lived  for  the  greater  part  of  his 
life  in  Sturhridge,  Mass.,  carried  on  general 
farming.  His  son,  Moses,  a  native  of  Stur- 
hridge, settled  in  Millbury,  Mass.,  where  he 
lived  for  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  Moses 
was  a  blaci<sniith,  and  owned  a  small  farm. 
He  was  a  good,  sturdy  man,  and  a  member 
and  Deacon  of  the  Congregational  church  for 
many  years.  In  pcditics  he  was  a  Whig.  He 
married  Zoa  Pierce,  who  was  born  in  Millbury. 
Both  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  seventy-five 
years.  Of  their  six  children  one  died  in  in- 
fancy. The  others  were:  Mary,  Martha, 
Austin,  William,  and  Silas.  Mary  is  now  de- 
ceased; Martha  married  a  Mr.  Dexter,  and 
is  at  present  living  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  ; 
Austin  resides  in  Millbury;  Silas  is  also  in 
Millbury,  where  he  is  engaged  in  business. 

William  Dimton  received  his  education  in 
the  public  schools  of  Millbury  and  at  Leices- 
ter. He  remained  in  Millbury  until  he  was 
twenty-two  years  of  age,  when  he  located  in 
Amsterdam,  N.Y. ,  and  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  scythes.  He  afterward  went  to 
Waterville,  Me.,  and  there  followed  the  same 
business  for  one  year,  working  out  as  a  jobber. 
In  1S42  he  settled  in  Newport,  where  he  re- 
sided for  several  years.  At  one  time  he  was 
in  business  with  Ezra  T.  Sibley  for  a  number 
of  years,  after  which  he  disposed  of  his  inter- 
est in  tiie  firm,  and  returned  to  Massachusetts. 
He  came  again  to  Newport  in  1S65,  and  has 
lived  here  since.  In  politics  Mr.  Dimton  is 
a  Democrat,  and  he  has  been  a  Selectman  of 
the  town. 

In  August,  1844,  he  married  Lois  Corbin, 
daughter  of  Austin  Corbin,  Sr.      She  was  born 


in  Newport,  December  21,  iHkj,  and  died 
July  7,  1893.  Their  three  children  were: 
Emma,  born  in  1846,  who  died  September  21, 
1847;  Mary  A.,  born  August  22,  1848;  and 
Frederick  W.,  born  June  9,  1851.  Mary  is 
now  the  wife  of  A.  O.  Bo.stwick,  and  resides 
in  Toledo,  Ohio.  Frederick  lives  in  Hollis, 
L.I.,  and  is  in  business  as  a  land  broker. 
Mr.  Dunton,  after  an  active  business  career, 
retired  some  time  azo. 


DTrANK  H.  SARGENT,  M.D.,  a  rising 
V^ls  young  medical  practitioner  of  I'itts- 
field,  was  born  in  this  town,  October 
31,  1 86 1,  son  of  Charles  H.  and  Almira 
(Ring)  Sargent.  His  great-grandfather,  Ben- 
jamin Sargent,  served  under  General  Wash- 
ington in  the  Revolutionary  War.  He  later 
became  a  Baptist  minister,  and  preached  in 
Pittsfield  from  1808  to  1818.  He  died  March 
19,  18 1 8,  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight  years.  His 
wife,  in  maidenhood  Eunice  Lindell,  reared  a 
family  of  seven  children. 

Moses  L.  Sargent,  grandfather  of  Frank  IL, 
was  born  in  Bow,  N.  H.,  May  12,  1793.  He 
resided  most  of  his  life  in  Pittsfield,  and  was 
a  cabinet-maker  by  trade.  The  maiden  name 
of  his  wife  was  Sarah  Thorndike,  and  his  fam- 
ily consisted  of  three  children.  He  lived  to 
the  age  of  seventy-eight  years,  and  his  wife 
was  seventy-six  years  old  when  she  died. 

Charles  II.  Sargent,  Dr.  Sargent's  father, 
was  born  in  Pittsfield,  September  15,  1825. 
He  followed  the  trade  of  a  shoemaker  for  some 
time  in  connection  with  farming,  and  at  one 
time  he  was  overseer  of  a  department  of  the 
Pittsfield  cotton-mill.  He  was  one  of  the 
prominent  citizens  of  this  town  in  his  day, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen 
at  the  time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  Feb- 
ruary I,   1872,  when  he  was  forty-seven   years 


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old.  In  politics  he  was  a  Republican.  His 
wife,  Almira  Ring,  was  a  daughter  of  Theo- 
dore and  Betsey  (Ma.xfield)  Ring,  of  Loudon, 
N.ll.  She  became  the  mother  of  si.\  chil- 
dren, and  the  survivors  are:  Lena  A. ;  Charles 
E.  ;  Annie  M. ;  and  Frank  H.,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.  Charles  E.  married  Nettie 
Shepherd,  of  Toronto,  Canada;  Annie  M.  is 
the  wife  of  Henry  F.  Davis,  of  Haverhill, 
Mass.  Mrs.  Charles  H.  Sargent  is  now 
seventy-two  years  old,  and  resides  at  the  old 
homestead  in  this  town.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 

Frank  H.  Sargent  acquired  his  early  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools  and  at  the  Pitts- 
field  Academy.  His  medical  studies  were 
begun  at  the  Maine  Medical  School  connected 
with  ]5owdoin  LTniversity,  and  continued  at 
Dartmouth  College,  from  which  he  was  gradu- 
ated with  the  class  of  1889.  After  completing 
his  preparations  with  a  course  at  the  Post- 
graduates' Medical  School  in  New  York  City, 
he  returned  to  Pittsfield,  and  commenced  the 
practice  of  his  profession.  Since  entering 
upon  his  medical  career  he  has  created  a  favor- 
able impression  throughout  the  broad  circuit 
over  which  his  professional  duties  extend,  and 
as  a  result  he  has  a  large  and  constantly  in- 
creasing practice.  He  succeeded  to  the  owner- 
ship of  the  home  farm,  where  he  resides,  and 
which  he  carries  on  successfully. 

In  politics  Dr.  Sargent  is  independent.  He 
has  occupied  all  the  important  chairs  in  Sun- 
cook  Lodge,  No.  10,  I.  O.  O.  F.  In  his  re- 
ligious views  he  is  a  Congregational ist. 


P^illLIP  C.  CLOUGH,  Representa- 
tive of  Canterbury,  N.  II.,  in  the 
State  legislature  of  1897-98,  is  a 
highly  intelligent,  well-to-do  farnur  and  a 
member  of  one  of  the  okl  families  of  the  town. 


He  was  born  in  Canterbury,  February  ig, 
1835,  the  second  son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah 
(Hazelton)  Clough.  His  grandfather,  Oba- 
diah  Clough,  who  was  a  native  of  Canterbury, 
owned  the  farm  where  Mr.  Clough  now  lives. 
Thomas  Clough,  son  of  Obadiah  and  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  spent  his  life  on  the 
old  homestead.  Besides  farming  he  was  in- 
terested in  the  railroad  business.  He  was  a 
prominent  man  in  the  town,  and  held  many 
public  ofifices.  His  wife,  Hannah  Hazelton, 
was  a  native  of  Canterbury.  She  died  in  De- 
cember, 1883.  They  had  seven  children, 
namely:  Hannah,  born  September  18,  1831, 
who  died  June  26,  1S40;  Thomas  V.  B.,  born 
March  26,  1833,  who  married  Maria  Gale,  and 
is  now  living  in  Franklin,  N.H.;  Philip  C. ; 
Sarah  G. ,  born  May  28,  1838,  who  died  in 
March,  1863;  Hannah  A.,  born  July  26,  1S40, 
died  April  S,  1842;  Susan  A.,  born  June  26, 
1843,  who  married  E.  L.  Batchelder,  and  lives 
in  Canterbury:  and  Mary  B. ,  born  June  28, 
1847,  who  married  Thomas  Tuck,  and  is  now 
living  in  Pittsfield.  The  children  were  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools  of  this  town  and 
in  the  institute  at  New  Hampton,  N.H. 

Philip  C,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  has 
always  lived  at  the  ancestral  homestead.  He 
took  care  of  his  parents  in  their  old  age;  and 
since  his  father's  death  he  has  managed  the 
farm,  which  he  now  owns.  It  contains  about 
one  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres.  Although 
larming  is  Mr.  Clough's  main  jjusiness,  he  is 
also  the  agent  for  all  kinds  of  standard  farm- 
ing implements ;  and  he  buys  and  sells  large 
quantities  of  fruit  every  fall,  lie  is  President 
of  the  Canterbury  Creamery  and  of  the  Canter- 
bury and  Boscawen  Telephone  Company. 

Mr.  Clough  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
he  always  takes  an  active  interest  in  all  the 
town  business.  1 L'  has  been  Selectman  for 
seven  years,  and  in    1X96   he  was  elected  Rej)- 


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rescntativc  of  this  town.  He  is  a  member  of 
Dorrick  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  No.  78,  of  Til- 
ton,  N.ll.,  and  was  a  charter  member  of  the 
Merrimack  I\iver  Grange,  whicii  is  one  of  the 
oldest  societies  of  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry 
in  the  State.  He  was  married  August  30, 
1870,  to  Mary  K.  Hatchelder,  of  Canterbury, 
a  daughter  of  h^benezer  and  ICIizabetli  (Kim- 
ball) liatchelder.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Clough 
are  active  members  of  the  Congregational 
Chui\h  of  Canteriiury.  Mr.  Clough  is  one  of 
the  most  prominent  men  in  the  town,  and  he 
is  well  known  throughout  the  county. 


/^^iToRGE  \V.  IIURD,  who  owns  and 
\  p  I  cultivates  a  productive  dairy  farm  in 
Lempster,  Sullivan  County,  was  born 
where  he  now  resides,  September  16,  1837, 
son  of  Colonel  Smith  and  Mehitable  (l">mer- 
son)  Hurd.  His  paternal  grandfather, 
Shubael  Hurd,  was  the  first  ancestor  to  settle 
in  Lempster.  He  was  one  of  the  stirring 
farmers  of  his  day,  and  improved  the  property 
which  is  now  occupied  by  his  grandson. 
Shubael  Hurd  married  for  his  first  wife 
Rachel  Beckwith,  and  for  his  second  wife 
Isabelle  Ames,  a  native  of  Peterboro,  N.  H. 
I5y  this  union  there  were  two  sons  —  Smith 
and  Justus.  Justus  Hurd  was  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  College  with  the  degree  of  Doctor 
of  Medicine.  He  practisetl  his  profession  in 
the  States  of  Mississip[)i  and  Missouri,  and 
died  in  St.  Louis  a  number  of  years  ago.  His 
second  wife  was  Sarah  Gordon,  a  native  of 
Belfast,  Me. 

Colonel  Smith  Hurd,  the  other  son  of 
Shubael  and  the  father  of  George  W.,  was 
born  in  Lempster,  January  11,  1803.  He  was 
reared  upon  the  homestead  farm,  which  fell  to 
his  possession;  and  he  ilisplayed  much  energy 
and  enterprise  in  its  cultivation.      Ih;  took  an 


active  interest  in  educational  affairs,  and  was 
prominent  in  the  State  militia.  Colonel 
Smith  Hurd  died  March  3,  1877.  His  wife, 
Mehitable  Emerson,  was  born  in  Goshen, 
N.H.,  January  13,  1804.  Her  parents  were 
Jonathan  and  Elizabeth  (Lakeman)  Emerson, 
the  former  of  whom  was  a  prosperous  farmer. 
Jonathan  l-2merson  was  accidentally  killed  by 
a  falling  tree.  Mrs.  Mehitable  E.  Hurd,  who 
still  survives  and  resides  at  the  homestead,  has 
reared  seven  children,  as  follows:  Yorick  G. ; 
Robert  S.  ;  Isabelle  E. ;  Dency;  Eunice  E. ; 
George  VV.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  D. 
Emerson.  Yorick  G.  Hurd,  M.D.,  a  gradu- 
ate of  Dartmouth  College,  became  a  success- 
ful physician,  and  for  twenty-one  years  was 
su|)erintendent  of  the  Insane  A.sylum  in  Ips- 
wich, Mass.  He  died  September  24,  188S. 
His  first  wife  was  Mary  A.  Twichell,  of 
Lempster;  and  his  second  was  Ruth  A. 
Brown,  of  Amesbury,  Mass.,  who  is  no  longer 
living.  Their  adopted  daughter,  Josephine,  is 
now  the  wife  of  Harry  Dodge,  a  grocer  of  Ips- 
wich. Robert  S.  Hurd  died  in  Cincinnati, 
Ohio,  in  1852.  Isabelle  E.  became  the  wife 
of  Dr.  John  G.  Parker,  of  Dublin,  N.  H.  ;  and 
neither  she  nor  her  husband  is  living.  Their 
only  son,  J.  Fred  Parker,  is  now  Assistant 
Secretary  of  the  State  of  Rhode  Island,  and 
resides  in  Providence.  He  married  Helen 
Pierce.  Dency  married  for  her  first  husband 
Austin  Spencer,  of  Lempster,  and  by  that 
union  had  one  daughter,  Alice  M.  M.,  who  is 
now  the  wife  of  Lewis  Greenwood,  of  Gard- 
ner, Mass.  For  her  second  husband  she  mar- 
ried A.  H.  King,  who  died  in  December, 
i8g6,  she  having  passed  away  on  November 
20,  1 88 1.  Eunice  E.  Hurd  died  in  1885, 
aged  fifty-five.  D.  Emerson  Hurd  is  follow- 
ing the  trade  of  a  blacksmith  in  connection 
with  farming  in  Westminster,  Mass.  He 
married  Ruth  M.  Bruce,  of  Lempster,  and  has 


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had  a  family  of  five  children,  namely:  Arno 
E. ,  who  married  Ella  Flagg,  and  resides  in 
Westminster;  Wynne,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
two  years;  Albert  G.,  M.D. ,  who  married 
Nettie  Killiim,  and  resides  in  Millbury,  Mass. ; 
Roy ;  and  Mary. 

George  W.  Hurd  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  and  the  high  school  of  Lempster, 
and  has  always  resided  at  the  homestead. 
Since  coming  into  possession  of  the  property, 
he  has  added  a  tract  of  adjoining  land,  and 
now  has  a  farm  of  about  three  hundred  acres. 
He  gives  his  attention  to  general  farming  and 
dairying,  produces  a  large  quantity  of  butter 
and  considerable  maple  sugar.  His  farm  is 
one  of  the  most  fertile  and  desirably  located 
pieces  of  agricultural  property  in  town.  For 
eleven  years  Mr.  Hurd  served  the  town  faith- 
fully as  Collector  of  Taxes,  but  he  has  never 
aspired  to  prominence  in  public  affairs.  He 
is  an  earnest  advocate  of  the  temperance  cause, 
and  votes  with  the  Prohibitionists.  He  has 
long  been  identified  with  the  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry, and  is  now  Treasurer  of  Silver  Moun- 
tain Grange,  No.  196. 

On  September  16,  1863,  Mr.  Hurd  was 
joined  in  marriage  with  Eliza  A.  Fletcher. 
She  was  born  in  Lempster,  February  35,  1846, 
daughter  of  Francis  P.  and  Joan  (Thompson) 
I''letcher,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  native  of 
Washington,  N.H.,  and  the  latter  of  Marlow. 
Francis  P.  Fletcher  died  January  21,  1S82; 
and  his  wife  died  July  3  of  the  same  year. 
They  were  the  parents  of  seven  children, 
namely:  Francis  P.;  Harriet  P.,  who  married 
Jf)hn  Ilarriman,  and  died  in  1852;  George  S., 
who  died  in  November,  1867;  Phineas,  who 
was  born  September  28,  1841  ;  VAiza  A.,  who 
is  now  Mrs.  Murd;  Charles  and  Gilman, 
who  are  no  longer  living. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hurd  are  the  parents  of  two 
sons,  namely:  Robert  L.,  who  was  born   Sep- 


tember 24,  1864,  and  died  February  14,  1881  ; 
and  Elbert  Eugene,  born  November  20,  1870, 
who  resides  at  home,  and  assists  his  father  in 
carrying  on  the  farm.  He  is  one  of  the  lead- 
ing young  men  of  Lempster,  and  is  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry, 
being  Master  of  Silver  Mount  Grange.  On 
August  30,  1 891,  he  married  Susie  Bean,  of 
this  town.  They  have  had  one  child,  Justus, 
who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Susie  B.  Hurd  is 
deeply  interested  in  grange  matters,  and  is 
Lecturer  of  Sullivan  County  Pomona  Grange. 


—♦-••-•-♦— 


DVVARD  H.  STURTEVANT,  Treas- 
urer of  the  Franklin  Needle  Company, 
manufacturers  of  solid  riveted  latch 
needles  at  Franklin,  N.H.,  was  born  in  Crafts- 
bury,  Vt.,  April  27,  1845,  son  of  Hiram  and 
Eliza  S.  (Corey)  Sturtevant.  His  paternal 
grandfather  was  Ezra  T.  Sturtevant,  a  mill 
man  and  wool-carder,  also  a  manufacturer  of 
coffins.      He  married  Lucy  Merryfield. 

Hiram  Sturtevant  was  a  farmer  early  in  life; 
but  in  1 866  he  sold  his  farm,  and  went  into 
the  manufacture  of  sashes,  doors,  blinds,  and 
furniture,  in  Lebanon,  N.H.,  continuing  in 
this  business  for  about  three  years,  when  he 
sold  out  to  his  partners.  Tiien  he  went  into 
the  shoe  business,  in  which  he  continued 
until  he  retired.  He  died  December  8,  18S5. 
His  widow  resides  most  of  the  time  with  lier 
daughter,  Mrs.  D.  G.  Thompson,  in  Montreal. 

They  had  four  children:  Edward  H.,  the 
eldest,  is  the  subject  of  our  sketch;  Mary  E., 
born  in  August,  1S47,  is  the  wife  of  D.  G. 
Thompson,  of  Montreal,  General  Manager  of 
the  Montreal  Transportation  Company;  lizra 
T.,  born  in  May,  1S49,  now  a  lumber  dealer 
in  Chicago,  III.,  married  Mary  Ida  Thom[ison, 
of  Woodstock,  Vt.  ;  Henry  IL,  the  youngest 
child,  born  in  April,  1851,  married  Ella  Hill, 


1!I()(;k,\I'HI(\l  rfa'ikw 


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f)f  Helnidiil,  Mass.,  and  mnv  carries  on  a  large 
clo|)artnicnt  store  in  Zanosvilio,  Ohio. 

Having  received  a  good  education,  I'^ihvard 
H.  Sturtcvant  began  at  the  age  of  seventeen 
to  teach  scliool  in  l?arton,  Vt.  After  teaching 
for  a  while,  he  entered  the  employ  of  William 
Joslyn  &  Son,  druggists,  with  a  view  of  learn- 
ing the  business.  Two  years  later  he  ac- 
cepted a  position  in  this  line  in  Wellington, 
Ohio,  remaining  there  for  two  years.  At  the 
expiration  of  this  time  he  went  into  the  drug 
business  for  himself  at  Lebanon.  In  a  few 
months  he  had  established  a  prosperous,  paying 
business;  and  then  at  the  earnest  solicitation 
of  the  village  physician  he  sold  it  out  to  him 
at  a  goodly  advance  over  its  cost.  His  former 
employers,  learning  of  this,  urged  him  to  unite 
with  them  in  opening  a  drug  store  in  Cole- 
brook,  which  he  did;  and,  after  remaining 
there  one  year,  he  sold  out  to  them.  His  ne.xt 
venture  was  with  his  brother  in  Woodstock, 
Vt.,  where  they  kept  lioots  and  shoes  as  well 
as  drugs,  and  were  in  business  for  five  years. 
When  they  sold  out  his  brother  went  West. 

Mr.  Edward  H.  Sturtcvant  came  to  Frank- 
lin in  1876,  and  bought  out  George  Procter's 
two  drug  stores,  one  at  Franklin  and  the 
other  at 'Franklin  Falls.  In  1881  he  bought 
one-half  interest  in  the  l^'ranklin  Needle  Com- 
pany, and  uudertoiik  the  management  of  the 
concern,  with  the  additional  duties  of  Treas- 
urer. Th-e  President  of  the  company  is  Mr. 
H.  J.  Odell,  now  of  Laconia.  It  is  the  larg- 
est factory  of  the  kinil  in  the  United  States, 
employing  two  hundretl  hands;  and  its  goods 
are  shipped  to  all  parts  of  the  United  States 
and  Canada,  and  some  are  exported.  Mr. 
Sturtcvant  is  a  Director  of  the  Franklin  Power 
and  Light  Company  and  Vice-President  of  the 
company.  He  is  President  and  Director  of 
the  Franklin  I-'alls  Company,  Director  of  the 
First  National  Bank  of  Franklin,  and  Trustee 


of  the  I'ranklin  Savings  Hank.  He  has  been 
as  prominent  in  political  as  in  business  cir- 
cles, and  in  1893  he  represented  the  town  in 
the  legislature.  In  1896,  to  the  satisfaction 
of  his  fellow-citizens,  he  filled  the  office  of 
Mayor  of  P'ranklin. 

In  May,  1869,  he  married  Miss  Ada  K. 
Martin,  of  Stratford,  N.IL,  daughter  of  Jo- 
seph and  Alvira  Martin.  Her  father  was  a 
lumberman  and  farmer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sturtc- 
vant have  two  children :  Fva  K.,  born  in  Oc- 
tober, 1S75,  now  at  Hm-nham  School,  North 
Hampton;  and  Ruth  15.,  born  in  October, 
1S84. 

Mr.  Sturtcvant  is  a  member  of  Meridian 
Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.;  l-'ranklin  Chapter, 
R.  A.  M.  ;  Mount  Iloreb  Commandery, 
K.  T. ,  of  Concord;  and  of  Merrimac  Lodge, 
I.  O.  O.  1'".  He  is  a  member  of  the  Unita- 
rian Society.  Capable  and  diligent  in  appli- 
cation, he  has  been  successful  in  business 
through  life,  and  is  a  leading  man  in  his  city. 


A.MKS  FRA.ME,  a  farmer  of  Canter- 
bury, N.IL,  and  dealer  in  registered 
thoroughbred  Jersey  cattle,  is  a  native 
of  Lennoxshire,  Scotland.  He  was  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  1834,  son  of  Robert  and  Janet 
(Pettigrew)  Frame.  His  paternal  grand- 
father, also  named  James  Frame,  was  a  large 
lumber  dealer  in  Scotland,  where  he  died 
when  still  a  young  man.  He  married  Mar- 
garet McKay. 

Their  son  Robert,  the  father  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  was  for  a  number  of  years  the 
editor  of  a  newspaper  in  Glasgow.  He  intro- 
ducetl  the  omnibus  into  that  city  in  1S45;  and 
he  ran  the  line  for  five  years,  keeping  about 
ten  omnibuses  and  one  hundred  horses.  He 
sold  out  in  1 8 50,  and  was  appointed  public 
inspector    of    carriages  in  Glasgow,   an   office 


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which  he  held  for  twenty  years,  or  until  he 
retired  from  business.  He  died  in  April, 
1894.  His  wife  was  Janet,  the  daughter  of 
Alexander  and  Elizabeth  (Riddell)  Pettigrew, 
of  Scotland.  Alexander  Pettigrew  was  a 
weaver  and  farmer.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Robert 
frame  had  five  children,  namely:  James,  of 
whom  we  shall  speak  more  fully  below;  A.le.\- 
ander,  deceased;  Elizabeth,  a  missionary  in 
the  city  of  Glasgow;  Mary,  now  living  in 
Scotland;  and  Jane,  who  married  Thomas 
Patterson,  and  is  now  dead.  All  of  the  chil- 
dren were  educated  in  private  schools. 

James,  their  eldest  son,  learned  the  currier's 
trade  when  a  young  man,  and  served  seven 
years  in  the  city  of  Glasgow.  He  was  ap- 
pointed foreman  of  the  business  in  1855,  and 
he  held  the  position  three  years.  Coming  to 
this  country  in  1868,  he  settled  first  in  Suna- 
pee,  N.H.,  where  he  worked  as  currier  for  a 
man  named  John  Young.  In  the  fall  of  1869 
he  went  to  Chicago  with  the  intention  of  mak- 
ing his  home  there;  but,  deciding  that  he 
liked  the  East  better,  he  came  back  and  set- 
tled in  Franklin,  N.H.,  where  he  worked  with 
A.  'SI.  Stewart  until  1880,  when  he  removed 
to  Manchester.  After  ten  years'  service  there 
with  Kimball  &  Gerrish  he  removed  to  New- 
port, R.I.,  where  he  set  up  in  the  currier 
business.  He  was  very  successful,  and  trav- 
elled a  good  deal  on  the  road.  He  stayed  but 
two  years,  however,  and  then  came  to  Canter- 
bury, N.  H.,  where  he  bought  of  P^rank  Mer- 
rill his  present  property,  containing  about  one 
hundred  and  thirty  acres  of  well-improved 
land.  PI  is  place  is  called  Strathsee  P'arm, 
and  is  a  beautiful  homestead.  Mr.  P'rame 
does  general  farming;  but  his  main  interest 
is  in  cattle,  of  which  he  has  made  a  careful 
study.  He  keeps  about  twenty  head  of  reg- 
istered thoroughbred  Jerseys,  and  makes  an- 
nually a  large  amount  of  fine  butter.      He  has 


taken  nine  prizes  at  the  New  Hanijishire  State 
P'air  with  his  fine  cattle. 

In  politics  Mr.  Frame  is  a  Republican,  and 
he  is  an  active  worker  in.  his  party.  He  be- 
longs to  Granite  Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  of  Man- 
chester, N.  II.;  and  to  the  Merrimack  River 
Grange,  Canterbury.  In  religion  he  is  of  the 
liberal  Christian  type,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Universalist  church.  He  married  Jane  Pat- 
terson, a  daughter  of  William  and  Susan 
(Hamilton)  Patterson,  born  December  22, 
1838.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Frame  have  had  four 
children.  A  brief  record  may  here  be  given, 
as  follows:  Robert  Frame,  the  only  son,  a 
graduate  of  Dartmouth,  married  Alinnie  Gail, 
of  Canterbury,  and  is  now  Treasurer  of  the 
Dececo  Company  at  Newport,  R.I.;  Susan 
Hamilton  Frame  married  George  W.  Hardy,  a 
machinist  of  Manchester,  N.H.,  and  died  at 
the  age  of  twenty-nine;  Janet  Pettigrew 
Frame  is  a  trained  nurse  at  Newport,  R.  I.; 
and  Jeanie  Frame,  born  in  December,  1867, 
died  July  25,   1SS7. 


OHN  A.  FULLER,  a  well-known  and 
influential  citizen  of  Contoocook,  Mer- 
rimack County,  N.H.,  son  of  Abram 
G.  and.  Adeline  C.  (Fellows)  Fuller,  was  born 
in  Bridgewater,  Grafton  County,  this  'State, 
August  8,  1848.  His  paternal  granilfather, 
John  A.  P'uUer,  first,  a  farmer,  removed  from 
Vermont  to  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  and  resided 
there  till  his  death,  which  occurred  in  iiis 
eighty-second  year.  He  married  Mary  Davis. 
Abram  G.  Fuller,  son  of  John  A.  l-'uller 
and  Mary  (Davis)  P'uller,  born  in  Hopkinton, 
was  a  farmer  and  wheelwright,  having  a  shop 
on  his  farm.  He  lived  to  the  age  of  seventy- 
one  years.  His  wife,  Adeline  C.  P'ellows, 
also  of  Hopkinton,  died  in  January,  1895. 
Of  their  children  only  two,  John   A.,  of  Con- 


i;i()(;i<  AIMIIC  \l,    KKVIKW 


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toocook,  ami    ()rriii    1".,    a    fairiicr   of    lldpkiii- 
lon,  ari'  in  New  1  lanipsliirc. 

John  A.  I'"ulK'r,  the  subject  of  tliis  skctcli, 
was  a  boy  of  ci^lit  or  nine  years  when  lie  went 
to  Hoi)kinton.  lie  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools  and  in  the  academy  at  Contoocook. 
Living  on  his  father's  farm  in  lIo|ikinton 
until  he  was  sixteen  years  of  age,  he  then 
went  to  Goffstown,  where  he  learned  the  trade 
of  sash  and  blind  making.  i'"rom  that  time 
he  became  his  own  supjiorter,  and,  coming  to 
Contoocook,  worked  as  foreman  in  the  factory 
of  McClurc  &  Taggart,  where  he  remained 
until  the  factory  was  burned  three  years  later. 
After  this  he  worked  as  clerk  in  a  village 
store.  He  was  apjiointed  Postmaster  under 
the  Cleveland  administration  of  1S85,  served 
as  Assistant  Postmaster  for  four  years  under 
Harrison,  and  was  then  reappointed  I'ost- 
master  upon  the  re-election  of  Mr.  Cleveland. 
He  now  holds  the  position.  lie  has  also  the 
fire  insurance  agency  for  the  village,  Iiis  books 
showing  a  good  business.  Mr.  k'ullei-  has 
served  for  fifteen  years  as  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  and  for  ten  years  as  a  Notary  Public, 
doing  conveyancing  and  attending  to  the  other 
official  duties.  He  has  also  served  for  four- 
teen years  as  Townshiii  Clerk,  and  is  thus 
connected  with  almost  every  public  enterprise 
in  the  township. 

April  30,  1.S72,  John  A.  l'"uller  married 
Julia  ]"'.,  daughter  of  Jacob  M.  and  Sarah  C. 
(Abbott)  Morrill,  of  Contoocook.  Their  one 
child,  William  l'.  {•"uller,  is  proprietor  of  a 
job  printing  establishment  in  Contoocook. 
Mrs.  I<"uller's  father,  Jacob  Matthew  Morrill, 
was  born  in  ITopkinton,  July  11,  1S19,  son  of 
Joseph  and  Pamelia  Martin  Morrill,  and  died 
October  19,  1896,  aged  seventy- seven  years. 
He  spent  a  few  years  in  Di.von,  111.,  but 
lived  mainly  in  Contoocook  village,  where  he 
worked  as  a  carpenter  and   joiner.      From  Oc- 


tober, 1862,  to  August,  1863,  he  servctj  in 
Company  D,  Si.xteeiith  Regiment,  New  Hamp- 
shire Volunteers;  and  in  1871  he  was  made 
a  Selectman  of  the  town.  He  married  Ajiril 
30,  1S45,  Sarah  Call  Abbott,  daughter  of  J. 
Herman  and  Sally  Currier  A!)bolt.  Mrs. 
Morrill  is  still  living. 

Mr.  John  A.  I-'ullcr  is  by  political  senti- 
ment a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  Hills- 
borough Lodge,  L  O.  O.  l*"..  No.  2,  in  .Man- 
chester; and  has  passed  the  ciiairs  in  liagle 
iMicampment,  No.  S,  of  Contoocook.  Mrs. 
Fuller  is  a  member  of  tlv  l-Nliecca  Lodge, 
I.  O.  O.  F. 


HARLFS    A.    1-TSHKR,    a    prominent 
resident       of       Claremont,       Sullivan 

,if -    County,   and    an   ex-member  of    the 

New  Hampshire  legislature,  was  born  in  this 
town,  November  10,  1S37,  son  of  Leonard  P. 
and  Nancy  T.  (Lincoln)  Fisher.  The  orig- 
inal ancestor  of  the  family  in  America  was 
Anthony  Fisher,  who  emigrated  with  his  wife 
and  five  children  from  Syleham,  Suffolk 
County,  luigland,  in  1637,  and  settled  in 
Dedham,  Mass.  Jeremiah  Fisher,  a  descend- 
ant of  Anthony,  resided  for  many  years  in 
Massachusetts,  and  enlisted  four  times  to 
serve  in  the  Ivcvolutionary  War.  On  the 
Lexington  alarm  roll,  Ajjril  19,  1775,  he  ap- 
pears as  a  private  in  Josejih  Moses's  company, 
Colonel  Samuel  Bullard's  regiment.  His  last 
days  were  spent  in  Claremont,  his  death  oc- 
curring at  the  age  of  eighty-nine  years.  His 
children  were:  Josiah,  Abraham,  Isaac  and 
Jacob  (twins)  Elizabeth,  Hannah,  Phcebe,  and 
Prudence. 

Abraham  Fisher,  son  ol  Jeremiah  and  great- 
grandfather of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  in  Massachusetts  in  1764.  When 
his  father  joined  the  Continental  army,  he 
went  to  live  with  a  Mr.  Fasset,  whom   he  ac- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


companied  to  the  front  as  an  attendant;  and  he 
was  present  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  In 
17S5  he  and  his  wife  came  on  horseback  from 
Natick,  Mass.,  to  Claremont;  and  in  1796  he 
settled  upon  the  farm  which  is  now  occupied 
by  his  great-grandson,  Charles  A.  Abraham 
Fisher  was  a  cabinet-maker;  and  he  followed 
his  trade  in  connection  with  farming,  employ- 
ing several  apprentices.  He  possessed  a  great 
deal  of  mechanical  ingenuity,  being  among 
the  first  inventors  of  a  cooking-stove;  and 
aside  from  his  regular  calling  he  operated  a 
cider-mill,  which  was  run  by  water-power. 
He  was  a  Universalist  in  his  religious  views, 
and  is  said  to  have  contributed  one-sixth  of 
the  entire  cost  of  the  first  church  in  Clare- 
mont of  that  denomination.  He  died  on  Feb- 
ruary 3,  1 85 1,  aged  eighty-seven  years;  and 
he  left  a  fair  estate. 

Josiah  Fisher,  only  son  of  Abraham  and 
grandfather  of  Charles  A.,  was  born  in 
Natick,  Mass.,  in  17S4.  He  learned  the 
cabinet-maker's  trade,  and  went  to  Rochester, 
N.  Y. ,  where  he  bought  a  piece  of  land,  but 
later  sold  it,  as  he  was  forced  to  leave  that  lo- 
cality on  account  of  fever  and  ague.  He  set- 
tled permanently  in  York,  N.Y. ,  and  engaged 
in  the  lumber  business  and  farming.  He  died 
in  September,  1856.  He  married  Orena, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  Goss,  and 
had  a  family  of  ten  children;  namely,  Leon- 
ard P.,  Clinton,  Mary,  Harriet,  Caroline, 
Curtis,    George,    Fanny,   Lucy,  and  Josiah. 

Leonard  P.  Fisher,  son  of  Josiah,  was  born 
in  Claremont,  October  6,  1807.  When  ten 
years  old  he  accompanied  his  parents  to  New 
York  State,  where  he  assisted  his  father  in 
business  until  he  was  twenty-two  years  old. 
He  then  returned  to  Claremont  for  the  purpose 
of  helping  his  grandfather,  and  eventually  he 
inherited  the  homestead.  He  cultivated  the 
farm  successfully;  and  during  the  winter  sea- 


son he  cut  and  hauled  timber,  which  he  manu- 
factured at  his  own  saw-mill  into  building  ma- 
terial. He  erected  a  number  of  houses,  all  of 
which  are  now  standing.  He  was  naturally 
cheerful,  and  was  highly  esteemed  for  his 
genial  disposition  and  kind-heartedness. 
Leonard  P.  P"isher  died  December  6,  1893. 
He  was  an  active  member  of  the  Universalist 
church  and  a  liberal  contributor  toward  its 
support.  Nancy  T.  Lincoln,  whom  he  mar- 
ried, was  born  in  Pittsfield,  Vt.,  May  17, 
1815,  daughter  of  Tisdale  and  Elizabeth 
Lincoln.  Tisdale  Lincoln  passed  his  earlier 
years  in  Westmoreland,  N.  H.,  but  later  was  a 
well-known  citizen  of  Mendon  and  Pittsfield, 
Vt.,  and  the  father  of  nine  children.  To 
Leonard  P.  and  Nancy  T.  (Lincoln)  P^isher 
were  born  si.\  children,  as  follows:  Nancy 
Jane,  Charles  A.,  George  L.,  Arba  C,  Al- 
bert F.,  and  Edwin  C.  Nancy  Jane  is  now 
the  widow  of  Marvin  Blood,  and  lives  in 
Reading,  Mass.;  George  L.  was  for  several 
years  a  commission  merchant  in  Boston  and  in 
New  York  City,  where  he  died  in  June,  1890; 
Arba  C.  has  been  in  a  successful  commission 
business  in  l^oston  for  the  past  twenty-five 
years;  Albert  F.  is  a  photographer  in  Hins- 
dale, N.H.  ;  and  Edwin  C.  is  in  the  bicycle 
business  in  Everett,  Mass.  Mrs.  Leonard  P. 
Fisher  is  living  at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years, 
and  occupies  the  old  family  residence  in 
Claremont. 

Charles  A.  Fisher  attended  the  i)ublic 
schools  in  his  boyhood,  and  when  a  young  man 
he  engaged  in  farming  upon  his  own  account 
in  the  eastern  part  of  this  town.  He  re- 
mainetl  there  until  the  tleath  of  his  father, 
when  he  returned  to  the  homestead  in  order  to 
take  charge  of  the  property,  and  now  resides 
in  the  house  where  his  great-grandfather  lived 
and  died.  As  a  practical  fanner  he  ranks 
among  the  foremost  in  this  section.      In  noli- 


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tics  he  is  a  Ri'piihlican.  lie  is  a  iiicnibcr 
of  the  I?(iar(l  of  Selectmen,  serving  in  1S94, 
l.Scjf),  and  1897;  and  while  representing  this 
town  in  the  legislature  in  1S89  and  1890  lie 
served  upon  the  Committee  on  Education. 

Mr.  I'"isiier  mairied  lilizabeth  Dean,  daugh- 
ter of  Horace  Dean.  They  have  one  child,  a 
daughter,  Frances  Emcline,  who  is  a  graduate 
of  the  Stevens  High  School  of  Claremont,  was 
a  teacher  for  several  years,  and  is  now  the 
wife  of  Will  J.   Powers,  of  Brantlon,  Vt. 


'AMUEI.  M.  TRUE,  a  farmer  of 
^ZJi  Loudon,  was  born  liere,  February 
7,  1845,  son  of  Captain  Daniel  and 
Abigail  D.  (Jones)  True,  his  mother  coming 
from  Chichester,  N.H.,  and  his  father  being 
a  native  of  Eoudon.  His  grandfather  was 
Daniel  True,  who  came  to  Loudon  and  settled 
on  Oak  Hill  in  the  town,  and  carried  on  farm- 
ing there  for  the  remainder  of  his  life. 

Captain  Daniel  True,  who  lived  on  the 
fai'iii,  and  there  carried  on  farming  for  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  commanded  a  company 
in  the  State  militia  for  a  number  of  years,  and 
died  in  March,  1861.  His  wife,  who  survived 
him  until  July,  1878,  had  si.x  children — -Sam- 
uel M.,  John  H.,  Charles  H.,  James  L., 
Abbie  M.,  and  Julia  M.  John,  Charles 
H.,  anil  James  L.  reside  in  Concord,  N.H. 
Charles  is  engaged  in  the  teaming  business; 
James  L.,  who  is  a  carpenter,  married  Clara 
Patrick;  Abbie  M.  died  at  the  age  of  eigh- 
teen; Julia  ^L,  who  resides  in  Rye,  N.  H., 
married  Edward  Downs,  of  that  town,  who 
carries  on  a  fish  business. 

Samuel  M.  True  received  a  common-school 
education,  remaining  at  home  on  the  farm 
until  he  was  about  twenty-five  years  of  age. 
Then  he  went  to  Concord,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed at  the  depot  as  baggage-master  for  one 


year.  .Since  then  he  has  made  his  home  on 
his  present  farm.  The  estate,  known  as  the 
old  Uatcheidcr  farm,  contains  about  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres.  ]5csidcs  effecting  sundry 
improvements,  he  has  carried  on  general  farm- 
ing, raised  some  stock,  and  kept  a  dairy. 

On  May  9,  1872,  Mr.  True  married  Grace 
A.  Batcheldcr,  of  Loudon,  who  was  born  May 
9,  1850,  daughter  of  Harmon  E.  and  Clara  M. 
(Sanborn)  Batchelder,  both  of  Loudon.  Mr. 
l?atche]der,  now  eighty-one  years  old,  was  a 
farmer,  and  is  now  living  with  his  daughter, 
Mrs.  True.  Mrs.  Batchelder  died  in  Novem- 
ber, 1895.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  True  have  three 
children,  born  as  follows:  Nellie  A.,  April 
4,  1S74;  Blanche  M.,  May  27,  187S;  and 
Mary  E.,  December  7,  1884.  Nellie  A.  i.~ 
now  the  wife  of  Dr.  William  A.  McGrath,  of 
Loudon,  N.H.  Blanche  and  Mary  are  at 
home  with  their  parents.  Mr.  True  has  al- 
ways been  in  sympathy  and  voted  with  the  Re- 
publican party.  He  is  a  Mason  of  Blazing 
Star  Lodge,  No.  11,  of  Concord.  He  also  be- 
longs to  the  White  Mountain  Lodge,  No.  5, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  the  same  town,  and  to  the 
Louiion  Grange.  He  still  carries  on  farming, 
in  which  he  is  very  successful. 


/  ^TTToRGE  BANCROFT  GRH^T-TTH,  a 
\p  I  well-known  litterateur  residing  in 
Lempster,  N.H.,  was  born  February 
28,  1 84 1,  in  Newburyport,  ^L^ss.  His  par- 
ents, Robert  and  Charlotte  (Merrill)  Griffith, 
were  both  natives  of  that  town,  with  whose 
mercantile  interests  his  paternal  grandfather, 
who  also  bore  the  name  Robert,  was  for  many 
years  identified.  The  elder  Robert  Griflfith 
married  Nancy  Bartlett,  a  native  of  West 
Newbury;  and  their  family  of  seven  children 
were  as  follows:  Rufus,  Robert,  Augustus, 
Isaac,  Angel ine,  Henrietta,  and  Elizabeth. 


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Robert  Griffith,  Jr.,  George  B.  Grififith's 
father,  was  reared  and  educated  in  Newbiiry- 
port ;  and  when  a  young  man  he  entered  the 
clothing  business.  He  displayed  a  natural 
capacity  for  business  pursuits,  which  gave 
unusually  bright  prospects  for  his  future  suc- 
cess; but  he  was  not  permitted  to  realize  these 
anticipations,  as  his  death  occurred  in  August, 
1S49,  when  he  was  but  thirty  years  old.  His 
wife,  Charlotte  Merrill,  who  was  a  daughter 
of  Samuel  Merrill,  died  January  31,  1897. 
She  was  the  mother  of  four  children,  namely: 
George  B.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Robert; 
Willie;  and  Nancy,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years. 

George  Bancroft  Griffith  resided  in  Ncw- 
buryport  until  after  his  father's  death,  when 
he  accompanied  his  mother  to  the  neighboring 
town  of  Rowley,  Mass.  After  graduating 
from  Dummer  Academy,  South  Byfield,  Mass., 
he  entered  mercantile  pursuits  as  a  clerk  in 
Newburyport.  A  short  time  later  he  went  to 
Haverhill,  where  he  was  employed  for  some 
two  years  in  a  grocery  store  kept  by  David 
P2mery ;  and  he  subsequently  engaged  in  that 
business  upon  his  own  account.  On  May  25, 
1863,  he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A, 
First  Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Volunteer 
Artillery,  and  was  eventually  appointed  by 
General  Grant  to  serve  in  the  medical  depart- 
ment as  hospital  steward.  He  was  discharged 
at  Concord,  N.ll.,  in  September,  1865. 
After  hisTeturn  from  the  army  he  resided  in 
Charlestown,  Mass.,  for  some  years;  and  in 
1S75  he  removed  to  Lemi^ster,  Sullivan 
County,  N.ll.,  where  for  two  years  he  was  en- 
gaged in  the  lumber  business.  In  1879  ''"^ 
purchased  the  Timothy  Bruce  place,  which  he 
now  occupies,  and  since  taking  possession  has 
made  various  improvements  in  the  property. 

Mr.  Griffith's  poetic  genius  began  to  de- 
velop when   he  was   ten  years  old,   at    which 


time  his  first  poem  was  printed.  He  has 
written  frequently  both  in  prose  and  verse, 
and  many  of  his  pieces  have  been  illustrated, 
and  some  set  to  music.  Many  of  his  produc- 
tions have  been  given  to  the  world  through 
the  columns  of  the  Youth's  Covipanion,  St. 
Nicholas^  C/iristiaii  U'ori-,  New  York  Indepen- 
dent., New  York  Observer.,  and  other  well- 
known  periodicals:  and  several  maybe  found 
in  "Poems  of  Places,"  edited  by  Longfellow, 
in  Drake's  "Legends  of  New  England,"  in 
"The  Scholar's  Speaker,"  "Poets  of  Amer- 
ica," "Wayside  L'lowers, "  and  other  stand- 
ard collections  of  verse.  His  reputation  thus 
extends  far  beyond  the  limits  of  the  New 
Kngland  States.  An  extended  biographical 
sketch  of  Mr.  Griffith,  with  a  portrait,  ap- 
peared a  few  years  since  in  the  Boston  Home 
Guest,  and  more  recently  in  the  MagarAne  of 
Poetry,  Buffalo,  N.Y. ,  and  in  two  anthologies 
published  in  Chicago.  The  leading  elocution- 
ists of  America  are  using  Mr.  Griffith's  poems 
in  their  readings;  and  his  "Swiss  Good 
Night,''  which  is  extremely  popular,  has  been 
translated  into  several  languages.  Mr. 
Griffith  has  been  engaged  for  years  in  editing 
a  large  work  on  the  poets  of  Massachusetts, 
and  contemplates  publishing  a  volume  of  his 
own  miscellaneous  poems  at  an  early  day,  to 
be  followed  by  a  collection  of  his  local  poems 
in  New  Hampshire.  In  1888  he  finished  the 
compilation  of  "The  Poets  of  Maine,"  which 
was  issued  in  Portland;  and  the  work  has  se- 
cured for  its  compiler  the  unanimous  praise  of 
its  readers  as  a  most  excellent  judge  of  the 
best  efforts  of  Maine's  poetical  writers. 

On  September  i,  1861,  Mr.  Griffith  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Anna  S.  Howe.  She 
was  born  in  Bradford,  N.IL,  January  3,  1842, 
daughter  of  Lyman  C.  and  Sophronia  (Bart- 
lett)  Howe,  the  former  of  whom  was  a  native 
of  Hcnniker,  N.IL,  and  the  latter  was  boin  in 


HENRY     McCOY. 


lOCkAIMIKAL    RKVIKW 


'85 


Newbuiypoil,  Mnss.  Mrs.  Griffith's  parents 
resided  for  many  years  in  15radford,  N.  II., 
where  lier  father  was  engaged  in  agricultural 
])ur.suits.  Lyman  C.  Howe  died  in  April, 
186S;  and  his  wife  died  in  December,  i.SSr. 
They  reared  five  children,  as  follows:  Moses 
]{.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  forty-four  years; 
Micah  C. ,  wlio  manicd  llattie  Smith,  of  Ilen- 
niker,  N.Ii.,  and  is  now  a  retired  farmer  of 
that  town;  George  L.,  proprietor  of  a  restau- 
rant in  Saco,  Me.,  who  married  for  his  first 
wife  Lllen  ]5agley  and  for  his  second  wife 
Martha  Fletcher,  of  Gardner,  Mass.;  Anna  S. , 
who  is  now  Mrs.  Griffith;  and  Jason  C,  who 
is  residing  in  Contoocook,  N.II. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Griffith  have  five  children, 
namely:  Agnes  Irving,  born  January  i6, 
1863;  Eir.ma  Mortimer,  born  September  4, 
1S65;  Annie  V.,  born  August  11,  i86<S; 
Charles  Warren,  born  September  4,  1869;  and 
I'earlette,  born  September  20,  1872.  Agnes 
Irving  married  C.  C.  Richardson,  a  native  of 
Lempster  and  a  travelling  salesman  for  a 
Lowell  house.  They  reside  in  Melrose  High- 
lands, and  have  had  four  children:  Margaret 
C.;  I'jhnund  I!.,  who  is  no  longer  living;  I^il- 
lian  v.;  and  Elizabeth.  Emma  M.  married 
for  her  first  husband  the  Rev.  Charles  flenry 
Leet,'  of  Claremont,  N.IL,  a  Methodist  minis- 
ter. He  died  May  27,  1S90;  and  she  is  now 
the  wife  of  Willard  Whitehouse,  an  engineer  of 
Manchester,  N.II.  y\nnie  V.  married  Charles 
Cragin,  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Lempster. 
Charles  Warren  is  a  caterer  in  Fitchburg, 
Mass.  He  married  Martha  Simmons,  of 
Ashby.  Mass. ,  and  has  one  daughter,  Violet, 
born  in  Ma)',  1892.  Pearlette  married  L. 
De.xter  Isham,  of  the  Vermont  Central  Rail- 
road, May  13,  1897,  and  resides  at  Bellows 
FalLs. 

Mr.    Griffith    is    connected    with     St.    John 
Lodge,  V.  &  A.   M.,  of  Portsmouth,  and  is  also 


a  member  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic and  an  official  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal 
church.  Politically,  he  is  a  Republican;  and 
he  was  Postmaster  at  East  Lempster  in  the 
years  1S83  and  1884. 


ENRY  McCOY,  proprietor  of  the 
Pradford  Mineral  Springs  and  the 
-^  V ,  Bradford  Springs  Hotel  at  Brad- 
ford, .N.IL,  entertains  each  season  large  num- 
bers of  guests  from  New  England  and  various 
other  sections  of  the  country.  Bradford 
Spring  Park  is  located  in  the  town  of  Brad- 
ford, about  a  mile  from  the  village  of  East 
Washington,  and  comprises  upward  of  forty 
acres  of  land,  including  Lovewell  Lake,  which 
in  the  summer  is  alive  with  gay  parties  of 
hotel  visitors  using  the  pleasure  boats  pro- 
vided for  them.  The  spring  was  first  heard 
of  by  the  white  inhabitants  in  1770,  when 
some  of  them  passing  that  way  saw  a  group  of 
Indians  encamped  with  their  sick  around  the 
"big  medicine  water,"  as  they  termed  it. 
The  water  has  since  been  thoroughly  analyzed 
by  Y)v.  Jackson,  the  eminent  Boston  chemist, 
who  found  in  it  carbonate  of  soda,  magnesia, 
lime,  chloride  of  sodium,  potassium,  sulphate 
of  lime,  oxide  of  iron,  and  alumina,  sulphur, 
organic  matter,  and  carbonic  acid,  an  analysis 
that  was  sustained  in  every  particular  by  Dr. 
Richards,  of  Poughkeejisie,  N.Y.  The  owners 
of  the  spring,  having  found  that  the  waters 
issue  through  a  seam  in  the  solid  ledge  at  the 
rate  of  thirty-five  gallons  per  minute,  have  so 
enclosed  the  fissure  that  no  outside  water  can 
possibly  mix  with  and  contaminate  the  spring 
water,  which  is  especially  useful  in  the  cure 
of  all  skin  diseases,  very  efficacious  in  the 
cure  of  catarrh  in  any  form,  has  been  success- 
fully used  in  very  bad  cases  of  rheumatism 
and    malaria,    has   wonderful    effects    in    cases 


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of  dyspepsia  and  indigestion,  and  vvorlcs  like 
a  cliarm  upon  congested  liver,  kidney,  or 
bladder. 

In  i8Si  Mr.  McCoy  purchased  this  prop- 
erty, which  he  has  since  greatly  improved. 
The  old  hotel,  the  Hermitage,  was  built  in 
1858;  but,  it  being  far  too  small  to  accommo- 
date its  numerous  patrons,  the  present  owner 
doubled  the  capacity  of  the  dining-room, 
added  an  annex  containing  twenty-si.x  sleep- 
ing-rooms, and  built  a  cottage  of  four  rooms, 
thus  increasing  the  number  of  rooms  in  the 
hotel  to  seventy-five.  He  has  also  erected  the 
spring-house,  a  handsome  octagonal  building, 
and  a  bath-house  of  three  rooms,  besides  mak- 
ing many  other  substantial  improvements. 
He  reorganized  the  establishment  on  a 
strictly  temperance  plan,  and  keeps  no  help 
that  use  into.xicants  of  any  kind,  making  the 
place  an  ideal  resort  for  temperance  people. 
Connected  with  the  hotel  is  an  extensive 
livery,  and  during  the  pleasure  season  he  has 
carriages  at  the  Bradford  station  on  the  arrival 
of  the  train  that  leaves  Boston,  via  the  Boston 
&  Lowell  Railway,  at  one  o'clock  p.m.  The 
waters  of  the  spring  are  in  demand  in  many 
different  parts  of  the  country,  and  a  good  busi- 
ness is  done  in  shipping  it.  Mr.  McCoy's 
farm  of  sixty  acres,  with  a  dairy  of  ten  cows, 
insures  to  guests  an  abundant  supply  of  fresh 
vegetables  and  pure  milk  and  cream. 

Mr.  McCoy  was  born  July  31,  1829,  in 
Sharon,  N.ll.,  a  son  of  Thomas  and  Lucy 
(Sanderson)  McCoy,  and  on  the  paternal  side 
is  of  Scotch  descent.  His  paternal  grand- 
father, Gilbert  McCoy,  is  said  to  have  been 
born  and  reared  in  Scotland,  whence,  after 
learning  the  weaver's  trade,  he  emigrated  to 
New  England,  locating  in  Londonderry,  this 
State,  and  subsequently  marrying  Lucy 
Stewart,  of  I'eterboro. 

Henry  McCoy  lived  on  the  home  farm    until 


of  age,  when  he  struck  out  for  himself,  his 
first  important  step  in  his  onward  career  being 
to  secure  a  helpmate.  He  subsequently  en- 
gaged in  the  grocery  and  provision  business 
for  some  years  in  Boston,  Mass.,  after  which 
for  twenty-nine  years  he  confined  himself  en- 
tirely to  the  sale  of  provisions.  In  1881  he 
b(night  his  present  property  in  Bradford,  as 
above  mentioned,  but  continued  his  market  for 
another  year.  His  hotel  business  has  since 
assumed  such  large  proportions  that  it  re- 
quires  his   entire  time  and  attention. 

Mr.  McCoy  married  January  8,  1S50,  Eliz- 
abeth Sayward  Crane,  who  was  born  in  Wash- 
ington, Sullivan  County,  N.  IL,  a  daughter  cf 
James  and  Fanny  D.  (Sayward)  Crane.  Her 
father  was  a  native  of  Washington,  the  son  of 
pioneer  parents  in  that  town,  his  father,  Jo- 
seph Crane,  having  been  born  in  Milton, 
Mass.,  and  liis  mother,  Deliverance  Mills 
Crane,  having  been  born  in  Needham,  Mass. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  McCoy  have  had  but  one  child, 
a  daughter,  Ella.  She  married  Ileniy  M. 
Nichols,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  war  of  the 
Rebellion.  Both  are  now  deceased:  but  their 
son,  Bertram  Henry  Nichols,  has  always  lived 
with  his  grandparents.  He  married  Belle 
Strickland;  and  they  have  one  chiUl,  Ella  Cora 
Nichols. 

During  the  late  Civil  War  Mr.  McCoy,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  went  South  to  assist  the 
Christian  Commission  in  caring  for  the 
wounded,  bringing  them  home  if  advisable; 
and  for  some  time  he  was  in  the  army  hospi- 
tal at  City  Point,  Va.  Mrs.  McCoy  was  one 
of  the  Executive  Committee  for  nine  years  of 
the  Home  for  Discharged  Soldiers  in  Boston, 
the  sick  or  wounded  soldiers  during  the  war 
times  being  sent  there  from  the  front  to  be 
cared  for.  Mrs.  McCoy  rendered  most  willing 
service  in  any  needed  direction,  making,  for 
instance,  not   to   mention    many   other    labf)rs, 


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iMirial  rolx's  fur  nearly  eight  huiulrcd  scldiers, 
vvlio  were  broiiglit  there  to  die. 

Mr.  McCoy  is  a  strong  TrohilMtionist,  and 
Mrs.  McCoy  lias  for  years  been  an  active 
worker  in  the  temperance  cause.  She  was  for 
ten  years  President  of  the  South  Boston  organ- 
ization of  the  W.  C.  T.  U.,  and  Treasurer  of 
the  State  \V.  C.  T,  U.,  holding  that  office  at 
the  time  Mrs.  Li\ermore  was  President  of  the 
State  W.  C.  T.  U.  In  1885  she  organized  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.  of  Washington,  N.H.,  and  has 
been  very  active  in  carrying  out  the  plans  for 
the  VV.  C.  T.  U.  State  fairs.  Both  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  McCoy  united  with  the  Baptist  Church  of 
Petcrl)oro  when  young,  and  were  afterward 
connectcti  with  the  church  of  that  denomina- 
tion in  South  Boston,  in  which  he  served  as 
Deacon,  and  had  a  class  of  thirty-five  young 
men,  also  for  a  time  acting  as  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday-school.  Both  are  now  members 
of  the  ]5aptist  church  at  I'^ast  Washington,  Mr. 
McCoy,  who  has  been  a  church  official  most 
of  the  time  since  eighteen  years  old,  being 
Deacon  of  the  church.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  church  choir,  tiiere  having  been  few 
Sundays  since  he  was  thirteen  years  old  when 
his  voice  has  not  been  heard  with  the  church 
singers.  He  has  likewise  been  quite  promi- 
nent in  the  work  of  the  Y.  M.  C.  A.,  of  which 
he  was  for  some  years  the  President.  In  his 
earlier  life  Mr.  McCoy  taught  school  for  some 
years,  beginning  at  the  age  of  seventeen,  and 
being  employed  in  New  Boston,  Marlboro, 
Sliaron,  anil  Peterboro,  N.H. 


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'^  i:\J.\MIN  F.  MAXFIELD,  one  of 
the  farmers  of  Loudon  township, 
was  born  in  Gilmanton,  N.  H., 
March  22,  1828,  son  of  ICnoch  and  Sal  lie 
(Thompson)  Maxfield.  The  father,  a  farmer 
of  Gilmanton,  was  a  native  of  Chichester;  and 


the  mother  was  from  .Xortbfieid,  N.H.  Their 
children  were:  Oliver,  now  deceased,  who  mar- 
ried .Sobrina  Ann  Towle;  Benjamin  I*'.,  the 
subject  of  this  article;  CIcarsy,  deceased; 
Laura,  also  decea.scd,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Cyrus  Jones;  B.  Jennie,  who  is  the  wife  of 
Thomas  Tate,  and  now  lives  in  Kockport,  Mass.  ; 
Charles  H.,  deceased;  Hiram,  deceased,  who 
successively  married  Mary  K.  Flanders  and 
Mary  Page,  both  now  decca.sed ;  John,  who 
married  Affiah  Page,  and  is  a  farmer  in  Gil- 
manton ;  Rachel,  the  wife  of  Abram  Burham, 
a  ship-carpenter  of  lisse.v,  now  deceased; 
Edwin,  who  married  Laura  J.  Sanborn,  and 
lives  in  Gilmanton;  and  Abbie,  the  youngest, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  nineteen  years. 

Having  received  his  education  in  the  town 
.schools,  Benjamin  I-'.  Ma.xfield  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  went  tf)  Loudon  Ridge,  where  he  en 
gaged  in  farming  for  four  years.  He  tried 
railroading  for  a  short  period  after  this,  but 
returned  to  town  and  spent  a  year  on  the  farm 
of  Deacon  Brown.  His  ne.xt  employment  was 
on  the  farm  of  Mrs.  Mary  I-'rench,  which  he 
subsequently  bought.  Starting  as  a  farm 
hand,  with  but  thirty-five  cents  that  he  could 
call  his  own,  by  the  closest  economy  he  was 
able  to  put  by  enough  money  to  buy  the  farm 
and  become  independent  for  life.  He  and  his 
wife  now  own  about  two  hundred  acres.  In 
addition  to  his  general  farming  he  carries  on 
fruit-raising  and  stock-raising. 

On  July  23,  1862,  Mr.  Maxfield  married 
Miss  Juliette  P'rench,  daughter  of  Daniel  S. 
and  Ann  B.  (Neal)  French,  of  Loudon.  Her 
father,  a  cooper  early  in  life,  afterward  settled 
upon  a  farm  in  Loudon,  where  he  died  August 
2,  1S41.  He  left  three  children:  Vienna 
Jane,  deceased;  Juliette,  who  was  born  No- 
vember ig,  1835;  and  Ann  Augusta.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ma.xfield  had  one  child  —  Dannie  F., 
who    died     in     infancy.      Mr.     Maxfield    owns 


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some  of  the  finest  houses  in  the  township. 
Formerly  a  Democrat  in  politics,  he  is  now  a 
Republican.  He  has  never  aspired  to  office. 
Mrs.  Maxfield  is  a  member  of  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church,  in  which  both  take  an  active 
interest. 


i\c\}f  ILIAAM  T.  THISSELL,  a  promi- 
nent farmer  of  Goshen  and  an  ex- 
member  of  the  legislature,  was  born 
in  Newbury,  N.H.,  February  25,  1838,  son 
of  Hiram  and  Jane  (Collins)  Thissell.  His 
grandfather,  Henry  Thissell,  who  was  a 
native  of  ]5everly,  Mass.,  followed  the  sea  for 
a  number  of  years.  On  one  occasion  in  this 
period  of  his  life,  when  his  ship  was  off  the 
Russian  coast,  he  with  others  of  the  crew  went 
ashore,  and  on  ascending  a  high  hill  they 
obtained  a  view  of  the  army  with  which  Na- 
poleon Bonaparte  was  invading  Russia.  He 
finally  settled  upon  a  farm  in  Newbury,  N.  H., 
and  there  resided  for  the  rest  of  his  life.  He 
married  Elizabeth  Thissell,  of  Beverly,  and 
reared  a  family  of  si.x  children. 

Hiram  Thissell,  father  of  William  T.,  was 
born  in  Newbury,  and  reared  to  farm  life. 
He  followed  agriculture  exclusively  for  several 
years  in  his  native  town,  and  was  then  engaged 
in  a  mercantile  business  in  Lempster  and 
Washington.  His  last  days  were  passed  in 
Goshen.  In  politics  he  supported  the  Demo- 
cratic party,  and  he  served  as  Town  Clerk  in 
Washington  for  several  years.  He  died  Jan- 
uary 25,  1893.  His  first  wife,  Jane  Collins 
Thissell,  a  native  of  Newbury,  was  a  daughter 
of  Richard  Collins,  a  well-known  farmer  of 
that  town  in  his  day.  She  died  March  27, 
1877.  His  second  wife,  who  was  before  mar- 
riage Jane  Webster,  of  Acworth,  N.II.,  died 
April  2,  1884.  He  married  for  his  third  wife 
Melinda  Mitchell,  a  native  of  Nova  Scotia. 
She  survives  him,  and   is  residing  in  Goshen. 


Hiram  and  Jane  (Collins)  Thissell  were  the 
parents  of  six  children  —  William  T. ,  Earl  A., 
Ambrose  J.,  Mary  Jane,  Albanus  C. ,  and  Ova 
N.  Earl  A.  Thissell  is  connected  with  the 
Shaw  Knitting  Company,  of  Lowell,  Mass., 
and  is  also  interested  in  an  oil  and  gas  com- 
pany, doing  business  in  Florence  and  Boston, 
Mass.,  and  in  Ohio.  He  married  Nellie 
Cater,  of  Lowell,  who  is  now  deceased.  His 
only  son,  Bertrand  A.,  is  a  veterinary  surgeon 
of  Boston.  Ambrose  J.  Thissell  is  a  merchant 
and  farmer  in  Lowell,  Mass.  He  wedded 
Mary  O.  Clark,  of  Oswego,  N.  Y.  ;  and  she 
died  leaving  no  children.  Mar}'  Jane  married 
Supply  I^arney,  of  Washington,  N.  H.  She 
died  February  15,  1897,  leaving  two  children. 
Albanus  C,  who  was  a  merchant,  is  also  de- 
ceased. Ova  N. ,  who  is  in  mercantile  busi- 
ness in  Lowell,  married  Clara  V.  Bawlding,  of 
that  city,  and  has  three  children. 

William  T.  Thissell  was  educated  in  the 
common  and  high  schools.  He  remained  at 
home  until  he  was  twenty  years  old,  at  which 
time  he  engaged  in  buying  and  shipping  jiota- 
toes.  He  has  also  [leddled  upon  the  road. 
Lempster  was  his  headquarters  until  1885, 
when  he  purchased  his  present  farm  of  two 
hundred  acres,  situated  in  .South  Goshen.  He 
carries  on  general  farming  and  dairying,  raises 
poultry,  and  sells  a  large  quantity  of  eggs  an- 
nually. In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He 
was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen  in 
Lempster  for  seven  years,  represented  that 
town  in  the  legislature  during  the  sessions  of 
1873  and  1874,  was  a  member  of  the  School 
Board,  was  on  the  Library  Committee,  and  has 
been  a  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  more  than 
twenty-five  years.  At  the  present  time  he  is 
serving  as  Town  Auditor  in  Goshen. 

Mr.  Thissell  has  been  twice  married.  On 
the  first  occasion,  September  20,  1865,  he 
wedded  Mary  A.  Nichols,  of  Lempster,  daugh- 


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tLT  i)f  'riniiitby  and  Amelia  ((jmilil;  Nicliols. 
Tlic  father  was  burn  in  liiat  town,  and  the 
mother  in  Claremont,  N.J  I.  Mr.  Thisscll'.s 
first  wife  died  ]3ecember  19,  iHGj.  On  Janu-. 
ary  22,  I1S72,  lie  niariied  A.\ic  L. ,  danghter 
of  Cyrus  and  Roxanna  (Twist)  Leach,  of 
Newbury.  She  died  October  9,  1896.  Mr. 
Thissell  is  connected  with  Forest  Lodge,  No. 
61,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  of  Marlow;  with  Mount 
Sunapee  Grange,  No.  144,  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry, of  which  he  has  been  Master  and 
Chaplain;  and  with  the  Knights  of  Honor. 
In  his  reliLiious  views  he  is  a  Universalist. 


/^2)lLMAN  B.  KIMBALL,  a  resident  of 
\  f5  I  Mcjpkinton  and  one  of  the  most  pros- 
perous and  progressive  agriculturists 
of  Merrimack  County,  comes  of  pioneer  an- 
cestry. His  paternal  grandfather,  Nathaniel 
Kimball,  born  here  July  23,  1786,  was  the 
second  owner  of  the  present  homestead.  With 
the  exception  of  two  or  three  years  s]ient  in 
New  Londini,  this  State,  Nathaniel  lived  on 
it  from  the  time  of  his  marriage  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  November  27,  iHGg. 
II<,"  and  Betsey  Titcomb,  who  was  born  Janu- 
ary 27,  1794,  were  married  March  7,  1X15,  by 
the  Rev.  B.  Darling.  She  was  an  active, 
thrifty  housewife,  anil  noted  for  her  manufact- 
ures of  silk,  as  shown  on  page  150  of  "Life 
and  Times,"  compiled  by  C.  C.  Lord.  She 
died  February  7,  1S56,  having  been  the  mother 
of  three  children.  The  latter  were:  Cyrus  T., 
born  December  22,  1815,  who  lived  but  a  year; 
Moses  T. ,  the  father  of  Gilman  B.  ;  and  I'ris- 
cilla,  who  died  at  the  age  of  two  years. 

Moses  T.  Kimball  was  born  April  12,  18 17, 
during  the  residence  of  his  parents  in  New 
London,  and  died  in  Hopkinton,  April  19, 
1874.  He  was  reared  on  the  home  farm, 
which    became    his    by    inheritance,    assuming 


its  management  before  the  death  of  his  parents, 
whom  he  cared  for  during  their  declining 
years.  The  present  house,  all  of  which  is 
more  than  one  hundred  years  old,  was  built  at 
different  periods  of  time,  l)oth  the  father  and 
grandfather  of  Moses  having  added  to  the 
original  residence.  One  of  his  aunts,  a  sister 
of  Nathaniel  Kimball,  named  Hannah,  was 
born  in  this  house  in  1773,  and  died  within  its 
walls  in  1863,  aged  ninety  years.  Moses  T. 
Kimball  was  an  industrious,  prudent  man,  wise 
in  his  business  methods  and  sound  in  his 
judgments.  He  acquired  quite  a  property. 
After  giving  a  tract  of  land  to  each  of  his 
daughters,  he  owned  at  his  death,  in  addition 
to  the  homestead  of  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres,  one  hundred  acres  in  Hopkinton  and 
fifty  acres  of  pasture  in  Bradford.  He  did  a 
good  deal  of  lumbering  in  his  earlier  life,  cut- 
ting logs  from  his  own  land  and  hauling  them 
to  the  river,  where  he  sold  them.  He  was 
prominent  in  the  town  and  a  leader  in  the 
Democratic  party,  which  the  Kimball  family 
have  invariably  supported.  He  was  a  lifelong 
member  of  the  liaptist  church,  in  which  for 
many  a  )ear  ''Gransir"  Kimball  was  one  of 
the  pillars.  He  was  twice  married.  On  May 
I,  1842,  by  the  Rev.  S.  Cook,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Harriet  Emerson,  of  this 
town.  She  died  a  few  years  later,  leaving 
two  daughters,  namely:  Priscilla,  born  Janu- 
ary 30,  1S45,  ^^'tio  is  t'l"^  widow  of  J.  G. 
Highland,  and  lives  on  the  old  Smith  farm; 
and  1^1  len  L. ,  born  Mar^-h  13,  1846,  who 
married  Philander  M.  Lord,  of  Dunbarton. 
On  November  17,  1S52,  Moses  T.  Kimball 
married  Mary  F.  Smith,  who  was  born  March 
17,  1820.  Her  birthplace  was  the  farm  in 
Hojikinton,  on  the  Jewett  road,  now  owned  by 
Mrs.  J.  G.  Highland,  and  of  which  her  grand- 
father, Moody  Smith,  was  the  original  owner. 
Her  parents,  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Bailey)  Smith, 


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were  both  natives  of  Hopkinton,  and  her  father 
resided  throughout  the  seventy  years  of  his 
life  in  the  house  in  which  he  was  born.  The 
children  of  Mrs.  Moses  T.  Kimball  were: 
Gilman  B.  and  Herbert  M. 

Gilman  B.  Kimball  was  born  September  23, 
1854,  on  the  farm  where  he  now  resides. 
Since  the  age  of  fourteen  years  he  has  virt- 
tually  had  charge  of  it,  his  father  having  been 
an  invalid  in  the  last  five  years  of  his  life. 
He  and  his  brother  have  been  extensively 
engaged  in  the  various  branches  of  agriculture, 
and  have  greatly  increased  the  acreage  of  the 
original  ancestral  estate  by  the  purchase  of 
other  land,  in  many  cases  buying  entire  farms. 
They  bought  for  eighteen  hundred  dollars  the 
Charles  Merrill  farm  of  eighty  acres,  on 
which  Herbert  for  a  while  resided.  They 
owned  the  Colonel  Colby  farm  of  sixty  acres 
for  a  time;  and  a  few  years  since  they 
bought  for  two  thousand  eight  hundred  dollars 
the  large  and  well-improved  farm  of  John 
Page,  on  which  were  buildings  that  cost  six 
thousand  dollars  to  erect.  The  last  purchase 
was  effected  in  October,  1893,  when  the  seller 
was  a  man  to  whom  the  property  was  knocked 
down  at  auction  for  three  thousand  dollars, 
and  who  gave  them  two  hundred  dollars  to 
take  it  off  his  hands.  That  was  one  of  the 
greatest  bargains  of  the  times,  the  estate 
being  one  of  the  finest  in  Hopkinton  or  Con- 
cord, containing  much  land  valuable  for  tillage, 
excellent  pasturage,  and  a  good  piece  of  timber. 
Herbert  now  lives  on  that  farm,  where  he 
keeps  a  large  dairy  of  fifty  cows  and  supplies 
a  long  milk  route. 

Gilman  ]i.  Kimball  also  pays  much  atten- 
tion to  dairying,  having  twenty  cows  of  a  good 
grade  and  a  profitable  milk  route.  P'or  nearly 
two  years  he  has  been  somewhat  of  an  invalid, 
not  able  to  do  much  manual  labor,  employing 
trusty    help    for    that,    while    he    has    general 


superintendence  of  the  farm.  He  has  never 
married;  and  he  resides  with  his  mother,  a 
very  bright  and  active  \voman,  who  has  contin- 
ued her  residence  on  the  homestead.  She  is  a 
most  estimable  Christian  woman  and  a  con- 
sistent member  of  the  Congregational   church. 


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EXTER  PEABODY,  a  well-known 
farmer  of  Newport,  was  born  on  the 
farm  where  he  now  resides,  Decem- 
ber 14,  1S22,  son  of  Ammi  and  Sarah  (John- 
son) Peabody.  A  carefully  arranged  family 
tree  kept  by  Mr.  Peabody  shows  that  the  dif- 
ferent branches  of  the  family  sprung  from 
Francis  Peabody,  who  was  born  in  PLngland 
in  16 14.  P'rancis  had  a  son  John,  born  in 
1642,  who  had  a  son  David,  born  in  1673, 
who  had  John,  born  in  1714,  who  was  the 
great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Jedediah  Peabody,  son  of  the  last  John  and 
grandfather  of  the  present  Mr.  Peabody,  born 
near  Boxford  in  1743,  was  a  well-to-do  farmer. 
The  first  part  of  his  life  was  spent  in  Henni- 
ker,  and  the  latter  in  Lebanon,  where  he  died 
after  a  long  and  active  life.  He  was  a  soldier 
in  the  Revolutionary  War.  By  his  wife,  Alice 
Howlett  Peabody,  he  was  the  father  of 
eleven  children,  all  of  whom  grew  up.  They 
were  born  as  follows  :  Lydin,  in  1767;  Ammi, 
in  1769;  Mary,  in  1771;  Moses,  in  1773; 
Susanna,  in  1775;  Thomas,  in  1777;  Alice, 
in  1779;  Andrew,  in  1782;  P'rcderick,  in 
17S5;  John,  in  1787;  and  JV'tsy,  in  1789. 

Ammi  Peabody,  who  was  a  native  of  Box- 
ford,  Mass.,  came  to  Newport  in  1796,  and 
settled  on  the  farm  where  Dexter  Peabody 
now  lives.  There  were  no  roads  then,  and  he 
was  obliged  to  cut  the  first  tree  in  making  a 
clearing.  He  had  the  true  pioneer  spirit, 
however,  and  persevered,  building  a  small 
frame  house  and  gradually  bringing  oidei'  out 


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of  chaos  ill  ix'spuct  to  the  condition  of  the 
html.  1  Ic  owned  sinncwliat  over  one  huiuli-ed 
acres,  and  was  an  energetic  and  successful 
man.  Ammi  first  married  Polly  Rice,  of 
Ilenniivcr,  N.II.,  who  was  the  mother  of  two 
children—  Lucy  and  Martha.  Ilis  second 
wife,  Sarah  Johnson  I'eabody,  born  in  Giiil- 
foid,  Conn.,  in  1780,  had  twelve  children,  all 
of  wlioni  lived  to  maturity.  l^oth  he  and 
Sarah  were  members  of  the  Congregational 
church.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig.  For  the 
last  thirty-five  years  of  his  life  he  was  blind, 
lie  died  in  Newport  in  US45.  Four  of  his 
fourteen  children  are  now  living,  namely: 
Charles,  who  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College, 
and  is  a  Congregational  minister,  now  residing 
in  Pasadena,  Cal.  ;  Leonard  \V. ,  a  graduate  of 
Castleton  (Vt. )  Medical  College,  and-a  physi- 
cian of  Henniker,  N.II.  ;  Helen,  a  graduate 
of  .South  Hadley,  Mass.,  who  was  principal 
of  the  Westei'n  P'eniale  Seminary  of  Oxford, 
Ohio,  for  more  than  thirty  years  and  now  lives 
in  Pasadena;  and  De.xter,  the  subject  of  this 
article.  The  other  children  were:  Ascnath, 
Carroll  W.,  Lucy,  Martha,  Calvin,  Rue), 
Maria,  Frederick,  Sarah,  and  Eliza. 

De.xter  I'eabody  passed  an  uneventful  boy- 
hootl  on  the  old  home  farm,  receiving  the  ed- 
ucation which  the  town  schools  afforded. 
While  his  brothers  and  sisters  one  by  one  went 
away  from  home,  he  remained  and  took  charge 
of  the  iilace,  and  cared  for  his  parents  in  their 
declining  years.  After  the  death  of  both  he 
bought  out  the  other  heirs,  and  settled  down 
there,  and  has  lived  in  the  same  spot  ever 
since.  It  bears  the  name  of  Valley  View 
Farm.  A  more  beautiful  situation  cannot 
easily  be  found.  The  house  stands  on  a  noble 
height  rising  from  a  lovely  valley,  and  a  fine 
background  is  afforded  by  the  dark  blue 
mountains  and  hills.  It  is  considered  one  of 
the    finest    bits    of    scenery    in    the    district. 


The  land  embraces  about  two  hundred  acres, 
and  everything  is  kept  in  the  most  orderly 
manner,  and  gives  evidence  of  thrift  and  enter- 
prise. Mr.  Pcabody  is  a  member  of  the 
Patrons  of  Husbandry  at  Newport.  Hoth  he 
and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church,  while  in  iiolitics  he  is  a 
Republican. 

Mr.  I'eabody  was  married  in  1848  to  Mary 
IC. ,  daughter  of  Jabez  and  Sally  (IJixby)  Fair- 
banks, and  a  sister  of  George  H.  Fairbanks, 
who  is  the  subject  of  another  sketch.  She 
ilied  October  12,  1873,  leaving  three  sons, 
two  of  whom  are  now  living.  The  latter  are: 
Charles  1"".,  born  August  14,  1S49,  now  en- 
gaged in  the  furniture  and  undertaking  business 
in  Iowa;  and  I" rank  G.,  born  December  29, 
i860,  also  residing  in  Iowa,  and  engaged  in 
the  same  business  as  his  brother.  Wilber, 
born  August  19,  1852,  died  in  Pasadena,  Cal., 
in  1893.  Mr.  Peabody  was  again  married 
September  24,  1874,  to  Martha  S.  Moore,  who 
was  born  in  Putney,  Vt. ,  March  21,  1841, 
daughter  of  Curtis  and  Mary  (Dodge)  Moore. 
There  were  two  children  by  the  second  mar- 
riage—  Ralph  C.  and  Helen  M.  Ralph  was 
born  June  29,  1880,  and  is  at  home.  The 
daughter,  Helen,  was  born  April  13,  1876, 
and  died  P'ebruary  19,  1879.  Taking  a 
warrantable  pride  in  his  ancestry,  Mr.  Pea- 
body  is  an  active  member  of  the  Peabody  As- 
sociation, and  attended  the  reunion  of  its 
members.  The  hospitality  dispensed  in  the 
Peabody  household  by  him  and  his  estimable 
wife  is  of  the  traditional  New  England  charac- 
ter, marked  by  a  delightful  freedom  and  abun- 
dance. 


ILO     S.     MORRILL, 


(B  iii.w     o.     .VI v^i\i\i j^i^,    a    prominent 
f=/      lumberman    and    farmer,    was    born 
_  V_    ^  in   Canterbury,  January  20,   1846, 
son   of    Captain    David    and    Sallie    (Peverly) 


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Moirill.  The  grandfather,  Reuben  Morrill, 
was  a  well-known  farmer  of  Canterbury-  The 
father  was  also  a  farmer,  and  largely  interested 
in  lumber.  He  was  a  Captain  in  the  militia. 
His  wife  w-as  the  widow  of  John  Kimball,  and 
his  children  were:  George  P.,  who  married 
Abbie  Emery;  and  Milo  S. ,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.      He  died  April  6,   1893. 

Mr.  Morrill  received  a  common-school  edu- 
cation. He  lived  at  home,  taking  care  of  his 
parents  on  the  old  farm.  Upon  the  death  of 
his  father  he  was  left  a  si.xth-interest  in  the 
homestead.  Three  years  after  he  purchased 
the  rest  of  the  estate.  The  buildings  on  the 
property,  which  contains  about  five  hundred 
acres,  were  erected  by  his  father  and  grand- 
father. He  also  stocks  a  steam-mill  located 
near  his  house,  and  where  he  employs  a  num- 
ber of  men.  Though  he  is  a  general  farmer 
and  does  a  small  dairy  business,  the  largest 
part  of  his  income  is  derived  from  the  lumber 
business,  in  which  he  is  extensively  engaged. 
He  has  never  married.  His  nephew,  Charles 
E.  Morrill,  with  his  wife  Ida  Marsh  Morrill, 
lives  with  him  and  helps  to  carry  on  the  farm. 
Mr.  Morrill  is  a  member  of  the  Free  Baptist 
church.  A  supporter  of  the  Republican  party 
in  ]i()litics,  he  is  no  ofifice-seeker.  It  is  well 
known  that  he  has  worked  hard  for  the  success 
which  has  been  his,  and  he  is  accordingly 
resijected  throughout  the  township  and  county. 


'OHN    .STEVENS   KIMBALL, 


influ- 


^-N|  I  ential  resident  of  Hopkinton,  born  in 
~^'  Iioston,  July  31,  i>S'45,  is  a  son  of  John 
Shackford  and  Mary  (Stevens)  Kimball,  of 
wiiom  an  account  will  be  found  on  another 
page.  He  was  educated  at  the  Phillips  Gram- 
niar  .School  in  Boston,  at  IL>pkintoii  Academy, 
and  at  I'aghconic  histitute,  Lanesboro,  Mass. 
The  old   Hopkinton  Academy,  under  the  prin- 


ciiialshipof  Professor  Dyer  Sanborn,  the  author 
of  Sanborn's  Grammar,  was  quite  a  famous  in- 
stitution. Among  its  students  who  afterward 
became  famous  were  Benjamin  F.  Butler, 
Salmon  P.  Chase,  and  Grace  Fletcher.  Grace 
Fletcher  became  the  wife  of  Daniel  Webster. 
When  he  was  but  fourteen  years  of  age,  he 
began  to  earn  his  living  in  the  employment  of 
J.  C.  Converse  &  Co.,  Boston,  Mass.  .Subse- 
quently he  worked  for  George  S.  Winslow 
&  Co.  In  iS6r  he  went  to  Burlington,  la., 
where  he  was  employed  by  his  father  in  the 
business  conducted  by  J.  .S.  Kimball  &  Co. 
In  1866-67  lis  was  second  in  charge  of  the 
notion  or  smallwares  department  of  George 
Bliss  &  Co.,  of  New  York  City.  From  1867 
to  1869  he  was  a  member  of  the  firm  of  Parker, 
I-Sacor),  Kimball  &  Co.,  wholesale  dry-goods 
dealers  of  Boston.  In  1869,  with  his  brother, 
Robert  R.  Kimball,  he  enterctl  the  small- 
wares  and  hosiery  trade,  under  the  stj'le  of 
Kimball  &  Co.,  locating  .in  WinthroiJ  Scpiare, 
Boston.  They  were  burned  out  in  the  great 
fire  of  1872,  which  laid  waste  a  large  portion 
of  Boston,  losing  one-half  the  stock  and  some 
of  the  light  insurance  they  had  on  it  through 
companies  that  failed.  Mr.  Kimball,  how- 
ever, was  not  to  be  defeated.  .Soon  after, 
going  with  George  H.  Pearl  &  Co.,  dry-goods 
commission  merchants,  he  gradually  recovered 
himself  financially.  In  1875  he  came  to 
Hopkinton,  and  here  engaged  in  business  with 
the  stock  of  the  two  or  tliree  stores  he  and  his 
brother  had  in  Jioston.  This  venture  was  car- 
licil  on  iirosperously  for  six  or  eight  )'cars.  In 
1879  Mr.  Kimball  was  elected  Registrar  of 
Deeds,  in  which  capacity  he  served  till  1S81. 
In  that  period  he  arranged  the  index  that  has 
l)een  in  constant  use  since.  He  was  sent  to 
the  legislature  in  1883  to  represent  Hopkin- 
ton, and  was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  on 
Itlections.      In  politics  a  Re]niblican,  he  takes 


lilOGKAI'IIK  Al,    KI'AIIAV 


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ail  at'tivc  iiUcrcst  in  alTaiis.  lie  has  Ijl'ch 
Secretary  of  tlic  Ilopkinluii  Ivupiiblican  Club 
for  twenty-five  years;  and  he  has  long  been  a 
prominent  figure  in  both  State  and  county  con- 
ventions, often  serving  on  comniittees. 

In  1878,  December  3,  Mr.  Kiml^all  married 
Clara  l-'rcnch,  a  daughter  of  Reuben  K.  and 
Sarah  (Chase)  l*''rench,  of  Ilopkinton.  She 
died  November  19,  1879.  II er  sister,  Mar- 
garet A.  I'rench,  became  his  second  wife  No- 
vember 7,  1888.  There  was  one  son  by  the 
first  marriage,  John  I'rescott  Kimball,  now  a 
young  man  of  seventeen  and  a  student  at 
Holderness.  Harold  Chase  Kimball  was  born 
of  the  second  marriage.  The  present  Mrs. 
Kimball  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church.  Mr.  Kimball,  though  a  member  of 
Mount  Lebanon  Lodge  of  Masons  in  Boston, 
is  not  especially  devoted  to  lodge  affairs.  He 
is  deeply  interested  in  local  institutions,  such 
as  the  Free  Library,  the  New  Hampshire  and 
the  Antiquarian  Society.  He  has  served  for 
several  years  as  Trial  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and 
in  very  many  ways  has  been  a  public  bene- 
factor to  this  town.  His  residence  in  Ilop- 
kinton is  one  of  the  most  beautiful  in  that 
section. 


B 


AVID  F.  DUDLEY,  a  prominent 
lawyer  of  Concord,  was  born  in 
China,  Me.,  October  17,  1857,  son 
of  Matthew  I'",  and  Patience  A.  (Hutchins) 
Dudley.  John  Dudley,  his  grandfather,  was 
a  native  of  Kennebec  County,  where  he  passed 
the  greater  part  of  his  life  in  farming.  The 
maiden  name  of  John's  wife  was  lumice 
Win  slow. 

Matthew  V.  Dudley,  also  a  native  of  China, 
Me.,  was  a  farmer  in  that  town,  ami  died  there 
when  he  was  forty-eight  years  old.  He  mar- 
ried Patience  A.  Hutchins,  daughter  of  James 
Hutchins,  and  had  a  family  of  three   children. 


The.sc  were:  Charles  IC. ,  who  died  when  six- 
teen years  of  age;  Cynthia  J.,  now  deceased, 
who  married  John  R.  Meader,  and  had  three 
children;  and  David  F.,  the  subject  <<(  Uii^ 
sketch. 

When  a  boy  David  F.  Dudley  attended  the 
schools  of  Saco  and  Hiddcford  for  a  time. 
After  his  father's  death  his  mother  married 
again;  and  he  removed  to  New  Market,  N.H. 
After  graduating  from  I'embroke  Academy  in 
the  class  of  1879,  he  spent  some  time  in  the 
occupation  of  school  teacher.  Having  chosen 
the  law  for  his  profession  in  life,  he  subse- 
quently entered  the  office  of  Leach  &  Stevens, 
where  he  remained  three  years.  In  August, 
1883,  he  was  admitted  to  the  Merrimack 
County  bar,  and  began  the  practice  of  law  in 
Concord,  where  he  has  since  been  actively 
engaged  in  his  profession^  Having  won  the 
confidence  and  good  will  of  his  fellow-towns- 
men, he  was  elected  to  the  City  Council  in 
1884  and  1889,  and  to  the  Board  of  Aldermen 
in  1894.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and 
he  cast  his  first  Presidential  vote  for  General 
Garfield  in  1880.  Pie  belongs  to  the  Masonic 
fraternity  and  to  the  Order  of  Odd  Fellows  of 
Concord.  He  married  Blanche  L.  Fowler, 
daughter  of  Trueworthy  L.  and  Catherine  L. 
Sargent;  and  he  has  four  children  —  Gale, 
Trueworthy  F. ,  Roy,  and  I^thel  ]\Iay.  They 
have  a  charming  residence  at  Penacook. 


ri'^US  1L'\LL,  a  representative  resi- 
dent of  Grantham,  was  born  in  this 
town,  March  iS,  1844,  son  of  Adol- 
phus  and  Sally  (Leavitt)  Hall.  The  family  is 
descended  from  Edward  Hall,  who  came  from 
pjigland  in  1636,  and  settled  in  Du.xbury, 
Mass.,  then  under  the  control  of  the  Plymouth 
Company.  Edward  lived  in  different  places  in 
Massachusetts,    and    was    one    of    the    sturdy 


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pioneers  of  "ye  olden  tyme  "  who  laid  the 
foundations  of  the  nation.  Abijah  Hall,  great- 
grandfather of  Rufus  Hall,  who  was  born  in 
June,  1754,  lost  his  life  by  drowning  in  1S12. 
He  lived  in  Croydon,  his  father  being  the 
first  of  the  name  in  that  town.  Abijah's  son, 
Amasa,  born  in  Croydon,  February  17,  17S9, 
died  August  23,  i86g.  Amasa,  a  prosperous 
farmer,  was  e.Ntensively  engaged  in  sheep  rais- 
ing. He  fought  in  the  War  of  1812,  and  rep- 
resented Croydon  in  the  legislature  in  1S24 
and  1825.  In  1829  he  moved  to  Grantham, 
where  he  was  the  first  of  the  name  to  settle. 
He  served  the  town  in  the  office  of  Selectman 
for  eight  years,  represented  it  in  General 
Court  in  1S32,  1S34,  1835,  and  1836,  and 
was  Commissioner  for  Sullivan  County  in 
1 841.  As  a  business  man  he  was  noted  for 
energy  and  enterprise.  He  married  Rebecca 
Lamson  Melendy,  and  had  a  family  of  three 
children — Rufus,  Sally,  and  Adolphus. 
Rufus,  born  in  Croydon,  October  3,  1813,  died 
January  13,  1 82 1.  -Sally  R.,  born  January  i, 
1 8 16,  married  Converse  Smith,  of  Plainfield. 
Adolphus  Hall,  father  of  Rufus,  was  born  at 
Croydon,  December  7,  181 1,  and  died  October 
12,  1876.  He  worked  with  his  father  on  the 
home  farm  as  long  as  the  latter  lived,  and  upon 
his  death  took  the  farm  under  his  own  manage- 
ment. He  became  one  of  the  most  influential 
men  of  the  town,  and  occupied  almost  every 
position  in  its  public  service.  From  1859  to 
1862  he  was  Selectman;  in  i860  and  1S61, 
legislative  Representative;  in  1865  and  i866, 
Treasurer  of  Sullivan  County.  During  three 
years  he  was  County  Commissioner,  and  he 
was  ser\ing  in  that  office  and  in  the  capacity 
of  Selectman  at  the  time  of  his  death.  In 
religion  he  favored  Methodism.  His  wife, 
Sally,  who  was  born  in  18 10,  died  in  1875. 
Their  two  children  were:  Rufus  and  ICloisa. 
The   latter,    born    in    Grantham,    July  7,   1848, 


was  twice  married.  Her  first  husband  was 
Jesse  Morse,  of  this  town,  a  lumber  dealer. 
By  this  marriage  she  had  two  children  — 
Blanche  and  Zclla.  Her  second  hubsand  was 
William  H.  Howard,  a  farmer  and  one  of  the 
Selectmen.      She  has    borne    him    one    child. 

After  leaving  school,  Rufus  Hall  worked 
on  his  father's  farm  and  assisted  also  in  the 
large  general  store  his  father  at  that  time 
owned.  At  the  end  of  three  years  he  bought 
the  store  from  his  father,  and  afterward  man- 
aged it  successfully  for  si.x  years.  He  then 
engaged  in  farming  for  a  number  of  years. 
Also,  in  company  with  his  father,  he  bought 
a  lumber  and  grist  mill,  which  was  operated 
until  the  death  of  the  elder  Mr.  Hall.  I'"rom 
that  time  until  1882  Mr.  Rufus  Hall  con- 
ducted a  farm.  He  was  engaged  in  general 
trade  at  Croydon  from  1882  to  iSgi,  since 
which  time  he  has  farmed.  Also,  after  that 
time,  he  was  employed  in  the  capacity  of  sales- 
man for  four  years.  For  a  number  of  years  he 
was  a  Director  of  the  First  National  Bank  at 
Newport.  Mr.  Hall  has  worthily  sustained 
the  family  traditions  by  filling  most  creditably 
the  various  public  offices  intrusted  to  him  by 
his  townsmen.  He  was  elected  Town  Clerk 
in  1869,  this  being  his  first  town  office,  and 
held  the  position  until  1883.  In  1882  he  was 
sent  to  the  legislature,  serving  two  yeais,  and 
being  appointed  on  the  Committee  on  Flec- 
tions. He  has  been  Selectman  a  number  of 
times,  and  Town  Moderator  for  several  years, 
holding  the  last-named  position  at  the  present 
time.  Much  interested  in  the  Patrons  of  Hus- 
bandry, he  is  an  esteemed  member  of  the  local 
grange. 

Mr.  Hall  married  Francina  D.  Smith,  whu 
was  born  December  13,  1844,  daughter  of 
William  P.  Smith,  of  Sjiringfield.  She  is  a 
lady  of  culture  antl  of  fine  musical  taste. 
After  receiving  her  education    in   Colby  Acad- 


JilOGRAI'llirAL    Ki;\'ii:\v 


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cmy  of  Now  London,  she  followed  Ihc  jirofcs- 
sion  of  teacher  very  successfully  for  some  time. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Hall  have  four  children:  Leon 
A.,  Villa  !•:.,  I-:arl  R.,  and  Ralph  A.  Leon, 
born  June  4,  1869,  at  Grantham,  was  educated 
at  Colby  Academy.  lie  was  for  a  time  em- 
ployed in  the  manufacture  of  ]5arton's  Sarsa- 
parilla  and  Blood  I'lu'lfier.  At  present  he  has 
a  position  in  1'",  ( ).  White's  grocery  store  in 
]3oston.  He  married  Jessie  M.  ]51ossom,  and 
has  one  child  —  Charlotte  May,  born  February 
5,  1897.  Villa  K. ,  born  August  17,  1874, 
graduated  at  Colby  Academy,  and  is  now 
studying  medicine  at  Herkimer,  N.  Y.  I-'arl 
R.,  born  May  10,  1876,  was  educated  in  the 
town  schools  of  Tilton,  and  then  studied  den- 
tistry with  Silver  ]5rothers,  of  ]5oscavven,  N.  II. 
Ralph  A.,  born  August  22,  1879,  is  a  pupil  in 
the  town  schools. 


/  2)lLl':S  WHEEL]<:R,  who  has  superin- 
V  f^r  tended  the  construction  of  several 
public  buildings  in  Concord,  was 
born  in  this  city,  August  7,  1834,  son  of  Cap- 
tain Benjamin  and  Eliza  (Ordway)  Wheeler. 
His  grandfather,  Benjamin  Wheeler,  son  of 
DanieJ  Wheeler  and  a  native  of  Hollis,  N.H., 
in  his  earlier  years  was  a  miller  in  Bedford, 
Mass.  J^enjamin  settled  in  Concord  in  1802, 
on  the  farm  formerl)'  known  as  the  Towlc 
place,  which  he  bought  of  Ebenezer  Dustin. 
He  followed  agriculture  for  the  rest  of  his 
active  period,  and  died  in  December,  1848. 
He  assisted  in  hauling  the  stone  for  the  erec- 
tion of  the  State  House  and  the  old  prison 
buildings.  His  first  wife,  in  maidenhood 
Mary  Eitch,  a  native  of  Bedford,  Mass.,  and 
a  relative  of  John  E^itch,  the  founder  of  the 
city  of  E'itchburg,  Mass.,  reared  two  chiUlren 
—  Benjamin  Wheeler,  Jr.,  and  Mary. 

Captain   Benjamin   Wheeler,   who  was  born 


in  Woburn,  Mas.s.,  and  accompanied  his  par- 
ents to  Concord,  succeeded  to  the  homestead, 
and  was  an  energetic  and  jirosperous  farmer. 
EI c  was  drafted  during  the  War  of  1812,  and 
afterward  became  a  Captain  in  the  State 
militia.  His  death  occurred  June  4,  1S70. 
His  wife,  E^liza,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Giles 
and  ]-:iizabeth  (Webster)  Ordway,  became  the 
mother  of  four  children,  namely:  John  C, 
who  died  in  1895;  Giles,  the  subject  of  this 
.sketch;  Isaac  V.,  who  married  Harriet  E. 
Ordway;  and  Albert  E". ,  who  died  in  child- 
hood. 

Giles  Wheeler  was  educated  in  the  ]Hiblic 
and  private  schools  of  Concord.  When  a 
young  man  he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade, 
which  he  followed  for  sixteen  years.  From 
i860  to  1864  he  was  engaged  in  the  manufact- 
ure of  soldier's  writing  cases  in  Plymouth, 
Mass.  During  the  Civil  War  he  was  drafted 
in  Mas.sachusetts  and  New  Hampshire  at  the 
same  time,  and  furnished  a  substitute  for 
New  Hampshire  in  the  person  of  William 
(iilson,  a  native  of  Eclham,  N.  IE,  who  was 
captured  by  the  Confederates,  June  3,  1S64, 
at  Cold  Harbor,  paroled  March  lo,  1865, 
and  died  at  Annapolis,  Md.,  March  32,  1865. 
After  relinquishing  his  trade,  Mr.  Wheeler 
entered  the  business  of  architect  in  partner- 
ship with  Edward  Dow,  a  connection  that 
lasted  until  1885.  He  was  appointed  by  Dan- 
iel R.  Manning,  Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  to 
superintend  the  erection  of  the  Concord  post- 
ofTice.  He  acted  in  a  similar  capacity  in  the 
erection  of  the  .State  library.  He  was  build- 
ing agent  in  connection  with  the  High  and 
Kimball  Schools,  the  Statesman  Building, 
and  the  Pillsbury  Elospital  and  Library;  and 
he  was  a  member  of  the  committee  selected  to 
superintend  the  erection  of  the  Soldiers'  Arch. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Police  Commis- 
sion and  its  clerk  since  the  establishment  of 


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the  board.  In  the  capacity  of  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  the  past  twenty  years  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  settlement  of  many  estates. 

Mr.  Wheeler  married  Sarah  W.  Abbott,  a 
daughter  of  Charles  Abbott  and  a  descendant 
of  one  of  the  first  families  to  settle  in  this 
section.  He  is  connected  with  the  Order  of 
the  Golden  Cross,  and  is  a  member  of  the 
Unitarian  society.  In  politics  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat, and  he  cast  his  first  Presidential  vote 
for  James  Buchanan  in  1856,  and  voted  for 
Stephen   A.   Douglas   in    i860. 


'OHN  V.  GUNNISON,  the  popular 
High  Sheriff  of  Sullivan  County,  son 
of  Vinal  and  Eliza  (Baker)  Gunnison, 
was  born  in  Goshen,  N.  H.,  on  February  27, 
1837.  Ephraim  Gunnison,  father  of  Vinal, 
was  a  pioneer  settler  of  Goshen,  where  he 
cleared  the  wild  land  by  the  labor  of  his 
hands.  A  hard  worker  and  a  man  of  great 
vitality,  he  lived  to  be  eighty-five  years  old. 
II is  wife,  Deborah,  died  at  eighty-seven  years 
of  age.  He  was  a  Methodist  Episcopal  in 
religion,  a  Democrat  in  politics. 

Their  son  Vinal  was  the  fifth  son  in  a  fam- 
ily of  seven  children.  He  followed  farming 
all  his  life  on  the  old  farm  on  which  he  was 
born.  It  was  a  large  farm  of  about  six  hun- 
dred acres,  and  came  to  be  one  of  the  best  in 
Goshen.  He  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty  in  the 
year  1858.  His  wife  died  in  1873,  at  the  age 
erf  seventy-two  years.  They  were  attendants 
of  the  Congregational  church.  Vinal  Gunni- 
son was  always  a  Whig.  He  held  several 
town  offices,  among  them  that  of  Selectman 
and  Overseer  of  the  Poor.  Of  his  seven  chil- 
dren three  are  now  deceased  —  Marian,  Arvin 
Nye,  and  Amos  B.  The  survivors  are:  Mrs. 
Sarah  Ann  Brickett,  who  lives  in  Mendota, 
111.  ;    Eliza    Chandler,    who    lives    in    Salem, 


Ore.  ;  John  V.  ;  and   Horace  B. ,  who   lives   in 
PhillipsviUe,  Cal. 

John  v.,  the  third  son,  lived  at  home  with 
his  parents  in  Goshen  until  he  went  away  to 
school,  his  educational  course  being  completed 
in  the  academies  at  Meriden  and  New  Londoii, 
N.  H.  He  subsequently  engaged  in  farming 
and  lumbering  on  the  old  homestead,  dealing 
largely  in  stock  and  running  a  steam  saw-mill. 
In  1888  he  removed  to  Newport,  though  he 
still  owns  the  old  place  and  keeps  there  about 
twenty  cows  for  milk.  In  Newport  he  deals 
in  horses,  carriages,  and  sleighs.  He  was 
elected  to  his  present  ofifice  of  High  Sheriff  in 
1894,  and  was  re-elected  in  1S96. 

He  married  January  16,  1S67,  Angle  Carr, 
who  was  born  in  Hillsborough,  N.  H.,  Sep- 
tember 12,  1846,  daughter  of  Robert  and  Claora 
(Goodale)  Carr.  Her  grandfather,  the  first 
Robert  Carr,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
the  place ;  and  her  father  followed  agriculture 
on  the  old  farm,  where  he  spent  his  whole  life. 
She  has  two  brothers  and  four  sisters,  all  liv- 
ing. Her  brother,  Elisha  Hatch  Carr,  is  a 
prominent     business    man    of    Newport,    N.  H. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Gunnison  have  had  four  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  are  living  —  Belle,  Sadie 
H.,  Claora  A.,  and  Alice  M.  Belle  Gunnison, 
born  in  Goshen,  N.  H.,  December  30,  1868,  was 
educated  at  the  town  schools  of  Goshen  and 
Newport,  N.  H.  After  completing  her  course 
of  study,  she  taught  school  for  a  while,  and 
was  considered  a  successful  instructor  and  good 
disciplinarian.  Since  then  she  has  been  a 
valuable  assistant  in  the  jjost-ofifice  at  New- 
port, N.H.,  having  now  held  the  position  for 
eight  years.  Sadie  H.  was  born  in  (Joshen, 
June  9,  1870.  After  graduating  from  the 
high  school  of  Newport,  N.  H.,  she  taught 
school  three  years,  for  which  work  she  seemed 
well  fitted,  and,  like  her  sister,  was  considered 
a  successful  teacher.      She  then  entered  upon 


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109 


llic  (liilics  (if  licr  ])rc,scnt  position  of  Manager 
of  the  rclc|)honc  Ivxtii.uigo,  Newport,  N.  II. 
Claora  A.,  born  in  Goshen,  December  27, 
1S75,  attended  tiie  schools  of  Goshen  and  New- 
port, also  tiie  Bradford  Female  Seminary, 
Hrailford,  Mass.  ;  and,  having  finished  her 
preparatory  studies,  she  entered  the  school- 
room as  an  instructor,  and  is  now  an  assistant 
teacher  in  the  Newport  High  School.  Alice 
M.,  born  in  Goshen,  Ajjril  ir,  1877,  died 
May  30,  1895.  She  was  a  very  bright  and 
l)romising  young  lady,  and  was  an  attendant 
of  the  high  school  at  Newport,  when  that 
dreaded  disease,  typhoid  fever,  took  her  away 
in  the  bud  of  womanhood. 

Mrs.  Gunnison  and  her  daughters  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Congregational  church,  where  Mr. 
Gunnison  also  attends  divine  service.  A  Re- 
inihlican  in  politics,  he  held  the  office  of 
County  Commissioner  in  1S72,  1873,  and 
1874;  and  in  1885  he  was  Representative  to 
the  General  Court.  He  is  a  member  of  Mount 
Vernon  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M.,  at  Newi)ort ; 
a  Royal  Arch  Mason;  a  Knight  Templar;  and 
also  a  member  of  Sugar  River  Grange,  P.  of 
II.,  at  Newport.  Mr.  Gunnison  is  a  successful 
farmer  and  trader,  well  versed  in  horse  flesh. 
He  has  been  a  very  active  man,  and  has  made 
his  own  way  in  the  world. 


AMUEL  II.  EDES,  a  retired  law- 
yer of  the  village  of  Newport,  was 
born  here,  March  31,  1825,  son  of 
Amasa  antl  Sarah  (Hart)  Edes.  Samuel  Edes, 
his  grandfather,  was  an  early  settler  of  An- 
trim, N. II.,  an  active  farmer  and  a  Revolu- 
tionary soldier.  .Samuel's  life  was  mainly 
spent  in  Peterboro,  N.  H.,  where  he  died  at 
the  remarkable  age  of  one  hundred  years.  He 
had  nine  children.  Amasa  Edes  was  born 
about  the  year  1792.      Having  graduated  from 


Dartmouth  in  1S17,  he  came  in  1823  to  New- 
port, where  he  suijscquently  practi.sed  law  for 
a  period  extending  over  si.xty  years.  He  was 
successful  in  his  profession,  and  he  represented 
his  town  for  a  time  in  the  legislature.  In  re- 
ligous  belief  he  was  a  Unitarian  ;  in  politics, 
a  Democrat.  He  died  in  October  of  the  year 
1.S.S3,  his  wife  having  died  (October  8,  18O9, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years  and  three 
months.  They  had  two  children  —  Jo.seph  W. 
and  .Samuel  II.  Joseph  died  at  the  age  of 
fi  ve. 

-Samuel  H.  lules  was  educated  in  the  Meri- 
den  Academy  and  at  Dartmouth,  his  father's 
Alma  Mater,  graduating  in  1844.  He  at  once 
began  to  read  law  with  his  father,  and  was  ad- 
mitted to  the  Sullivan  County  bar  in  1852. 
He  practised  until  the  year  1875  in  the  town 
of  Newport.  At  different  times  he  was  en- 
gaged in  farming,  dealt  in  real  estate,  and 
was  interested  in  woollen  mills.  In  1S69  he 
started  the  mercantile  business  to-day  carried 
on  by  his  son.  In  1856  Mr.  Edes  was  instru- 
mental in  bringing  the  aqueduct  water  here. 
At  first  it  was  conveyed  by  a  wooden  aque- 
duct, but  this  in  1862  was  changed  for  one  of 
cement  and  iron.  He  owns  the  building 
known  as  Eagle  Block,  which  was  remodelled 
in  1856.  He  has  owned  land  in  Newport  on 
which  seventy  buildings  now  stand. 

On  December  30,  1847,  Mr.  Ede$  married 
Julia  A.  Nourse,  who  was  born  in  Acworth, 
N.  H.,  October  iS,  1827,  daughter  of  Daniel 
Nourse  and  Margaret  (Wilson)  Nourse.  Of 
their  four  children  one  died  in  infancy.  The 
others  were:  Willie  A.,  George  C. ,  and  Mar- 
cia  J.  Willie,  born  in  1854,  died  at  the  age 
of  eighteen  years.  George  C.  Edes,  born 
April  23,  1849,  lives  in  Newport,  where  he  is 
a  dealer  in  dry  goods.  He  married  Novem- 
ber 10,  1873,  Elizabeth  M.  Dennahan,  who, 
born    February    28,      1854,     died     September 


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12,  1896.  They  had  four  children,  of  whom 
Elizabeth  J.,  born  April  3,  1876,  died  Sep- 
tember 16,  1S93.  The  others  are:  Frank  W. , 
born  in  1874,  who  is  a  clerk  in  his  father's 
store;  Samuel  W. ,  born  November  9,  1881; 
and  George  L. ,  born  November  11,  1889. 
George  C.  Edes  is  a  Democrat,  has  been 
Town  Clerk  and  Supervisor,  and  is  a  member 
of  the  Mount  Vernon  Lodge,  A.  F.  &  A.  M. , 
and  of  Sullivan  Commandery,  K.  T.  Marcia 
J.  Edes,  the  youngest  child  of  Samuel  H. 
Edes,  was  born  in  1859,  and  resides  in 
Newport. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Edes  attend  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  of  which  the  wife  is  a  member. 
He  is  a  Democrat,  and  has  held  office  as  legis- 
lative Representative  and  County  Solicitor. 
He  served  in  the  latter  capacity  for  two  terms. 
He  has  been  Justice  of  the  Peace  since  1852. 
Always  interested  in  educational  matters,  he 
was  influential  in  making  the  important  change 
from  district  to  high  schools  in  the  village. 
Mr.  Edes  and  his  wife,  who  have  been  mar- 
ried nearly  fifty  years,  are  one  of  the  oldest 
couples  in  the  village.  Mr.  Edes  is  active  and 
vigorous,  and,  with  his  wealth  and  influence, 
is  regarded  as  one  of  the  important  members  of 
the  community. 


iRS.  MIRIAM  STRAW  EMER- 
SON FOGG,  widow  of  the  late 
Sherburne  Fogg,  of  West  Hop- 
kinton,  and  daughter  of  John  Jones  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Straw)  Emerson,  was  born  on  the  farm 
where  she  now  lives,  November  20,  1S21. 
She  is  a  descendant  of  a  prominent  pioneer 
family  of  Hopkinton,  her  great-grandfather, 
Timothy  Emerson,  having  been  the  original 
settler  on  Clement's  Hill.  Timothy  Emerson 
was  very  active  in  local  affairs,  doing  much  to 
advance  the  interests  of  the  little  town,  among 


other  things  donating  the  land  for  the  ceme- 
tery in  which  his  body  was  laid  to  rest  after 
his  death,  March  22,  1826,  at  the  venerable 
age  of  eighty-si.x  years.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried. His  first  wife,  who  was  without  doubt 
an  Ober,  bore  him  two  daughters  and  one  son. 
The  latter  was  John  Ober  Emerson,  Mrs. 
Fogg's  grandfather.  His  children  by  his 
second  wife,  Mary,  were:  Collins,  Day,  Ben- 
jamin, and  Rachel.  Day  died  November  i, 
1 84 1,  at  the  age  of  fifty-two  years,  and  was 
buried  in  the  family  lot.  The  mother,  who 
survived  the  father,  died  October  29,  1833, 
aged  eighty-one  years. 

John  Ober  Emerson  was  born  on  Clement's 
Hill  in  Hopkinton,  June  6,  1770.  After  his 
marriage  with  Mary  Jones  he  settled  on  the 
present  homestead,  which  extends  along  the 
Contoocook  River,  the  house  being  beautifully 
located  on  the  banks  of  the  stream.  Mary 
Jones  was  born  August  14,  1769,  daughter  of 
John  and  Elizabeth  (Gordon)  Jones.  Her 
father  died  July  10,  181 5,  aged  sixty-seven 
years;  and  her  mother  April  15,  183S,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-eight.  John  Ober  Emerson  and 
his  wife  became  the  parents  of  six  children, 
namely:  Philip,  born  in  1792,  who  lived  but 
four  years;  Moses,  born  January  20,  1794,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  two  years;  John  Jones,  born 
December  25,  1795,  who  died  February  i, 
1 841  ;  Sarah  Kast,  born  March  25,  1798,  who 
died  in  1823,  aged  twenty-five  years;  Micah 
George  J.,  born  July  21,  iSoi,  who  has  not 
been  heard  from  since  he  started  for  Troy, 
N.Y. ,  in  1832;  and  Jane  Greeley,  born  July 
13,  1807,  who  married  Daniel  Hardy, of  War- 
ner, N.  H.,  and  died  in  August,  1882.  After 
long  and  useful  lives  the  father  died  in  1842, 
aged  seventy-two  years,  and  the  mother,  De- 
cember 6,  1856,  in  her  eighty-eighth  year. 
Of  the  latter  an  interesting  anecdote  is  nar- 
rated  in   the   History  of   Hopkinton  by  C.  C. 


i:in(;R.\|'ii|(;AI,    RKVIKVV 


1,(11(1.  On  a  Sunday  morning  in  the  early 
s])ring  a  party  of  about  a  dozen  persons,  in- 
cluding Mrs.  John  O.  luiierson,  crossed  the 
frozen  Contoocook  River  from  tlie  north  side, 
to  attend  meeting  at  the  old  West  Meeting- 
house. While  at  service  a  sudden  and  rapid 
thaw  reduced  the  ice  on  the  river  to  a  number 
111'  ll(iatii)g  fragments,  wliicli  presented  a  for- 
midable barrier  to  the  party  returning  from 
chuix'h.  'I'hc  nearest  bridge  was  three  miles 
down  the  river,  and  to  reach  home  by  that  way 
vviiuld  linve  required  at  least  six  miles  of 
travel,  which,  as  the  party  was  on  foot,  caused 
them  ti)  halt  in  dubious  reflection.  Mrs. 
Emerson,  Imwever,  with  ready  courage,  settled 
the  cpiestion  by  prompt  action.  In  spite  of 
the  remonstrances  of  her  companions,  she 
sprang  upon  the  nearest  cake  of  ice,  and, 
dexterously  leaping  from  one  to  another, 
crossed  the  river  in  safety.  Her  friends,  who 
watched  her  progress,  were  not  inspired  to 
make  the  attempt  by  her  example.  They  fol- 
lowed the  advice  conveyed  by  the  old  proverb, 
"The  longest  way  round  is  the  shortest  way 
home,"  by  walking  to  the  bridge. 

Jdhn  Jones  Emerson  lived  and  died  on  the 
farm  where  his  birth  occurred,  spending  his 
years  as  a  tiller  of  the  soil.  His  name  is 
amon'g  the  list  of  llopkinton  soldiers  who 
served  in  the  War  of  1812.  He  enlisted  in 
Colonel  Nathaniel  l'"isk's  first  regiment  in 
1814.  In  the  old  militia  days  he  was  a  Cap- 
tain of  riflemen.  He  married  Miss  Elizabeth 
.Straw,  who,  b(.irn  in  Hopkinton,  November  23, 
1793,  daughter  of  Levi  and  Miriam  (Jones) 
Straw,  died  January  17,  1859.  His  children 
were:  Seth  George,  Miriam  Straw,  Mary  Jane, 
Sarah  Elizabeth,  Andrew  Jackson,  and  Will- 
iam Seneca.  Seth  George,  born  April  24, 
1820,  who  married  Sarah  Goss,  of  Henniker, 
and  was  at  one  time  the  owner  of  the  home- 
stead, removed  to  I-'ort  Gratiot,  Mich.,  where  he 


died  August  i,  18^14,  Mary  Jane,  born 
March  22,  1823,  who  died  Eebruary  13,  1886, 
was  the  wife  of  Martin  K.  Philips,  of  Henni- 
ker, N.H.  Sarah  lilizabeth,  born  September 
2,  1824,  married  Samuel  D.  Clark,  of  Ches- 
terfield, N.  H.,  and  died  in  Port  Huron, 
Mich.,  November  19,  1893.  Andrew  Jack- 
son, born  in  Eebruary,  1828,  died  in  January, 
1831.  William  Seneca,  born  May  4,  1831, 
who  married  Mary  A.  Andrews,  of  the  Isle  of 
Sheppey,  England,  died  August  17,  1890,  in 
Hillsborough,  N.H. 

Miriam  Straw  Emerson  was  married  t(j 
Sherburne  Eogg.  He  was  born  July  9,  1819, 
in  Meredith  (now  Laconia),  N.  H.,  son  of 
Seth  and  Betsey  Uoudon  (Gile)  P'ogg,  and 
grew  to  man's  estate  in  Gilmanton,  whither 
his  parents  removed  when  he  was  young.  He 
was  a  carpenter,  and  from  the  time  of  his  mar- 
riage until  1857  he  worked  at  his  trade  in 
Manchester,  this  State.  After  residing  for 
a  time  in  Belmont,  he  came  in  1859  to  Hop- 
kinton, purchased  from  his  brother-in-law, 
Seth  George  Emerson,  the  Emerson  home- 
stead, and  was  subsequently  engaged  in  agri- 
culture until  his  death,  which  occurred  June  4, 
1S73.  Mrs.  Fogg  has  since  resided  on  the 
farm.  She  has  had  three  children,  namely: 
George  Henry,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nine- 
teen years;  Lizzie  Adella;  and  Frank  Emer- 
son Fogg.  Lizzie  Adella  was  educated  at 
Tilton  Seminary,  from  which  she  graduated 
with  the  class  of  1878.  Since  that  time  she 
has  been  engaged  as  a  teacher  in  Hopkinton, 
making  her  home  with  her  widowed  mother. 
I-"rank  ICmerson  Fogg,  now  an  attorney-at-law 
in  Grangeville,  Idaho,  completed  his  education 
at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  having  graduated  from 
the  law  department  of  the  State  University, 
class  of  1880.  He  was  Circuit  Court  Com- 
missioner of  Charlevoix  County,  Michigan, 
from  1884  to    1 888,  and   Prosecuting  Attorney 


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of  Charlevoix  County  from  1888  to  1890. 
Removing  to  Idaho,  he  practised  at  Rathdrum 
from  1 89 1  to  1893.  Then  he  went  to  Grange- 
ville,  where  he  has  followed  his  profession 
since.  He  married  February  28,  i886,  Eliza 
Ann  Scroggie,  of  Charlevoix,  Mich.  ;  and  they 
have  four  bright  and  interesting  children- 
Essie  v.,  James  Sherburne,  Miriam  S. ,  and 
William  I'' rank. 


ALTER  B.  MAYNARD,  a  farmer 
of  Loudon,  was  born  here,  April  26, 
1840,  son  of  Asa  and  Lucy  (Talbot) 
Maynard,  natives  respectively  of  Acton, 
Mass.,  and  Brookline,  N.H.  The  grand- 
father, Asa  Maynard,  who  was  a  cooper  by 
trade  and  resided  in  East  Concord  during  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  died  there  at  the  resi- 
dence of  his  daughter,  August  1,  1866,  aged 
ninety-four  years.  The  maternal  grandfather, 
Ezra  Talbot,  of  Stoughton,  Mass.,  born  Janu- 
ary 20,  1773,  resided  successively  in  Brook- 
line  and  Loudon,  and  married  Abigail  Belcher. 
He  died  in  Loudon  in  November,  1853;  and 
his  wife  died  in  Brookline,  June  21,  1832. 

Asa  Maynard,  Jr.,  the  father  of  Walter  B., 
was  born  November  10,  1801.  Immediately 
after  his  marriage  he  settled  down  as  a  farmer 
on  the  place  now  owned  by  the  present  Mr. 
Maynard,  and  resided  there  for  the  rest  of  his 
life.  His  wife,  Lucy,  who  was  born  Ajnil  5, 
i.So.S,  had  four  children  — lunily,  Eliza,  Wal- 
ter 15.,  and  John  V.  Emily,  born  June  21, 
1832,  died  June  21,  1851.  Eliza,  wiio  was 
born  October  30,  1836,  became  the  wife  of 
Augustus  R.  Manning,  and  had  two  children, 
namely:  Mary  I*". ,  liorn  January  i,  1854;  and 
]'"rank  (). ,  born  .September  28,  1861.  Both 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Manning  arc  now  deceased. 
John  1'".,  who  manufactures  the  well-known 
Plymouth  gloves,  born   March    15,   1846,  mar- 


ried Harriett  Draper,  who  died.  Then  he 
married  Henrietta,  his  deceased  wife's  sister, 
with  whom  he  now  lives  in  Plymouth,  N.H. 
The  father  died  February  8,  1848.  The 
mother,  who  survived  him,  afterward  became 
the  wife  of  Gardner  Batchelder,  a  farmer  of 
Loudon.  The  latter  died  in  September,  1S60; 
and  her  death  occurred  in  1894,  February  27. 
There  were  no  children  by  this  second  mar- 
riage. 

Walter  B.  Maynard  received  a  common- 
school  education.  All  his  life  has  been 
passed  on  the  old  homestead.  After  his 
father's  death  he  took  charge  of  the  farm. 
He  now  owns  about  three  hundred  acres  in 
Concord  and  Loudon.  In  1869  he  considera- 
bly imjjroved  the  property  by  erecting  new 
buildings.  He  carries  on  general  farming, 
raises  some  fruit,  and  makes  rather  a  specialty 
of  the  milk  business,  keeping  about  twenty- 
five  cows.  In  1864,  May  i,  he  married  Lu- 
ella  C.  Sanders,  of  Hopkinton,  N.H.  She 
was  born  P'ebruary  26,  1843,  the  daughter  of 
Reuben  L.  and  Abigail  (Locke)  Sanders,  both 
of  Epsom,  N.  H.  Mr.  Sanders,  who  was  suc- 
cessively a  shoemaker  and  a  farmer,  died  Oc- 
tober 6,  1876.  His  widow,  who  subsequently 
married  William  K.  Holt,  of  Concord,  now 
deceased,  still  resides  at  the  age  of  seventy-six 
in  East  Concord.  Mr.  Maynard  and  his  wife 
have  had  six  children  —  P'rank  W. ,  Harry  K., 
Roy  F. ,  George  S.,  Warren  S. ,  and  Roy  W. 
Frank  W.,  born  March  4,  1866,  was  married 
Deceml)cr  25,  1889,  to  Nancy  B.  Cate,  of 
Loudon.  He  died  .September  12,  1896;  and 
his  widow  now  lives  with  her  father-in-law, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  -She  has  had  three 
children  ^  Walter  lulward,  John  W. ,  and  Har- 
riet E.  Harriet  died  Se])tember  27,  1896. 
Harry  ¥..,  born  March  i,  1869,  is  at  home 
with  his  parents.  Roy  F. ,  born  December 
23,    1871,    died   April   22,    1877.      George  S., 


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who  was  biiin  October  20,  1874,  lives  at  home. 
Warren  S.,  burn  May  25,  1880,  died  February 
4,  1 88 1.  Roy  W. ,  born  August  27,  1882, 
is  also  witii  his  jiarents.  Mr.  Maynard,  who 
has  never  been  an  office-seei<er,  is  a  Republi- 
can in  politics,  and  lias  invariably  given  that 
party  his  support.  He  is  an  attendant  at 
the  i'last  Concord  Congregational  Church. 
Throughout  his  life  he  has  been  a  hard-work- 
ing man,  earning  well  the  prosperity  he  now 
enjoys. 

'RANCIS  L.  QUIMRY,  a  Selectman 
and  a  thriving  farmer  of  Unity,  was 
born  in  this  town,  December  25,  1827, 
son  of  Ik'ujamin  Quimby  (second)  and  Percis 
(Gee)  Quimby.  His  grandfather,  Benjamin 
Quimby  (first),  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle 
in  Unity,  was  engaged  in  agriculture  here  for 
the  rest  of  his  life.  The  maiden  name  of 
the  grandfather's  wife  was  Otis.  Benjamin 
Quimby  (second),  born  in  Unity  in  the  year 
l8oo,  tilled  the  soil  with  success  during  his 
active  years;  and  his  death  occurred  in  the 
spring  of  1859.  Percis  Gee,  his  wife,  who 
was  a  native  of  Marlow,  N.II.,  became  the 
mother  of  four  children  —  Milan  W.,  Francis 
L.,  Melissa  D.,  and  Wilbur  B.  Milan  W., 
who  is  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Claremont, 
N.II.,  married  Lucy  A.  Neal,  of  Unity. 
Melissa  1).,  who  married  Ezra  G.  Johnson,  of 
Unity,  dietl  in  1S92.  He  died  in  1896. 
Wilbur  I5. ,  wht)  is  carrying  on  a  farm  in  Cor- 
nish, N.H.,  married  Lucinda  Marshall,  of  this 
town.  Mrs.  Benjamin  Quimby  (second)  died 
in  June,   1870. 

P'rancis  L.  Quimby  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools  and  at  the  Milo  Academy.  At 
a  very  early  age  he  began  to  a»ssist  his  father 
upon  the  farm.  Since  succeeding  to  its  pos- 
session he  has  managed  it  ably  and  with  ex- 
cellent results.      Considerably  interestetl  in  the 


raising  of  stock,  he  has  the  reputation  of  hav- 
ing produced  many  valuable  specimens.  Po- 
litically, he  is  a  Republican;  and  he  has 
served  for  four  years  upon  the  Board  of  Select- 
men. On  May  22,  1849,  he  was  joined  in 
marriage  with  Lydia  Johnson.  She  was  born 
in  Unity,  June  8,  1825,  daughter  of  Amos  and 
Iluldah  (Green)  Johnson,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  Wears,  N.II.  Amos  Johnson  settled 
near  the  locality  in  this  town  called  the 
Quaker  City,  and  there  followed  the  shoe- 
maker's trade,  and  was  engaged  in  farming 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  1856.  His 
wife  died  in  1863.  They  were  the  parents  of 
eight  children;  namely,  Moses,  Enoch,  Han- 
nah, l^zra,  Lydia,  Almeda,  Elniira,  and 
Annie. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Quimby  have  six  children, 
as  follows:  Irving  W.,  Adella  L.,  George  E., 
Lewis  J.,  the  Rev.  Herbert  F. ,  and  l-^merson 
A.  Irving  W.  married  Josie  Reed,  of  Ac- 
worth,  N.  H.,  and  is  engaged  in  farming  in 
Unity.  Adella  L.  is  the  wife  of  John  M. 
Howe,  a  merchant  in  Claremont.  George  E. , 
now  in  the  dry-goods  business  in  Decatur,  111., 
married  Lillian  Davis,  of  Waltham,  Mass. 
Lewis  J.,  who  wedded  Martha  Dow,  of  Cor- 
nish, N. IL,  is  a  grocer  in  Claremont.  The 
Rev.  Herbert  I".  Quimby  pursued  his  theo- 
logical studies  in  Burlington,  Vt.,  and  at  Bos- 
ton, graduating  in  each  place,  and  is  now  a 
Methodist  minister  in  Moultonboro,  N.  H. 
He  married  for  his  first  wife  I^va  M.  Hodg- 
man,  of  Mason,  N.  H.,  and  for  his  second  Jen- 
nie lilliot,  of  Reed's  Ferry,  N.  H.  Emerson 
A.,  who  is  in  the  grocery  business  with  his 
brother  in  Claremont,  married  Jennie  A. 
Perry,  of  North  Charlestown,  N.  H.  Mr. 
Quimby,  Sr. ,  has  been  a  member  of  Unity 
Grange,  No.  230,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  since 
its  organization.  Both  he  and  Mrs.  Quimby 
arc    members    of    the   West    Unity  Methodist 


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Episcopal  Church.  He  serves  the  society  as 
steward,  trustee,  and  collector;  while  Mrs. 
Quimby  is  a    teacher  in    the     Sunday-school. 


'GRACE  J.  CHASE,  one  of  the  lead- 
ing business  men  of  Hopkinton 
and  a  son  of  Enoch  J.  and  Sarah 
(Holmes)  Chase,  was  born  on  Clement  Hill, 
Hopkinton,  Octoljer  ii,  1825.  His  grand- 
father, Enoch  Chase,  came  here  from  Port- 
land, Me.,  and  was  for  many  years  Selectman 
and  Collector  of  Taxes.  The  account  book 
used  by  Enoch  is  now  in  the  possession  of  his 
grandson,  Horace  J.  Chase.  His  son,  Enoch 
J.  Chase,  was  born  in  Hopkinton.  In  his 
early  life  he  was  a  shoemaker  and  a  cooper. 
At  a  later  date  he  built  a  mill  on  his  farm, 
and  went  into  the  lumber  business.  He  also 
built  some  lumber-mills  in  VVilmot,  but  sold 
them  after  a  short  time.  Both  in  lumbering 
and  farming  he  was  quite  successful.  P'ive 
hundred  acres  of  his  farm  land,  which  was 
bought  for  five  dollars  an  acre,  afterward  sold 
for  one  hundred  dollars  an  acre.  The  last 
years  of  his  life  were  spent  with  his  son  Hor- 
ace; and  he  died  in  St.  Johnsbury,  \^t. ,  at  the 
age  of  seventy-eight,  while  on  a  visit  to  one 
of  his  daughters.  He  was  married  twice. 
His  first  wife  was  Sarah  Holmes  Chase,  a 
daughter  of  Dr.  Holmes,  of  New  York.  They 
had  four  children  —  Lucinda,  Mary  Jane, 
Harvey,  and  Horace  J.  Harvey  now  carries 
on  the  old  farm.  Both  Lucinda  and  Mary 
Jane  are  deceased.  By  his  second  wife, 
Nancy,  who  came  from  Salisbury,  his  children 
were:  Nancy,  George  W. ,  Melvida,  and  Me- 
linda.  IMelinda  died  in  childhood,  and  George 
is  now  in  California. 

Llorace  J.  Chase,  when  a  young  man,  lived 
at  home  with  his  father  and  helped  him  with 
the  lumber  business.      Before  he  was  twenty 


years  old,  he  drove  a  five-horse  team  into  Ver- 
mont, carrying  freight.  Then  for  three  or 
four  years  he  was  a  conductor  on  a  freight 
train  to  Boston  on  the  Claremont  Railroad. 
Subsequently  the  manager  assigned  him  to 
the  business  of  buying  lumber  for  the  use  of 
the  road.  He  remained  in  this  position  for 
three  years,  making  higher  wages  than  any 
other  employee  of  the  road.  In  1852  he 
bought  an  old  tannery  in  Hopkinton,  built  by 
Thomas  Cass,  that  was  burned  down  soon  after. 
Eight  years  later  he  erected  the  present  build- 
ings which  are  now  landmarks  in  the  town. 
He  has  been  in  the  tanning  business  now  for 
over  forty  years.  In  the  early  days,  when 
the  work  was  done  by  hand,  he  used  to  em- 
[iloy  as  many  as  eight  or  ten  men  at  a  time. 
Now  he  uses  the  best  of  modern  machinery. 
He  has  put  in  an  engine,  so  that  the  mill  may 
be  run  either  by  steam  or  water.  His  entire 
jiroduct  has  always  been  consumed  by  two 
firms  in  Concord,  namely:  Abbott  &  Downing, 
coach  builders;  and  James  I.  Hill  &  Co., 
harness  makers.  He  has  always  followed  the 
old-fashioned  processes  of  tanning,  using  cold 
liquors  and  no  chemicals.  His  produce  com- 
mands the  best  prices  in  the  market,  some- 
times six  cents  more  per  pound  than  that  of 
other  tanneries.  He  has  constantly  super- 
vised the  work  in  person,  doing  some  of  the 
special  parts  with  his  own  hands.  In  addi- 
tion to  this  his  main  industry,  he  carries  on 
a  large  farm  containing  about  two  hundred 
acres  of  fine  farm  and  timber  land.  This 
year  he  shipped  ovei-  two  hundred  :liu1  forty 
liarrels  of  apples  to  St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.  He 
owns  the  Colby  saw-mills,  where  he  has  sev- 
eral acres  of  good  timber  land,  also  the  High- 
hmd  House  in  Contoocook,  which  he  has  re- 
modelled, making  several  additions.  At  one 
time  he  owned  the  lumber-mills  in  VVilmot 
which    his   father    bouglit.       Mr.    Chase    has 


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served  llie  comnumity  as  Selectman.  The 
water  service  at  J  Inpkinton  was  put  in  under 
his  supervision.  He  has  always  been  a  Demo- 
crat in  [lolilics,  as  his  latiier  and  grandfather 
were  before  him. 

On  January  8,  1850,  while  in  the  emi)loy  of 
the  Clarcmont  Railroad,  he  married  Mary  Ann 
Dodge,  a  daughter  of  .StiUman  and  Mary 
(Highland)  Dodge,  both  of  Wenham,  Mass. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chase  have  had  five  children,  of 
whom  one  died  in  infancy.  The  others  were: 
Frank  .S. ,  luhvard  K.,  Horace  Sumner,  and 
Willard  Hamilton.  Mdward  K.  is  now  en- 
gaged in  the  ice  business  in  Hopkinton. 
Horace  Sumner  is  the  proprietor  of  tiie  St. 
Johnsbury  House,  Vermont.  Willard  Hamil- 
ton was  accidentally  drowned  at  the  age  of 
four.  Frank  S.  was  employed  on  the  N.  Y. , 
N.  H.  &  H.  R.R.  as  engineer  for  several 
years,  during  which  time  he  never  had  an 
accident.  On  December  16,  1S86,  while  look- 
ing back  at  his  train  from  the  engine  steps, 
he  was  struck  on  the  head  by  a  p(de  and  in- 
stantly killed.  Mr.  Chase  is  a  jovial,  good- 
natured  man  ;  and,  although  considerably  ad- 
vanced in  years  now,  he  still  shows  the  out- 
lines of  a  powerful  physicjue.  He  is  much 
respected  in  his  native  town,  both  for  his 
business  integrity  and  for  his  public  spirit. 


IIARLES       SUMNER       HALE,     the 


junior  member  of  the  firm  Silver  & 
Hall,  general  merchants  of  Goss- 
ville,  and  an  e.x-meniber  of  the  New  Hamp- 
siiire  legislature,  was  born  in  Ei:isom,  N.  H., 
June  3,  1854,  .son  of  John  C.  and  Ahirtiia  E. 
(Rand)  Hall,  late  of  Epsom.  The  father, 
a  native  of  Lee,  N.  H.,  was  born  January  26, 
1806.  In  early  life  he  came  to  Epsom  and 
followed  the  trade  of  a  carpenter  here  for  some 
time.      Later   he   opened   a   store,    becoming  a 


prosperous  merchant ;  and  he  also  conducted  a 
large  farm.  Politically,  he  was  in  his  later 
years  a  Republican  ;  and  he  took  an  earnest  in- 
terest in  public  affairs.  He  died  at  the  age  rjf 
seventy-seven  years.  His  wife,  Martha,  was 
born  February  25,  18 13,  daughter  of  Stei)hen 
Rand,  of  Chichester.  She  became  the  mother 
of  nine  children —  Sarah  1'^,  Martha  K.,  James 
\V.,  Amanda  .S.,  John  IL,  Deborah,  Georgia 
A.,  Luther  T. ,  and  Charles  S.  Sarah  K. , 
born  May  28,  1833,  married  James  K.  Taylor, 
of  Neponset,  Mas.s.,  and  her  children  are: 
I':ila,  Mattie,  Alberto,  and  Maud.  Martha 
E. ,  born  June  3,  1834,  is  the  wife  of  J.  M. 
Emery,  of  Suncook,  in  the  town  of  Pembroke, 
N.H.,  and  has  two  daughters  — Anna  and 
Hatlie.  James  W. ,  born  November  13,  1837, 
ma^•ried  Sarah  I'3mery,  of  Suncook.  Amanda 
was  born  September  i,  1839.  John  IL,  liorn 
March  19,  1842,  married  Nellie  Earnham,  of 
Great  F'alls  (now  Somersworth),  N. H.  ;  and 
his  children  arc:  Bert,  John,  George,  and 
Alice.  Deborah,  born  May  5,  1845,  is  now 
the  wife  of  F.  G.  Stebbins,  of  Adrian,  Mich. 
Georgia  A.,  born  November  10,  1848,  and  now 
deceased,  first  married  William  Desilets,  who 
died  leaving  one  daughter,  Katherine.  A 
second  marriage  united  her  to  Charles  Chapin, 
of  Worcester,  Mass.,  who  has  legally  adopted 
her  tlaughter  by  her  first  husband.  Luther  T. 
was  born  .September  8,  185 1.  Mrs.  John  C. 
Hall  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty-three  years.  She 
and  her  husband  were  members  of  the  Free 
Will  Baptist  church. 

Charles  Sumner  Hall  attended  school  in  his 
native  town,  and  completed  his  studies  with 
a  commercial  course  at  Bryant  &  Stratton's 
Business  College  in  Manchester,  N.  H.  After 
leaving  school,  he  engaged  in  mercantile  pur- 
suits with  his  father,  and  remained  with  him 
for  several  years.  In  1SS3  he  became  asso- 
ciated   with   his  present    partner  in   business. 


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Messrs.  Silver  &  Hall,  of  Gossville,  are 
widely  and  favorably  known  as  enterprising 
and  successful  merchants.  The  junior  partner 
owns  a  large  farm  containing  five  hundred 
acres,  seventy-five  acres  of  which  are  under 
cultivation.  He  ranks  high  among  the  fore- 
most agriculturists  of  this  section. 

On  December  ii,  1S76,  Mr.  Hall  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Ellen  M.  Dolbeer, 
daughter  of  Calvin  Dolbeer,  of  Epsom.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Hall  have  no  children.  In  politics 
Mr.  Hall  is  a  Republican.  For  many  years 
he  served  as  Town  Clerk,  and  was  elected  a 
Representative  to  the  legislature  in  1889.  He 
is  Secretary  of  Evergreen  Lodge,  No.  53, 
I.  O.  O.  F. ,  of  Short  Falls,  and  is  connected 
with  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry  of  Epsom.  He 
is  one  of  the  successful  men  of  this  locality, 
and  his  upright  character  and  business  integ- 
rity are  highly  spoken  of  by  his  fellow-towns- 
men. Both  he  and  Mrs.  Hall  are  members  of 
the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 


KEVI  A.  SMITH,  one  of  Unity's  repre- 
sentative farmers,  was  born  in  this 
^*»'  town,  August  13,  1843,  son  of  Jo- 
seph G.  and  Elizabeth  (Young)  Smith.  The 
father,  born  October  24,  1797,  was  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  throughout  the  active  period  of  his 
life,  owning  the  farm  which  his  son  now  occu- 
pies, and  died  May  3,  1882.  His  first  mar- 
riage was  contracted  with  Lucy  Howe,  who, 
born  in  Acworth,  N.IL,  August  14,  1799, 
died  December  9,  1S33.  His  second  wife, 
]{lizabeth  Young  Smith,  who  was  born  Sep- 
tember 14,  1812,  died  in  May,  1888.  He  had 
si.xtcen  children,  nine  by  his  first  union  and 
seven  liy  his  second.  Those  of  his  first  wife 
were  born  as  follows:  Lineas  S.,  November 
7,  1820;  Sidney,  January  10,  1822;  Joseph 
G.,     May    4,     1823;     Alonzo    A.,     December 


2,  1824;  Jefferson,  August  5,  1826;  Thomas 
J.,  April  17,  182S;  David  L. ,  August  12, 
1829;  Lucy  Ann,  May  2,  1831;  and  George 
W.  A.,  September  28,  1832.  Of  the  children 
by  his  second  marriage  two  died  in  infancy. 
The  others  were:  Izanna  E.,  born  May  31, 
1838,  and  residing  in  Goshen,  who  is  now  the 
widow  of  Dr.  Wheeler,  formerly  a  prominent 
physician  of  Goshen;  Emily  M.,  born  Sep- 
tember I,  1S40,  who  married  Edward  Gates,  a 
native  of  Gilson,  and  resides  with  him  in 
Gardner,  Mass.;  Levi  A.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Freeman  H.,  born  December  16, 
1844,  who  died  February  25,  1846;  James 
F.,  born  November  23,  1848,  now  a  chair 
manufacturer  in  Gardner,  Mass.,  who  married 
Delia  Gates,  of  Gardner. 

Levi  A.  Smith  attended  school  in  Unity, 
and  assisted  upon  the  home  farm  until  after 
his  first  marriage.  He  then  settled  ujion  a 
farm  in  the  northern  part  of  the  town,  and 
tilled  the  soil  industriously  for  eighteen  years. 
After  the  death  of  his  father  he  returned  to 
the  homestead,  and  has  since  resided  there. 
He  owns  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  well- 
improved  land.  He  has  the  reputation  of  a 
capable  and  successful  general  farmer.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Prohibitionist,  and  he  served 
with  ability  as  a  Selectman  for  three  years. 
He  has  carried  the  United  States  mail  be- 
tween Unity  and  Charlestown  since  1872. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  Advent  church. 

On  September  15,  1864,  Mr.  Smith  married 
Abbie  E.  Johnson,  daughter  of  Edward  and 
Mary  (Marshall)  Johnson,  both  of  whom  were 
natives  of  Unity.  She  died  in  June,  1887. 
Of  that  union  were  born  four  children,  namely: 
Freeman  J.,  on  September  16,  1867,  who  is 
no  longer  living;  I'rcd  L.,  November  4, 
1868,  who  is  a  jjrosperous  farmer  of  Unity; 
Arthur  W.,  May  30,  1877,  who  is  still  under 
the   parental    roof-tree;    and    I.islina    K. ,    Au- 


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gust  28,  1880,  also  residing  at  home.  l'"rccl 
L.  Sinil-li  niariicd  Anna  Walker,  and  has  two 
children  —  IClvis  C.  and  Arthur  VV.  On  Jan- 
uary I,  1891,  Mr.  Smith,  Sr.,  wedded  for  his 
second  wife  Emma  Davis,  who  was  born  in 
Unity,  Decenihcr  5,  1861,  daugiiter  of  Samuel 
Davis.  By  this  marriage  tiiere  are  no  chil- 
dren. 


IDCiKRTON  RAYMOND,  a  well-known 
resident  of  Boscawcn,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 3,  1 84 1,  in  Concord,  N.H.,  son 
of  Thomas  P.  and  I'ermelia  (Derby)  Raymond, 
both  natives  of  Vershire,  Vt.  His  grand- 
father, Captain  Liberty  Raymond,  of  the  Ver- 
mont militia,  was  a  large  land-owner  and 
a  |)r(iminent  man  in  the  latter  town.  Cap- 
tain Raymond  died  at  Vershire,  and  his 
wife,  Mary,  at  Ouechee,  Vt.  Their  children 
were:  Thomas,  Lyman,  and  Liberty,  all  now 
deceased.  The  last  named  became  a  well- 
known  builder  and  real  estate  dealer  in 
Manchester,  where  he  erected  several  large 
structures.  lie  was  also  a  pioneer  of  the 
shoe  business,  in  which  he  was  engaged  at  the 
time  of  his  death. 

Thomas  P.  Raymond  was  a  tanner  and  cur- 
rier, and  lived  in  Concord  till  April,  1845. 
His  wife  died  about  that  time;  and  he  then 
moved  to  Hoiikinton,  N.H.  By  a  second  mar- 
riage he  was  unitetl  to  Nancy  Stone,  of  Can- 
ada. Later  on  he  came  to  Boscawen,  where 
he  settled  on  a  farm,  and  purchased  a  tannery. 
He  carried  on  the  tannery  in  company  with 
his  son  Edgerton  until  1866.  His  death  oc- 
curred September  22,  1879,  and  that  of  his 
wife  in  1895.  There  were  no  children  by  the 
second  marriage.  Those  by  the  first,  besides 
a  child  that  died  in  infancy,  were:  LucyB., 
Liberty  George,  and  Edgerton.  I-ucy,  now 
living  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  married  Daniel 
Y.    Bickford,  an   organ    manufacturer  of   Con- 


cord and  ISoslon,  who  dietl  Ajjril  29,  1876. 
Liberty  enlisted  in  1861  in  Company  E  of 
the  Seventh  New  Ihimpshire  Regiment,  and 
was  killed  at  Eort  Wagner,  South  Carolina, 
July  18,  1863.  A  brave  soldier  and  a  great 
favorite,  he  was  the  first  man  of  his  regiment 
to  lose  his  life. 

Edgerton  Raymond  received  his  education 
in  the  common  school  and  in  the  academy  at 
Boscawen.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  he  went  to 
old  Salem,  Mass.,  and  worked  there  for  a 
time.  Then,  returning  to  Boscawen,  he  fin- 
ished his  schooling.  He  ne.vt  went  to  Man- 
chester, and  was  there  employed  in  the  ar- 
mory making  guns  during  the  late  war.  After 
this  he  worked  for  his  uncle  Liberty  in  his 
boot  and  shoe  store  in  Manchester,  where  he 
remained  until  September,  1865.  At  that 
time  he  went  to  Syracuse,  N.Y. ,  and  was  in 
the  employ  of  the  New  York  Central  Railroad 
for  si.x  months,  after  which  he  returned  to 
Boscawen,  and  settled  on  his  present  farm. 
He  and  his  brother-in-law  were  also  engaged  in 
the  tannery  business  until  fire  destroyed  their 
plant  in  October,  1870.  He  rebuilt  the  tan- 
nery in  1871,  and  afterward  conducted  it  alone 
until  1885.  On  his  farm  of  forty  acres, 
which  he  has  much  improved  by  the  erection 
of  new  buiklings,  he  carries  on  general  farm- 
ing. 

In  1869,  October  20,  Mr.  Raymond  married 
Ellen  V.  Raymond,  his  cousin.  She  came 
from  Manchester,  and  was  a  daughter  of  Lib- 
erty and  Almina  (Smith)  Raymond.  Her 
father,  who  was  a  merchant,  after  the  death  of 
his  first  wife  married  Mary  P.  Putney,  who 
belonged  to  a  prominent  Manchester  family, 
and  now  resides  in  Contoocook.  The  children 
of  lulgerton  Raymond  are:  Jessie  P.,  born 
August  16,  1870;  Lucy  May,  born  I'ebruary 
14,  1874;  and  George  Albert,  born  June  14, 
1 878.      Lucy  teaches  stenography,  and  is  now 


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superintendent  of  that  department  in  a  busi- 
ness college  in  Lebanon,  Pa.  Since  his  mar- 
riage Mr.  Raymond  has  resided  on  the  farm 
with  the  exception  of  one  year,  during  which 
he  was  in  Boscawen  Plains.  He  has  been  a 
member  of  the  -School  Board  and  the  Audi- 
tor of  the  town,  and  he  is  now  Selectman. 
His  vote  has  always  been  thrown  for  the  Re- 
publican party,  whose  principles  he  strongly 
upholds.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Knights  of 
Honor,  Kearsarge  Lodge,  No.  276,  of  Pena- 
cook.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are  members  of 
the  I-"irst  Congregational  Church,  and  he  is  a 
Deacon  of  the  society.  The  Raymonds  rank 
with  the  leading  families  of  Boscawen. 


(sltOHN  A.  McCLURE,  a  successful 
farmer  of  15oscawen,  was  born  here, 
October  22,  1822,  son  of  John  and 
Sallie  (Potter)  McClure,  his  father  being  from 
Exeter,  N.H.,  and  his  mother  from  Pittsfield, 
N.H.  His  grandfather,  James  McClure, 
was  an  Adjutant-general  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  but  subsequently  went  to  Dublin, 
Ireland,  where  he  died.  The  father,  a  sea 
captain,  sailed  from  PZast  India  and  other 
places.  Later  he  moved  to  Springfield,  N.  H., 
and  then  came  to  Boscawen.  Here  he  settled 
on  a  farm,  which  was  his  place  of  residence, 
and  lived  there  until  his  death  in  March, 
1869,  at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years.  His 
wife  survived  him  until  1879,  being  ninety 
years  of  age  at  the  time  of  her  death.  They 
had  three  children  —  Louisa  L.,  John  A.,  and 
Mary.  Louisa,  who  married  W.  W.  Kil- 
bourne,  died  January  25,  1897.  Mary  is  the 
widow  of  John  L.  Sargent,  and  resides  in  Gil- 
manton,  N.H. 

John  A.  McClure  received  only  a  common- 
school  education.  In  1877  he  moved  to  his 
present    estate   of    about    one    hundred    acres, 


known  as  the  old  P'landers  farm,  which  he  has 
since  made  his  home.  Since  then  he  has 
made  several  improvements  on  the  place,  in- 
cluding the  erection  of  substantial  buildings. 
He  also  owns  the  old  homestead  on  High 
Street  in  Boscawen,  where  his  son  lives,  con- 
taining about  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres. 
An  industrious  man,  he  carries  on  general 
farming  very  successfully. 

In  1849  Mr.  McClure  married  Phcebe  C. 
Stone,  of  Webster,  daughter  of  Peter  and  Ruth 
(Call)  Stone.  Her  parents,  who  resided  in 
Webster  on  a  farm,  are  now  deceased.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  McClure  had  four  children,  born  as 
follows:  Edwin  P.,  in  July,  1850;  Addie  V., 
August  18,  1853;  Alice  P.,  November  6, 
1855;  and  Charles  J.,  March  2,  1858.  Edwin 
is  now  at  home  with  his  father;  Addie  V.  is 
the  wife  of  Richmond  Simpson,  and  lives  in 
Webster;  Alice  P.  is  the  wife  of  John  W. 
P'ord,  of  P'ord  &  Co.,  foundrymcn  at  Concord, 
N.H.;  and  Charles  J.,  who  married  Mary 
Esther  Shepherd,  now  lives  on  the  old  Mc- 
Clure homestead  in  Boscawen,  and  is  the 
father  of  two  children  —  Lillian  F.  and 
Phoibe  Stone.  Mrs.  Phrebe  C.  McClure  died 
July  20,    1864. 

Mr.  McClure  contracted  a  second  marriage 
on  March  5,  1871,  with  Susan  W.  Moore,  of 
Canterbury,  N.H.  She  was  born  January  22, 
1837,  daughter  of  John  S.  Moore,  a  farmer 
and  lumber  dealer  of  Canterbury,  N.H.  Her 
mother,  Lucinda  I'rench  Moore,  also  of 
Canterbury,  died  in  i  S49,  after  which  Mr. 
Moore  entered  a  second  marriage  with  Hannah 
Dow,  of  Concord,  who  died  in  1891.  Mr. 
Moore  died  in  1870.  His  children  by  the 
first  marriage  were:  Clara  IL,  Charles  H., 
Albert  Ames,  Sabrina  C. ,  Sylvester  F.,  Susan 
W.,  Lucinda  F.,  and  liliza  T.  I'llizaT. ,  the 
widow  of  Deacon  Sewell,  is  now  a  teacher  in 
l'"armington,  Me.     With  the  excei^tion  of  Mrs. 


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McClnrc,  all  the  others  are  deceased.  Sabrina 
died  at  the  age  of  twenty-two;  Sylvester,  aged 
fifty-three  years;  and  Lucinda,  aged  twenty- 
eight.  Born  of  the  second  marriage  were  two 
children  —  Hannah  and  John  11.  Hannah 
dieil  in  1854,  at  the  age  of  four  years.  John 
II.,  now  a  resident  of  Penacook,  married  Isa- 
bella B.  Blackington,  and  is  a  travelling  sales- 
man for  a  firm  in  Dover,  N.H. 

Mr.  McClure's  only  child  by  his  second 
marriage,  Sarah  K.,  born  September  28,  1875, 
having  completed  the  course  of  the  training 
school  in  Concord,  is  now  a  teacher  in  that 
city.  The  present  Mrs.  McCIurc  and  two  of 
her  stepsons  are  members  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  in  Boscawen.  The  daughter 
residing  in  Concord  is  a  member  of  the  Meth- 
odist church  in  that  city.  In  politics  Mr. 
McClure  is  a  Democrat,  and  has  invariably 
voted  with  that  party.  He  has  been  a  hard- 
working man,  and  has  been  fairly  successful 
in  his  business.  He  is  well-known  and 
highly  regarded  throughout  the  vicinity  of 
Boscawen. 

[LISHA  HATCH  CARR,  a  well-known 
business  man  of  Newport,  was  born  in 
Hillsborough,  November  17,  1S42, 
son  of  Robert  and  Cleora  (Goodale)  Carr. 
The  grandfather,  Robert  Carr,  who  was  among 
the  early  settlers  of  Hillsborough,  cleared  his 
land,  and  became  a  successful  farmer,  living 
to  be  more  than  eighty  years  old.  He  fought 
in  the  war  of  the  Revolution.  -Of  his  five 
children  Robert,  one  of  the  elder,  became  the 
owner  of  the  farm,  spent  his  life  there  follow- 
ing the  occupation  of  general  farmer  through- 
out his  active  period,  represented  his  district 
in  the  State  legislature,  and  died  at  the  age 
of  eighty-one  years.  Robert  was  a  liberal  in 
religion,  and  his  wife  was  a  Methodist.  She 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven. 


Their  seven  children,  all  still  living,  arc: 
Robert  G.,  who  resides  in  Haverhill,  Mass.; 
Cleora  A.  Morrill,  a  resident  of  I'ctcrboro, 
N.H.;  Abbic  J.  Hadley,  of  Hillsborough 
Bridge;  Sarah  J.  Barker,  residing  in  Nashua; 
Angeline  Gunnison,  residing  in  Newport;  and 
Celestia  M.  Booth,  who  resides  in  Worcester, 
Mass. 

Elisha  H.  Carr  grew  u])  in  Hillsborough, 
where  he  attended  the  district  school.  In  his 
early  life  he  was  employed  as  a  clerk.  After- 
ward he  engaged  in  business  for  himself  in 
I'^ast  Washington,  N.H.,  and  in  Goshen, 
N.H.,  keeping  a  general  store.  In  1891  he 
came  to  Newport,  and  opened  a  livery  stable, 
which  is  now  the  leading  establishment  of  the 
kind  in  the  village.  His  equipment  is  of  the 
best,  and  includes  twenty-five  fine  horses  and 
many  stylish  carriages.  Mr.  Carr  was  mar- 
ried October  5,  1869,  to  Jennie  Purington. 
She  was  born  in  Goshen,  N.  H.,  June  4,  1845, 
daughter  of  Imri  and  Mary  Purington.  They 
have  no  children.  In  religious  belief  they  are 
Universalists.  A  Republican  in  politics,  he 
has  held  various  public  offices.  He  was  for 
several  years  Town  Treasurer  of  Goshen;  its 
legislative  Representative  in  1879,  1881,  and 
1S83;  Treasurer  of  Sullivan  County  for  four 
years;  and  he  is  the  present  Representative  of 
Newport  in  the  legislature.  A  Mason  of 
prominence,  he  belongs  to  Blue  Lodge,  Chap- 
ter, and  Commandery.  His  business  career 
has  been  that  of  an  active  and  enterprising 
man. 


OHN  ARTHUR  JONES,  a  farmer  of 
Hopkinton,  was  born  in  Contoocook, 
N. H.,  April  3,  1864,  son  of  John  F". 
and  Maria  (Barnard)  Jones.  His  grandfather 
was  a  resident  of  Ho]ikinton  for  the  greater 
part  of  his  life.  John  F.  Jones,  who  was  born 
in   Hopkinton,   is  now  a  resident  of  Concord, 


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where  he  is  Treasurer  of  the  L.  and  T. 
Savings  Bank  of  that  city.  He  has  been  con- 
nected with  this  bank  for  a  period  of  twelve 
years. 

John  Arthur  Jones,  tlie  subject  of  this 
sketch,  received  his  early  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  his  native  town  and  in  the 
academy.  Later  he  was  a  student  at  Colby 
Academy,  New  London,  for  a  time.  From 
New  London  he  returned  to  Hopkinton,  and 
went  to  his  grandfather's  farm,  which  was  soon 
put  under  his  management.  He  is  the  only 
representative  of  the  family  in  the  town.  On 
the  homestead,  which  contains  about  one  hun- 
dred and  sixty  acres,  he  is  engaged  in  dairy- 
ing and  stock-raising,  having  a  fine  herd  of 
Guernsey  cattle.  His  cream,  of  which  his 
dairy  yields  a  large  quantity,  is  sold  in  Bos- 
ton. Mr.  Jones  is  a  Democrat  in  his  politics, 
while  he  has  never  held  public  office. 

On  January  19,  1887,  Mr.  Jones  married 
Mabel  N.  Bailey,  a  native  of  Newbury  and  a 
daughter  of  George  Bailey,  then  of  Hopkinton. 
Mrs.  Jones  is  a  talented  musician.  Before 
her  marriage  she  taught  school  in  the  county 
for  some  time.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Jones  have  one 
daughter,  Ruth,  aged  four  years.  They  attend 
the  Baptist  church.  Mr.  Jones  is  a  very  suc- 
cessful farmer.  The  family  residence  is  the 
old  homestead,  standing  on  a  beautiful  emi- 
nence overlooking  the  Contoocook  River  and 
commanding  a  fine  view  of  the  diversified  land- 
scape. 

'KANKLIN  J.  EMKRSON,  formerly  a 
member  of  the  Concord  City  Council, 
was  born  July  11,  1824,  in  Unity, 
N.H.,  son  of  Samuel  and  Matilda  (Gould) 
Emerson.  His  grandfather,  Jonathan  Emer- 
son, who  was  born  in  March,  1740,  settled  in 
West  Concord,  and  there  reclaimed  from  the 
wilderness  the  property  now  owned  and  occu- 


pied by  his  grandson.  Jonathan  subsequently 
replaced  his  primitive  log  cabin  with  a  modern 
frame  house;  and  at  his  death,  which  occurred 
when  he  was  seventy-five  years  old,  he  left  a 
good  farm.  He  was  twice  married,  and  had 
twelve  children,  si.x  by  each  union. 

Samuel  Emerson,  father  of  Franklin  J.,  was 
born  at  the  homestead,  May  2,  1783.  He  was 
brought  up  a  farmer;  and  when  a  young  man 
he  began  to  till  the  soil  upon  his  own  account 
in  Hopkinton,  N.H.  In  1809  he  settled  upon 
a  farm  in  Unity,  where  he  resided  for  the  rest 
of  his  life,  and  died  at  the  age  of  forty-three 
years.  His  wife,  Matilda,  was  a  daughter  of 
Gideon  and  Hannah  (Heath)  Gould.  The 
father,  born  in  Hopkinton,  January  16,  1741, 
died  March  5,  1821;  and  the  mother,  born  in 
Warner,  N.H.,  December  17,  1746,  died  De- 
cember 3,  1843,  at  the  advanced  age  of  ninety- 
seven  years.  The  children  of  Samuel  and 
Matilda  (Goukl)  Emerson  were:  Emily, 
Nancy,  Caroline,  Harriet,  Harriet  (second), 
and  Franklin  J.  The  first  Harriet  died  in 
infancy.  The  mother's  death  occurred  May 
12,   1852. 

Franklin  J.  Emerson,  the  only  survivor  of 
his  parents'  children,  received  his  education 
in  the  district  schools  and  at  the  Hopkinton 
Academy.  Although  he  was  left  fatherless  at 
a  tender  age,  his  natural  energy  enabled  him 
to  advance  without  the  usual  parental  aid. 
Since  reaching  manhood,  he  has  attained  pros- 
perity by  industrious  farming  in  West  Con- 
cord. Pie  now  owns  an  e.xcellent  farm  of  one 
hundred  acres,  which  is  kept  in  a  high  state 
of  cultivation,  and'  a  new  set  of  substantial 
buildings  erected  by  him. 

Mr.  l-'merson  married  I'^li/.a  J.  Abbott, 
daughter  of  Levi  and  ICliza  (Dimond)  Abbott. 
Both  he  and  Mrs.  Emerson  attend  the  Congre- 
gational church.  The  city  had  the  advantage 
of  his  services    in   the  Common   Council  and 


■  SJC//.-  , 


WILLIAM     A.    J.    GILES. 


BIOGKArillCAL    REVIEW 


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u|)i)n  tlic  Hoard  of  Assessors  for  sonic  time. 
He  cast  his  first  Presidential  vote  for  Zachary 
Taylor  in  i<S4.S,  and  he  has  supported  the  Re- 
publican party  since  its  formation. 


ARVEY    15.    GLIDDKN,  an  enterpris- 
ing druggist  of  Claremont,  was  born 

L^  V, ,  in      Hopkiiiton,      Mass.,      May    17, 

1857,  son  of  Gardner  F.  and  Mary  M.  (Hing- 
ham)  Glidden.  Mis  grandfather,  Nathan 
Glidden,  who  was  an  early  settler  in  Unity, 
where  he  continued  to  reside  for  the  rest  of 
his  life,  reared  a  large  family  of  children. 
Gardner  F.  Glidden  was  born  in  Unity. 
When  a  young  man  he  became  connected  with 
the  shoe  manufacturing  business.  In  1850  he 
went  to  Hopkinton,  Mass.,  where  he  was  fore- 
man in  a  shoe  factory  until  his  death  in  1866. 
He  was  a  riian  of  much  energy  and  business 
ability.  His  wife,  Mary,  who  was  a  native  of 
Unity,  returned  to  that  town  after  the  death 
of  her  husband.  She  was  sixty-six  years  old 
when  she  died  in   1S93. 

The  education  of  Harvey  \i.  Glidden,  begun 
in  the  public  schools  of  Hopkinton  and  Unity, 
was  com]ileted  with  a  commercial  course  at 
tiie  New  London  Academy.  He  entered  the 
drug' business  in  1874  as  a  clerk  for  Frank  G. 
Winn  in  this  town.  Five  years  later  he  went 
to  Boston,  where  he  obtained  a  wide  experi- 
ence in  the  business  as  clerk  in  various  stores. 
In  1887  he  passed  a  successful  examination 
before  the  New  Hampshire  Board  of  Pharmacy; 
and  in  1892  he  established  himself  in  busi- 
ness, under  the  firm  name  of  H.  B.  Glidden  & 
Co.,  at  his  present  location  in  the  Hotel 
Claremont  building.  The  store,  excellently 
situated,  is  twenty  by  sixty-five  feet.  It  is 
finished  elaborately  in  antique  oak,  and  is  very 
attractive  in  appearance.  It  is  stocked  with  a 
full    line   of    drugs,    chemicals,    patent    medi- 


cines, toilet  articles,  druggists'  sunflries, 
cigars,  tobacco,  and  Tenney's  famous  New 
York  confectionery.  Mr.  Glidden  is  the  pro- 
prietor of  Gliddcn's  Liver  I'ills,  Bcrncy's 
Cough  Drops,  and  Bcrncy's  Tooth  Powder. 
His  prescription  department  contains  all  of 
the  latest  additions  to  the  materia  medica, 
as  well  as  the  standard  pharmaceutical  prep- 
arations. Mr.  Gliddcn's  long  experience  as 
an  apothecary  is  suflficient  assurance  that  all 
physician's  prescriptions  intrusted  to  him 
will  be  accurately  and  faithfully  compounded. 
Since  starting  in  business  he  has  had  a  large 
jiatronage,  and  his  popularity  both  as  a  drug- 
gist and  a  citizen    is  fully  merited. 

On  September  14,  1881,  Mr.  Glidden  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Minnie  A.  Pride, 
daughter  of  William  H.  Pride,  of  Boston.  A 
Mason  of  the  thirty-second  degree,  he  is  con- 
nected with  Hiram  Lodge,  No.  9,  F.  & 
A.  M.  ;  Webb  Chapter,  No.  6,  Royal  Arch 
Masons;  Columbian  Council,  Royal  and  Se- 
lect Masters;  and  Sullivan  Commandery,  No. 
6,  Knights  Templar.  He  owns  and  occu- 
pies a  very  attractive  residence  at  4  P>ond 
Street. 

'iLLIAM  ANDREW  JACKSON 
GILES,  attorney-at-law  of  Con- 
cord, N.H.,  was  born  in  this  city, 
July  II,  1S61.  His  parents,  John  B.  Giles,  a 
native  of  Roscrea,  Tipperary,  Ireland,  and 
Ellen  M.  Driscoll  Giles,  of  Cardiff,  Wales, 
emigrated  to  America  in  1852. 

William  A.  J.  Giles  acquired  his  early  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  Penacook  and 
Concord,  and  completed  his  school  course  at 
Boscawen  Academy  in  1S81.  The  next  year 
he  began  the  study  of  law  with  the  late  John 
Y.  Mugridge  and  Chief  Justice  William  L. 
Foster,  at  the  same  time  acting  as  reporter 
for  the  Boston  Traveller,  Qoncoxd  Journal,  and 


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other  newspapers  until  1889.  In  March,  the 
year  following,  he  was  admitted  to  the  bar; 
and  he  has  since  been  in  successful  practice. 
As  an  illustration  of  his  professional  ability 
it  may  be  mentioned  that  as  plaintiff  in  a  suit 
brought  by  certificate  holders  against  the 
Order  of  the  Helping  Hand,  tried  before 
Judge  Hammond,  of  Boston,  he  won  his  case, 
although  the  opposing  counsel  were  ex-Gov- 
ernor Long,  Mr.  Brackett,  and  Samuel  J. 
Elder.  Before  the  legislature  of  1893  Mr. 
Giles  drew  up  bills  for  the  Employers'  Liabil- 
ity Act,  for  establishing  a  bureau  of  labor 
statistics,  and  a  fifty-eight  hour  act,  besides 
other  legal  documents,  all  of  which  were  stub- 
bornly fought  by  the  ablest  lawyers  of  the 
State. 

On  February  14,  1895,  he  was  married  to 
Mabel  E.  Welch,  of  this  city.  Fraternally, 
he  is  a  member  of  Kearsarge  Lodge,  No.  48, 
K.  of  P.,  officiating  as  Chancellor  and  Com- 
mander of  the  same;  also  a  member  of  Uni- 
form Rank,  K.  of  P. ;  and  of  the  Ancient 
Order  of  American  Foresters;  and  is  Past 
Grand  Master  of  General  Stark  Lodge,  No. 
7400  I.  O.  O.  F.  He  officiates  as  attorney 
for  the  Central  Labor  Unions.  As  a  member 
of  the  Amoskeag  Veterans  he  took  part  with 
them  in  the  dedication  of  the  Grant  Monu- 
ment in  New  York  City. 

Mr.  Giles  is  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  a 
member  of  the  Democratic  State  Committee. 
He  was  the  original  silver  advocate  of  the 
State  of  New  Hampshire,  and,  besides  making 
many  able  addresses  on  the  silver  issue,  he 
was  the  author  of  a  pamphlet  that  attracted 
much  attention,  entitled  "The  Silver  Ques- 
tion," and  dedicated  to  William  J.  Bryan. 
Out  of  si.x  hundred  and  twenty  delegates  en- 
titled to  seats  in  the  Democratic  Convention, 
Mr.  Giles  stood  alone  as  an  advocate  of  free 
silver.      He    wrote    a     letter    to    William    J. 


Bryan,  tendering  his  services  in  the  campaign, 
which  that  gentleman  graciously  accepted. 

At  Mr.  Bryan's  reception  at  Madison 
-Scjuare  Garden,  Mr.  Giles  sat  upon  the  plat- 
form as  the  only  silver  representative  from 
New  Hampshire. 


YER  GOVE,  a  retired  farmer  of 
Ilcnnikcr  and  a  native  of  this 
town,  was  born  June  24,  18 14. 
His  parents  were  prosperous  farming  people, 
and  he  was  reared  to  agricultural  pursuits. 
He  succeeded  to  the  possession  of  the  home- 
stead when  about  twenty-one  years  old,  and 
continued  to  carry  it  on  successfully  until 
1869,  when  he  moved  to  another  farm  in  West 
Hopkinton,  N.  H.  He  resided  there  for  six- 
teen years;  and,  after  tilling  the  soil  as  a  gen- 
eral farmer  for  fifty-five  years,  he  retired  from 
active  labor  in  1886,  since  which  time  he  has 
resided  in  Henniker  village.  In  politics  he 
supports  the  Democratic  party,  but  has  not 
taken  an  active  interest  in  politics.  He  is 
highly  esteemed  by  his  fellow-townsmen  for 
his  upright  character  and  genial  -disposition. 
On  March  4,  1841,  Mr.  Gove  was  joined  in 
marriage  with  Mary  C.  Piper,  of  Hopkinton, 
who  died  in  her  native  town,  April  28,  1883. 
She  was  the  mother  of  four  children,  namely: 
Lavinia  Ann,  who  died  in  childhood;  Charles 
F.,  now  a  carpenter  of  Roxbury,  Mass. ; 
George  P.,  a  resident  of  Henniker;  and  John 
F.,  of  Bedford,  N.H. 

George  P.  Gove  assisted  his  father  in  carry- 
ing on  the  farm  from  the  time  he  was  old 
enough  to  be  useful.  When  a  young  man  he 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade.  Since  settling 
in  the  village  he  has  followed  his  trade.  He 
is  also  associated  with  his  brother,  John  F. 
Gove,  in  the  proprietorship  of  the  Proctor 
Hill    Spring.      This    spring    is    located    some 


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two  Imiidrcil  and  thiily  feci  alxtvc  Ihc  village, 
ami  has  surfiricnt  Idicc  In  maintain  a  steady 
pressure.  The  brothers  liave  laid  about  one 
and  one-half  miles  of  main  pipe,  and  supply 
forty  families  with  the  water.  On  June  9, 
1X74,  (ieorge  I'.  Gove  was  married  in  Hop- 
kinton  to  Mary  I'2.  Rowell.  She  was  b(jrn  in 
llopkinton,  daughter  of  Isaac  and  Harriet 
(Adams)  Rowell,  both  natives  of  llenniker. 
Their  daughter,  Ina  II.,  was  burn  (X'tober  28, 
1883. 

Ill  politics  Mr.  Gove  is  a  Democrat,  and  he 
was  electetl  a  Selectman  in  1S91.  He  is  con- 
nected with  Aurora  Lodge,  V.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Henniker,  and  with  the  chapter  of  the  order. 
He  has  occupied  the  principal  chairs  in  Kcar- 
sarge  Lodge,  I.  O.  C).  F.,  of  Contoocook ;  is 
connected  with  the  encampment,  and  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge  and  the  Grand 
Encampment  of  New  Hampshire. 


RANK  L.  JOHNSON,  an  inlhiential 
farmer  of  Cornish  and  the  owner  of 
one  of  the  old  picturesque  farms  on  the 
banks  of  Blow-me-dovvn  Brook,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 24,  1852,  son  of  William  P.  Johnson. 
William,  who  was  born  in  Cornish  in  Novem- 
ber, 1815,  son  of  Nathaniel  Johnson,  was  edu- 
cated in  the  town  schools.  He  became  a 
farmer,  and  has  since  followetl  that  occupa- 
tion. He  has  been  essentially  a  home  man, 
not  caring  for  public  life,  though  well  fitted 
for  it  in  point  of  energy  and  ability.  He  has 
been  much  interested  in  the  educational 
affairs  of  the  town,  and  has  served  as  a  mem- 
ber of  the  School  Board.  He  was  also  High- 
way Surveyor  for  a  time.  He  has  been  band- 
master, and  for  thirty  years  has  led  the  choir 
and  played  in  the  Baptist  church.  He  mar- 
ried Salome  Souther,  of  I'lainfield,  who  has 
had   four   children  —  Jane,    Belle,    FrvTuk    L, , 


and  ICdwanl.  Jane,  born  in  Cornish,  married 
I'"reeman  Johnson,  a  fanner,  and  has  had  three 
children  —  Alva  F.,  Kbenezer,  and  Mary. 
Belle  resides  on  the  old  homestead  with  her 
father.  Edward  lives  at  Corni.sh,  and  is  mar- 
ried to  Anabelle  Lear,  daughter  of  William 
Lear,  of  South  Cornish.  Their  children  are: 
Darwin  and  Charles  Johnson. 

Frank  L.  Johnson's  early  training  was  ob- 
tained in  the  schools  of  his  native  town.  His 
working  life  began  on  his  father's  farm,  where 
he  stayed  until  his  twenty-fourth  year.  He 
then  bought  the  beautiful  estate  along  the 
Blow-me-down  Brook  that  has  been  his  home 
for  twenty  years.  Only  a  few  of  the  old 
homesteads  on  the  banks  of  the  Blow-me-down 
remain  in  the  possession  of  the  descendants  of 
the  original  owners.  The  rest  have  been  pur- 
chased by  wealthy  Boston  or  New  York  people 
for  use  as  summer  residences.  At  one  time 
to  own  one  of  tiiese  estates  was  proof  sufficient 
of  a  reputable  ancestry.  The  buildings  on 
Mr.  Johnson's  farm  are  large  and  in  an  ex- 
cellent condition.  Besides  carrying  on  gen- 
eral farming,  he  trades  extensively  in  cattle. 
Like  his  father,  he  has  been  too  busy  a  man 
to  give  much  time  to  public  affairs,  although 
he  is  interested  in  all  questions  pertaining  to 
the  general  welfare  of  the  town. 

On  December  25,  1877,  Mr.  Johnson  mar- 
ried Dora  A.  Chase,  daughter  of  Lewis  T.  and 
Mary  (Smith)  Chase,  of  I'lainfield.  Mr. 
Chase,  who  carried  on  a  large  farming  busi- 
ness, and  was  Selectman  of  Cornish  for  a 
number  of  years,  died  August  16,  1876.  His 
wife  died  June  27,  1892.  He  was  son  of 
Jacob  Chase,  who  was  son  of  Joseph,  who  was 
son  of  one  of  the  three  Chases  who  first  set- 
tled the  township  of  Cornish.  Joseph  built 
the  house  now  owned  and  occupied  by  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Johnson,  hewing  the  timbers  and 
making   the   nails    needed    for    the    purpose, 


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The  house  was  successively  occupied  by  Jo- 
seph, Jacob,  and  Lewis.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  John- 
son have  a  daughter,  Marjoric  May,  who  was 
born  May  7,   1892. 


[LYDE  AUGUSTUS  BLAKE,  a 
prosperous  merchant  of  Hill,  N.H., 
was  born  here,  December  17,  1876, 
son  of  Curtis  N.  and  Jennie  L.  (Piper) 
Blake.  He  comes  of  a  vigorous  American 
family.  His  grandfather,  Greenleaf  Blake, 
who  was  born  in  Sanbornton,  N.H.,  settled 
in  Hill,  and  there  followed  the  occupations  of 
blacksmith  and  farmer.  One  of  those  ex- 
amples of  health  and  sturdiness  of  which 
there  were  so  many  among  the  early  settlers, 
he  had  attained  an  ailvanced  age  when  he 
died.  His  wife's  maiden  name  was  Miss 
Charlotte  Kelley.  Curtis  N.  Blake  attended 
the  district  schools,  and  there  received  the 
education  which  afterward  fitted  him  to  take 
a  leading  place  among  his  fellow-townsmen. 
He  was  for  many  years  Postmaster  of  the 
town,  and  in  that  position  he  made  a  large 
circle  of  acquaintances  and  many  warm 
friends.  He  was  also  for  a  time  proprietor 
of  the  Union  Store,  a  general  merchandise 
depot.  Later  in  life  he  sold  out  this  estab- 
lishment, and  bought  a  large  farm  of  two  hun- 
dred acres,  known  as  the  Webster  place. 
Here,  with  his  wife,  Jennie,  he  spent  the  re- 
mainder of  his  life,  taking  an  active  part  in 
town  affairs,  and  holding  at  different  times 
various  town  ofifices,  including  that  of  Select- 
man. He  i^assed  away  at  the  age  of  sixty- 
eight  years,  leaving  two  sons  —  Bert  L.  and 
Clyde  Blake. 

Having,  like  his  father,  acquired  his  early 
education  in  the  town  schools,  Clyde  Augus- 
tus Blake  completed  his  training  at  the  New 
Hampshire  Institute  and  Commercial  College, 


He  then  became  interested  in  general  farm- 
ing, and  did  considerable  business  in  dairy 
products  until  in  April,  i8g6,  when  he 
bought  the  large  grist-mill  formerly  owned  by 
F.  W.  Eaton.  Since  that  time  he  has  dealt 
in  miller's  supplies,  hay,  grain,  feed,  paints, 
oils,  and  fertilizers,  besides  coal  and  wood. 
On  June  10,  l8g6,  he  was  married  to  Lulu  M. 
Clarke,  daughter  of  Guy  and  Jennie  V.  (Ladd) 
Clarke.  Energetic  and  business-like,  Mr. 
Blake  is  highly  respected  by  his  townsmen. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  closely 
identified  with  that  party.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  grange  and  a  friend  of  every  movement 
for  progress  and  reform. 


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LMON  FRIEND  BURBANK,  a  law- 
yer of  Pembroke,  was  born  in  Webs- 
ter, N.H.,  October  17,  1857,  son 
of  Friend  Little  and  Dorothy  ^Jackman) 
Burbank.  The  father,  a  native  of  Boscawen, 
N.  H.,  was  born  June  29,  1806.  Beginning 
in  his  earlier  years,  he  was  engaged  in  lum- 
bering in  Webster,  N.H.,  and  was  widely 
known  as  an  able  and  stirring  business  man. 
Later  in  life  he  was  associated  in  business 
with  his  son,  William  W.  ;  and  the  firm  was 
known  as  F.  L.  Burbank  &  Son.  He  was  a 
Republican  in  politics,  and  took  an  active 
part  in  public  affairs.  For  a  number  of  years 
he  served  as  a  Selectman  in  Boscawen,  held 
other  town  ofifices,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Hampshire  House  of  Representatives  in 
1858.  His  wife,  Dorothy,  also  a  native  of 
]5oscawen,  became  the  nu)tlier  of  five  cliildren, 
of  whom  there  are  living  :  William  W.,  Irvin 
A.,  and  Alnion  1<". 

Almon  I-'riend  Ikubank  attended  Simmon's 
Free  High  School  in  Warner,  N.H.,  and 
fitted  for  college  at  the  Penacook  Normal 
Academy.       Instead   of   pursuing  a  collegiate 


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course,  lidwcvcr,  lie  licj^an  the  study  of  l:i\v 
will)  Mi'ssts.  Chase  &  Streeter,  of  Concord, 
N.ll.  I  le  w;is  ailniitled  lo  llie  li.ir  in  iSSo; 
and,  locating  lor  practice  in  l'end)roke,  he 
lias  since  resided  here.  On  August  6,  1887, 
Mr.  Hurhank  wedded  Mary  I'^llcn  Lahontec, 
of  I'rndiroke,  and  is  now  tlie  father  of  two 
children  I'riscilla  and  Mstlu-r.  In  i)olitic:s 
he  is  an  active  supjioiter  of  the  Republican 
party,  lie  served  as  Supervisor  for  several 
years,  was  a  menihcr  of  the  ]5oard  of  Select- 
men for  three  years,  antl  a  Representative  to 
the  legislature   in  1897. 


)N.  WILTJS  GK0RG1>:  15UXT0N, 
a  well-known  lawyer  of  Boscawcn 
and  a  member  of  the  New  Hamp- 
shire Senate,  was  born  in  Hcnnikcr,  N.ll., 
August  22,  1856,  son  of  Daniel  M.  and  Abbie 
A.  (Whitaker)  Buxton.  His  father  was  a  na- 
tive of  Hcnnikcr;  and  his  mother  was  born  in 
Deering,  N.ll.  His  paternal  ancestors  came 
from  Massachusetts.  After  receiving  his  ele- 
mentary education  in  the  public  schools  of 
llenniker,  he  pursued  a  higher  course  of  study 
in  the  Clinton  Grove  and  New  London  Acad- 
emies. In  1876  he  commenced  the  study  of 
law  in  the  ofifice  of  B.  K.  Webber,  of  Hills- 
borough Bridge,  and  in  1S78  entered  Boston 
University  Law  School,  from  which  he  was 
graduatctl  in  1879.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  March  of  that  year,  and  immediately 
began  the  practice  of  his  profession  at  Hills- 
borough. In  1882  he  removed  from  Hills- 
borough to  I'enacook,  where  he  was  associated 
with  the  late  Judge  N.  Butler  for  a  time,  and 
continued  to  occupy  the  same  office  after  the 
death  of  his  partner.  He  was  instrumental  in 
establishing  the  I'enacook  -and  Boscawen 
Water  Works,  of  which  he  is  at  the  present 
time    Treasurer   and    Superintendent,      He  is 


clerk  of  the  I'enacook  l-,l<iiiii  Li^lii  Com- 
pany, has  been  a  meniiier  of  the  Board  of  ICdu- 
cation,  and  is  Town  Treasurer  of  15oscawcn. 
He  has  been  a  member  of  the  Republican 
State  Committee  since  18X6;  was  a  member 
of  the  Constitutional  Convention  of  New 
Hampshire  in  18S9;  antl  was  elected  to  the 
House  of  Representatives  from  Boscawen  in 
1895,  and  served  as  Chairman  of  the  Commit- 
tee on  Elections.  He  is  now  a  member  of  the 
State  Senate,  and  is  serving  as  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  the  Judiciary.  l-'or  some 
years  past  he  has  been  the  Secretary  i>f  the 
New  Hampshire  t)r|)haiis'  Home. 

On  June  4,  1884,  Mr.  Bu.xton  wedded 
Martha  J.  Flanders,  of  Penacook ;  and  they 
have  one  child,  Grace  II.  He  is  a  member 
of  Contoocook  Lodge,  No.  26,  I.  O.  O.  F.  ;  of 
Horace  Chase  Lodge,  No.  72,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of 
which  he  is  a  Past  Master,  being  in  Trinity 
Chapter,  No.  2,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  and 
Mount  Horeb  Commandery,  Knights  Templar. 
Mr.  Buxton  conducts  a  large  and  |)rofilal)le 
law  ]iractice.  His  jjolilical  pr(jminence  is 
entirely  the  result  of  his  earnest  efforts  in  be- 
half of  <rood  trovernment. 


iHARLKS  A.  KNOWLTON,  a  prom- 
inent resident  of  Sunapee,  was  born 
here,  November  21,  1846,  son  of 
Dennis  G.  and  Elizabeth  A.  Knowlton.  His 
father,  who  was  a  well-known  man  in  Suna- 
pee, died  April  11,  1894.  Charles  received 
his  education  in  the  common  schools  of  his 
native  town  and  at  Wolfboro  High  School. 
He  grew  to  maturity  in  Suna])ee,  and  quite 
early  learned  the  trade  of  machinist.  He 
worked  at  that  business  for  about  five  years, 
and  then  started  a  store  in  Sunapee.  He  has 
now  been  keeping  store  for  over  twenty-five 
years.      The  business  is  flourishing.     The  c.5- 


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tablishment  is  attractive,  commands  the  best 
patronage,  and  has  a  full  stock  of  the  mer- 
chandise ordinarily  found  in  a  general  store. 
The  name  of  Knowlton  carries  much  weight 
with  it  in  the  community,  as  bearers  of  it  are 
the  oldest  and  best  known  traders  in  the 
town.  Mr.  Knowlton  has  been  Tax  Collector, 
Town  Clerk,  and  Town  Treasurer;  and  he  has 
been  Moderator  for  ten  years.  He  was  Post- 
master of  Sunapee  during  both  administra- 
tions of  President  Cleveland.  He  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows 
in  Sunapee,  and  he  also  belongs  to  the 
Knights  of  Pythias  of  Newport.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat,  and  in  religious  Iielief  he 
is  a  Universalist. 

Mr.  Knowlton  was  married  August  23, 
1870,  to  Emily  S.,  born  in  Sunapee,  August 
23,  1848,  daughter  of  Josiah  and  Sarah  (Os- 
borne) Trow.  Josiah  Trow  was  a  native  of 
Sunapee;  and  his  wife  belonged  to  Spring- 
field, N.H.  Both  are  now  deceased,  the 
former  dying  at  the  age  of  forty-five,  and  the 
latter  when  seventy-one  years  of  age.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Knowlton  have  one  daughter,  Olga 
Lenna,  now  the  wife  of  A.  C.  Sutherland,  of 
Sunapee,  who  is  connected  in  business  with 
Mr.  Knowlton. 

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SULLIVAN  FLANDERS,  a  farmer 
of  Ilopkinton,  was  born  in  Brad- 
ford, N.H.,  October  6,  1822,  son  of 
Nathaniel  and  Betsey  (Wright)  Flanders. 
His  grandfather,  Jeremiah,  came  here  from 
South  Hampton  some  time  between  1780  and 
1783,  and  managed  for  one  McCard  large 
tracts  of  land  covering  several  miles  in  the 
west  part  of  Ilopkinton.  In  1794  Jeremiah 
purchased  and  settled  on  land  where  Thomas 
White  now  lives.  He  married  Miriam 
George;  and  they  had  a  family  of  nine  chil- 
dren,   seven   sons    and   two    daughters.       His 


death  occurred  in  Hojjkinton,  June  14,  1845, 
and  that  of  his  wife,  April  14,   1S56. 

Nathaniel  Flanders  in  early  life  was  a 
shoemaker.  Later  on  he  took  up  farming, 
buying  in  1841  the  present  farm  of  the 
Copps  family.  This  place  was  called  the 
Straw  farm ;  and  the  house  was  erected  by 
the  proprietor  bearing  that  name,  who  also 
planted  the  large  elm  in  front.  Captain 
Aaron  Adams,  who  belonged  to  the  Massachu- 
setts Adamses,  was  the  first  owner  of  the 
place,  having  bought  it  of  the  "Lords  Propri- 
etors," as  the  deed  says.  Here  Nathaniel 
died  February  14,  1890;  and  his  wife  died 
February  16,  1869.  Their  children,  six  in 
number,  were:  Melissa,  Sullivan,  Lydia  W. , 
Joshua  W.,  Nathaniel,  and  George.  Melissa 
married  Rufus  P.  Copps,  of  Hopkinton; 
Lydia  W.  married  John  Holbrook,  of  Swan- 
zey,  N.H.,  and  died  in  1891;  Joshua  W. 
married  Ophelia  Paige,  of  Weare,  where  they 
reside;  Nathaniel,  who  did  not  marry,  lives 
with  Sullivan;  George  was  killed  by  a  falling 
tree  at  the  age  of  thirty. 

Sullivan  Flanders  undertook  the  manage- 
ment of  the  farm  when  quite  a  young  man, 
and  with  the  exception  of  two  years  spent  in 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  has  remained  here  and 
worked  with  his  brother  Nathaniel.  He  was 
married  February  5,  1850,  to  Helen  M., 
daughter  of  James  and  Lydia  Johnson  Adams, 
all  of  Henniker,  and  a  great-grand-tlaughter  of 
the  Captain  Aaron  Adams  referred  to  above. 
Mrs.  Flanders  was  born  April  20,  1830,  and 
died  September  14,  1877.  Mr.  Flanders  has 
two  daughters  ^  Clara  A.  and  Cora  M.  The 
former,  who  was  born  February  25,  1851,  and 
resides  with  her  father,  was  educated  at  Con- 
toocook,  and  has  taught  school  for  twenty 
years  in  Merriniack  County.  Cora  M.,  born 
December  22,  1858,  superintends  her  father's 
household, 


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1^,.   URICI.IUS    DICKENSON,   formerly   a 

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wealthy  hotel-owner  of  Claremont, 
l»^_  was  born  at  Granville,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary lo,  1804.  lie  remained  on  his  father's 
farm  until  twenty-one  years  of  age.  Mis  first 
e.vperience  in  business  was  in  Hartford, 
Conn.,  where  he  was  engaged  as  a  clerk  for  a 
leather  firm.  A  few  years  later  he  started 
a  country  store,  and  conducted  it  successfully 
for  some  time.  When  on  his  wedding  trip, 
he  took  a  fancy  to  the  principal  hotel  at 
Amherst,  Mass.,  and  purchased  it.  This  in- 
vestment proved  a  paying  one  until  icSj/, 
when  the  hotel  was  burned.  He  then  sold 
the  property,  and  came  to  Claremont,  where 
he  bought  the  Tremont  House  property  of  Mr. 
I'aran  Stevens.  On  March  29,  1876,  this 
property  was  also  burned. 

y\t  one  time  Mr.  Dickenson  had  large  in- 
terests in  stage  lines,  which  brought  him  in 
enormous  profits  until  they  were  superseded 
by  railroads.  While  engaged  in  that  business 
he  kept  a  hundred  horses,  and  owned  the  right 
of  route.  When  obliged  to  abandon  it,  he 
turned  his  attention  to  railroads,  and  was  in- 
strumental in  having  Sullivan  Railroad  built 
from  liellows  Falls  to  Windsor,  Vt.,  on  the 
New  Hampshire  side.  He  was  a  Director  of 
the  Claremont  National  Bank  for  thirty  years 
and  a  Director  of  the  Sullivan  Savings  Bank 
from  the  time  of  its  organization.  He  was  a 
thorough  business  man  and  an  able  financier. 
He  was  County  Commissioner  in  1868,  1869, 
and  1870,  and  a  Selectman  for  about  fifteen 
years.  He  married  Frances  M.  Galpin  in 
May,  1830,  and  had  two  sons,  one  of  whom 
died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Dickenson  was  a  woman 
of  rare  virtues.  Charitable,  motherly  in  her 
ways,  and  with  singular  charm  of  manner, 
she  endeared  herself  to  all.  She  was  devoted 
to  her  husband;  and  his  death,  November  3, 
1880,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven   years,  was 


to  her  a  sad  affliction.  Her  death,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-two,  occurred  just  a  month  after  the 
decease  of  her  husband. 

Henry  Dickenson,  son  of  Aurelius,  after 
spending  some  years  in  a  retail  shoe  store, 
was  engaged  with  his  father  in  the  hotel  busi- 
ness. The  valuable  estate  inherited  from  his 
father  was  most  judiciously  handled  by  him, 
and  yielded  a  good  income.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Episcopal  church,  and  he  was  legislative 
Representative  in  1884  and  1885.  His  death 
occurred  November  13,  1888.  He  married 
Mary  E. ,  daughter  of  Bridgeman  Hapgood,  of 
Reading,  Vt.  ;  and  his  children  were:  Harry 
Grant,  Aurelius,  Laura,  Frances,  and  Ruth. 
All  died  in  infancy  with  the  exception  of  the 
first-born.  Harry  G.  is  a  graduate  of  the 
Stevens  High  School,  and  now  has  charge  of 
the  estates  and  interests  of  his  father. 

Bridgeman  Hapgood,  the  father  of  Mrs. 
Mary  E.  Dickenson,  was  born  in  1800,  son  of 
a  well-to-do  farmer,  who  built  the  first  frame 
house  in  Reading,  Vt.  He  became  a  success- 
ful merchant  in  Reading,  at  the  same  time 
manufacturing  starch  in  Plymouth  and  woollen 
goods  at  Weathersfield,  Vt.  At  one  time  he 
was  extensively  engaged  in  farming  on  the 
old  homestead.  He  was  a  Democrat  in  poli- 
tics. He  has  been  Postmaster  of  the  town. 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  seventeen  years. 
Town  Clerk  for  ten  years,  trustee  of  surplus 
revenue  for  five  years,  and  he  represented  the 
town  in  the  legislature  in  1837-38.  For  nine 
years  in  succession  he  was  Chairman  of  the 
Select  Council.  He  has  repeatedly  been  ap- 
pointed e.xecutor  of  estates.  When  in  the 
legislature  he  fought  hard  to  defeat  the  Bank- 
ruptcy  I-aw,  which  in  the  passing  brought 
heavy  loss  to  him.  Knowing  that  the  law  had 
been  passed,  he  could  have  saved  himself  from 
loss,  but  was  too  conscientious.  Rather  than 
defraud    any  one,    he  met  all   his    liabilities. 


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He  gave  up  mercantile  business  and  farming, 
and  came  to  Claremont  in  1853.  Here  he 
was  engaged  in  the  hardware  business  until 
he  retired  in  1S65.  He  married  Laura  M. 
Weston,  daughter  of  Parson  Weston.  She 
died  in  i860,  leaving  three  children  —  Edgar 
L.,  Elizabeth,  and  Mary  E.  Mr.  Hapgood 
died  in  1877. 


"ENRY    DANIEL     DUSTIN,    a    sub- 
stantial   farmer    of    Hopkinton,    was 

L^  V,^ ,  born  here,  February  25,  1849,   son 

of  Daniel  Pierce  and  Sally  (Barnard)  Dustin. 
His  grandfather  was  Ebenezer  Dustin,  who 
married  Sarah  Pierce.  The  father  of  Ebene- 
zer probably  came  from  New  York  to  this 
State.  Daniel  Dustin,  also  born  in  Hop- 
kinton, two  years  after  his  marriage  settled 
down  on  the  old  homestead,  now  owned  by 
the  Hon.  Cyrus  F.  Dustin,  who  lives  in  Con- 
toocook.  About  sixty  years  ago  he  bought 
the  present  farm  on  the  Contoocook,  contain- 
ing one  hundred  and  thirty  acres,  mainly  on 
the  bottom  lands.  Two  years  before  his  death 
he  removed  to  Contoocook  with  his  son  Cyrus, 
where  he  died  April  30,  1880.  His  widow  is 
still  living  there,  a  well-preserved  woman, 
now  seventy-seven  years  old.  He  introduced 
Merino  sheep  from  Vermont,  and  dealt  with 
them  in  a  manner  calculated  to  produce  the 
finest  grades  of  wool.  In  politics  Mr.  Dustin 
was  a  Republican,  while  he  was  indifferent  to 
political  distinction.  A  man  of  robust  and 
commanding  appearance,  weighing  about  two 
hundred  pounds,  he  was  unassuming,  honor- 
able, of  the  strictest  integrity,  and  was  well 
liked  by  his  townsmen. 

In  his  early  manhood  Henry  Daniel  Dustin 
followed  the  calling  of  teacher,  mainly  in 
Hopkinton.  After  leaving  that  profession  at 
the  age  of  thirty-four,  he  served  ably  for  nine 
years  on   the   School    lioaril.      He  was  one  of 


the  first  school  officers,  and  still  retains  his 
interest  in  educational  matters.  F"roni  18S1 
to  1886  he  served  as  Selectman.  In  1886  he 
was  elected  to  the  legislature,  where  he  was 
a  member  of  the  Committee  on  P"! nance. 
Dairying  forms  the  main  feature  of  his  farm- 
ing. He  also  pays  some  attention  to  stock- 
breeding,  having  some  Jersey  cattle,  and  other 
pure-bred  stock,  as  well  as  some  fine  samples 
of  the  Jersey  and  Guernsey  cross.  Mr. 
Dustin  has  added  to  the  farm  lands  until  at 
present  they  cover  two  hundred  and  thirty 
acres.  Other  improvements  made  by  him 
were  the  erection  of  new  barns  and  the  re- 
building of  a  part  of  the  residence.  He  also 
does  some  lumbering.  In  1871,  November 
30,  Mr.  Dustin  married  Helen  M.  Tucker, 
daughter  of  Deacon  David  and  Mary  E. 
(Straw)  Tucker. 

For  the  past  seven  years  a  boy,  Amos  F. 
Frye,  now  fifteen  years  of  age,  has  been  a 
member  of  the  family.  Mrs.  Dustin's  parents 
also  reside  with  them.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Dustin  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church  in 
Contoocook.  They  are  also  connected  with 
Contoocook  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 
He  is  an  Odd  I-'ellow  of  Kearsarge  Lodge 
and  Eagle  Encampment,  in  both  of  which  he 
has  taken  the  highest  degrees. 


ON.  DEXTER  RICHARDS,  of  New- 
port, who  was  born  here,  September 
1;^  V^ .  5,  1818,  son  of  the  late  Seth  Rich- 
ards, comes  of  distinguished  English  ances- 
try. Sylvanus  Richards,  who  came  here  from 
Dedliam,  Mass.,  in  the  first  of  the  century, 
and  took  an  honorable  position  among  the 
early  settlers  of  the  town,  was  his  grandfather. 
His  father,  a  gentleman  of  the  old  school,  was 
a  lifelong  resident  of  Newport.  The  otlier 
cliil(h-cn  of   Seth    Richards  were :   Emily,  burn 


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January  2,  1820,  who  married  I'crlcy  S.  Coffin, 
now  deceased;  Elizabeth,  born  November  ig, 
1.S2I,  who  inanicd  tiic  late  John  S.  Parmelce, 
and  now  resides  in  Newport;  I'anny,  born  July 
23,  1S23,  who  married  J.  Addison  Glcason, 
and  died  in  1S57;  Abiathar,  born  Octobers, 
1825,  now  residing  in  Newport;  Helen,  born 
December  14,  1828,  who  married  Moses  R. 
luncrson,  now  deceased;  Ann,  born  Decem- 
ber 30,  1832,  who  married  Arthur  15.  Chase, 
and  resides  in  Newport;  Catherine,  born  Jan- 
uary 13,  1834,  who  married  the  late  Ira 
Mitchell,  and  now  resides  in  Des  Moines,  la. 

Mr.  Richards  was  educated  in  the  common 
schools  and  at  Ludlow,  Vt.  l*^arly  in  life  he 
was  employed  as  a  clerk.  Later  he  became 
associated  in  business  with  his  father  and  his 
brother  Abiathar.  In  1853,  with  his  father 
he  became  a  part  owner  of  the  Sugar  River 
Mills,  the  other  proprietor  being  Perley  S. 
Coffin.  In  1867  he  purchased  Mr.  Coffin's 
interest,  and  became  the  sole  owner.  He 
took  his  son,  Colonel  Scth  M.  Richards,  into 
partnership  in  1872,  under  the  firm  name  of 
De.vtcr  Richards  &  Son.  Some  time  after, 
his  youngest  son  was  given  an  interest;  and 
the  firm  name  of  Dc.xter  Richards  &  Sons 
was  then  adopted.  The  Sugar  River  Mills, 
since  Mr.  Richards  became  interested  in  them, 
have  been  operated  with  marked  success ;  and 
it  was  in  the  business  connected  with  them 
that  he  laid  the  foundation  for  his  success  in 
after  years. 

Since  1875  Mr.  Richards  has  been  a  Trus- 
tee and  the  President  of  the  First  National 
Hank  of  Newport.  He  has  also  been  promi- 
nently connected  with  the  Newport  Savings 
Bank,  wliich  was  incorporated  in  1868.  It 
was  mainly  through  the  agency  of  Mr.  Rich- 
ards, who  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  at 
the  time,  that  the  Sugar  River  Railroad,  now 
known  as  the  Concord  &  Claremont  Branch  of 


the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  was  chartered 
in  1866.  When  the  road,  which  first  connected 
Concord  and  Bradford,  was  extended  through 
to  Claremont  Junction,  and  towns  and  inrli- 
viduals  along  the  line  were  called  upon  to  aid 
in  its  construction,  Mr.  Richards  contributed 
heavily  toward  the  enterprise.  He  has  built 
extensively  in  Newport.  Some  years  ago  he 
erected  the  fine  brick  structure  known  as 
Richards  Block;  reconstructed  and  enlarged 
the  Dr.  Thomas  Sanborn  dwelling-house,  thus 
changing  it  into  a  substantial  block;  and 
erected  the  fine  house  which  he  now  occupies 
as  his  residence.  At  various  times  he  en- 
larged his  mills,  and  he  erected  many  other 
buildings  in  different  parts  of  the  village. 
An  esteemed  member  of  the  Congregational 
Church  of  Newport,  he  has  served  it  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  Deacon  for  upward  of  thirty  years. 
He  has  also  been  called  upon  to  fill  various 
official  positions  of  trust  and  responsibility. 
In  his  younger  days  he  was  Town  Clerk  and 
Selectman.  He  was  elected  to  the  General 
Court  in  1865,  1866,  1870,  and  1895.  In 
1S72  he  was  a  delegate  to  the  National  Repub- 
lican Convention,  and  in  1871  and  1872  he 
was  a  member  of  the  Executive  Council  of  the 
State.  He  was  twice  a  delegate  to  the  con- 
ventions for  revising  the  State  Constitution, 
and  he  was  State  Senator  in  1887.  He  has 
also  been  and  is  now  a  trustee  of  various  in- 
stitutions, among  which  may  be  mentioned 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  the  Orphans' 
Home,  and  the  New  Hampshire  Asylum  for 
the  Insane 

But  Air.  Richards  is,  perhaps,  best  known  in 
the  role  of  a  public  benefactor.  Among  his 
gifts  to  the  public  may  be  mentioned  that  of 
the  Richards  Free  Library  to  the  town  of 
Newport.  Including  the  fine  brick  buildings, 
a  museum  in  one  part  of  the  building,  and  a 
collection  of  three  thousand  volumes,  its  cost 


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was  fifty-five  thousand  dollars.  Another  was 
the  sum  of  twenty-five  thousand  dollars,  con- 
tributed to  the  erection  of  a  high-school  build- 
ing. This  is  to  be  a  large  brick  edifice, 
modern  and  convenient  in  every  respect. 
This  gift  was  at  first  twenty-two  thousand, 
but  he  has  since  informed  the  building  com- 
mittee that  he  desired  to  make  it  twenty -five 
thousand,  in  order  to  have  the  structure  com- 
jjletcd  to  his  satisfaction.  His  contributions 
to  the  Congregational  church  for  various  im- 
provements amount  to  ten  thousand  dollars, 
and  his  contribution  toward  the  completion  of 
the  Concord  &  Claremont  Railroad,  eleven 
thousand.  His  out  of  town  donations  raise 
the  total  of  his  public  gifts  to  upward  of  one 
hundred  and  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 
The  private  gifts  which  Mr.  Richards  has 
made  from  time  to  time,  and  which  have  been 
large  and  numerous,  are  withheld  from  the 
public   knowledge. 

On  January  27,  1847,  Mr.  Richards  was 
united  in  matrimony  with  Louisa  Frances 
Hatch,  who  was  born  in  Hillsborough,  April 
10,  1827,  daughter  of  the  late  Dr.  Mason  and 
Apphia  (Andrews)  Hatch.  Dr.  Hatch,  who 
with  his  family  became  a  resident  of  Newport, 
was  for  years  one  of  the  best  known  physicians 
of  the  town.  Mrs.  Richards  has  had  si.x  chil- 
dren, of  whom  three  are  deceased.  The 
others  are:  Colonel  Seth  M.  Richards,  now 
the  State  Senator  from  this  district  ^  Mrs. 
Josephine  E.  Gilc,  the  wife  of  Professor  M.  C. 
Gile,  of  Coloj-ado  College,  and  llic  mother  of 
five  chilch'en;  and  William  F.  Richards,  a 
graduate  of  Harvard  College,  and,  as  before 
mentioned,  now  actively  connected  with  the 
Sugar  River  Mills.  Colonel  Richards,  born 
June  6,  1850,  in  Newport,  was  educated  in 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  later  was  en- 
gaged in  business  in  Newport  and  in  I^oston. 
Taken   into  partnership  by  his  father  in  1872, 


he  assisted  him  in  carrying  on  the  great  busi- 
ness. Since  the  retirement  of  his  father  the 
business  has  been  continued  under  the  old 
firm  name  of  De.xter  Richards  &  Sons.  In 
politics  Colonel  Richards  is  a  Republican. 
He  was  Town  Treasurer  early  in  life,  a  legis- 
lative Representative  in  18S5,  a  member  of 
the  staff  of  Governor  Sawyer  in  1SS7,  and 
Town  Treasurer  again  for  two  terms.  He  is 
now  the  Senator  from  District  No.  7.  He  is 
Vice-President  and  Director  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank,  Trustee  of  the  Newport  Savings 
Bank,  President  of  the  Newport  Improvement 
Company,  Trustee  of  the  Electric  Light  Com- 
pany, and  President  of  the  Board  of  Trade. 
He  is  also  President  of  the  Sullivan  Musical 
Association,  and  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.  F". , 
Sugar  River  Lodge.  On  October  9,  1878,  he 
married  Lizzie  M.  Farnsworth,  who  was  born 
in  Newport,  daughter  of  Oliver  T.  and  Caro- 
line (Hunt)  Farnsworth.  They  have  three 
children — Edith  J.,  Louisa  F.,  and  Mar- 
garet   E. 

Mrs.  Louisa  Frances  Richards  is  a  lady  of 
superior  endowments,  and  her  genial  presence 
and  graceful  and  courteous  bearing  make  her 
everywhere  welcomed.  She  is  a  Trustee  of 
the  Mercy  Home  at  Manchester,  a  Trustee  of 
the  Women's  Hospital  Aid  Association  in 
Concord,  and  also  a  member  of  the  Reprisal 
Chapter  of  the  Daughters  of  the  Revolution  of 
Newport.  A  writer  in  the  work  entitled 
"New  Haniiishire  Women"  ju.stly  remarks, 
"III  church  and  society  Mrs.  Richards  is  an 
acknowledged  power,  while  her  tlelightful  hos- 
pitality is  a  thing  long  to  be  remembered  by 
those  who  have  enjoyed  it."  Like  her  hus- 
band, she  has  been  a  liberal  giver.  She  has 
bestowed  munificent  gifts  on  the  Orphans' 
Home  at  Franklin,  the  Mercy  Home  at  Man- 
chester, the  Women's  Hospital  Aid  Associa- 
tion   at     Concord,     and     the     Congregational 


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church  of  this  town.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Richards 
recently  celebrated  the  fiftieth  anniversary  of 
their  wedding.  On  the  occasion  a  brilliant 
reception  was  ^ivcn  by  tlicni  to  the  townspeo- 
ple and  to  near  and  remote  relatives  and 
friends,  that  will  long  be  remembered  as  a 
notable  social  event  in  the  history  of  the 
town. 


KRICMIAII  W.  WILSON,  M.D.,  who 
was  for  fifty  years  a  prominent  physi- 
cian of  Contoocook,  Merrimack  County, 
was  born  January  11,  1816,  in  Salisbury, 
N.  II.  He  was  a  descendant  of  Thomas  Wil- 
son, who  came  with  his  wife  from  Exeter, 
]{!ngland,  in  1633,  and  located  in  Roxbury, 
Mass.  The  line  of  descent  was  continued  by 
Humphrey  Wilson,  born  in  1628,  who  mar- 
ried Judith  Ilersey,  and  settled  in  Exeter, 
N.  II.;  Thomas  Wilson,  born  May  20,  1672, 
who  married  Mary  flight,  and  continued  his 
residence  in  Exeter;  Ilumphrc)'  Wilson  (sec- 
ond), born  December  g,  1699,  who  married 
I\Tary  Leavitt,  and  located  in  Rrcntwood, 
N.II.;  Nathaniel  Wilson,  born  June  24,  1739, 
who  married  Elizabeth  Barker,  and  settled  in 
Gilmanton,  N.II.;  and  Job  Wilson,  M.D., 
born  in  Gilmanton,  who  was  the  father  of  Dr. 
Jeremiah  W.   Wilson. 

Job  Wilson,  M.D.,  removed  from  his  native 
town  to  Salisbury,  this  county,  where  he  prac- 
tised his  profession  for  many  years,  finally  re- 
moving from  there  to  the  town  of  Eranklin, 
locating  near  the  Daniel  Webster  place,  where 
his  son,  George  W.,  now  lives.  He  was  a  very 
skilful  physician,  and  considered  an  authority 
by  his  professional  brethren  on  small-pox. 
When  that  disease  was  epidemic  in  New 
Hampshire,  he  was  employed  by  the  State  to 
take  the  medical  charge  of  the  patients.  His 
death  occurred  in  I'^anklin.  He  inherited 
the  ancestral  homestead  at   Gilmanton,  which 


was  entailed  t(j  the  children  of  his  son.  Dr. 
Jeremiah  W.  Wilson.  His  wife,  who.sc 
maiden  name  was  Nancy  Farnham,  bore  him 
seven  children. 

Jeremiah  W.  Wils<.n  altenth^d  the  public 
schools  and  the  acatlemy  at  I'"ranklin.  At 
the  age  of  twenty  he  began  the  study  of  medi- 
cine under  the  instruction  of  his  father.  Sub- 
sequently he  attended  a  course  of  lectures  at 
Hanover,  N.H.;  and  prior  to  receiving  his  de- 
gree of  Doctor  of  Medicine  at  the  University 
in  Castleton,  Vt.,  he  practised  with  his  father 
and  Dr.  Ephraim  Wilson,  his  brother.  After 
his  graduation  he  came  to  Contoocook,  buying 
out  the  practice  of  Dr.  Sargent,  an  old  and 
well-known  practitioner;  and  for  the  remain- 
ing fifty  years  of  his  life  he  was  actively  en- 
gaged in  his  professional  labors,  residing  for 
the  entire  time  in  the  house  he  at  first  occu- 
I)ied.  His  practice  extended  over  a  large  ter- 
ritory, embracing  every  town  and  village  in 
this  vicinity,  and  was  eminently  successful. 
In  the  diagnosis  of  the  diseases  brought  to  his 
notice  he  was  particularly  fortunate,  being 
rarely  mistaken;  while  as  surgeon  his  skill 
was  unquestioned.  He  had  a  rare  delicacy  of 
perception,  and  a  refinement  of  thought  and 
feeling  very  gratifying  to  the  sick.  Com- 
bined with  these  qualities  were  a  decision  and 
firmness  of  character  that  inspired  confidence, 
and  caused  him  to  be  regarded  by  his  patients 
as  a  friend  and  counsellor  as  well  as  a  physi- 
cian. A  close  student,  he  kept  up  with  the 
progress  of  his  profession,  and  as  a  rule  ad- 
hered to  the  regular  practice,  although  his 
brother  Ephraim,  a  physician  in  Rockville, 
Conn.,  was  a  warm  advocate  of  homoeopathy. 

Ever  heedful  of  the  call  of  distress,  Dr. 
Wilson  gave  his  time  and  skill  without  mak- 
ing question  of  compensation;  and,  being  a 
poor  collector,  fees  amounting  to  hundreds  of 
dollars,  that  the  debtors  could  well  afiford  to 


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pay,  have  long  since  been  outlawed.  In  his 
visits  to  the  poor  he  often  contributed  neces- 
sary articles  of  clothing  or  food  to  needy  fam- 
ilies, besides  gratuitously  giving  his  services 
to  the  sick.  Frank  and  outspoken,  he  never 
hesitated  to  express  his  honest  opinion,  and 
defend  it  when  necessary.  He  bought  a  tract 
of  land  in  Contoocook,  and  for  some  years  did 
a  little  farming,  intrusting  the  manual  labor 
oftentimes  to  those  owing  him  for  professional 
work  and  unable  to  find  ready  money  with 
which  to  pay  their  bills.  Although  other 
physicians  located  in  the  town,  he  maintained 
the  even  tenor  of  his  way,  never  forgetting 
the  ethics  and  courtesy  of  his  profession.  He 
never  aspired  to  political  honors,  but  was  al- 
ways an  earnest  supporter  of  the  principles  of 
the  Republican  party.  He  was  held  in  high 
respect  by  his  medical  brethren,  and  was  a 
valued  member  of  the  County  Medical  So- 
ciety. For  a  time  he  served  as  Surgeon  of  the 
Twenty-first  Regiment  of  the  State  militia,  to 
which  he  was  appointed  in  1845. 

On  March  31,  1847,  Dr.  Wilson  married 
Miss  Elizabeth  Gerrish,  who  was  born  Sep- 
tember 5,  1820,  daughter  of  Thomas  and 
Betsey  Gerrish,  of  Boscawen.  She  died  No- 
vember 8,  1882,  having  borne  him  three  chil- 
dren. These  were:  Edwin  G.,  Harlan  Page, 
and  George  H.  Edwin  G.  Wilson,  M.D.,  a 
graduate  of  the  medical  department  of  the  col- 
lege at  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.,  practised  his  pro- 
fession at  Griggsville,  111.,  Leominster,  Mass., 
and  Laconia,  N.H.,  and  died  in  the  last- 
named  town,  February  8,  1883,  at  the  age  of 
thirty-five  years.  Harlan  Page  Wilson,  a  car- 
penter by  trade,  who  spent  some  ten  years  in 
the  West,  now  resides  on  the  homestead  in  Con- 
toocook, and  carries  on  the  farm.  The  Doctor 
and  Mrs.  Wilson  took  Miss  Martha  J.  Chase 
into  their  family  when  she  was  a  girl  of  twelve 
years.      She    subsequently    re)iaid    the    loving 


care  they  bestowed  upon  her  by  tenderly 
watching  over  the  Doctor  in  his  declining 
years.  Both  the  Doctor  and  his  estimable  wife 
were  earnest  and  sincere  Christians  in  the 
true  sense  of  the  term.  Though  they  were 
connected  with  the  Congregational  church  of 
Hopkinton  for  a  period  of  fifty  years,  they 
worked  harmoniously  with  the  Baptist  and 
Methodist  Episcopal  Churches  of  Contoocook. 
While  a  friend  to  all  in  the  community,  he 
had  a  few  with  whom  he  was  especially  inti- 
mate, among  them  being  Joseph  Barnard,  of 
Hopkinton,  and  Walter  S.  Davis.  In  1890 
he  had  a  cataract,  which  threatened  his  sight, 
successfully  removed  from  his  eye.  In  the 
last  years  of  his  life  his  chief  enjoyment  was 
the  reading  of  the  leading  newspapers  and 
medical  journals  of  the  day  as  well  as  the 
choice  works  of  the  library.  He  died  in  Con- 
toocook, April  30,  1896,  having  outlived  by  a 
full  decade  the  Scriptural  limit  of  human  life. 


OLIAS     LEMUEL    BLOOD,    a   well- 
to-do  farmer  and   dairyman  of   Brad- 

-^  V. ,  ford,     Merrimack     County,      N.  H., 

was  born  July  16,  1845,  in  Goshen,  Sullivan 
County,  this  State,  a  son  of  Lemuel  and  Eliza 
(Dodge)  Blood.  On  the  paternal  side  he  is 
of  Scotch  ancestry  and  on  the  maternal  of 
English.  His  paternal  grandfather  served 
throughout  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  in 
later  life  was  always  called  General  Blood. 
After  the  war  he  removed  from  Maine  to  New 
Hampshire,  locating  on  Blood  Hill  in  Bradford 
Centre,  his  son  Moody,  who  later  settled  in 
the  South,  coming  here  with  him.  The  (icn- 
eral  subsequently  made  his  home  with  his  son 
Lemuel  in  Goshen,  living  there  until  his 
death. 

Lemuel    came   from    Maine   to    New    Hamp- 
shire at  the   time   his   father  did,  but    located 


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in  Goshen,  taking  up  a  tract  of  three  iuuulred 
acres  of  wild  land,  from  which  he  redeemed  a 
farm.  He  was  three  times  married,  his  first 
and  second  wives,  named  Hates,  having  l^ccn 
sisters.  lie  liad  i)y  liis  liiree  unions  twcnty- 
otic  chilch'cn,  his  hast  wife,  formerly  Miss 
Eliza  Dodge,  being  the  mother  of  five,  namely: 
George  I"".,  who  served  in  the  war  of  the  Re- 
bellion, taking  part  in  three  of  the  hardest- 
fought  battles  ^  Antictam,  South  Mountain, 
and  another  —  and  died  a  few  years  later  from 
the  effects  of  wounds  received  at  the  battle  of 
South  Mountain;  liollis  L.,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  Jeannette,  wife  of  Ilarland  Wil- 
cox, of  Newport,  N.H.;  Mark  A.,  of  Mel- 
rose, Mass.;  and  l'"iank  J.,  who  is  employed 
in  a  shoe  factory  at  Nashua,  N.II.,  and  is  also 
one  of  the  special  police  of  that  city.  One  of 
the  older  children,  Albertus  Hlood,  was  killed 
September  4,  1894,  by  the  falling  of  a  tree. 
His  widow  still  lives  in  Bradford  village;  and 
his  daughter  Ida  is  the  wife  of  C.  VV.  Red- 
ington,  of  whom  a  short  sketch  appears  else- 
where in  this  volume.  Another  son.  Moody 
IC,  resides  in  Newport;  Harvey  is  in  Cali- 
fornia; Joel  is  in  the  State  of  Washington; 
Rocira  is  the  wife  of  Wellman  George,  of 
Manchester;  and  another  sister,  Luretta,  the 
widow  of  Hosea  Brockaway,  lives  in  Man- 
chester. The  father,  Lemuel  Blood,  died  at 
the  ago  of  seventy-three  years;  and  at  his 
funeral  fifteen  of  the  sixteen  children  then 
living  were  present,  five  of  each  marriage. 

Hollis  L.  Blood  was  a  bo)-  of  thirteen  when 
his  father  died.  He  remained  with  his 
mother  some  four  years,  and  then  began  work- 
ing on  a  neighboring  farm,  receiving  fifty  dol- 
lars a  year,  board,  clothes,  and  schooling. 
When  his  brother  George  enlisted,  he  went 
back  to  the  home  farm,  continuing  there  until 
twenty  years  old.  After  that  lie  again  worked 
out  as  a  farm  laborer,  his  wages  being  twenty- 


five  dollars  a  month;  and  he  soon  came  to 
Bradford  Centre,  where  he  was  employed  for 
two  seasons  by  K.  W.  Dodge.  He  then 
bought  a  half-interest  in  the  saw-mill  of 
Wadleigh  &  Scavey  in  the  village  of  l?radford, 
and  for  eight  years,  in  company  with  Ben- 
jamin E.  Wadleigh,  carried  on  an  e.xtcnsivc 
business  in  custom  trade.  He  made  money, 
starting  in  with  a  capital  of  one  hundred  dol- 
lars, and  clearing  one  thousand  dollars  above 
all  expenses.  Selling  his  interest  in  that 
mill,  he  purchased  another  one,  and  eventu- 
ally he  repurchased  his  former  mill,  running 
both  for  a  year  or  two  with  John  E.  French 
as  partner.  Later  Mr.  Blood  carried  on  the 
entire  business  himself  for  a  time,  owning 
both  of  the  mills,  one  of  which  he  dismantled, 
and  the  other  he  sold.  He  then  bought  the 
steam  mill;  and  three  years  afterward  he  sold 
that,  and  purchased  a  grist-mill  in  the  vil- 
lage, which  he  operated  four  and  one -half 
years,  at  the  same  time  having  a  large  trade  in 
grain  and  fet;d.  In  March,  1890,  giving  up 
milling,  in  which  he  had  been  engaged  for 
twenty-four  years,  he  bought  a  new  store  in 
the  village,  on  the  site  of  an  old  business 
house,  and  for  three  and  one-half  years  he  was 
engaged  in  the  sale  of  general  merchandise. 
In  the  fall  of  1893  he  disposed  of  his  store, 
and  bought  the  Jonathan  Peaslee  farm,  an  old 
landmark  of  the  town,  one  mile  west  of  the 
village.  He  has  since  added  to  his  acreage, 
his  estate  being  nearly  two  miles  in  length. 
He  carries  on  general  farming,  including 
dairying,  for  which  he  keeps  ten  or  more 
cows. 

On  November  24,  1S67,  Mr.  Blood  married 
Miss  Frances  L.  Seavey,  who  was  born  in 
Newbury,  a  daughter  of  Andrew  Seavey,  now 
residing  in  the  village  of  Bradford.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Blood  have  three  children,  namely: 
Mabel  F.,  wife  of  Frank  P.  Craig,  of  Bradford 


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village;  L.  Estelln,  who  was  educated  at  the 
New  London  Academy,  and  teaches  at  Brad- 
ford in  School  No.  6;  and  Nettie  E.,  who 
is  yet  a  school-girl. 

In  politics  Mr.  Blood  is  a  firm  advocate  of 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party,  and 
besides  serving  several  years  as  secretary  of 
the  local  committee  has  been  a  delegate  to 
numerous  conventions.  He  is  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  School  Board,  having  the  super- 
vision of  two  schools,  Nos.  6  and  12.  He  is 
j)rominent  in  Masonic  circles,  belonging  to 
St.  Peter's  Lodge,  No.  31,  F.  &  A.  M.,  in 
which  he  is  a  Past  Master,  and  is  now  serv- 
ing his  third  term  as  Worthy  Master,  being 
one  of  the  most  enthusiastic  workers  in  the 
organization.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Massa- 
secum  Lodge,  No.  34,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  in  which 
he  has  passed  all  the  chairs,  and  is  likewise 
a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  Mr.  Blood  is 
a  very  genial,  social  man,  popular  with  his 
townspeople.  He  has  a  most  cosey  and  attrac- 
tive farm-house  home,  which  it  is  a  pleasure 
to  visit. 


LVA;/ILLIAM  E.  MUDGETT,  a  well- 
/5%/  known  merchant  of  Contoocook,  son 
of  Calvin  H.  and  Julia  (Fisher) 
Mudgett,  was  born  in  P'ranklin,  Merrimack 
County,  September  16,  1855.  His  great- 
grandfather came  to  New  Hampshire  from 
Maine,  and  settled  at  Holderness.  The 
grandfather,  William  Mudgett,  was  born  at 
Holderness,  now  Ashland.  In  his  young 
manhood  he  went  to  Bristol,  where  he  was 
subsequently  engaged  in  farming,  and  died  in 
his  ninetieth  year.  His  wife's  maiden  name 
was  Huckins.  Calvin  H.,  son  of  William 
and  the  father  of  William  E.  Mudgett,  was 
formerly  a  resident  of  Bristol,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  farming  find  lumbering,  owning 
large  tracts  of   timber  land.      He  now  resides 


in  Contoocook,  to  which  he  removed  seven  or 
eight  years  ago,  after  retiring  from  active  busi- 
ness life.  His  wife,  Julia,  died  eight  years 
ago  at  Bristol.  He  has  one  daughter,  Nellie, 
wife  of  Henry  Eastman,  now  deceased,  who 
was  formerly  a  farmer  of  Contoocook. 

William  E.  Mudgett  spent  his  boyhood  at 
Bristol,  where  he  remained  until  he  was  six- 
teen years  of  age,  attending  the  New  Hamp- 
ton Institution.  At  the  age  of  sixteen  years 
he  entered  Stearns  Carpet  Store,  now  kept  by 
the  Stewart  Comjjany,  where  he  remained  for 
four  years  as  a  clerk.  He  then  travelled  as  a  " 
salesman  for  various  Boston  houses,  visiting 
the  principal  cities  of  the  country,  and  selling 
to  the  jobbing  trade  throughout  the  Middle, 
Western,  and  Southern  States.  In  the  course 
of  time  he  secured  a  half-interest  in  the  firm, 
after  which  he  found  it  necessary  to  leave  the 
road,  and  take  personal  charge  of  the  store. 
He  began  business  as  a  store-keeper  in  April, 
1890,  succeeding  T.  B.  Richardson.  His 
stock  usually  amounts  to  about  ten  thousand 
dollars.  He  ships  grain  in  the  shape  of  bran, 
meal,  gluten,  linseed,  and  middlings,  at  the 
rate  of  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  or  one 
hundred  and  thirty  carloads  per  annum.  For 
thirteen  years  he  has  also  speculated  in  cider 
apples,  buying  up  large  quantities  all  over 
New  England,  especially  in  Connecticut, 
averaging  about  two  hundred  carloads  per 
season.  Of  late  years  he  has  done  more  busi- 
ness in  apples  than  formerly.  He  is  a  stock- 
holder of  the  New  England  I-'ruit  Company 
at  Concord,  and  has  supplied  the  comiiany 
with  a  large  share  of  their  apples. 

Mr.  Mudgett  was  married  at  Contoocook, 
September  16,  1876,  to  Lona  Chase,  daughter 
of  Thomas  and  Mary  Parsons  Chase,  of  the 
same  place.  Mr.  Chase  was  the  popular 
landlord  of  the  old  inn  at  Contoocook,  which 
was   also   kept    by    him    during   the    war.      He 


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(licil  tluTo  since  tlic  marriage  of  his  daughter 
I.oiia,  in  iiis  eighty-eighth  year.  His  wife 
still  lives,  being  now  in  her  eighty-sixth  year. 
Mr.  Miulgett's  children  are:  Nellie  May,  a 
graduate  of  IFenniker  High  School  and  now 
a  teacher;  Lillian  ].,  also  a  graduate  of  llen- 
niker  High  School,  class  of  1896;  and  Will- 
iam Chase,  a  student  at  Menniker  High 
School.  Mrs.  Mudgett  died  February  10, 
1897.  In  politics  Mr.  Mudgett  is  a  Republi- 
can, and  he  has  served  on  various  commis- 
sions, lie  belongs  to  Kearsarge  Lodge,  No. 
23,  and  the  encampment  of  the  L  O.  O.  F.  at 
Contoocook,  having  passed  all  the  chairs  of 
the  lodge. 


IIAKLES     A.     JEFTS,     a    pro.sperous 


business  man  of  Langdon,  was  born  in 
Putney,  Vt.,  January  27,  1S53,  son 
of  .\l|)honso  M.  and  Almira  (Clough)  Jefts. 
lie  comes  of  a  family  whose  founder  emigrated 
from  Fngland  some  time  in  the  seventeenth 
century,  settling  in  liillerica,  Mass.,  and 
whose  descendants  made  their  home  in  that 
State  for  many  years.  Jonathan,  the  great- 
grandfather of  Charles  A.,  born  in  Townsend, 
Mass.,  was  the  first  to  seek  a  home  in  the 
Granite  State.  The  last  years  of  his  life  were 
spent  in  the  town  of  Mason.  ITosley  Jefts, 
the  father  of  Alphonso  M.,  and  a  native  of 
Mason,  removed  to  I^angdon,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  farming,  and  afterward  died.  He 
married  Abigail  Green;  and  they  had  eight 
chiklren,  respectively  named:  Harriet,  Luli- 
ana,  Caroline,  Roxanna,  Albert,  Aljihonso 
M.,  Eli,  and  Panielia. 

Alphonso  M.  Jefts,  a  native  of  Antrim, 
N.H.,  was  born  in  March,  1815,  and  died 
June  18,  1891.  He  settled  on  a  farm  in  Put- 
ney, \'t.,  but  afterward  came  to  Langdon, 
which  was  subsequently  his  home  for  forty 
years.      He  had  no  political   ambition,  and   he 


was  an  attendant  of  the  liipiscopal  church. 
Almira,  his  wife,  who  wa.s  born  in  Westmore- 
land, N.H.,  December  25,  18 15,  daughter  of 
John  Clough,  of  Stamford,  Vt.,  had  nine  chil- 
dren—  Mason,  Maria,  Abigail,  Harriet,  Mary 
P.,  Mira  A.,  Fred  F.,  John  W.,  and  Charles 
A.  Mason,  now  deceased,  was  born  in  Put- 
ney, followed  the  occupation  of  farmer,  and 
spent  his  life  in  Al.stead.  He  married  Ca- 
lista  Clark.  Maria  is  the  wife  of  ]5enjamin 
Wales,  a  broker  in  Taunton,  Mass.,  and  has 
two  children.  Abigail  and  Harriet  died  in 
girlhood.  Mary  P.,  who  is  a  graduate  of 
Mount  Holyoke  College,  has  been  engaged 
in  teaching  for  fifteen  years,  and  is  now  the 
French  teacher  of  the  Worcester  High  School. 
Mira  A.,  who  was  educated  at  Mount  Holyoke 
College,  is  the  wife  of  Lester  Sprague,  a  hard- 
ware dealer  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  and  has  one 
chikl,  Mary  A.,  now  Mrs.  Chauncey  Urainard, 
of  Putney,  Vt.  Fred  F. ,  who  was  educated 
at  Chester  Academy,  and  is  in  the  paper  man- 
ufacturing business  in  Carthage,  N.Y. ,  mar- 
ried Carrie  Adams,  of  Bellows  Falls,  Vt. , 
and  has  one  son,  Clyde  A.  John  W.  Jefts, 
who  was  educated  at  Ashburnham  (Mass.) 
Academy,  and  is  a  farmer  of  Langdon,  married 
Hattie  Simpson,  of  this  place. 

Charles  A.  Jefts  received  his  education  in 
the  schools  of  Langdon  and  Fort  Edward  Col- 
lege, New  York  State,  graduating  therefrom 
in  the  class  of  1874.  Upon  his  return  from 
college,  he  took  up  farming  with  his  father  on 
the  homestead,  of  which  he  is  the  present 
owner.  Besides  attending  to  his  farm  duties, 
he  does  a  limited  business  as  a  broker.  While 
he  has  always  made  Langdon  his  home,  he  has 
taken  a  number  of  pleasure  trips  to  various 
parts  of  the  country.  The  esteem  in  which  he 
is  held  is  evidenced  by  the  fact  that  his  towns- 
men have  elected  him  to  serve  them  in  many 
of   the  principal    town    offices.       In    religious 


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belief  he  is  an  ICpiscopaliaii,  and  serves  the 
society  in  the  capacity  of  chinch  waiilen.  He 
is  a  mcniljcr  uf  the  ■rranu.e. 


)AUREN  S.  CLOUGH,  farmer  and 
stnctc-raiscr  of  Loudon,  was  born  in 
Alton,  N.  IL,  March  5,  1842,  son 
of  Samuel  and  Ruth  (I'hilbrobk)  Clnugh. 
His  grandfather,  Samuel  Clough,  a  native  of 
Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  and  a  resident  of  that  town 
for  the  greater  part  of  his  life,  was  one  of  the 
sons  of  three  brothers  who  settled  in  Gilman- 
ton. Samuel  spent  his  last  years  in  Alton, 
N.  H.,  where  he  died  January  21,  1828.  His 
wife,  Rhoda  (Carr)  Clough,  survived  him 
until  July  3,  1840.  They  had  four  children 
—  Hannah,  John,  Samuel,  Jr.,  and  Eliza,  all 
now  deceased. 

Samuel  Clough,  Jr.,  lived  on  the  old  home- 
stead for  some  time  and  then  came  to  Loudon, 
and  subsequently  lived  there  fifty-eight  years. 
He  was  engaged  in  farming  for  the  greater 
part  of  his  life.  During  his  residence  in 
Alton  he  was  one  of  the  Selectmen  of  the 
town.  He  married  Miss  I'hilbrook,  and  they 
had  five  children,  as  follows:  Myron,  born 
December  2,  1833,  who  married  Elizabeth 
Prescott,  of  Alton,  and  is  now  a  farmer  in 
Gilmanton;  Miranda,  born  March  22,  1835, 
who  is  the  wife  of  George  W.  J.  Johnson,  and 
resides  on  a  farm  in  Pittsficld,  N.II.  ;  l^liza 
Jane,  born  January  8,  1840,  who  now  lives 
with  her  brother,  Lauren  S.,  on  the  old  Imnie- 
stead;  Lauren  S.,  the  subject  of  this  biogra- 
phy; Ruth  Ellen,  born  y\j)ril  28,  1844,  who 
successively  married  Oliver  Ihitchinson,  (jf 
Loudon,  wlic)  died,  and  Allen  Anderson,  of 
California,  a  machinist  by  trade,  and  now  lives 
in  San  Francisco,  Cal.  The  father  died  July 
19,  1S89,  and  the  mother  June  23,   1874. 

Lauren  S.  Clough  always  remained  at  home 


with  his  parents,  receiving  a  good  eilucatimi  in 
the  best  schools  of  the  county.  After  the 
death  of  his  father  he  took  charge  of  the  old 
homestead.  He  now  owns  one  hundred  acres 
nf  lanil  under  cultivation  besides  seventy-five 
acres  of  pasture  land.  The  property  has  been 
much  enhanced  in  value  by  the  erection  of  sev- 
eral substantial  buildings.  liesides  carrying 
on  the  farm  successfully,  he  is  also  engaged  in 
stock-raisitig  to  a  considerable  extent. 

On  June  3,  1877,  Mr.  Clough  married  iMibie 
Sarah  Weeks,  of  Loudon,  a  daughter  of  Ste- 
phen H.  and  Elizabeth  (Haines)  Weeks,  both 
of  whom  are  now  deceased.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Clough  had  four  children,  of  whom  one  died 
unnamed  in  infancy.  The  others  are:  Grace, 
born  May  8,  1878,  who  resides  at  home;  Ethel 
M.,  born  February  27,  1880,  now  attending 
school  in  Loudon  ;  and  Gertrude,  born  May  29, 
1882,  living  at  home.  Mrs.  Clough  died 
December  3,  1884.  Mr.  Clough  has  always 
been  a  Republican  in  his  political  life,  while 
he  has  never  been  an  office-seeker.  He  is  a 
Deacon  of  the  F'ree  Baptist  Church  of  Loudon, 
of  which  church  his  sister  is  also  a  member. 


lEWIS  D.  HAINES,  a  prominent 
farmer  and  large  land-owner  residing 
in  Northfield,  was  born  in  this 
town,  February  7,  1845,  son  of  the  late  Benja- 
min Haines  and  his  wife,  Martha  (Kennison) 
Haines.  The  father,  born  in  Ep[)ing,  was 
(jnly  four  years  old  when  his  father,  George 
L.  Haines,  settled  in  Canterbury,  this  county. 
After  living  there  for  some  years,  father  and 
son  came  lo  Northfield  and  settled  on  the 
homestead  now  ociiipied  by  Mi-.  Lewis 
Haines,  anti  which  was  then  known  as  the 
I'^llison  place.  Benjamin  Haines  was  a  farmer 
by  occupation.  He  died  June  29,  1878,  leav- 
ing a  good   name  and  a  fair  estate  to  his  chil- 


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(Iicn.  1 1  is  wile,  Martliti,  wlio  was  Ijoni  in 
Caiilcii)tiry,  diud  July  18,  1  8y6.  'I'hc  eldest  of 
tliuir  liiicc  children,  George  li.  Haines,  M.D., 
is  a  well  Iviiiiwii  phj'siciai)  of  X'alley  I'"alls, 
R.I.  He  married  Dora  liabhit,  who  is  now 
deceased.  The  youngest  child  and  the  only 
daughter,  Miss  Ida  M.  Haines,  who  was  horn 
Novend)cr  3,  1848,  and  was  educated  at  Tilton 
Seminar)',  resides  with  her  brother  on  the 
homestead.  She  is  well  known  in  the  social 
life  of  Northficld,  and  is  an  active  member  of 
the  Congregational  church  of  that  place. 

Lewis  D.  Haines,  the  second  son  of  his 
parents,  attended  the  ccmimon  schools  of  his 
native  town.  Since  then  he  has  always  lived 
on  the  home  farm,  and  has  been  engaged  in 
farming.  After  the  death  of  his  father  he 
took  entire  charge  of  the  estate,  which  has 
been  much  ini[ir(i\-oil  in  his  hands.  He  is 
the  owner  of  about  five  hundred  acres  of  land. 
Bedsides  carrying  on  general  farming  exten- 
sively, he  does  considerable  dairy  business. 
He  keeps  about  thirty  head  of  cattle,  and  shij)S 
milk  to  the  Boston  markets.  Always  a  hard- 
working man,  he  has  never  sought  jiublic 
ofTice.  He  is  a  good  Republican,  and  has  al- 
ways voted  that  ticket.  Both  Mr.  Haines  and 
his  sister  are  members  of  the  grange  at  Til- 
ton  and  regular  attendants  at  the  meetings  of 
that  organizatit)u.  Mr.  Haines's  farm  was 
formerly  owmed  by  Richard  Ellison,  wh(j  was 
the  grandfather  of  General  Butler. 


|I1.\RLES  ASA  IIOLDKN,  a  well- 
to-do  farmer  of  Langdon,  was  born  in 
this  town,  August  4,  1833,  son  of 
Asa  and  Mary  Ann  (lilvans)  Ilolden.  Ed- 
mund Holden,  the  father  of  Asa,  was  a  native 
of  Shirley,  Mass.,  and  the  first  of  the  family 
to  settle  in  Langdon.  He  was  a  prosperous 
farmer  and  stock-raiser.      In    1796  he  married 


Susan  Rock  wood,  of  Groton,  Mass.,  and  be- 
came the  father  of  si.\  children,  ijorn  as  follows: 
Amantia,  in  1797;  Suka,  in  1799;  Edmund, 
in  1802;  A.sa,  May  30,  1804;  Rockworul,  in 
1809;  and  Sophronia,  in  1813. 

Asa  Holden  taught  school  for  a  number  o| 
years  in  different  towns.  Then  he  purchased 
a  farm,  and  was  engaged  in  carrying  it  on 
until  he  gave  up  active  work,  some  twelve 
years  before  his  death,  which  happened  De- 
cember 12,  1885,  when  he  was  over  eighty-one 
years  of  age.  He  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Con- 
gregational church  for  many  years.  Mary 
Ann  (Evans)  Ilolden,  his  wife,  was  born  in 
Rockingham,  Vt.,  in  181 1,  and  died  in  Sep- 
tember, 1874,  aged  si.xty-thrcc.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  Charles  Asa,  Mary  E.,  George 
H.,  Henry  M.,  Luella  V.,  and  Edward  M., 
all  of  whom  were  born  in  Langdon.  Mary 
E. ,  the  elder  daughter,  now  deceased,  who 
was  born  January  26,  1835,  married  Samuel 
K.  Upton,  formerly  of  Langdon,  now  of  Ac- 
worth,  N.  H.,  and  had  two  children —  Mary  L. 
and  Hattie  L. ,  respectively  the  wives  of 
Charles  Barney,  of  Claremont,  N.  H.,  and 
William  II.  Wilson,  of  Langdon.  George  II., 
born  July  29,  1838,  who  lives  in  Walpole  and 
is  a  farmer,  married  Jane  Allen,  of  Walpole, 
who  died  leaving  two  sons — George  N.  and 
Charles  H.  Henry  M.,  born  October  14, 
1840, -who  is  a  successful  farmer  in  Langdon, 
married  Emma  Dinsmore,  of  Alstead,  N. H., 
and  has  three  daughters —  Edith,  Etta  M.,  and 
Dora.  Luella  V.,  born  December  12,  1845, 
is  the  wife  of  Orr  Wallace,  an  Alstead  farmer, 
auctioneer,  and  trader  in  land  and  stock,  and 
has  no  chiklren.  Edwaril  M.,  born  Ajjril  21, 
1851,  who  is  a  farmer  in  Walpole,  N.  H.,  mar- 
ried Lora  1*".  Burt,  a  native  of  WaljJole,  and 
has  no  children. 

After  completing  his  education,  which  was 
acquired     in     the    town    schools,    Charles    A. 


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Ilolden  carried  on  the  home  farm  for  a  time. 
Later  he  bought  the  farm  on  wliich  lie  now 
lives.  liesides  tilling  his  land,  he  has  given 
considerable  attention  to  stock-growing,  and 
has  raised  a  large  number  of  o.xen.  He  was 
Selectman  of  the  town  for  fourteen  years,  and 
Chairman  of  the  Selectmen  for  several  terms. 
In  1S73-74  he  was  a  Representative  in  the 
State  legislature,  and  served  on  the  Industrial 
School  Committee.  He  is  an  attendant  of  the 
Congregational  church. 

On  November  iS,  1862,  Mr.  Holden  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miss  Emily  A.  King, 
who  was  born  in  Acworth,  N.  H.,  March  29, 
1835.  She  is  a  daughter  of  Captain  Samuel 
King,  who  died  August  29,  1S77.  Her  par- 
ents had  fourteen  children,  who  all  attained 
maturity.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Holden  have  three 
children  —  Emily  Corinne,  Charley  Clyde,  and 
Allen  K.  Emily  Corinne,  born  October  6, 
1863,  is  now  the  wife  of  George  Winch,  a 
school  teacher  in  Manchester,  N.H.,  arid  has 
one  child  —  Emily  J.,  born  in  November, 
1892.  Charles  Clyde,  born  January  10,  1S66, 
now  a  travelling  salesman  for  a  jewelry  firm  in 
White  River  Junction,  Vt.,  married  Marcia 
Billings,  and  resides  in  Sabattus,  Me.  He  has 
two  children:  Clyde  T.,  born  in  March,  1895; 
and  an  infant  son,  Royal  Charles.  Allen  K. 
Ilolden,  born  August  li,  1870,  who  lives  on 
a  large  milk  farm  in  Newton,  Mass.,  married 
1"" ranees  Wingate,  of  Mooers  Forks,  N.  Y. 


iHARLES  A.  IIUKER,  an  energetic 
and  successful  farmer  of  Northfield, 
was  born  January  12,  1846,  in 
Melun,  France,  near  Paris,  son  of  MelhcLU' 
and  Katherinc  (Farney)  Huber,  both  also 
natives  of  Melun.  His  father,  who  followed 
the  sea  during  the  active  jjeriod  of  his  life, 
died     in     France,     August    21,     1855.        Mr. 


Huber's  mother,  having  survived  her  husband 
but  three  days,  died  August  24.  Melheur  and 
Katherinc  F.  Iluber  were  the  parents  of  four- 
teen children,  as  follows:  Petre  Paul,  who 
died  in  the  army;  Joseph,  who  resides  in 
Pennsylvania;  Louis,  who  lives  near  Manches- 
ter, N.H.  ;  Alexander,  a  bricklayer  of  Con- 
cord, N.  H.  ;  Victorine  and  Amelia,  who  are 
still  residing  in  France;  Eugene,  a  resident  of 
New  York  State;  Charles  A.,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  Albert,  who  is  residing  in  the 
West;  Emile,  of  Manchester;  Melheur  and 
John,  neither  of  whom  emigrated  to  America; 
Carl,  who  is  deceased;  and  Hector,  who  is 
in  the  shoe  business  in  Buffalo,  N.  Y. 

Charles  A.  Huber  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon and  high  schools  of  his  native  country. 
After  completing  his  studies,  he  entered  the 
F"rench  army,  with  which  he  served  eight 
years.  In  1870  he  emigrated  to  the  United 
States,  where  four  of  his  brothers  had  already 
found  a  home.  He  first  settled  in  Manches- 
ter, where  he  was  employed  for  some  time. 
Subsequently  he  was  for  two  years  engaged  as 
a  tlori.st  in  Concord.  After  his  marriage  he 
was  employed  as  a  gardener  in  Franklin  for 
three  years.  Then  he  bought  the  Gross  farm, 
situated  near  Tilton  village  in  the  town  of 
Northfield,  where  he  now  resides.  He  owns 
one  hundred  and  seven  acres  of  fertile  land, 
and  is  an  extensive  grower  of  garden  truck  for 
the  city  markets. 

On  April  21,  1879,  Mr.  Huber  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Henriette  Larivire.  She 
was  born  in  St.  Mary,  P.O.,  April  16,  1845, 
daughter  of  John  and  Bridget  (I)ayer)  Lari- 
vire. John  Larivire  was  a  carjienter  by  trade. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  always  resided  in  Can- 
ada. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Huber  have  four  cliiUhen, 
namely:  Albert,  born  I'ebruary  26,  1880; 
Louise,  born  February  5,  1882;  Ora,  born 
P'ebruary  15,  1883;  and  Lottie,  born  June  21, 


JJlOGRAl'UlLAL    RKVIKW 


1S.S5.  In  pdlilics  Mr.  Iluljcr  is  a  JJcmocrat, 
ami  lie  has  scrx'ocl  with  ability  as  Roail  Siu- 
vcyi)!'.  lie  lias  hilmrcd  industriously  for  the 
prosperity  he  now  enjoys.  lie  had  the  mis- 
fortune to  have  his  house  destroyed  by  fire  in 
1895.  Now  he  has  a  pleasant  and  comfort- 
able home.  lie  is  a  member  of  the  St.  John 
the  I?aptist  Society,  and  the  family  attend  the 
Roman  Calliolic  church. 


kURKIM.  .MOOR  I'".,  a  prominent 
aimer  and  cattle  breeder  of 
Northfield,  was  born  in  this 
town,  November  18,  1829,  son  of  Morrill  S. 
and  Sarah  (Hancock)  Moore.  His  grand- 
father, I^zekiel  Moore,  passed  the  most  of  his 
life  in  Canterbury,  N.ll.,  where  he  was  en- 
gaged in  farming;  anil  his  last  days  were  spent 
in  Bristol,  N.  II.  The  father,  Morrill  S. 
Moore,  was  born  in  Caiiterbury,  October  29, 
1798.  He  settled  in  Northfield,  and  folUnved 
agriculture  until  his  death,  which  occurretl 
May  14,  1860.  His  wife,  Sarah,  born  in 
Northlield,  Ajiril  7,  1794,  became  the  mother 
of  five  children,  namely:  Orpha,  wlio  died  in 
infancy;  Clarissa,  born  April  18,  1827;  Polly, 
born  May  i,  1828;  Morrill,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  and  Merrill,  born  March  4,  1831. 
Clarissa,  who  married  Joseph  Cross,  a  farmer 
of  Northfield,  and  died  June  12,  1S97,  had 
nine  children  —  I'rank,  Clara,  Sarah,  Albert, 
]'"red,  Warren,  Flora,  Charles,  and  Walter. 
Clara  and  Warren  are  deceased.  Polly  Moore 
married  Willis  Gray,  of  Northfield,  and  died 
leaving  one  daughter — lunma  J.,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Joseph  Nealey,  of  Nottingham,  N.  H. 
Merrill,  who  died  February  26,  1889,  wedded 
for  his  first  wife  Caroline  I>ake,  of  Canterbury, 
who  died  in  i860.  A  second  marriage  united 
him  with  Mary  Heath,  of  the  same  town,  who 
had    three  children:    Clara   and   George,    now 


decea.sed  ;  and  Sadie,  who  is  the  wife  of  P'red 
Watson,  of  Northfield.  Mrs.  Morrill  S.  M«ore 
died  October  24,   1858. 

Morrill  Moore  acquireil  a  common-school 
educaticjn  and  was  reared  to  farm  life.  He  re- 
mained with  his  parents,  assisting  on  the  farm, 
and  afterward  followed  agriculture.  In  1878 
he  moved  to  his  present  farm,  which  contains 
three  hundred  acres,  and  affords  him  ample 
opportunity  for  general  farming  and  cattle 
breeding.  He  makes  a  S|)ecialty  of  raising 
thoroughbred  Devon  stock,  and  also  jjroduces 
a  large  quantity  of  superior  butter.  On  March 
3,  1858,  Mr.  Moore  was  joined  in  marriage 
with  Lavina  A.  Hu.se,  who  was  born  in  Camp- 
ton,  N. PI.,  September  3,  1834,  daughter  of 
Daniel  M.  and  P^liza  (Dudley)  Husc.  Her 
parents,  who  were  natives  of  Sanbornton,  re- 
sided in  Campton,  from  which  town  they 
moved  to  Northfield,  and  settled  upon  the  farm 
now  owned  by  Mr.  Moore.  They  reared  three 
children,  as  follows:  Lavina  A.,  who  became 
Mrs.  Moore;  Sarah  family,  born  September 
I,  1840,  who  married  15.  W.  Plummer;  and 
Ann  P^liza,  born  January  8,  1845,  who  married 
George  P'.  l^lanchard,  a  farmer  of  Canterbury. 
Daniel  M.  Iluse  died  September  3,  1883;  and 
his  wife  died  January  17,   1888. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Moore  have  had  five  children 
—  P>liza  Abbie,  P>ank  H.,  Cora  E.,  Delia  A., 
and  Arthur  G.  Eliza,  born  May  i,  i860,  died 
December  30  of  the  same  year;  P'rank  PI., 
born  March  25,  1862,  is  now  a  grain  dealer  in 
Laconia;  and  Cora  E. ,  born  January  12,  1864, 
married  Oliver  Taylor,  a  blacksmith  of  La- 
conia. Delia  A.,  born  May  11,  1867,  who 
married  George  A.  Dearborn,  a  native  of 
Hill,  N.PP,  now  lives  in  Concord,  where  her 
husband  is  in  the  grocery  business.  She  has 
two  children:  Mildred  A.,  born  September  17, 
1892;  and  Plarold  M.,  born  December  19, 
1896.      Arthur  G.  Moore,  born  June  26,  1872, 


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is  in  the  live-stock  business,  and  is  one  of 
the  most  popular  young  men  in  Northfield. 
In  politics  Mr.  Morrill  Moore  is  a  Democrat, 
and  he  has  been  Tax  Collector  for  six  years. 
He  is  connected  with  the  Northfield  Grange, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  practical  and  successful 
farmers  and  stock-raisers  in  this  locality. 


ILLIS  JORDAN,  a  well-known  agri- 
culturist of  riainfield,  who  gives 
special  attention  to  dairying  and 
poultry  raising,  was  born  in  this  town,  Sep- 
tember lo,  1850,  son  of  William  R.  and 
Esther  (Spaulding)  Jordan.  The  Jordan  fam- 
ily, an  old  and  prominent  one  of  this  town, 
has  produced  men  of  high  integrity  and  of 
stanch  loyalty  to  the  nation.  Its  first  repre- 
sentatives in  America  were  among  the  early 
settlers.  Later  the  family  gave  the  country 
stalwart  and  steadfast  soldiers  for  the  old 
French  and  Indian  War,  for  the  War  of  Inde- 
pendence, and  for  the  second  war  with  Eng- 
land, as  well  as  defenders  of  the  Union  in  the 
great  Civil  War. 

James  Jordan,  grandfather  of  Willis  Jor- 
dan, is  believed  to  have  been  the  first  of  the 
family  to  settle  in  Plainfield.  He  was  a  very 
])rosperous  farmer,  and  was  held  in  high  re- 
spect by  his  townspeople.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Kenyon,  bore  him  a  large 
family  of  boys;  namely,  William  R.,  Ray- 
mond K.,  Timothy  I..,  Anthony  W. ,  James 
W. ,  Jarvis  J.,  and  Johnson.  Raymond,  by 
trade  a  cooper,  was  engaged  in  that  business 
at  Plainfield,  and  also  did  some  farming. 
Timothy  L.  was  a  stone  mascjn  and  farmer,  and 
lived  in  this  town.  Anthony  W.  was  also  a 
stone  mason  of  Plainfield.  James  and  Jarvis 
were  farmers  in  this  town,  and  lived  here 
throughout  their  lives.  All  of  these  sons 
married,    antl    had    families.       Johnson     died 


young.  William  R.  Jordan,  father  of  Willis, 
born  at  Plainfield  in  the  year  1S07,  died  in 
1865.  He  took  up  the  occupation  of  farmer, 
and  worked  so  energetically  and  successfully 
that  at  his  death  he  owned  the  large  farm 
known  as  the  Abel  Stone  place.  He  acquired 
this  through  his  own  efforts,  unaided  by  his 
father  or  by  others.  While  not  a  seeker  for 
political  honors,  he  never  failed  in  his  duties 
as  a  good  citizen.  He  married  Esther  Spauld- 
ing, who,  born  in  1805,  daughter  of  Simon 
Spaulding,  of  Plainfield,  died  in  1S90.  The 
eight  children  of  this  marriage  were:  Lewis 
S.,  Sophia,  Henry  C. ,  Rosamond,  Harrison 
H.,  MaryM.,  Darwin  F.,  and  Willis  Jordan. 
Since  Grandfather  Jordan  settled  in  Plainfield, 
the  men  reared  in  this  family  have  found  occu- 
pation in  this  their  native  town,  and  have  been 
l^rominent  in  affairs.  Lewis  Jordan  is  living 
at  Plainfield,  a  prosperous  farmer.  Sophia, 
now  deceased,  married  Mr.  Dodge,  of  Plain- 
field.  Henry  is  unmarried.  Rosamond  be- 
came the  wife  of  Willard  Hayward,  who  is 
now  deceased.  Plarrison  H.  died  some  years 
since.  Mary  is  Mrs.  Sidney  Sanborn,  and  the 
mother  of  several  children.  Darwin,  who  is 
engaged  in  farming,  married  and  has  a  family 
of  children. 

Willis  Jordan  was  the  youngest  of  his  par- 
ents' children.  He  helped  his  father  on  the 
farm  until  he  came  of  age.  Then  he  struck 
out  for  himself,  and  has  since  been  a  successful 
business  man.  He  is  extensively  engaged  in 
general  fanning,  but  devotes  himself  espe- 
cially to  dairying  and  poultry  raising.  He  has 
always  given  close  and  careful  attention  to  the 
details  of  his  business,  which  characteristic, 
joined  to  his  thrift  and  industry,  has  gained 
for  him  general  esteem. 

Mr.  Jordan  married  Ella  S. ,  who  was  l)orn 
September  20,  185 1,  daughter  of  Albert  K. 
Reed,  a  wealthy  PlainfieUl  farmer.      Her  three 


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children  arc:  WcslL-y  \V. ,  born  May  8,  1S76; 
Heriiic-c  !•;.,  l)iirn  January  27,  1X83;  and 
Ral|ili  K.,  Jiiirn  Nnvcnihcr  13,  1887.  Wesley 
Jordan  is  now  a  student  at  IJartnioiitli  College, 
having  fitted  for  that  institution  at  Kimball 
Union  Academy.  The  two  younger  children 
are  still  attending  the  town  schools  f)f  I'lain- 
HcM. 


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RANK  ]•:.  RANDALL,  Postmaster  of 
I'ittsfield  and  an  ex-nieniber  of  the 
New  Hampshire  legislature,  was  born 
in  til  is  town.  May  5,  1 842,  son  of  Thomas 
li.  and  Mary  G.  (rickering)  Randall.  llis 
grandfather,  Robert  Randall,  a  prosperous 
farmer  of  Lee,  N.  If.,  died  in  that  town  at  a 
good  old  age.  R(}bert's  wife,  who  reached  the 
age  of  eighty  years,  was  the  niotiier  of  two 
sons,  neither  of  whom  is  living. 

Tliomas  1).  Randall,  the  elder  of  Roljcit's 
sons,  was  born  in  l.ec.  W'lien  a  young  man 
lie  learned  the  l)lacksniith's  trade,  which  he 
afterward  fidlowei!  in  I'ittsfield  for  some  years. 
In  1S45  he  went  to  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and 
was  employed  in  the  .\moskeag  factory  until 
his  death,  which  occurred  in  1850,  at  the  age 
of  forty-two  years,  lie  was  a  rugged  and  able- 
bodied  man,  capable  of  much  hard  work,  and 
had  the  esteem  and  good  will  of  all  who  knew 
him.  Although  not  an  aspirant  to  pidjlic 
office,  he  took  an  earnest  interest  in  pcditical 
matters.  Lie  was  a  niendier  of  the  liaptist 
church.  His  wife,  Mary  G.,  was  a  daughter 
of  John  Pickering,  of  Barnstead,  N.  H.,  and  a 
descendant  of  John  Pickering,  an  early  resi- 
dent of  Portsmouth,  N.II.  She  became  the 
mother  of  seven  children,  of  whom  the  sur- 
vivors are:  John  N.  Randall,  M.IX,  Frank 
Iv,  Kvelyn,  and  Olive,  all  of  whom  were  born 
in  Pittsfield.  Dr.  Randall,  a  graduate  of  the 
Harvard  L^niversity  Medical  School,  was  for- 
merly Assistant  Surgeon   in  the  regular  army, 


and  is  now  jtractising  his  profession  in  Deca- 
tur, 111.  He  wedded  Mary  Thatcher,  a  native 
of  Penn.sylvania,  and  has  one  daughter — Ikr- 
tha  T.  Kvelyn  is  the  wife  of  Charles  K. 
Co.\,  of  Manchester,  and  has  four  children  — 
Walter,  (juy,  Louis,  and  Channing.  Olive 
married  Robert  I.  .Stern,  of  Manchester,  and 
has  no  children.  Mr.s.  Thomas  H.  Randall 
lived  seventy-two  years. 

I'rank  K.  Randall  passed  a  porti<jn  of  his 
boyhood  in  Manchester,  but  eventually  returned 
to  Pittsfield.  He  began  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  com- 
pleted his  studies  at  the  Pittsfield  Academy. 
Having  prepared  himself  for  educational  work, 
he  was  engaged  in  the  calling  of  teacher  for 
twenty-five  yeans,  three  in  I'armington,  N.II., 
and  the  rest  in  Pittsfield.  In  1S86  he  was 
first  appointed  Postmaster,  in  which  capacity 
he  served  four  years.  In  1894  President 
Cleveland  appointed  him  to  the  same  position, 
which  he  still  holds.  In  this  town  he  owns  a 
small  farm,  the  cultivation  of  which,  together 
with  his  official  duties,  takes  up  his  entire 
time  and  attention.  In  politics  he  is  a  Dem- 
ocrat, and  he  has  long  been  a  leading  spirit  in 
local  public  affairs.  He  was  Superintendent 
of  Schools  for  twenty  years,  and  was  Selectman 
and  Town  Clerk  for  one  term  each.  In  1S77 
and  1878  he  represented  his  district  in  the 
legislature,  and  he  was  County  Auditor  in 
1879.  He  has  also  served  upon  the  Board  of 
Education;  and,  when  the  Police  Court  was 
located  in  Pittsfield,  he  was  Special  Police 
Justice  for  seven  years. 

On  December  20,  1S76,  Mr.  Randall  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mary  Abbie  Fife, 
daughter  of  John  II.  Fife,  of  Epsom,  N.II. 
She  is  the  mother  of  two  children  :  Bertha  M., 
born  August  6,  1878;  and  Helen  D.,  born 
June  25,  1884.  Mr.  Randall  is  connected 
with  N.  H.  Woodbine  Lodge,  I.  O.  0-  F.,  of 


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Farmington,  N.  H.,  and  with  the  Improved 
Order  of  Red  Men.  Mrs.  Randall  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 


—IpNEABODY    HODGDON    ADAMS,    a 

Ik^y  successful  general  merchant  of  Pitts- 
-l->^  field,  was  born  in  Barnstead,  N.  H., 
April  22,  1S20,  son  of  John  and  Sally  (Sew- 
ard) Adams.  Four  of  his  ancestors  came 
from  England ;  and  one  of  them,  who  was  a 
Congregational  minister,  settled  at  Newing- 
ton,  N. H.  William  Adams,  grandfather  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  carpenter  by 
trade,  ^e  was  also  a  farmer ;  and  he  resided 
in  Barnstead  all  his  life,  attaining  the  age  of 
seventy  years.  He  supported  the  Whig  party 
in  politics,  while  his  religious  belief  was 
that  of  the  Congregational  denomination.  He 
married  Hannah  Jacobs,  who  had  four  chil- 
dren, and  lived  about  eighty  years. 

John  Adams,  eldest  child  of  his  parents,  was 
born  in  Barnstead.  When  a  young  man  he 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  which,  with 
farming,  was  the  main  occupation  of  the  active 
period  of  his  life.  He  resided  in  Barnstead 
until  his  death,  which  occurred  when  he  was 
seventy-eight  years  old.  In  politics  he  was  a 
Whig.  His  wife,  Sally,  was  a  daughter  of 
George  Seward,  of  ]?arnstead,  whose  death  oc- 
curred at  about  the  same  age  as  that  of  her 
husband.  She  was  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
gational church.  She  became  the  mother  of 
twelve  children,  eight  sons  and  four  daughters, 
eight  of  whom  are  living.  These  are:  Pea- 
body  H.,  Frank,  George  W.,  Nathaniel  W., 
Alvah,  Hannah,  Mary,  and  Nancy.  Frank 
married  for  his  first  wife  a  Miss  Taylor,  of 
Lowell,  who  had  one  daughter,  Susie.  For 
his  second  wife  he  wedded  a  lady  named  Holt, 
who  had  three  children  — Abbie,  Blanche,  and 
l''rai)k,  Jr.      Cieorge  W.  married  a  Miss  Ware, 


of  Lowell,  Mass.;  and  his  children  are;  El- 
vira, Lyman,  Sadie,  Clara,  Raljih  W. ,  and 
Arthur  W.  Nathaniel  married  Amanda 
Blake,  and  has  one  son,  William.  Alvah 
married  Amanda  Green,  and  has  one  son, 
Lewis.  Mary  is  the  widow  of  Eliphalet 
Miller,  and  has  no  children.  Nancy  is  the 
widow  of  a  Mr.  Novin,  late  of  Minneapolis, 
Minn.,  and  has  three  children  —  P""red,  Clara, 
and  Ida. 

Peabody  Hodgdon  Adams  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Barnstead  and  Loudon,  N.  H. 
After  completing  his  studies,  he  learned  the 
carpenter's  trade  with  his  father,  and  subse- 
quently followed  it  and  farming  for  many 
years  in  Loudon.  In  1S65  he  moved  to  Pitts- 
field,  where  he  bought  a  farm  located  on  Con- 
cord Hill;  and  he  resided  there  until  1876. 
In  1874,  with  his  son,  Frank  W. ,  he  formed 
the  firm,  V.  U.  Adams  &  Co.,  who  have  since 
conducted  a  profitable  general  mercantile  busi- 
ness. 

On  March  15,  1847,  Mr.  Adams  wedded 
Martha  S.  Wells,  daughter  of  Stephen  Wells, 
of  Loudon,  N.  H.  Of  their  three  children 
two  are  living — Elizabeth  and  Frank  W. 
Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of  Clarence  Johnson, 
of  Pittsfield ;  and  her  children  are:  Scott  A. 
and  Edward  L.  Frank  W.  married  Hattie 
Marston,  daughter  of  John  Marston,  of  this 
town,  and  has  one  daughter,  Abbie  A.  Mrs. 
P.  H.  Adams  died  October  17,  1893.  In 
politics  Mr.  Adams  is  a  Republican,  and  he 
has  served  with  ability  as  a  Selectman  for 
three  years.  He  attends  the  I'ree  Will  ]5ap- 
tist  church,  of  which  the  late  Mrs.  Adams 
was  a  member. 


f^OSEl'H  RUSSELL,  E.so.,  a  merchant 
of  Sunapee,  was  born  July  8,  1836,  son 
of    Jonathan     and     I'luebe    (Hazelton) 

Russell.      His  father,  Jonalliaii  Russell,  a  na- 


JOSEPH     RUSSELL. 


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239 


tivc  of  Manchester,  N.  II.,  horn  July  20,  1801, 
wlio  was  an  industrious,  harcl-\vorl<ing  man, 
si)cnl  the  most  of  his  life  in  New  London, 
George's  Mills,  and  Springfield,  N.H.  I-"or 
his  first  wife  he  married  Hannah  Johnson,  who 
(lied  November  8,  1825,  in  Chester,  N.H. 
They  had  two  children,  both  now  deceased, 
namely:  Robinson,  born  January  22,  1822; 
and  John,  born  April  22,  1825.  His  second 
wife,  in  maidenhood  Phoebe  Hazelton,  who 
was  born  September  20,  1800,  in  New  London, 
Iiad  four  children,  as  follows:  William,  born 
December  4,  1829;  Oliver,  born  October  2, 
1S31;  Jonathan,  born  October  13,  1833;  and 
Joseph,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Of  these 
children  William  is  deceased;  Oliver  is  at 
present  living  in  Lawrence,  Mass.  ;  and  Jona- 
than is  in  Lawrence,  Kan.  Afterward  he 
successively  married  Sarah  Hazelton  and  Anna 
M.  Frothingham.      He  died  March  8,   1884. 

Joseph  Russell  received  his  early  education 
in  the  schools  of  New  I^ondon.  When  quite 
young  he  began  to  work  on  his  father's  farm. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  years  he  engaged  in  gen- 
eral farming  on  his  own  account,  and  was  so 
occupied  until  1S29.  Then  he  started  in 
trade  in  Otterville,  where  he  remained  about 
seven  years.  Subsequently,  after  staying  in 
Sunapee  for  a  short  time,  he  went  back  to 
New  London,  and  engaged  in  lumbering  and 
farming.  In  1882  he  again  removed  to  Suna- 
])ee,  and  opened  a  general  store,  which  he  car- 
ried on  until  a  short  time  ago,  when  he  sold 
out.  Now,  besides  following  the  business  of 
auctioneer,  he  is  a  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Ma.xson  &  Co.,  who  conduct  a  general  store. 
In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace  and  Quorum,  and  he  has  been  Se- 
lectman, Supervisor,  and  Moderator. 

In  1856  he  married  for  his  first  wife  Har- 
riett Palmer,  who  died  January  5,  1S89.  She 
left   one   child,    Rocna   A.    Russell,    born    De- 


cember 24,  1861,  who  now  lives  in  Dundee, 
II!.,  and  is  the  wife  of  S.  M.  Abbott.  On 
I'"ebruary  26,  i8go,  he  married  Klla  M.  Emer- 
son, who  was  born  in  Grantham,  N.  IL,  Janu- 
ary 16,  1862,  daughter  of  John  and  Mary 
lunerson.  By  this  union  there  were  two  chil- 
dren: Floyd,  who  died  at  the  age  of  one  year; 
and  Leighton  J.,  born  June  10,  i89r.  In  re- 
ligion Mr.  Russell  and  Mrs.  Russell  arc  lib- 
erals. He  has  been  quite  successful  in  his 
business,  being  a  hard  worker  and  very  indus- 
trious. He  is  a  prominent  man  in  the  com- 
munity, and  has  the  respect  of  his  fellow- 
townsmen. 


RRICN  OSGOOD,  a  .substantial  farmer 
of  Newport,  was  born  there,  June  22, 
1 81 8,  son  of  Lemuel  and  Hannah 
(Spaulding)  Osgood.  His  grandfather,  Will- 
iam Osgood,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of  the 
district,  took  up  a  farm  and  built  a  log  house 
when  the  place  was  still  a  part  of  the  wilder- 
ness and  was  infested  by  bears.  The  log 
house  was  destroyed  by  fire,  and  another 
wooden  structure  was  built,  in  which  the  fam- 
ily afterward  lived.  The  same  building  is 
now  standing,  and  is  used  as  a  wagon-house  at 
the  present  time.  William  was  industrious 
and  persevering,  and  added  fifty  acres  to  the 
farm  before  his  death.  He  had  a  wife,  Pris- 
cilla,  who  bore  him  seven  children — William, 
Susanna,  James,  Priscilla,  Lemuel,  Lydia,  and 
Mathias.  James  Osgood  took  part  in  the  War 
of  1812.  His  father,  William,  fought  in  the 
Revolution,  and  was  in  the  battle  of  Ticon- 
deroga.  His  death  occurred  at  the  age  of 
seventy-five  years. 

Lemuel  Osgood  was  also  a  farmer,  and  in- 
herited the  old  place,  to  which  he  added  land 
and  improvements.  His  entire  life  of  ninety- 
three  years,  with  the  exception  of  a  few 
months,  was  spent  in  Newport.      His  wife  died 


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at  the  age  of  seventy-five.  They  were  both 
members  of  the  Congregational  church.  He 
was  a  Whig  and  later  a  Republican.  Of  his 
three  children  two  are  now  living.  Hannah 
died  at  the  age  of  fifty.  Lucy  S. ,  born  in 
i<S23,  October  25,  lives  with  her  brother  on  the 
old  homestead. 

Orren  Osgood  inherited  the  old  home,  which 
is  located  upon  a  beautiful  site.  Here  he  has 
followed  general  farming  throughout  his  active 
period.  He  has  never  married  ;  and  he  shares 
his  home  with  his  sister,  Miss  Lucy  S.  Os- 
good. The  farm  now  contains  two  hundred 
acres  of  well-improved  land.  He  is  a  liberal 
in  religious  belief  and  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics. He  represented  his  district  in  1S70  and 
I  871,  and  has  held  other  minor  oflfices. 


—*-•••-•— 


ALT1':R  BRIGHAM  BARNES,  who 
/sV  for  many  years  has  been  engaged  in 
the  dressed  beef  business  in  Ilenni- 
ker,  is  a  son  of  Captain  Harry  and  Mary  Polly 
(Canijibell)  Barnes.  The  father,  a  native  of 
Ilcnniker,  born  l'\'bruary  20,  1790,  who  was 
but  four  years  old  when  his  mother  died,  lived 
with  his  uncle,  Elisha  Barnes,  until  he 
reached  the  age  of  twelve.  After  a  short  stay 
with  his  father,  Harry  Barnes  next  went  to 
reside  with  Lzekiel  Smith,  and  remained  with 
him  until  he  was  eighteen.  He  then  went  to 
Dunbarton,  N.H.,  and  was  for  a  time  em- 
ployed by  Dominie  Walter  Harris,  whose  first 
name  he  gave  his  first  son.  After  his  mar- 
riage he  bought  widow  David  Campbell's 
third  of  the  Campbell  farm,  whicii  was  situ- 
ated on  the  Hillsborough  Road.  This  prop- 
erty, containing  seventy-five  acres  of  land, 
was  partially  covered  with  timber,  which  he 
cleared  away;  while  he  carried  on  general 
farming  until  1864,  when  he  retired.  The 
farm  afterward  passed   into  other  hands,  and 


was  divided  into  village  lots.  Captain  Harry 
Barnes  passed  his  last  days  in  the  village,  oc- 
cupying the  house  which  is  now  owned  by 
George  Gove;  and  he  died  September  18, 
1876,  aged  eighty -si.x  years  and  seven  months. 
He  was  for  some  time  Captain  of  the  Henni- 
ker  Rifles,  a  company  belonging  to  the  State 
militia.  P'or  forty-five  years  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Congregational  church.  His  wife, 
Mary,  whom  he  married  December  i,  18 14, 
was  born  in  Henniker,  February  21,  1793, 
daughter  of  Major  David  Campbell.  Their 
married  life  extended  over  a  period  of  sixty- 
one  years.  She  became  the  mother  of  five 
children — ^  Walter,  Sarah  Almeda,  Livonia 
S.,  Mary  E.,  and  Walter  B.  Walter  was  born 
November  i,  1816,  and  died  at  the  age  of  fif- 
teen. Sarah  Almeda  is  residing  in  Nashua, 
N.H.,  and  is  the  widow  of  Joseph  F.  Andrews. 
Her  late  husband,  who  was  a  contractor  and 
builder,  raised  a  company  in  Concord,  and 
served  as  a  Major  in  the  Civil  War.  Livonia 
S.,  who  was  born  December  16,  1S22,  mar- 
ried Hiram  A.  Campbell,  of  Hennikei,  who 
died  in  January,  1895.  Mary  ¥..,  who  was 
born  March  22,  1827,  married  Charles  C. 
Gove,  a  native  of  Acworth,  N.  H.,  and  now  a 
mechanic  and  builder  in  North  Palmer,  N.Y. 
Mrs.  Harry  l^arnes  died  October  11,  1875, 
aged  eighty-two  years  and  eight  months. 

Walter  Brigham  Barnes  was  born  February 
19,  1832,  in  Henniker,  and  there  attended 
school.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  he  com- 
menced to  learn  the  butchering  business  with 
George  W.  Rice,  for  whom  he  worked  four 
years.  In  1857  he  bought  tlie  business  of  iiis 
employer,  including  the  farm  where  he  now 
resides.  He  survived  the  business  depression 
that  preceded  the  breaking  out  of  the  Rebell- 
ion ;  and  the  revival  following  that  event  not 
only  enabled  him  to  cancel  all  of  his  debts, 
but  placed   him   upon  a  good   financial   basis. 


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241 


lie  cdiiliiuicd  in  llic  wholesale  and  retail  meat 
business,  driving;  a  cart  in  this  sectiun  for 
nineteen  years,  dressing  beef  and  veal  for  the 
markets  of  Manchester  and  Boston,  and  being 
associated  as  a  partner  with  his  old  employer, 
Mr.  Rice,  for  two  years.  lie  was  also  en- 
gaged in  buying  cattle  for  slaughter  until  the 
trade  was  monopolized  by  the  large  Western 
beef  companies. 

On  October  13,  1857,  Mr.  Barnes  married 
Eliza  J.  Tucker,  a  native  of  Hennikcr,  and  a 
daughter  of  Horace  and  Mary  C.  (Dow) 
Tucker.  Their  daughter,  Ida  M.,  was  several 
years  employed  in  a  store  in  Kcene,  N.H., 
but  on  account  of  her  mother's  failing  eye- 
sight returned  home.  She  is  interested  in 
the  breeding  of  fancy  poultry,  and  has  some 
choice  siicciniens  of  red  Leghorn  and  light 
Brahmas.  In  politics  Mr.  Barnes  is  a  Demo- 
crat. He  has  figured  quite  prominently  as  a 
party  leader  in  the  locality,  is  frequently  a 
delegate  to  the  State  and  District  Conven- 
tions and  he  re[)resentecl  tliis  town  in  the 
legislature  in   1876. 


K.BI^RT  M.  KIMBALL,  a  skilful, 
ntelligent,  and  highly  successful 
farmer  of  Hopkinton,  was  born  in 
this  town,  December  20,  1862,  a  son  of 
Moses  T.  and  Mary  F.  (Smith)  Kimball,  and 
a  grandson  of  Nathaniel  Kimball.  A  more 
extended  history  of  his  ancestors  may  be  found 
on  another  page  of  tiiis  volume,  in  connection 
with  the  sketch  of  Oilman  B.  Kimball,  his 
brother. 

Mr.  Kimball  has  been  engaged  in  agricult- 
ural pursuits  from  early  youth.  Since  arriv- 
ing at  man's  estate,  he  has  also,  in  partner- 
ship with  his  brother,  carried  on  a  large  busi- 
ness in  lumbering  and  dairying.  He  lived  on 
the   tdd    homestead    until    his    marriage,    when 


for  a  time  he  occupied  the  old  Charles  Merrill 
farm.  Since  selling  that  he  has  occupied  the 
John  Page  estate,  which  the  brothers  pur- 
chased at  a  bargain  three  or  more  years  ago. 
He  has  a  dairy  of  twenty  cows,  and  runs  a 
large  milk  route;  and  he  keeps  two  men  busily 
employed  on  the  farm.  He  sells  a  consider- 
able amount  of  hay  each  season,  and  often 
raises  a  good  deal  of  corn,  his  1896  crop 
amounting  to  nine  hundred  bushels.  Mr. 
Kimball  is  a  firm  Democrat  of  the  Cleveland 
type,  and  is  usually  a  delegate  to  the  party 
conventions.  In  1894  he  was  elected  a  Rep- 
resentative to  the  State  legislature  for  1895 
and  1S96,  defeating  the  Republican  candi- 
date, E.  D.  French,  his  election  in  a  Repub- 
lican stronghold  showing  his  great  popularity. 
He  is  interested  in  the  grange,  having  been  a 
member  of  the  State  organization,  and  is  a 
member  of  Union  Grange,  No.  58,  of  which 
he  was  Master  two  years. 

Mr.  Kimball  was  married  October  6,  1886, 
to  Miss  M.  Abbie  Colby,  daughter  of  Francis 
W.  and  Paulina  P.  (Wheeler)  Colby,  the 
former  of  whom  was  born  in  Bow,  the  birth- 
place of  Mrs.  Kimball,  and  the  latter  in  Dun- 
barton.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kimball  have  two 
children  —  Edgar  Herbert  and  Grace   Paulina. 


AMUEL  A.  MORRILL,  farmer  and 
carpenter  of  Canterbury,  Merrimack 
County,  was  born  May  26,  1S27,  in 
the  house  that  he  now  occupies.  His  parents 
were  Nathaniel  and  Sallie  S.  (Morrill)  Mor- 
rill. His  paternal  grandfather  was  Samuel 
Morrill,  a  farmer  of  Boscawen,  where  he  al- 
ways lived.  Nathaniel  Morrill  removed  from 
Boscawen  to  Canterbury  in  1821,  settling 
upon  this  farm.  He  died  in  the  winter  of 
1836,  at  the  age  of  forty-seven  years,  his  wife 
surviving  him  until  August,  1861.      They  had 


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seven  children.  The  eldest,  a  daughter, 
Emily,  born  March  3,  1821,  married  Abram 
Fitz.  Catherine,  the  second  child,  was  born 
August  27,  1823,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seven- 
teen years.  Reuben,  the  third  child,  was 
born  August  11,  1825,  and  died  in  East  Con- 
cord, N.H.  Lie  married  Hannah  McCoy, 
who  now  lives  in  Boston.  Samuel  A.  was 
the  fourth  child.  Charles  F.,  the  third  son, 
married  first  Martha  M.  Roby,  second  Ann 
Sawyer,  and  third  Ro.xey  James.  He  is  a 
farmer  and  carpenter,  and  resides  with  his 
wife  in  Canterbury.  Elizabeth  was  born 
March  7,  1S31,  and  died  April  24,  1832. 
The  youngest  child  is  Elder  Enoch  Morrill, 
born  September  16,  1S33,  who  is  a  jeweller 
by  trade,  and  is  an  Ad\'ent  preacher.  He  re- 
sides in  Hampton,  N.H.  His  first  wife  was 
Angeline  Stevens,  and  his  second  Augusta 
Mace,  of  Seabrook,  N.H. 

The  Morrill  children  all  received  a  com- 
mon-school education.  Samuel  A.  had  the 
additional  advantage  of  two  terms  in  the  acad- 
emy at  Boscawen,  and  after  finishing  his 
studies  he  taught  scliool  five  winters.  He 
was  in  his  tenth  year  when  his  father  died. 
When  he  was  twenty-one  years  old  he  had 
learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and  he  then  took 
the  entire  charge  of  the  farm.  On  April  10, 
1851,  he  married  Miss  Mary  E.  Garland,  who 
was  horn  October  23,  1830,  daughter  of  Na- 
thaniel and  Abigail  Garland,  of  South  Ber- 
wick, Me.  Her  father  was  a  merthant,  a  hotel 
man,  and  a  teamster.  After  marriage  Mr. 
Morrill  went  to  Massachusetts,  and  spent  a 
year  in  Winchester  and  Lawrence,  employed  as 
a  carpenter.  Since  that  time  he  has  lived  on 
the  old  homestead.  He  now  owns  about  one 
hundred  acres  of  good  farm  land,  well  iiu- 
proved,  and  does  some  dairy  business,  still 
working  luore  or  less  at  his  trade. 

He  always  takes  an  active  interest   in  poli- 


tics, voting  the  Republican  ticket ;  and,  though 
heretofore  he  has  held  no  office,  he  is  now 
candidate  for  Supervisor.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Morrill  are  both  members  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  in  which  they  are  among  the 
most  active  workers,  Mr.  Morrill  having  been 
a  member  of  this  church  since  fifteen  years  of 
age.  They  have  one  adopted  child,  George 
A.,  who  lives  near  the  farm,  and  whose  son, 
Harry  R.,  now  resides  with  them. 


TT^HARLES  W.  HARDY,  who  owns 
I    jp       one   of   the  most  fertile  farms  in  Bos- 

Vfc^__-^  cawen,  Merrimack  County,  was 
born  in  Warner,  N.  H.,  July  ig,  1834,  son  of 
Ozias  and  Lavinia  (Barton)  Hardy.  His 
grandfather,  .Silas  Hardy,  was  a  prosperous 
farmer,  who  resided  for  a  time  in  Hopkin- 
ton,  N.I  I.,  from  which  town  he  removed  to 
Warner. 

Ozias  Hardy  was  brought  up  to  agriculture, 
which  calling  he  followed  through  life.  He 
owned  farms  in  Warner  and  Llopkinton,  and 
spent  his  last  days  in  the  latter  town,  dying 
about  the  year  1850.  His  wife,  Lavinia 
Barton  Hardy,  who  was  a  native  of  Stoddard, 
N.H.,  became  the  mother  of  five  children: 
.Samuel;  Eliza  A.;  Woodbury;  Charles  \V., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  Sanford. 
Samuel  married  Abbie  Ann  Putney,  who  is  no 
longer  living;  and  he  resides  in  Hopkinton. 
l*",liza  A.  died  at  the  age  of  seventeen  years. 
Woodbury  married  IClIen  Price,  and  lives  in 
Hoiikinton.  Sanford,  who  died  in  1896,  mar- 
ried for  his  first  wife  Louise  -Sanford.  His 
second  wife  was  Nettie  15arr;  and  she  now  re- 
sides in  Aurora,  111.  Mrs.  Ozias  Hardy  died 
in  1 88 1. 

Charles  W.  Hardy  was  educated  in  tlie  com- 
mon schools  and  at  the  Contoocook  Academy. 
When  twenty  years  old  he  was  employed  upon 


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a  riirin  in  Daiivcrs,  Mass.,  vvliurc  he  remained 
a  year.  Tlieii,  returniiif;  home,  he  worked 
some  time  as  a  farm  assistant  in  and  aronnd 
his  native  town.  In  icSflo  he  went  to  Illinois, 
where  ]ie  was  foreman  ii[)on  a  larj^e  farm  for 
five  years.  lie  suhseqnently  retnrned  ICast, 
and  al)ont  1S7.:  came  to  Hoscawcn,  purchasing 
the  farm  of  one  hundred  and  thirty-five  acres 
wliich  he  now  occupies.  lie  carries  on  gen- 
eral tarming  and  dairying,  and  raises  a  con- 
siderahle  amount  of  fruit. 

On  April  -'8,  1.S72,  Mr.  llaivly  was  married 
in  llopkinton  to  Miss  Mary  George,  who  was 
l)orn  in  Webster,  Merrimack  County,  N.II., 
June  j:;,  1S49,  a  daughter  of  William  1).  and 
Submit  (Swett)  George.  Her  father  is  a 
native  of  Candia,  N.H.,  and  her  mother  of 
Webster.  They  arc  prosperous  farming  peo- 
ple, and  reside  in  Webster.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hardy  have  become  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, namely:  Alice  M.,  born  February  21, 
1873;  Albert  Sanford,  born  April  25,  1875; 
Mattie  Louise,  born  April  28,  1876,  and  who 
is  now  a  teacher;  and  h'lorence  h'tta,  born 
October  12,   1878. 

In  politics  Mr.  Hardy  is  a  Repid)lican.  He 
takes  an  active  interest  in  political  affairs, 
and  has  voted  at  every  election  but  one  since 
attaining  his  majority;  and  he  has  ably  filled 
some  of  the  jiublic  offices.  He  is  connected 
with  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  and  he  and 
Mrs.  Hardy  are  members  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church. 


rp^EV.  JAMES  NOYES,  Superintend- 
1 1^~^  ent  of  the  New  Hampshire  Orphans' 
i-^  V^^^  Home,  in  the  town  of  Franklin, 
Merrimack  County,  is  a  native  of  Columbia, 
Coos  County,  N.H.  He  was  born  July  2, 
1835,  son  of  l-'leazcr  and  .Sophronia  (Cass) 
Noyes.  His  father  was  a  native  of  Colebrook, 
N.H.  ;  and  lie  lived  there  until    he   removed  to 


a  farm  in  Columbia,  where  he  died  in  June, 
1S42.  He  was  a  ])ionccr  farmer  of  the  town. 
His  wife  was  from  Lyman,  N.II.  .She  mar- 
I  ied  for  a  second  husband  William  A*lc.\anclLT, 
and  .after  his  death  married  a  Mr.  Johnson, 
also  now  deceased.  .She  dicfi  in  August, 
1885.  The  children  by  her  first  marriage 
were  five  in  nimiber:  Charles,  of  Concord, 
N.II.;  James,  above  named;  John  Wesley, 
deceased;  Ivlmira,  wife  of  David  .Sanborn,  of 
North  Woodstock,  N.H.;  I'arker  J.,  of  Lan- 
caster, N.  H. 

James  Noyes  received  his  early  education  at 
Newbury  .Seminary,  Vermont.  On  December 
I,  1 86 1,  he  enlisted  in  Company  C  of  the 
h^ighth  Vermont  Infantry,  under  Colonel 
Thomas  and  Captain  l-"oster,  and  did  service 
in  this  company  in  the  Gulf  Department  until 
transferred  from  the  ICighth  Vermont,  in  1862, 
to  the  Second  Louisiana  National  Guards. 
Mr.  Noyes  was  apjiointed  Sergeant  Major,  was 
])roniotcd  to  position  of  F'irst  Lieutenant,  and 
afterward  became  Captain  of  Company  G,  later 
known  as  the  Seventy-fourth  U.  S.  C.  I.  He 
remained  in  active  service  for  four  years,  and 
was  honorably  discharged  in  October,  1865. 
Returning  to  Newbury,  Vt.,  at  the  close  of 
his  military  career,  he  there  attended  the 
seminary  for  post-graduate  work  ;  and,  entering 
the  Theological  School  of  the  Boston  Univer- 
sity in  the  fall  of  1866,  he  graduated  from  the 
three  years'  course  in  i8fig,  and  at  once  joined 
the  New  Hampshire  Conference.  He  was  lo- 
cated at  Methuen,  Mass.,  for  three  years,  and 
was  afterward  stationed  as  follows,  to  wit :  at 
Suncook,  Lancaster,  Portsmouth,  Amesbury, 
Mass.,  Milford,  N.  IL,  Winchester,  Newport, 
and  Franklin  F'alls,  N.H.,  leaving  the  pulpit 
then  to  take  charge  of  the  Orphans'  Home  at 
Franklin,  N.H. 

On  February  ig,  1859,  Mr.  Noyes  married 
Amy    E.    Scott,  of  Newbury,    Vt. ,    a   daughter 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIPAV 


of  the  Rev.  Orange  Scott  and  his  wife,  Mrs. 
Eliza  Dearborn  Scott.  Her  father  is  dead; 
and  her  mother,  now  ninety-four  years  of  age, 
resides  with  the  Rev.  Mr.  Quimby,  of  Pena- 
cook.  Mrs.  Amy  E.  S.  Noyes  died  December 
4,  1875;  and  Mr.  Noyes  married  in  Septem- 
licr,  1^76,  Miss  Eannie  M.  Barker,  of  Derry, 
N.  If.,  daughter  of  Mr.  Benjamin  iiarker,  de- 
ceased. There  are  three  children  by  the  first 
marriage:  Fred  S. ,  a  compositor  in  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Methodist  Ikiok  Concern,  New 
York  City;  Frank  \V. ,  engaged  in  the  dry- 
goods  business  in  Franklin,  Mass.  ;  and  Amy 
v.,  a  student  at  the  Conservatory  of  Music  in 
Boston.  The  only  child  by  the  second  mar- 
riage of  Mr.  Noyes  is  Clara  L. ,  who  is  now 
taking  a  course  at  the  College  of  Liberal 
Arts,  Boston  University. 

The  New  Hampshire  Orphans'  Home,  of 
which  Mr.  Noyes  is  the  efficient  Superintend- 
ent, was  founded  by  the  Rev.  Daniel  A. 
Mack,  of  Plainfield,  Vt.,  and  was  established 
and  chartered  in  October,  1871.  The  institu- 
tion is  located  in  the  town  of  Franklin,  in  the 
beautiful  valley  of  the  Merrimac,  eighteen 
miles  from  Concord.  Here  was  the  boyhood 
home  of  Daniel  Webster.  He  became  the 
owner  and  retained  possession  while  he  lived, 
and  he  made  annual  pilgrimages  to  it  after  he 
had  become  a  leading  man  in  the  nation.  The 
family  mansion  still  remains  as  a  part  of  the 
Home,  which  also  includes  a  building  for  the 
luu-sery  and  the  farm.  The  nursery  was  added 
to  the  Home  in  1894  at  an  expense  of  about 
si.xteen  thousand  dollars,  this  sum  being  cov- 
ered by  subscription  during  the  year.  The 
Orphans'  Home  is  a  inivate  charity  and  is  non- 
sectarian.  More  than  one  hundred  homeless 
children  have  here  received  education  and 
kindly  loving  care  during  the  year  just  passed, 
.uul  more  than  seven  hundred  in  all  have  thus 
ijcen  cared  for  since  the  Home  was  established. 


In  the  school-rooms  the  common  branches  and 
kindergarten  studies  are  taken  up.  The  place 
is  essentially  a  great  farm  home,  with  as  little 
of  the  "institution  "  in  its  management  and 
atmo.sphere  as  is  consistent  with  discipline  and 
good  order.  Mr.  Noyes,  who  began  his  labors 
October  i,  1887,  has  carried  on  the  good  work 
begun  by  his  predecessors  -in  the  most  admi- 
rable manner  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  all  in- 
terested in  the  welfare  of  the  little  ones  in  his 
charge.  Mrs.  Noyes  as  matron  presides,  and 
the  nine  years  of  their  service  has  been  a 
period  of  great  prosperity  and  usefulness.  Mr. 
Noyes  is  well  known  throughout  the  county, 
and  is  much  respected  as  a  man  whose  life  has 
been  animated  by  the  most  unselfish  motives 
in  working  for  others. 


ILLIAM  C.  HOBART,  a  retired 
carpenter  of  North  Charlestown, 
Sullivan  County,  N.  H.,  was  born  in 
Hebron,  N.  II.  In  early  life  he  went  to 
Unity,  where  in  1848  he  purchased  a  farm; 
and  he  was  successfully  engaged  in  farming  in 
that  town  for  twenty  years.  In  1870  he  re- 
moved to  Charlestown,  where  he  now  resides. 
He  is  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  until  late 
years  has  done  a  great  deal  of  building  in 
Charlestown  and  the  vicinity.  He  holds  mem- 
bership in  the  Claremont  and  Charlestown 
Masonic  Lodge,  No.  12.  He  is  also  a  promi- 
nent member  of  the  Methodist  churcli,  of 
which  he  has  been  steward  foi'  luany  years. 
In  1S53  he  marrietl  lunily  Ilunton,  of  Unity; 
and  they  had  one  child—  I'"rank  lluiiton 
Ilobart,  born  in  1S58,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy. His  wife  dying,  in  1868  Mr.  Ilobart 
married  for  his  second  wife  Mrs.  Sjicncer, 
widow  of  George  P.  Spencer,  M.D.,  and 
daughter  of  Harvey  Brigham,  of  Unity,  a  rep- 
resentative   of     one    of     the     oldest    and    Iiest 


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kniiwii  families  of  thai  Incalily.  Mr.  Ilnliait 
has  ret i led  from  active  work  at  his  trade,  but 
is  still  regarded  as  one  of  the  useful  and  sub- 
stantial citizens  of  the  town. 


/^^TTa)\<.(,K  W.  Ml'-.Kkll.L,  a  well- 
\  3T~  known  fainier  of  London,  N.I  I.,  is 
a  native  of  this  town,  born  March  31, 
1.S55,  a  son  of  Hcla  C.  and  Sarah  (Pickron) 
Merrill.  ilis  father  was  a  native  of  (iilman- 
ton,   N.ll.,  and  his  mother  of  Harnstead,   N.  1 1. 

I'aul  Merrill,  tlic  paternal  grandfather  of 
Cieorge  W. ,  was  a  Xcw  Hampshire  man,  and 
settled  on  a  faian  in  Crilmanton,  where  he 
li\'cd  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  I'ela  Mer- 
rill was  a  farmer  in  the  same  town,  remaining 
there  until  about  1854,  when  he  came  to  Lou- 
don, llcie  he  resided  with  his  son,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  till  his  death,  which  took 
place  in  November,  1880.  Ilis  wife  passed 
away  many  years  before,  about  1859.  Their 
family  niiinbei  eight  children,  as  follows:  Ar- 
villa,  Ale.xantlor  C,  Lliza,  liela  T.,  Maria, 
Lurana,  1  loll  is  R.,  and  George  \V.  The 
first  of  these,  ArvilLi,  is  the  widow  of  Jona- 
than Ihown,  ;ni(l  resiiles  with  her  brother, 
tieorgeW.,  as  does  also  Alexander  C.  Hela 
T.  nlarried  Eliza  A.  Young;  and  they  live  in 
I'ittsficld,  X.ll.  Maria  became  the  wife  of 
I'^bcn  Hayes,  and  they  reside  in  Gilmanton. 
Lurana  is  the  widow  of  Loren  Coolidge;  and 
hoi-  home  is  in  Minneapolis,  Minn.  Hollis 
R.  and  b!liza  are  botIi  deceased.  The  latter 
married  Thomas  Osborn,  who  now  resides  in 
Iowa.  The  members  of  this  large  family 
were  all  given  the  benefit  of  a  common  and 
high  school  education. 

George  W.  Merrill,  after  the  death  of  his 
mother,  which  occurred  when  he  was  about 
four  years  old,  residetl  on  his  present  farm 
with   his   father.      After   the    hitter's   death   he 


took  charge  of  the  place.  He  carries  on  gen- 
eral farming,  and  also  makes  a  specialty  of 
fruit- raising.  He  now  owns  one  hundred  and 
twenty  acres,  and  he  has  improved  the  property 
in  a  marked  degree.  Mr.  Merrill  was  married 
I'ebruary  25,  1880,  to  Ancda  H.  .Smith,  fif 
Gilmanton.  Mrs.  Merrill  is  a  daughter  of 
Ldvvin  and  Jane  (ICvans)  Smith,  both  natives 
of  Tojisfield,  Mass.,  but  who  now  reside  in 
Gilmanton,  where  Mr.  Smith  is  engaged  in 
teaming  and  farming.  His  children  were 
eleven  in  number,  ten  of  whom  are  living. 
Their  names  are:  I'Ldward  I'iverctt  (deceased), 
Aneda  (Mrs.  Merrill),  Karlville  L.,  William, 
Alice,  Horace  H.,  lamest  C,  Lillian  IC. , 
lierta  M.,  Myrta  15.,  and  Daisy  M.  Mr. 
:in(l  Mrs.  Merrill  have  five  children  —  George 
Iv,  Jennie  I.,  Clarence  C. ,  Frank  L. ,  and 
Maud  C.  -all  of  whom  still  remain  under  the 
parental  roof.  Mr.  Merrill  is  now  on  the 
Hoard  of  Selectmen,  and  holds  other  minor 
offices.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  has 
always  voted  the  Democratic  ticket. 


niAN  N.  SPENCER,  who  is  engaged 
in  the  fish  business  in  Concord,  was 
born  in  the  town  of  Barton,  Vt. ,  Jan- 
uary 22,  1S50,  son  of  John  C.  and  Mary 
(Kuo.n)  .S|)encer.  John  C.  Spencer,  the  father 
of  our  subject,  who  was  born  in  Peacham,  Vt., 
removed  from  his  native  town  to  Barton,  there 
bought  a  farm,  and  spent  the  remainder  of  his 
life  occupied  in  its  cultivation  and  improve- 
ment. He  died  when  about  si.xty  years  of  age. 
His  wife,  Mary  Kno.x,  had  four  children, 
namely:  Adele,  who  died  young;  Ethan  N., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Nancy,  who  died 
in  infancy;  and  Wallace,  who  is  a  farmer  in 
Charlestown,  \'t. 

After  receiving  his  education  in  the  district 
schools  of  Barton,  Ethan   X.  Spencer  was    for 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


seven  years  employed  as  an  attendant  in  the 
New  Hampshire  Insane  Asylum,  and  subse- 
quently for  one  year  with  an  undertaker.  In 
1877  he  opened  a  market  for  the  sale  of  oys- 
ters and  other  fish  in  the  same  town,  and  has 
successfully  continued  it  ever  since.  Well 
regarded  by  his  fellow-citizens,  he  was  elected 
ti)  represent  Ward  Six  in  the  city  government 
in  the  autumn  of  i8g6.  In  1872  he  married 
Charlotte  A.  Perry,  a  daughter  of  Dr.  Eli 
Perry,  of  Ryegate.  They  have  two  children  : 
I'red  E.,  who  married  the  daughter  of  William 
J.   Fernald  ;  and  Margaret  Adele. 

Mr.  Spencer  has  always  been  a  Republican 
in  his  ]5olitics,  and  he  cast  his  first  Presiden- 
tial Ijallot  for  General  U.  S.  Grant  in  1872. 
I"'illing  a  prominent  part  in  the  fraternal  or- 
ganizations of  Ccmcord,  he  is  a  Mason  of  the 
thirty-second  degree,  Master  of  the  Blazing 
Star  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Concord,  and  an 
active  member  of  the  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
lie  is  a  useful  and  much  resiiected  citizen. 


^11 1  LIT  SARGIiNT,  a  retired  brick 
manufacturer  of  Allenstown  and  an 
e.\-niember  of  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  was  born  in  Allenstown,  N.  H., 
August  16,  1822,  son  of  Sterling  and  Sally 
(Gault)  Sargent.  The  Sargents  are  of  Eng- 
lish descent,  and  the  origin  of  the  family  dates 
far  back  into  the  Middle  Ages.  Its  history  is 
directly  traced,  however,  through  eight  genera- 
tions to  Richard  Sargent,  who  is  supposed  to 
have  been  an  officer  in  the  Royal  Navy  of  luig- 
land.  His  son  William  came  to  America,  and 
located  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1633.  From 
Ipswich  he  went  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  and 
later  to  Hampton,  N.H.  He  was  a  pioneer 
in  the  two  last-named  pL'ices,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  in  each  to  receive  land  grants.  He 
finally  settled   in   that   part  of  old    Salisbury, 


Mass.,  which  in  166S,  as  a  separate  town, 
received  the  name  of  Arnesbury.  His  first 
wife  was  Judith  Perkins,  and  his  second  was 
Elizabeth  Perkins  ;  and  it  is  supposed  that  they 
were  sisters.  His  sons  were  by  his  second 
union.  William  Sargent,  Jr.,  the  ne.xt  in  this 
line,  was  born  in  Arnesbury,  Mass.,  January 
2,  1646.  On  September  23,  1668,  he  wedded 
Mary  Colby,  who  was  born  September  19, 
1647,  daughter  of  Anthony  Colby.  Philip 
Sargent,  son  of  William  Sargent,  second,  was 
born  in  Amcsbury,  August  12,  1672.  The 
maiden  name  of  his  wife  was  Mary  Tewksbury, 
and  she  was  also  a  native  of  Arnesbury.  It  is 
supposed  that  several  children  were  born  of 
this  union,  but  Jonathan  is  the  only  child  of 
whom  there  is  any  record.  Jonathan  Sargent 
and  his  wife  Jemima  had  two  sons  —  Jonathan, 
Jr.,  and  Sterling. 

Sterling  Sargent  was  born  in  Salisbury, 
Mass.,  May  25,  1731.  When  a  young  man  he 
settled  in  Allenstown,  N.H.,  where  he  fol- 
lowed agricultural  pursuits  during  the  active 
period  of  his  life;  and  he  lived  to  reach  a  g(5od 
old  age.  He  was  three  times  married.  I5y 
his  iniion  with  Lydia  Coffin,  his  first  wife,  he 
had  five  children,  his  son  Philip  being  the 
youngest.  His  second  wife,  Mehitable  Davis, 
with  whom  he  was  united  September  24,  1785, 
was  a  native  of  Arnesbury.  His  third  wife, 
Mary  Andrews,  of  Pembroke,  N.  H.,  whnm  he 
marrieil  cm  I-'ebruary  11,  178S,  died  in  PY-bru- 
ary,  1820. 

Philip  Sargent,  first,  son  of  Sterling  Sargent 
and  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  in  Allenstown,  March  21,  1765.  He 
was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  a  lifelong  resident 
of  this  town.  On  September  22,  1793,  he 
married  Sally  Perrin,  a  native  of  Pembroke. 
The  only  child  of  this  union  was  named  Ster- 
ling. Philij)  .Sargent,  first,  died  Fcbruaiy  21, 
1820. 


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Slciling  Sargent,  sccuiul,  was  Ijmii  in  Al- 
Icnstuwi),  in  1794-  He  enlisted  for  service 
in  tiie  War  (il  1.S12,  joining  Captain  Samuel 
(j)llins's  coinpan)'  in  1X14,  and  serving 
in  Joim  Montgomery's  brigade,  under  Gen- 
eral Nathaniel  Fiske.  He  was  a  good  musi- 
cian, and  is  thought  to  have  been  commis- 
sioned a  Hrmn  IMajor.  After  his  return  from 
the  army  he  engaged  in  the  manufacturing  of 
brick  in  Allenstovvn,  and  followed  that  busi- 
ness successfully  for  many  years  in  connection 
with  fanning.  He  was  one  of  the  stirring 
business  men  and  [n'ominent  citizens  of  his 
day,  and  as  a  stanch  supporter  of  the  Demo- 
cratic party  he  took  a  leading  part  in  public 
affairs.  ]'"or  a  number  of  terms  he  was  a 
member  of  the  ]5oard  of  Selectmen,  and  he 
represented  this  district  in  the  legislature  for 
eight  years.  He  was  well  advanced  in  Ma- 
sonry. Sterling  Sargent  died  at  his  home  in 
Allenstovvn  at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years. 
His  wife,  Sally  Gault,  whom  he  married  De- 
cember 29,  1 8 14,  was  a  daughter  of  Matthew 
Gault,  of  I  [ookset,  N.H.,  who  served  as  a 
soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  -She  be- 
came the  mother  of  eleven  children,  and  of 
these  five  are  living,  namely:  Philip,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  Mrs.  Sally  Hartwell  ; 
Mrs.  W.  F.  Head;  Warren  Sargent;  and 
Abbie,  who  is  the  wife  of  Nathaniel  15. 
Emery,  of  Pembroke,  N.  H.,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren—  Frederick  P.  and  Nathaniel  II,  Jr. 
Mrs.  Sally  Gault  Sargent  died  at  the  age  of 
si.Nty-seven  years.  ]5oth  parents  were  attenil- 
ants  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 

Philip  Sargent  began  his  education  in  the 
common  schools,  and  com|)leted  his  studies 
at  Pembroke  Gymnasium.  He  assisted  his 
father  for  a  time,  later  becoming  a  partner  in 
the  business  and  being  associated  with  him  for 
a  number  of  years.  P'or  a  time  he  carried  on  a 
brick  manufactory  alone;  and  later,  in  jjartner- 


ship  with  his  jjrother  Warren,  he  conducted  a 
thriving  and  profitable  Ijusiness  for  a  period 
of  thirty  years.  In  1891  he  retired  from 
active  pursuits,  and  has  since  been  enjoying  a 
well-earned  rest. 

On  December  31,  i<S49,  Mr.  Sargent  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Phoebe  A.  Williams, 
daughter  of  Charles  K.  and  Abbie  (liimery) 
Williams.  Mrs.  Sargent  is  the  mother  of  one 
daughter,  I-illen  F.  Politically,  Mr.  Sargent 
is  a  Democrat.  He  has  always  been  active  in 
forwarding  all  measures  conducive  to  public 
improvement,  but  has  never  aspired  to  any  of 
the  town  offices.  He  was  persuaded  to  accejJt 
the  nomination  for  Representative  to  the  legis- 
lature in  iSj.S,  and,  being  elected,  served  with 
ability  for  one  term.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sargent 
attend  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 


T^OLONEL  CHARLES  H.  LONG, 
I  jr'^  station  agent  at  Clarcmont  and  a  brill- 
^fcl£__.^  iant  military  man,  was  born  here, 
March  14,  1S34,  son  of  Charles  F.  and  Caro- 
line J.  (Hubbard)  Long.  The  grandfather, 
Simeon  Long,  who  was  the  captain  of  a  whal- 
ing vessel,  came  to  Claremont  from  Nantucket 
about  the  year  1810.  His  son,  Charles, 
learned  the  printer's  trade  in  New  IJedford, 
but  later  followed  the  sea  for  the  benefit  of  his 
health,  employed  on  a  merchant  vessel  for 
twenty-three  years.  In  1S43  Charles  returned 
to  Claremont  and  took  uj)  farming.  There- 
after he  jHospered  in  every  way,  taking  a 
prominent  part  in  local  politics,  and  marrying 
into  one  of  the  leading  families  of  the  place. 
His  wife,  Caroline  J.,  was  a  daughter  of  Isaac, 
who  was  a  son  of  George  Hubbard,  a  Lieu- 
tenant in  the  war  of  the  Revolution  and  a 
jjionecr  of  Claremont.  Isaac  died  in  Clare- 
mont in  1S61,  leaving  four  children — Amos 
C,    the  Rev.    Isaac    Hubbard,    Caroline,    and 


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Sarah.  The  old  Hubbard  estate  descended  to 
Caroline  J.  Hubbard  Long,  who  left  it  to  her 
son  Isaac.  The  latter  now  resides  there  with 
his  sister  Charlotte. 

Charles  H.  Long  attended  the  district 
schools  of  his  native  town,  and  graduated  froin 
the  Norwich  Military  University  in  1S55. 
He  then  went  home  to  assist  his  father  on  the 
farm.  In  April,  1861,  he  enlisted  for  service 
in  the  Civil  War,  and  was  at  first  employed 
to  drill  recruits  at  Newport,  Concord,  Dover, 
Portsmouth,  and  at  other  places  in  New  Hamp- 
shire. When  the  Fifth  New  Hampshire  In- 
fantry was  raised  in  the  following  September, 
he  was  made  Captain  of  one  of  the  regiment's 
companies;  and  in  the  ensuing  year  he  was 
promoted  to  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel  of 
the  Seventeenth  New  Hampshire  Regiment. 
At  the  battle  of  Antietam,  September  17, 
1862,  he  was  severely  wounded  by  a  minie 
ball;  and  he  resigned  November  6.  On  April 
17,  1863,  he  was  commissioned  Captain  of 
Company  A,  First  New  Hampshire  Regiment, 
and  was  authorized  to  raise  a  company  of  heavy 
artillery  to  garrison  the  defences  of  Ports- 
mouth. During  the  summer  of  1864  a  full 
regiment  was  raised,  and  he  was  commis- 
sioned its  Colonel.  It  subsec|uently  served  in 
tlie  defences  of  Washington.  In  November 
Colonel  Long  was  appointed  to  the  command 
of  the  First  Brigade,  Hardin's  division, 
Twenty-second  Army  Corps,  a  post  which  he 
afterwaril  held  until  the  close  of  the  war.  His 
regiment  was  mustered  out  June  15,  1865. 
Colonel  Long  made  a  high  record  during  his 
four  years  of  service,  and  his  sujierior  officers 
have  always  a  word  of  praise  for  his  bravery 
and  ability.  He  was  in  Washington  at  the 
time  of  the  assassination  of  President  Lincoln. 
Since  the  organization  of  the  Grand  Army  of 
the  Republic  he  has  been  an  honored  mem- 
ber.     He    has    been    Junior    Vice-Commander 


and  for  one  year  he  was  Commander  of  the 
Post.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican;  and  he 
was  for  two  terms  in  the  State  legislature, 
representing  Claremont  and  serving  on  the 
Military  Committee.  He  is  now  Eminent 
Commander  of  Sullivan  Commandery,  No.  6, 
K.  T.,  having  passed  through  all  the  chairs. 
At  the  opening  of  the  Concord  &  Claremont 
Railroad,  Colonel  Long  was  appointed  station 
agent,  a  position  which  has  since  grown  to 
be  one  of  much  responsibility.  He  married 
Stella  ¥..,  a  daughter  of  James  Cook.  They 
have  no  children. 


OHN  T.  TENNEY,  an  influential 
citizen  of  Concord,  N.H.,  was  born 
January  11,  1843,  on  the  farm  where 
he  now  resides,  and  is  the  son  of  the  late 
Thompson  Tenney,  who  was  born  at  the  same 
place. 

Thompson  Tenney  followed  the  trade  of 
carpenter  for  about  twenty  years.  He  also 
owned  a  farm  of  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres, 
and  did  an  extensive  farming  business  for 
thirty-five  years,  principally  in  the  line  of  milk 
produce  for  the  Concord  trade.  The  fine  set 
of  farm  buildings  now  owned  by  John  T. 
Tenney  were  built  by  his  fathei'.  Thompson 
Tenney  was  one  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  of 
the  city,  and  was  Selectman  of  his  ward. 
His  wife  was  Harriet  N.  Corliss,  daughter  of 
John  Corliss,  of  Concord.  Three  children 
were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thompson  Tenney; 
namely,  Mary  L. ,  Al}by  Augusta,  and  John  T. 
Mary  L.  is  the  widow  of  Charles  II.  Potter, 
the  son  of  Judge  Jacob  Potter,  of  Concord  ;  and 
she  has  one  child — Hattie  May,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Frank  Douglass,  of  Winthrop,  Mass. 
After  studying  in  tlie  public  schools  of 
Concord  in  his  early  years,  John  ']'.  Tenney 
attended  the  academies  at  Loudon  and  at  Con- 


SOLON    A.    CARTER. 


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toocook,  also  the  academy  at  Hoscawen  Plains, 
thus  acquiring  a  good  education.  He  has  al- 
ways bei-'n  a  l;iiiiicr,  and  has  devoted  himself 
principally  to  producing  milk,  lie  keeps 
about  twenty  cows,  and  has  some  fifty  acres 
of  tillage  land.  Mr.  'I'enney  and  his  wife, 
Ilaltie  I'",.  I'hippin  'I'enney,  have  one  son  — 
Arthur  II.,  who  married  Lillian  Coon.  In 
i<S'92  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tenney  suffered  a  severe 
allliction  in  the  dealh  of  their  beloved  daugh 
ter,  (jracie  May,  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years. 
Always  interested  in  whatever  concerns  the 
general  welfare  of  his  native  city,  Mr.  Tenney 
has  devoted  much  time  and  attention  to  ques- 
tions of  municipal  i:)rogrcss  and  reform.  He 
has  been  Selectman  of  his  ward,  and  has 
served  in  both  branches  of  the  city  govern- 
ment, having  been  Common  Councilman  rnid 
Alderman.  He  has  always  been  a  steadfast 
Democrat,  and  he  cast  his  first  I'residential 
vote  in  1864  for  (leneral  McClellan. 


()L0NP:L     SOLON     AUGUSTUS 


CARTl'.R,  Treasurer  of  New  Hamp- 
shire, is  one  of  the  busiest  citizens 
of  Concord;  for,  in  addition  to  the  duties  of 
his  responsible  position  in  the  executive  de- 
partment (if  the  .State  government,  he  is  ac- 
tively concerned  in  a  number  of  financial 
enterprises,  and  holds  high  office  in  several 
social  organizati(.ins.  He  was  born  in  Le<im- 
inster,  Mass.,  June  22,  1837.  His  parents, 
Solon  and  Lucretia  (Joslin)  Carter,  were 
natives  of  the  town  of  Leominster.  Colonel 
Carter  is  seventh  in  descent  from  Thomas  Car- 
ter, who  left  St.  Albans,  Hertfordshire,  Eng- 
land, for  this  country  in  1635,  and  was  or- 
dained and  settled  in  1642  as  the  first  min- 
ister in  Woburn,  Mass.  The  Colonel's  father 
was  a  farmer  of  Leominster. 

Solon  Augustus  Carter  attended   the  iiublic 


schools  of  Lcoiiiiii.-,icr,  graduating  in  1855, 
when  he  was  eighteen  years  old.  l-'or  four 
years  after  leaving  school,  he  divided  his 
time  between  farm  work  and  teaching,  making 
his  home  in  Leominster.  In  1859  he  removed 
to  Keene,  N.  II.  ;  and  in  September,  1862,  he 
was  appointed  Captain  of  Company  G,  l-'our- 
teenth  New  Hampshire  Volunteers.  He  was 
in  command  of  this  company  until  July,  1863, 
when  he  was  assigned  to  recruiting  duty  in 
Concord,  N.  H.,  acting  as  Assistant  Adjutant- 
general  on  the  staff  of  Brigadier-general 
Hincks;  and  in  April,  1S64,  he  was  made 
acting  Assistant  Adjutant-general  of  the 
Third  DivisiDU,  hjghteenth  Army  Corps 
(colored^.  This  body  of  troops  was  organized 
at  Fortress  Monroe  by  General  Hincks.  In 
July,  1864,  Mr.  Carter  was  commissioned 
Assistant  Adjutant-general  with  the  rank  of 
Captain  ;  but  he  continued  to  serve  with  the 
colored  division  from  the  time  of  its  organiza- 
tion till  the  close  of  the  war.  He  was  in  the 
campaign  before  Petersburg  and  Richmond 
during  the  summer  and  autumn  of  1864,  in 
botli  expeditions  to  Fort  Fisher,  and  in  the 
campaign  from  Fort  Fisher  to  Raleigh. 
Receiving  his  discharge  July  7,  1865,  he 
returned  to  Keene,  N.  II.,  and  was  employed 
there  as  a  clerk  until  June,  1872.  In  1S85, 
on  the  organization  of  the  Union  Guarantee 
.Savings  l^ank  of  Concord,  he  was  elected  Pres- 
ident. He  still  holtls  that  office,  and  he  is  a 
Director  of  the  PTrst  National  Hank  of  this 
city.  Colonel  Carter  has  been  a  prominent 
figure  among  the  Republicans  of  this  district 
since  the  close  of  the  war. 

In  June,  1872,  he  was  elected  State  Treas- 
urer; and  so  efficiently  has  he  discharged  his 
duties  that  he  has  been  retained  in  office 
twenty-three  years,  losing  but  one  year  since 
1S72,  from  June,  1S74,  to  June,  1S75.  He 
was  nominated   by   ballot    in    1872,   and    each 


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successive   iiominatiun    has    been   by   acclama- 
tion. 

He  was  married  December  13,  i860,  to 
Emily  A.  Conant,  of  Leominster,  Mass.,  and 
has  two  children:  Edith  Hincks;  and  Elor- 
ence  Gertrude,  wife  of  Edward  P.  Comins,  of 
Concord.  As  a  Grand  Army  man  Colonel 
Carter  is  a  member  of  E.  E.  Sturtevant  Post, 
No.  3,  of  Concord,  N.  H.  ;  and  he  is  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  Commandery  of  the 
Military  Order  of  the  Loyal  Legion  of  the 
United  States.  As  a  Mason  he  belongs  to 
Social  Friends  Lodge,  No.  42,  of  Keene, 
N.H.  ;  is  Past  High  Priest  of  Cheshire 
Royal  Arch  Chapter;  is  a  member  of  St. 
John's  Council ;  is  Past  Eminent  Commander 
of  Hugh  de  Payens  Commandery,  K.  T. ,  of 
Keene;  belongs  to  lulward  A.  Raymond 
Consistory,  of  Nashua;  is  Past  Master  of  the 
Blue  Lodge;  Past  Grand  Master  of  the  Grand 
Lodge  of  New  Hampshire;  and  Past  Grand 
Commander  of  the  Grand  Commandery.  He 
is  very  popular  as  a  society  man,  and  lias  a 
multitude  of  friends. 


RANKLIN  J.  PIERCE,  a  successful 
bLisiness  man  of  Claremont  in  the 
eighties,  was  born  in  Chester,  Vt. , 
August  5,  1848,  the  seventh  child  of  Joseph 
Ci.  and  Ilannah  (Hemenway)  Pierce.  At 
the  age  of  eighteen  Mr.  Pierce  entered  busi- 
ness life  in  Windsor,  \'t.,  in  the  cajjacity  of 
clerk  in  one  of  the  stores.  Afterward,  in 
Claremont,  he  followed  in  turn  the  business  of 
clothier  and  that  of  sh(je  dealer.  Later  for  a 
short  time,  he  was  a  druggist  in  Lawrence, 
Mass.  Ill  beyond  recovery,  he  was  obliged  to 
return  home  from  Lawrence;  and  he  died  I'eb- 
ruary  13,  1886.  The  maiden  name  of  his 
wife  was  Martha  E.  Wheeler.  She  was  a 
daughter    of   Sylvester  and    Persis    1"^.    (King) 


Wheeler,  of  Claremont.  Of  his  five  children 
four  died  in  infancy.  The  survivor  is  George 
R.  W.  Pierce,  who  was  born  November  28, 
1878. 

The  first  Wheeler  of  the  Claremont  family 
was  Deacon  Moses,  who  came  from  New  Ips- 
wich, N.H.  He  was  for  some  years  the 
owner  of  a  foundry.  He  also  had  land  and 
houses,  and  at  one  time  he  was  the  butcher  of 
Claremont.  He  first  married  Lydia  Parker,  of 
Lempster,  N.  H.,  and  afterward  one  of  the  Dex- 
ters  of  De.xter  Hill.  The  two  children  of  his 
second  marriage  died  in  infancy.  Those  of 
his  first  wife  were:  Philena  and  Lucinda,  who 
never  married;  Martha,  who  died  young; 
Maria,  who  married  Caleb  B.  Ellis;  and  Syl- 
vester, who  married  the  daughter  of  Adolphus 
King,  of  Newport,  N.H.  Sylvester  Wheeler, 
who  is  said  to  have  been  a  typical  Yankee, 
began  trading  at  an  early  age.  He  kept  a 
livery  stable  at  the  lower  village  for  many 
years,  and  was  engaged  in  buying  and  selling 
throughout  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  He 
died  in  1890,  at  the  age  of  seventy-nine.  His 
wife  survived  him  until  June  21,  1893.  They 
had  three  children,  namely:  Orange  S.,  who 
died  in  1879,  at  the  age  of  twenty-nine;  M. 
Nellie,  who,  born  in  i860,  died  in  1S67;  and 
Martha  K. ,  born  May  30,  1S54,  who  was 
educated  in  Claremont  and  attended  the 
-Stevens  High  School.  Mr.  Pierce  is  .survived 
by  his  widow  and  their  son,  George.  In  life 
he  was  much  attached  to  the  Congregational 
church,  of  which  he  was  an  esteemed  member. 
He  was  a  charitable  man  and  of  sound  prin- 
ciples. 


rm' 


liOKCib;    OGILVH':,  a   substantial  and 

\  1^  I       well-known  agriculturist  of   the  town 

of    .Sutton,     Merrimack    County,    was 

born  March   21,   1815,  on  a  farm   in   Newbury, 

N.H.,    about    three    miles    from    his    ijresent 


IllOCU  AI'IIICAL    KKVIKW 


^53 


liniiu'.  His  l';illu:r,  (jeorj^t;  Ogilvic,  first,  was 
l)(]ni  ill  Ma:  ill,  \'JjCi,  in  Kiikcaldy,  Scotlaiui, 
ami  ilii'il  in  Ncwlniiy,  in  Scptcmijcr,  1865. 
When  aiiDiit  sixteen  years  old,  George  Oj^ilvie, 
lirsl,  entered  iii)on  a  sailor's  life,  and  was  sub- 
sei|iiently  impressed  into  the  Hritish  naval 
service.  While  stationed  at  a  port  in  llnl- 
hiiul,  he  and  forty  others  deserted,  and,  reach- 
ing an  American  vessel,  were  conveyed  to 
New  I'jigland.  He  located  in  Beverly,  Mass., 
and  for  some  years  continued  to  follow  the  sea, 
serving  successively  as  second  and  first  mate. 
During  his  voyages  he  visited  many  foreign 
ports,  including  several  in  the  Ivist  Indies 
and  on  the  Haltic  .Sea.  The  embargo  of  1812 
crippled  for  a  time  the  comniercinl  interests  of 
New  luigland,  and  he  accordingly  gave  np  mari- 
time life.  While  in  Heverl)',  he  had  married 
Joanna  Thissell,  a  daughter  of  Richard  This- 
sell  and  his  wife,  whose  maiden  name  was 
Lovett.  They  having  removed  to  Newbury, 
N.ll.,  he  f(dlowed  them,  .iccompanied  by  his 
young  wife.  iMr.  Thissell's  first  wife  died  in 
Newbury;  and  he  marricil  Sarah  Withington, 
and  removed  to  Sutton,  where  liotli  li\'ed  to 
an  advanced  age.  One  of  his  sons,  William 
Thissell,  was  the  former  owner  of  the  farm 
now  owned  and  occupied  by  George  Ogilvie, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He  is  the  only 
survivor  of  the  parental  household,  his  sister 
Nancy,  who  was  some  years  older  than  he, 
having  died  unmarried  in  Massachusetts. 

George  Ogilvie,  second,  started  in  life  for 
himself  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  years,  going 
to  HeiiniUer  with  but  fourdollars  in  his  pocket 
as  ills  sole  cash  capital.  lie  worked  as  a  farm 
hand  for  si.\  months  at  tweU'e  dollars  a  month, 
antl  sent  the  money  to  his  parents  to  assist  in 
paying  off  the  mortgage  on  the  farm.  His 
first  employer  recommended  him  to  a  widow 
who  needed  a  tru.stworthy  and  competent  man 
to  take  charge  of   her  land,  and  he  remained  in 


her  employ  two  years.  He  subsequently  en- 
gaged in  work  of  various  kind.s,  continuing  to 
look  after  his  parents;  and  he  finally  cleared 
off  all  indebtedness  on  the  homestead,  which 
he  afterward  .sold.  l-'or  ten  years  he  lived  in 
South  Newbury,  dining  a  portion  of  this 
time  being  engaged  in  butchering.  In  1.S66 
he  bought  his  present  farm,  which  now  con- 
tains one  hundred  acres  of  valley  land;  and  he 
has  since  devoted  himself  to  the  leading 
branches  of  agricnltuie.  His  estate  is  well 
improved,  and  under  his  wise  management  has 
become  one  of  the  finest  farms  in  Sutt-on. 
After  coming  here  Mr.  Ogilvie  engaged  to 
some  extent  in  slaughtering,  but  has  repeat- 
edly declinetl  to  leave  the  farm  to  enter  other 
lines  of  business.  In  politics  he  is  a  Repub- 
lican to  the  backbone. 

On  January  26,  1843,  he  married  Miss  Lucy 
Ann  Gillingham,  a  daughter  of  John  and 
I'hebe  (Peabody)  (iillingham.  Her  mother 
was  a  native  of  Middleton,  Ksse.x  County, 
Mass.  Mrs.  Ogilvie  was  born  in  Dan  vers, 
Mass.,  in  1818,  and  died  in  Sutton,  October 
7,  1895,  after  a  happy  wedded  life  of  more 
than  half  a  centm-y.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ogilvie 
had  no  children  of  their  own,  but  adopted  a 
girl,  Rozina  E.  Ogilvie,  when  she  was  a  child 
of  three  years.  She  received  a  good  educa- 
tion, and  since  seventeen  years  of  age  has  been 
engaged  in  teaching.  -She  has  taught  nineteen 
consecutive  terms,  in  the  meanwhile  residing 
at  home. 


llORGb:  OSCAR  DICKERMAX,  the 
>5 1  well-known  wholesale  grocer  and 
provision  dealer  of  Concord,  was 
born  in  Loudon,  N.H.,  February  13,  1847, 
son  of  Moses  W.  and  Abigail  (Tilton)  Dick- 
erman,  the  latter  of  Ale.xandria,  N.  H.  He 
is  of  German  ancestry  on  the  paternal  side, 
and   amonn'  his    ancestors    were    some    of    the 


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minute-inen  of  the  Revolution.  His  father 
was  for  twenty-seven  years  a  master  mechanic 
of  the  Concord  Railroad  Company. 

George  O.  Dickerman  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools  of  Concord.  At  the 
age  of  seventeen  he  entered  the  employ  of 
Ward  Humphrey  &  Co.,  of  this  city,  as  book- 
keeper. Two  years  later  he  became  assistant 
cashier  for  the  Northern  l^ailroad  Company. 
For  two  years  thereafter  he  was  in  a  retail 
grocery  store  in  this  city.  In  1871  he  en- 
gaged as  travelling  salesman  with  Briggs  & 
Shattuck,  a  prosperous  business  house  in  Bos- 
ton, with  whom  he  remained  for  fifteen  years. 
He  then,  in  18S7,  established  a  wholesale 
grocery  and  provision  store  in  this  city,  which 
has  become  one  of  the  largest  houses  in  that 
line  in  the  State.  In  politics  Mr.  Dickerman 
is  a  stanch  Republican.  He  has  officiated  as 
Alderman  two  years,  and  has  also  served  as 
Commissioner  of  Cemeteries  since  that  com- 
mission was  inaugurated,  being  also  Secretary 
of  the  Board. 

On  September  i,  1868,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Mary  A.  Staniels,  of  Concord. 
They  have  two  children  —  Luella  A.  and  Ger- 
trude K.  Mr.  Dickerman  is  a  Mason,  and 
has  always  taken  a  deep  interest  in  the  Masonic 
order.  He  has  been  highly  honored  by  the 
fraternity,  having  been  Master  of  Eureka 
Lodge,  also  Conimander  of  Mount  Horeb  Com- 
mandery,  K.  T.  ;  and  he  is  at  present  at  the 
head  of  y\cacia  Chapter  of  Rose  Croi.v,  Ancient 
and  Accepted  Scottish  Rite,  being  a  Mason 
of  the  thirty-second  degree.  He  is  also  Presi- 
dent of  the  Webster  Club,  a  social  organiza- 
tion. 


(<-j|-(XSl':rH  BARNARD,  third,  a  promi- 
nent agriculturist,  horticulturist,  stock- 
grower,  and  lumberman,  of  Ilopkinton, 

Merrimack   County,    N.  II.,   was   born    Novem- 


ber II,  1S17,  on  the  farm  that  he  now  owns 
and  occupies,  he  being  the  third  of  the  name 
to  hold  a  title  to  it.  His  grandfather,  Josejjh 
Barnard,  the  first  of  the  name,  so  far  as 
known,  a  native  of  Amesbury,  Mass.,  coming 
to  New  Hampshire  in  1765  or  1766,  purchased 
land  in  the  south-east  part  of  Hopkinton. 
The  land  was  bought  of  the  Rev.  James 
Scales,  the  first  settled  minister  in  Hojikin- 
ton,  it  having  been  granted  to  him  by  the 
original  proprietors,  John  Jones  and  others. 
Grandfather  Barnard  lost  his  title  to  that 
land,  as  others  did  of  their  lands  in  the  vicin- 
ity, by  the  claims  of  the  "Bow  Company,"  so 
called,  and  was  given  in  e.Kchange  by  the  pro- 
prietors the  land,  previously  unallotted,  on 
which  he  established  his  home,  and  which  is 
now  occupied  by  his  grandson  and  namesake, 
as  mentioned  above.  It  may  be  added  as  a 
part  of  this  historical  reminiscence  that  some 
land  in  the  north-west  part  of  the  town  of 
Hopkinton,  north  of  the  Contoocook  River, 
was  laid  out  in  lots  and  sold  at  auction,  to 
pay  the  expenses  of  the  controversy  with  the 
Bow  Company,  the  price  received  from  the 
buyers,  who  were  the  Whites  of  Portsmouth, 
being  ten  cents  an  acre. 

The  Barnards  of  Hopkinton  are  probably 
descendants  of  Thomas  Barnard,  an  early  set- 
tler of  Salisbury,  Mass.,  who  was  one  of  the 
first  Selectmen  of  that  part  of  the  old  town 
that  in  1668  was  incorporated  as  Amesbury. 
Among  his  chiklren  were,  it  is  said,  a  son 
Thomas,  born  in  1641,  and  Nathaniel,  born 
in  1643.  A  Nathaniel  Barnard,  of  Ames- 
buiy,  evitlently  of  a  later  generation,  married 
Ruth  I'rench,  of  Kingston,  N.  H.,  and  was 
the  father  of  twelve  children,  including  sons 
Joseph,  Thomas,  and  Tristram,  and  a  daugh- 
ter, Mehitable,  who  married  a  Currier,  and 
lived  to  be  one  hundred  and  three  years  old. 

Joseph  Barnard,  first,   son  of  Nathaniel    and 


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255 


l\utli,  was  horn  in  Amcsbury,  Mass.,  Jaiui.iiy 
I  J,  17.57.  Ill  iy(>6  he  rcniovcd  to  Hopkiii- 
tmi,  as  statcil  above,  and,  cstabl  isliint^  a 
home  lu'fc,  worked  as  a  fanner  and  sliip- 
eai-penter  until  iiisdcatli,  November  13,  1.S15. 
Ilis  lirsl  wilC,  Rhoda  Currier  Barnard,  whom 
lu'  niari'ied  in  Anu'sbnry,  died  on  April  7, 
1794,  leavini;"  one  tiaui;bter,  Ivhoda  Currier, 
who  married  ICzra  Morrill,  of  llopkinton,  and 
lived  to  the  \-enerable  age  of  ninety-three 
years.  Joseph  Barnard,  first,  married  ftn-  his 
second  wife  Mrs.  Olive  151ake  Male,  widow 
of  Captain  John  Hale,  an  officer  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War.  They  had  two  children,  Jo- 
sepli,  second,  born  May  6,  179S;  and  Sarah 
Ann,  born  Ajoril  12,  i79cS.  Sarah  Ann  Barn- 
ard became  the  wife  of  Joshua  Fierce,  of 
Warner,  but  s]ienl  her  last  years  in  Manches- 
ter, N.ll.,  where  her  death  occurred  August 
22,   1869. 

Joseph  Barnard,  second,  lather  of  the  pres- 
ent Joseph,  the  special  subject  of  this  bio- 
j;raphical  sketch,  was  born,  lived,  and  ilied  on 
the  okl  home  farm,  the  date  of  his  death 
being  March  15,  1870.  He  did  his  full 
share  of  the  jiioneer  work  begun  by  his  father, 
adding  to  the  improvements  already  made  on 
the  original  purchase  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty. acres,  clearing,  fencing,  and  draining  a 
large  part  of  it.  Mis  father  was  somewhat  as- 
sisted by  slave  labor,  as  is  clearly  shown  by 
the  copy  of  a  deed  now  in  the  possession  of 
Joseph  Barnard,  third,  it  being  a  bill  of  sale, 
dated  March  29,  1777,  given  him  by  Ruth 
Currier,  of  Kingston,  N.H.,  conveying  unto 
him  a  negro  man  named  .Seeko.  Mr.  Barnard 
has  likewise  the  indenture  of  a  boy  of  thirteen 
years  old,  dated  in  1769.  This  deed  of  sale 
proves  conclusively  that  slavery  once  existed 
in  the  old  Granite  State,  although  the  con- 
trary has  been  persistently  asserted  by  some 
high   in   authority.     Joseph   Barnard,    second, 


was  a  man  of  far  ni'ue  Inan  ordinary  iiusnicss 
ability.  He  invested  largely  in  realty,  anri 
at  his  death  owned  several  thousand  acres  in 
various  townships,  mostly  timbered  land,  val- 
ued at  seventy-five  thousand  dollars,  one  tract 
alone  in  Boscawen  being  appraised  at  fifty- 
two  thousand  (hdlars,  while  his  entire  estate 
amounted  to  about  eighty  thousand  dollars. 
Naturally  progressive,  being  quick  to  perceive 
the  merits  of  anything  new,  he  was  the  first 
to  introduce  Merino  sheep  and  also  Saxony 
sheej)  into  the  town  ;  and  in  1838  he  received 
the  first  prize  for  the  finest  e.vhibit  of  wool  in 
New  \'ork. 

In  June,  1S16,  Joseph  Barnard,  seconti, 
married  Miriam  J.  Eastman,  who  was  born  on 
Horse  Hill,  Concord,  N.  H.,  December  6, 
1799,  a  daughter  of  William  liastman,  a 
Revolutionary  soldier.  They  reared  the  fol- 
lowing children:  Joseph,  third,  whose  name 
appears  at  the  head  of  this  sketch;  Sally 
Ann,  born  April  3,  1819,  who  is  now  the 
willow  of  Daniel  1'.  Dustin,  late  of  Contoo- 
cook;  Mary  Jane,  born  August  29,  i82[,  now 
the  wife  of  Charles  N.  Tutlle,  of  Contoocook ; 
William  Iv,  born  May  27,  1S23,  who  died  at 
Edgcrton,  Ohio,  April  2,  1884;  and  Rhoda 
Currier,  born  l-'ebruary  19,  1827,  who  mar- 
ried Ur.  liphraim  Wilson,  and  died  August 
4,  1852.  Mrs.  Miriam  J.  Eastman  Barnard 
died  September  17,   1869. 

Joseph  Barnard,  third,  remained  with  his 
parents  until  twenty-two  years  old,  the  last 
]iart  of  the  time  receiving  ten  dollars  a  month 
for  his  work  on  the  farm;  and  while  still  in 
his  minority  he  served  four  years  as  Ouarter- 
master  in  the  old  Fortieth  New  Hampshire 
Regiment.  After  leaving  home  he  spent  two 
years  as  clerk  in  a  store  at  Contoocook,  and 
then  went  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he  learned 
the  stone-cutter's  trade,  working  at  first  for 
one  dollar  and   a   half   per  day,  and    boarding 


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himself,  but  in  a  year  receiving  full  wayes. 
He  was  subsequently  taken  ill  with  the 
"Tyler  Gri[),"  an  influenza  similar  to  "La 
Grippe,"  with  which  so  many  of  us  are  fa- 
miliar. President  Tyler,  it  will  be  remem- 
bered, made  a  tour  of  the  Lowell  mills  and 
factories,  interesting  himself  in  the  industries 
of  the  city;  and- on  the  second  day  of  his  stay, 
after  large  parades  of  civil  and  military  com- 
panies, and  ten  thousand  patriot  girls  dressed 
in  white,  he  made  an  excellent  speech  of  two 
hours'  duration,  in  which  he  acknowledged 
the  benefits  of  the  tariff.  In  the  following 
session  of  Congress,  it  may  be  added,  he 
signed  the  tariff  bill.  The  epidemic  which 
broke  out  two  weeks  after  his  visit  in  Lowell 
was  given  his  name. 

While  recuperating,  Mr.  Barnard  returned 
to  his  boyhood  home:  and  when  there  he  pur- 
chased from  his  father  a  tract  of  timber  land 
for  eight  hundred  dollars,  buying  it,  however, 
in  opposition  to  his  father's  advice.  Estab- 
lishing himself  then  in  the  lumber  business, 
he  carried  it  on  for  thirty-five  years,  meeting 
with  good  success  from  the  start.  He  sup- 
jilied  timber  of  all  kinds  for  use  in  ship-build- 
ing, his  operations  e.vtending  over  several 
townships,  in  which  he  erected  or  hired  mills, 
employing  at  different  times  forty  men.  The 
tallest  mast  timber  in  the  State  is  found  in 
the  valleys  of  the  Contoocook,  Blackwater. 
and  Warner  Rivers,  the  regions  in  which  he 
carried  on  his  lumbering.  During  the  late 
Rebellion  he  furnished  much  of  the  timber  for 
naval  supplies,  and  all  the  large  timbers  of 
"Ironsides,"  and  most  of  the  material  for  the 
"Kearsarge,"  which  has  recently  been  de- 
stroyed. In  the  Granite'  Montldy  of  May, 
1893,  is  an  article  written  by  Mr.  Barnard 
concerning  the  "Timbers  of  the  Kearsarge," 
in  which  it  is  stated  that  Mr.  Barnard  and  the 
Hon.  J.  II.  Butler,  of  Nottingham,  were  asso- 


ciated in  1S60  in  Ne\vbur)[)ort,  Mass.,  in 
handling  oak  timber  for  ship-building,  and  in 
1 86 1  were  called  upon  to  furnish  timber  for 
gunboats,  said  timber  to  be  of  first  quality. 
White  oak  is  in  its  best  state  when  from 
eighty-five  to  one  hundred  years  old;  and  this 
they  found  in  large  quantities  on  a  hill  near 
Tyler  .Station  in  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  and  soon 
had  a  large  force  of  men  at  work  getting  out 
white  oak  and  yellow  pine,  sending  to  the 
Portsmouth  Nav}^  Yard  a  large  part  of  the 
white  oak  of  seven  hundred  and  fifty  thousand 
feet  of  timber  for  the  building  of  the  famous 
boat  that  received  its  name  from  the  Kear- 
sarge Mountain,  which  stands  in  plain  view  of 
the  spot  whereon  its  timbers  were  hewed. 

Mr.  Barnard  resided  in  Contoocook  twenty- 
five  years  of  this  time,  and  while  there  built 
in  1849  the  Contoocook  Valley  Railway,  ex- 
tending from  Contoocook  to  Hillsborough, 
fourteen  and  one-half  miles,  he  being  superin- 
tendent of  construction,  and  furnishing  much 
of  the  timber  used.  For 'several  years  he  was 
officially  connected  with  the  road.  He  has 
also  been  Fire  Claim  Adjuster  of  the  Concord 
Division  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Railway  for 
some  years,  an  office  that  takes  him  quite 
often  over  the  two  hundred  miles  under  his 
charge.  Four  years  after  the  death  of  his 
father  Mr.  Barnard  removed  to  the  parental 
homestead,  which  he  inherited;  and  he  has 
since  devoted  much  of  his  time  to  farming 
pursuits.  He  settled  this  estate,  and  has 
also  settled  many  others  in  Merrimack  County, 
usually  by  request,  sometimes  on  commissions 
to  appraise  for  ta.\  purposes;  and  he  is  often 
called  upon  to  estimate  the  timber  on  large 
tracts  of  land.  For  several  years  Mr.  Barnard 
had  charge  of  the  water-power  at  Contoocook; 
and  in  1870  and  1871  he  represented  that 
town  in  the  State  legislature,  where  he  was 
one  of  the  Committee  on  Towns  and   Parishes, 


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257 


aiul  worked  for  the  establishment  of  a  State 
Reform  School.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
New  Hampshire  State  Constitutional  Conven- 
tinii  in  1.S.S9.  At  tlie  time  of  the  war  for  the 
Union  he  was  the  enrolling  officer  in  the 
Twentieth  District,  and  the  mainstay  of  the 
widows  and  fatherless,  who  trusted  him  im- 
plicilly,  and  whose  confidence  was  not  mis- 
placed. 

As  a  stock-raiser  and  daii)nian  Mr.  15arnard 
breeds  the  Guernsey  cattle,  which  he  exhibits 
at  the  various  fairs  in  this  section  of  the 
State,  invariably  securing  prizes,  both  on 
cattle  and  dairy  products.  It  was  largely 
throa,L',h  the  exhibitions  of  stock  that  he  has 
made  that  the  Deerfoot  Creamery  was  locatetl 
at  Contoocook,  and  his  herd  of  Guernsey  has 
stocked  many  of  the  large  New  England  dairy 
farms.  In  the  culture  of  fruit  of  all  kinds  he 
takes  great  interest;  and  at  a  horticultural 
fair  in  Concord,  when  over  a  hundred  ex- 
hibits were  entered,  he  took  thirteen  prizes 
and  sweepstakes  for  the  finest  fruits.  He  is 
a  member  of  various  agricultural  and  horticult- 
uial  societies  and  a  contributor  to  many  of  the 
journals.  In  pcditics  he  was  in  caidy  manhood 
a  Democrat,  and  voted  for  Franklin  Pierce  for 
President,  but  since  that  time  has  supported 
the  principles  of  the  Republican  party. 

On  October  26,  1849,  ^^^-  Barnard  married 
Maria  Gcrrish,  who  was  born  April  15,  183  i, 
a  daughter  of  Abiel  and  liliza  (Dodge)  Ger- 
rish.  Her  father  was  born  on  tlie  present 
site  of  the  county  farm  in  Boscawen,  and  her 
mother  in  that  part  of  Merrimack  County  now 
inchuled  in  the  town  of  Webster.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Rarnard  are  the  parents  of  eight  chil- 
dren, the  following  being  their  recoril :  Ellen 
Maria,  born  March  i,  1851,  died  January  6, 
1886;  Jo.seph  Henry,  born  October  12,  1852, 
died  July  9,  1855;  Abiel  Gcrrish,  born  Janu- 
ary 8,   1S55,    was  a   lawyer   in    California;  Jo- 


seph B.,  born  March  17,  1S57,  died  October 
23,  1863;  Mary  Eliza,  born  January  11,  1859, 
is  the  wife  of  Jonathan  I'"owier,  of  South 
Sioux  City,  Neb. ;  George  Edgar,  born  No- 
vember I,  1864,  married  Miss  Bertha  S. 
Tyler,  of  Hopkinton,  and  now  carries  on  the 
home  farm;  Rhoda  Frances  was  born  June  28, 
1867;  and  Charles  Lewis,  born  March  28, 
1870,  died  December  29,  1S95. 


/^STeORGE  E.  HILLIARD,  a  well-known 
V  ^  I  gun  manufacturer  and  a  leading  citi- 
zen of  Cornish,  is  a  native  of  Clarc- 
mont,  where  he  was  born  August  26,  1838. 
He  is  descended  from  the  Rev.  Avery  Bill- 
iard, a  Unitarian  clergyman,  who,  coming  to 
this  country  from  England  with  his  brother, 
resided  for  a  time  in  Sutton,  Mass.,  and  after- 
ward settled  in  Cornish,  being  the  first  of  the 
name  in  the  town.  The  Rev.  Mr.  Hilliard 
was  twice  married,  and  had  in  all  ten  chil- 
dren. His  son  Benjamin  was  grandfather  of 
George  E.  Hilliard.  Benjamin,  who  was 
born  in  Sutton,  came  to  Cornish  with  his 
parents,  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and 
worked  at  it  throughout  his  life.  Although 
never  neglecting  to  take  part  in  town  affairs 
or  to  cast  his  vote,  he  was  not  an  aspirant  for 
political  honor.s,  and  never  held  office.  His 
wife,  christened  Roxana  Hall,  was  a  daughter 
of  Dr.  I.  Hall.  Their  children  were:  David 
H.,  Frank,  Gilbert,  Catherine,  Harriet, 
Esther,  Eliza,  and  Caroline.  Frank,  now  de- 
ceased, was  a  carriage-builder  of  Nicholville, 
N.Y.  He  was  twice  married,  and  had  six 
children.  Gilbert,  who  was  a  machinist,  en- 
listed for  service  in  the  Civil  War,  and  was 
killed  in  1863  at  New  Orleans.  Catherine, 
deceased,  was  the  wife  of  Lyman  Bartlett,  and 
the  mother  of  five  children.  Harriet,  also  de- 
ceased,   married   Job   Williams,    of   Plainfield, 


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and  had  three  children,  all  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing. Esther  was  Mrs.  James  Hudson,  of 
Lynn,  and  the  mother  of  four  children.  The 
mother  and  three  of  the  children  have  since 
passed  away.  Eliza  married  John  Hudson,  of 
Lynn,  and  had  two  children:  John  P.,  now 
President  of  the  Bell  Telephone  Company; 
and  Elizabeth,  the  wife  of  Samuel  J.  Hollis, 
one  of  the  largest  shoe  manufacturers  of  Lynn. 
Caroline  Hilliard  married  Horace  Demming, 
a  well-known  farmer  of  Cornish;  and  she  has 
three  children  living. 

David  II.  Hilliard,  the  eldest  son  of  his 
father,  was  born  in  Cornish,  December  3, 
1806.  After  finishing  his  course  of  study  in 
the  town  schools,  he  learned  cabinet-making, 
and  worked  at  that  trade  for  five  or  si.x  years. 
Then  he  went  into  the  employ  of  Thomas 
Woolson,  of  Claremont,  building  stove 
patterns,  the  castings  from  which  were  made 
in  Tyson,  Vt.  It  is  claimed  that  he  got  out 
the  pattern  for  the  first  cook  stove  that  was 
ever  made  in  this  country.  He  was  the  in- 
ventor of  the  Yankee  Cook  Stove,  the  first 
stove  having  an  elevated  oven.  In  1848  he 
began  the  manufacture  of  guns;  and  subse- 
quently he  made  the  Hilliard  gun,  which  is 
known  all  over  the  United  States.  He  con- 
tinued in  this  business  up  to  the  time  of  his 
death  in  1877.  During  the  war  he  was  au- 
thori/.ed  by  the  town  to  pay  the  soldiers.  He 
was  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  twenty-five  years, 
and  for  many  years  he  was  a  member  of  the 
State  Democratic  Committee.  He  was  always 
very  active  in  town  affairs,  and  might  always 
be  counted  upon  to  take  a  zealous  part  in  the 
discussion  of  any  measures  that  came  up  be- 
fore the  town  meeting.  Very  determined 
and  a  man  of  intense  energy,  when  once  he 
had  made  up  his  mind  to  follow  a  certain 
course  of  action  nothing  could  prevent  his 
fc^lhnvinii  it  to  the  end.      Lor  llie    last   fifteen 


years  of  his  life  he  was  engaged  to  some  ex- 
tent in  civil  engineering.  In  1835  he  married 
Sarah  A.  Smith,  of  Claremont;  and  she  be- 
came the  mother  of  Charles  N.  and  George  E. 
Hilliard.  Charles  N.,  who  was  born  in 
Claremont,  June  5,  1836,  and  was  educated 
in  the  Cornish  schools,  began  business  life  in 
his  father's  shop,  learning  the  gunsmith's 
trade.  He  worked  with  his  father  for  five  or 
six  years,  and  then  went  to  Ilion,  N.Y. ,  to 
work  for  the  Remington  Arms  Company, 
where  he  is  still  employed  as  foreman  of  one 
of  the  departments.  He  successively  married 
Sarah  Weld  and  Belle  Sherborn,  both  of  Cor- 
nish. There  were  three  children  by  the  first 
marriage  and  four  by  the  second. 

After  leaving  school  George  E.  Hilliard 
went  to  work  on  the  Vermont  Central  Rail- 
road in  the  ca]iacity  of  locomotive  engineer, 
and  continued  in  that  business  for  seven 
years,  during  which  he  was  employed  at  differ- 
ent times  on  all  the  branches  of  the  road. 
Subsecjuently  he  w-ent  into  the  gun  business 
with  his  father.  Since  the  death  of  the  latter 
he  has  carried  on  the  business  alone.  Mr. 
Hilliard  has  been  Constable  for  fifteen  years. 
District  Clerk  for  two  years,  and  Justice  of 
the  Peace  and  Notary  Public  for  fifteen  years. 
He  has  also  been  clerk  of  the  School  Hoard 
for  two  years  and  the  Postmaster  for  about 
twenty  years.  He  is  a  Royal  Arch  Mason, 
and  has  been  Master  of  the  Blue  Lodge.  He 
is  greatly  interested  in  taxidermy,  and  has  a 
very  large  and  valuable  collection  of  birds, 
stuffed  and  mounted  by  himself.  lie  is  an 
authority  on  the  ornithology  of  this  region. 
His  whole-souled,  genial  manner,  amiable 
hospitality,  and  ever-read)'  wit  have  made  for 
him  a  host  of  friends.  Willi  (|uick  sympathy, 
he  is  always  reaily  to  heli)  a  friend  in  a  hard 
place  or  to  lighten  the  burdens  of  the  unfort- 
unate in  general. 


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Mr.  Ililliard  married  Ella  M.,  daii<fhtcr  of 
Iliram  D.  Hartlctt,  of  Cornish.  They  have 
one  eluld,  Imiiiiki  L. ,  horn  July  i8,  1866. 
She  is  now  the  wife  of  C.  W.  Dij^gins,  of 
Cleveland,  Ohio,  foreman  of  the  Tribune  Bi- 
cyele  Works  of  Erie,  I'a.,  and  she  has  a 
daughter,  Ethel  J',.,  born  l''ebruary  24,  1897. 
Before  her  marriage  Mrs.  Diggins  taught 
sehool  for  some  time.  Possessed  of  remark- 
able tact  in  dealing  with  children,  she 
sinodthly  managed  the  most  obdurate  urchins, 
and  was  one  of  the  most  popular  teachers  in 
this  section  of  the  country.  She  is  a  fine 
musician,  and  for  some  time  she  also  taught 
music. 


|YRUS  MARDEN,  a  prosperous  farmer 
of  I'^psom,  was  born  in  this  town,  May 
16,  1850,  son  of  David  and  Ann 
(IJickford)  Marden.  The  grandfather,  Will- 
iam Marden,  who  was  a  native  of  Portsmouth, 
came  to  Epsom  about  the  year  1790.  lie  fol- 
lowed the  carpenter's  trade  in  connection  with 
farming  during  the  active  period  of  his  life, 
and  died  at  the  age  of  ninety-two  years.  (_)f 
his  nine  children  two  were  born  before  he 
came  to  Epsom. 

David  Marden,  born  in  Epsom,  and  the 
youngest  son  of  William,  in  cail}'  life  assisted 
upon  the  home  farm.  P'ollowing  the  example 
of  his  father,  he  made  carpentry  and  farming 
his  chief  occupation.  He  was  a  hard-working 
man,  very  seldom  going  from  home;  and,  al- 
though the  cars  ran  within  a  half-mile  of  his 
house,  he  never  rode  upon  them.  In  politics 
he  sui)poried  the  Democratic  party.  He  died 
at  the  age  of  seventy-five.  His  wife,  Anna 
Bickford,  was  born  in  Epsom,  daughter  of 
Sam  I'iickford,  who  was  the  father  of  seventeen 
cliiKlrcn.  She  became  the  mother  of  eleven 
children,  of  whom  Carrie,  Noyes,  Erecman, 
Moses,  and  Cyrus  are  living.     Carrie  married 


James  M.  (jordun,  ui  Cohldiii,  .\.il.,  luio  lias 
four  children —  I'lora  B. ,  Hattie  S. ,  Leon  S., 
and  luia  E. ;  Noyes  Marden  married  lijia 
Merrill,  of  Concord.  I'reeman  Marden  mar- 
ried Lavinia  Bickford,  of  I'4'jsom,  and  has 
three  children  —  Etta  M.,  Lillie  M.,  and 
Nellie  R.  Moses  Marden  married  Carrie 
Rundy,  now  deceased,  and  became  the  father 
of  five  children  —  Melvin  S.,  Mabcll  N.,  Mil- 
ton W.,  Adellc,  and  Harvey.  Harvey  Marden 
enlisted  as  a  private  in  Company  A,  Seventh 
New  Hampshire  Regiment,  fought  in  the 
Civil  War  for  nearly  four  years,  and  died 
while  in  service.  Mrs.  David  Marden  lived 
to  the  age  of  seventy-four  years. 

Cyrus  Marden  was  reared  and  educated  in 
his  native  town,  growing  to  manhood  upon  the 
farm  where  he  now  resides.  He  succeeded  to 
the  property,  and  has  since  carried  on  general 
farming  with  success.  The  first  of  his  two 
marriages  was  contracted  September  16,  1880, 
with  Angle  M.  Marden,  a  daughter  of  Nathan 
G.  Marden,  of  Epsom.  She  had  four  children 
—  Walter  L.,  Ada  F.,  Lena  A.,  and  Ethel 
A.  The  second  marriage,  performed  in  Janu- 
ary, 1 891,  united  Mr.  Marden  to  Laura  J. 
Marden,  his  first  wife's  sister.  By  this  union 
there  is  one  son,  Gerald  L.  In  politics  Mr. 
Marden  is  a  Republican.  Although  he  takes 
no  active  part  in  public  affairs,  he  is  always 
ready  to  aid  in  forwarding  any  measure  calcu- 
lated to  be  beneficial  to  the  community.  He 
is  a  Deacon  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church, 
and  Mrs.  Marden  is  a  member  of  the  Congre- 
eational  church. 


■s^OIlN  H.  COLLINS,  a  respected  farmer 
of  Bradford,  was  born  on  Bible  Hill 
in  the  town  of  Warner,  N.  IL,  May  9, 
1815,  son  of  luios  and  lilizabeth  (Walker) 
Collins,  and  grandson  of  Jacob  Collins,  whose 


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father  was  among  the  first  settlers  of  South- 
ampton, Mass.  The  father,  who  was  born  and 
reared  in  Southampton,  from  there  in  early 
manhood  came  to  Warner,  and  in  1803  took 
up  land  on  Bible  Hill,  near  the  town  line  of 
Bradford,  not  far  from  Melvin's  Mills.  He 
cleared  a  portion  of  the  land,  built  a  house, 
and  was  engaged  in  tilling  the  soil  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
two  years.  After  settling  in  Warner,  he  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Walker,  who  survived  him 
until  she  had  reached  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty -seven.  This  worthy  couple  were  the 
owners  of  the  first  clock  and  the  first  cook 
stove  used  in  that  vicinity,  and  were  the  first 
of  the  residents  to  subscribe  for  a  newspaper. 
Eight  daughters  and  three  sons  were  born  to 
them.  The  eldest  son,  Moses,  was  a  mechanic 
and  farmer.  The  ne.Kt,  Enos,  was  born  in 
iSoo,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven. 
He  was  a  self-educated  man  beyond  such 
early  advantages  as  were  afforded  by  the  com- 
mon schools,  and  he  became  one  of  the  most 
noted  teachers  of  his  time.  Notwitlistanding 
the  fact  that  he  hail  never  received  instruction 
in  algebra,  he  could  readil}'  solve  both 
algebraic  and  arithmetical  problems  that 
puzzled  expert  mathematicians.  He  held 
various  town  offices,  filling  each  place  with 
marked   al)ility. 

John  H.  Collins,  the  youngest  and  only  sur- 
viving son,  married  on  December  21,  1841, 
Ivsther  I'ierce  Marshall,  daughter  of  Nathan 
R.  and  Abigail  (Hawks)  Marshall,  and  giand- 
daugiiter  of  Richard  Marshall,  who  was  a  Rev- 
olutionary soldier,  having  enlisted  in  1775. 
They  resided  on  the  old  Collins  homestead 
until  1S68,  when  they  came  to  their  present 
farm  in  Bradford,  this  being  the  ancestral 
home  of  his  wife,  named  by  her  father  "Pleas- 
ant V'alley  I'"arm."'  This  farm  originally  con- 
taineil  sixty  acres.      Mr.  Collins  has  since  en- 


larged it  by  the  addition  of  other  land,  so  that 
now  it  is  quite  an  extensive  place.  Here  he 
carries  on  general  farming  and  dairying.  He 
had  three  daughters,  one  of  whom  died  in  in- 
fancy. The  eldest,  Abbie  Elizabeth,  marrietl 
James  H.  Blaisdell,  and  died  fourteen  years 
later.  She  left  a  son,  George  A.,  who  is 
married,  and  has  two  children.  Mr.  Collins's 
surviving  daughter,  and  the  youngest  of  the 
three,  Helen  Frances,  who  was  for  some  time 
a  successful  teacher  in  our  public  schools, 
married  P~rank  T.  Carr,  and  resides  in  Brad- 
ford. 

Nathan  R.  Marshall,  the  father  of  Mrs. 
Collins,  was  born  in  Hudson  N.H.,  in  1792. 
He  removed  to  Biljle  Hill  when  a  boy  of  four- 
teen, and  six  yenrs  later  married  Abigail 
Hawks,  daughter  of  Earrington  and  Sarah 
Knowlton  Hawks.  He  was  a  man  of  educa- 
tion and  an  especially  good  accountant,  as 
shown  by  his  old  account  books,  kept  in  a  ]ieat, 
clear  hand.  He  held  town  ofiRces  at  different 
jieriods,  being  a  most  intelligent  and  valued 
official.  He  and  his  wife  reared  ten  children, 
three  sons  and  seven  daughters.  Two  of 
these  died  in  infancy.  Joshua  P.  Marshall, 
the  eldest  son,  a  man  of  good  mental  attain- 
ments, for  more  than  forty  years  was  a  manu- 
facturers' agent  for  the  sale  of  glassware. 
He  always  kept  his  residence  in  Bradford, 
but  spent  his  winters  during  his  later  years  in 
P"lorida,  where  he  had  large  interests  in  orange 
groves.  He  died  there  in  1893,  aged  seventy- 
six  years.  Joseph  Addison,  another  son  of 
Nathan  R.  Marshall,  was  a  farmer  in  his 
earlier  life.  Later  he  became  the  jiroprietor 
of  a  market  in  Boston,  and  subsequent  1\',  in 
company  with  his  brnther  Joshua,  established 
himself  as  a  dealer  in  glassware.  They  were 
burned  out  in  the  big  fire  of  1872,  but  re- 
sumed business  after  a  time,  and  cmilinued  in 
it    until    Joseph's    health     failed.       llis    Ikiuic 


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was  in  Boston,  and  he  died  at  the  age  of  fifty- 
nine.  I"arrin,L;ton  II.  Marshall  resides  in 
Boston.  lie  and  Mrs.  Collins  are  the  only 
surviving;  members  of  the  family. 

The  Collins  family  are  cjuite  nimicrous,  and 
liohl  fre(|iient  reunions  in  Amesbuiy,  Mass. 


IClIll.L  DUSTIN,  late  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  of   Claremont,  Sullivan 

County,    N.Il.,    his    native   town, 

where  he  spent  the  greater  part  of  his  life, 
was  born  here,  December  1  cS,  i<S20,  and  died 
at  his  homestead  about  twelve  years  since,  on 
Januarv  27,  iSS'5.  The  Dust  ins  are  of  old 
Colonial  stock,  and  have  been  one  of  the  fore- 
most families  of  Claremont  from  the  earliest 
history  of  the  town.  December  3,  1677, 
ThniiKis  Dustin,  the  great -great-grandfather  of 
Mighill  Dustin,  married  Hannah,  daughter  of 
Mighill  and  Hannah  (Webster)  luiierson,  of 
Haverhill,  Mass.  Mrs.  Dustin's  father  set- 
tled in  1  lavcrliill  in   ir)5r). 

The  well-known  story  ol  Hannah  Dustin's 
ca|)tni'e  \iv  the  Indians,  and  ol  her  escape,  is 
given  as  follows  in  the  History  of  Clare- 
numt :  — 

During  an  incursion  made  by  Indians  upon 
Haverhill,  Mass.,  on  the  15111  of  March,  1697, 
a  party  attacked  the  house  of  Thomas  Dustin, 
captured  Mrs.  Dustin,  in  bed  with  an  infant 
seven  days  old,  and  her  nurse  Mary  Xcff, 
dashed  out  the  brains  of  the  infant  against  a 
tree,  and  set  fire  to  the  house.  The  captives 
were  marched  througli  the  wilderness  to  the 
home  of  the  Indians  on  a  small  islanil  at  the 
junction  of  the  Contoocook  River  with  the 
Merrimac,  near  where  the  village  of  Pena- 
cook  now  is.  In  the  night,  when  the  Indians 
were  asleep,  the  two  captive  women,  and  a 
boy  who  iiLuI  been  captured  at  Worcester, 
Mass.,    some   time   before,    killed    ten    of    the 


Indians  by  striking  tiieni  ii|)oii  tlie  head,  and 
the  three  captives  escaped,  and  returned  to 
Haverhill.  On  the  21st  of  the  following 
April  the  three  went  to  Boston,  carrying  witli 
them  the  scalps  of  the  Indians  and  other  evi- 
dences of  the  exploit,  and  received  as  a  reward 
from  the  General  Court  fifty  pounds,  and  from 
others  many  valuable  presents.  Mr.  Dustin's 
heroic  defence  of  his  seven  older  children  is 
equally  deserving  of  mention.  A  monument 
has  since  been  erected  to  the  memory  of  Han- 
nah Dustin. 

Timothy,  son  of  Thomas  and  Hannah  iJus- 
tin,  was  born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  Sciitember 
14,  1694,  and  died  in  1775.  He  had  a  son, 
l''liphalet,  and  two  others,  Thomas  and  Timo- 
thy, Jr.,  who  were  twins,  born  in  1745.  They 
came  to  Claremont  about  1771,  and  settled  on 
a  tract  of  land  on  the  south  side  of  Sugar 
River,  where  they  carried  on  brick-making  for 
many  years,  being  the  first  to  follow  this  in- 
dustry in  Claremont.  Titnothy,  Jr.,  who  was 
an  energetic,  enterprising,  and  pul)lic-spirited 
man,  was  much  interested  in  cluirch  matters, 
and  gave  to  Union  Church  a  silver  service  for 
communion.  He  married  August  7,  1773, 
Eunice  Nutting,  and  by  her  had  nine  children. 
Timothy  Dustin,  Jr.,  his  wife,  Eunice,  and 
one  daughter  died  within  twenty  days  in  the 
spring  of  1813  of  spotted  fever.  Their  chil- 
dren were:  William,  David,  Moody,  Mighill, 
Timothy,  Abel,  Oliver,  Polly,  and  ICunice. 

Moody  Du.stin,  the  father  of  Mighill 
named  at  the  beginning  of  this  sketch,  was 
born  in  Claremont,  November  19,  1780.  He 
bought  a  farm  on  Green  Mountain,  where  he 
lived  imtil  1834,  when  he  removed  to  the  farm 
afterward  owned  by  his  son.  He  was  an  ac- 
tive member  of  the  Congregational  church, 
was  a  prosperous  man  for  those  times,  and  was 
public-spirited  and  prominent.  He  died  Au- 
gust  29,  i860,  his  wife,  Lucy  Cowles,  whom 


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he  married  April  8,  1807,  surviving  him  until 
May  29,  1865.  They  had  nine  children, 
Mighill  being  one  of  the  younger.  The  others 
may  be  briefly  mentioned  as  follows:  Sarah 
married  William  Haven,  of  Newport.  Elvira 
married  Timothy  Rossiter.  William  married 
Sarah  Bentley.  Mary  married  Jonathan 
Wood.  Both  of  these  went  to  Illinois.  Lu- 
cinda  married  Charles  N.  Goss.  Timothy 
never  married.  Eveline  married  George 
Worthcn,  of  Lebanon.  Emeline,  her  twin 
sister,    married  Richard  Howe,  of  Lebanon. 

Mighill  Dustin,  when  a  young  man,  taught 
school  for  a  short  time  in  Illinois.  After  that 
he  returned  to  his  father's  farm  in  Claremont, 
and  became  a  substantial  farmer.  He  dealt 
largely  in  Cotswold  sheep,  which  he  was  the 
first  in  the  vicinity  to  raise.  He  was  a  well- 
informed  man,  of  remarkable  balance  and  ex- 
cellent judgment,  and  was  very  active  in  the 
Congregational  church.  He  did  not  care  for 
society  in  the  general  acceptance  of  that  term, 
but  was  very  social  in  his  nature.  He  was 
averse  to  holding  public  office,  though  he  was 
often  urged  to  accept  positions  in  the  gift  of 
the  town.  His  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Jona- 
than Whitcomb,  of  Claremont,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 7,  1S31,  and  died  July  25,  1891.  They 
had  one  child,  a  daughter  named  Mary  Ella, 
who  married  l'\'bruary  5,  i8go,  Charles  Keith, 
of  Palmer,  Mass.,  son  of  Charles,  Sr.,  and  Mary 
(Olils)  Keith.  Mr.  Keith,  the  younger,  came 
to  Claremont  in  1S86,  and  now  carries  on  the 
old  homestead  farm  of  the  Dustins.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Keith  have  three  children  —  Mary 
Helen,  Charles  Dustin,  and  Frank  Leonard. 


il.\RL]-:S     CHASP:     lord,     justice 
r        of   the   Peace,    Notary  Public,  and   the 

If ■   Icical  histurian   of   Hopkinton,  is  the 

second     child    and    first    son    of    Charles    and 


Sarah  (Hubbard)  Lord.  liorn  in  .South  Ber- 
wick, Me.,  July  7,  1S41,  he  is  a  lineal  de- 
scendant, in  the  seventh  generation,  of  Nathan 
Lord,  who  emigrated  to  America  from  Stack- 
pole  Court,  Pembroke,  Wales,  and  settled  in 
ancient  Kittery,  Me.,  before  1652.  In  South 
Berwick,  once  a  part  of  ancient  Kittery,  is  a 
homestead  of  which  Nathan  Lord  became  a 
proprietor  in  1676,  and  which  is  now  in  the 
possession  of  his  descendants,  the  estate  being 
situated  in  a  district  called  "Old  Fields." 

Sarah  Hubbard,  who  became  the  mother  of 
Charles  Chase  Lord,  was  born  in  Hopkinton, 
N.  H.,  daughter  of  John  and  Ruth  (Chase) 
Hubbard.  On  her  mother's  side  she  de- 
scended from  the  famous  Chase  family  that 
has  figured  so  prominently  in  both  linglish 
and  American  history. 

In  1845  Charles  Chase  Lord,  scarcely  four 
years  of  age,  awoke  to  recollection  and  found 
his  home  in  New  Market,  N.IL,  where  his 
father,  a  machinist,  was  eventually  engaged 
as  a  contractor  and  builder  of  cotton  machines 
for  the  late  .Samuel  Brooks.  This  precocious 
little  fellow  was  then  able  to  read  all  those 
forms  of  composition  usually  put  into  the 
hands  of  young  children,  he  having  no  memory 
of  the  time  when  the  process  of  learning  to 
read  began.  In  1846,  in  consequence  of  im- 
jierfect  health,  his  father  sought  partial  occu- 
pation upon  the  soil,  and  moved  his  family  to 
a  farm  in  Hopkinton,  living  there  the  most  of 
the  time  afterward  until  his  death  in  1884. 
Chai'les  Chase  Lord  enjoyed  the  ailvantages 
of  the  common  school,  and  also  received 
instruction  for  several  terms  in  a  private 
academy.  At  one  time  he  made  up  his  mind 
to  enter  the  medic;il  profession;  but,  like  his 
father,  a  constant  sufferer  frcjni  physical  infirm- 
ities, such  a  course  for  him  was  simply  im- 
possible. Largely  by  the  advice  of  personal 
friends,  he   was   induced   to   try   the    Christian 


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263 


ministry.  'I'iic  effort  was  iin[)U(lc(l  hy  ill 
hcaltii,  and  lie  became  convinced  tiiat  he  iiad 
mistai<en  liis  calling.  Having  spent  a  few 
years  in  New  \'()ik,  Massachusetts,  and  Mich- 
igan, ]\Ir.  I.iird  returned  to  llo[)kinton  in 
1871.  With  some  journalistic  experience 
accpiired  as  editor  <>(  a  ruial  weekly  news- 
jKipcr  in  the  -State  of  New  York,  he  began  sup- 
porting himself  in  part  by  furnishing  news  and 
articles  for  various  local  and  other  publica- 
tions. .Siil)sc(|nciitly  he  became  a  school 
officer,  in  which  capacity  he  has  served  thir- 
teen years.  Being  of  a  judicial  turn  of  mind, 
and  by  the  advice  of  friends,  he  secured  com- 
missions as  Justice  of  the  I'cace  and  Notary 
I'ublic,  and  has  re|ieatedly  in  his  own  town  and 
elsewhere  presided  at  justice  trials,  besides 
acting  as  a  general  adviser  of  his  neighbors 
and  townsmen  on  a  variety  of  -legal  subjects. 

Mr.  ]. Old's  literary  tastes  ])rompted  him  to 
compile  "Life  and  'I'imes  in  Ilopkinton, 
N.  II.,"  a  volimie  containing  nearly  six  hun- 
dred pages  of  local  history,  biography,  and 
statistics,  [)ublished  by  the  town  in  i8go.  lie 
has  also  written  and  published  a  series  of 
thiee  local  sketches,  "Maiy  Woodwell," 
"  riie  Lookout,"  and  "Abraham  Kimball," 
each  containing  a  chapter  of  early  romantic 
history  told  in  blank  \erse,  interspersed  with 
original  articles  in  rh)'me.  At  the  recpiest  of 
friends  in  Concord,  N.IL,  Mr.  Lord  wrote  and 
published  "Poems  of  Penacook, "  which  con- 
tain many  items  of  the  early  history  and  tiadi- 
tions  of  New  Hampshire.  Resides  many 
metrical  effiisions  in  various  periodicals,  lie  is 
represented  in  "The  Poets  of  New  Ham|)- 
shire"  and  the  "Poets  of  Maine,"  vidumes 
recently  published.  In  1873  and  for  the  two 
or  three  ensuing  years  he  was  employed  in  the 
State  teachers'  institutes,  both  as  a  reporter 
and  as  a  lecturer,  his  special  themes  of  in- 
struction   being   anatomy,   physiology,  and    hy- 


giene, as  applicable  to  the  uses  of  parents  and 
teachers. 

In  1880  Mr.  Lord  was  the  United  States 
enumerator  of  the  census  for  the  district  of 
Ilopkinton.  Of  late  years,  being  specially 
interested  and  practically  skilled  in  the  art  of 
research,  he  has  done  considerable  work  in 
making  historical  investigations  for  people  and 
persons  from  different  places.  He  was  the 
projector  of  the  organization  of  the  Sons  and 
Daughters  of  Nathan  Lord,  which  has  held 
two  reunions  in  .South  Berwick,  Me.,  and  of 
which  he  is  the  corresponding  secretary,  as 
well  as  the  chairman  of  its  historical  commit- 
tee.     Mr.   Lord  has  never  married. 


UKTIS      LRAXKl.I.X      LIAVIN,     an 


enterprising  provision  dealer  of  Plain- 
field,  was  born  in  this  town,  April 
24,  1850,  son  of  lirastus  and  P'anny  (Nash) 
Lewin.  Among  several  of  the  members  of  the 
family  who  have  achieved  distinction  in  busi- 
ness and  professional  pursuits  may  be  men- 
tioned Judge  Lewin,  an  eminent  jurist  and  a 
wealthy  resident  of  Hartford,  Conn.  The 
father  of  I'lrastus,  Cranston  Lewin,  who  was 
born  May  6,  1777,  came  from  Hartford,  Conn., 
to  Plainfield  when  a  young  man,  and  was  en- 
gaged in  farming  and  butchering  for  the  rest  of 
his  active  jjeriod.  He  married  Esther  P'uller, 
who  was  born  in  Plainfield,  June  23,  1787. 
They  had  four  chiklren  —  Louisiana,  Erastus, 
Cranston,  and  Benjamin.  Louisiana  died 
when  quite  young.  Cranston  became  a  con- 
tractor and  builder  in  the  West,  and  died 
unmarrieil  while  still  a  young  man.  Benja- 
min, who  was  a  butcher  and  provision  dealer 
in  Hartford,  Conn.,  for  a  number  of  years, 
spent  his  last  da3"s  in  Plainfield.  His  second 
wife  was  Lucy  Walker,  of  this  town,  who  bore 
him  six  children. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


Erastus  Lewin  was  born  in  Plainfield,  June 
17,  1817.  In  early  life  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, and  also  operated  a  saw-mill  for  some 
time.  He  disposed  of  the  mill  to  enter  the 
butchering  business,  which  he  carried  on  with 
success  for  thirty  years;  and  his  last  days  were 
passed  in  retirement  upon  his  farm.  He 
served  in  some  of  the  town  offices,  but  re- 
frained from  accepting  important  positions  in 
public  affairs,  as  the  demands  of  his  business 
would  not  permit  it.  He  was  a  general  favor- 
ite in  the  community  on  account  of  his  genial 
disposition,  and  he  was  widely  known  through- 
out this  section.  Erastus  Lewin  died  May  12, 
1893.  He  was  three  times  married.  His 
children  by  his  first  wife,  Fanny  Nash  Lewin, 
were:  Chailes  H.,  born  January  31,  1844; 
Laura,  born  September  21,  1845;  Curtis  F., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Emily,  born  May 
9,  1S51  ;  Hattie,  born  December  8,  1853;  and 
Byron,  born  March  24,  1856.  Charles  H.  en- 
listed in  the  Nineteenth  Regiment,  Massachu- 
setts Volunteers,  and  died  in  Andersonville 
Prison.  Laura,  who  did  not  marry,  remained 
at  home  until  her  death,  which  occurred  De- 
cember 19,  1892.  Emily  married  I'klwin 
Hall,  a  carriage  painter  of  Cornish,  N.  H., 
and  died  March  13,  1893.  Hattie  became  the 
wife  of  Aden  15artholomcw,  a  shoe-cutter  of 
Plainfield,  and  died  March  10,  1893,  leaving 
three  children.  liyron,  who  is  now  in  the 
butchering  business  in  Hanover,  N.  II.,  mar- 
ried Katie  Reed,  and  has  three  children.  The 
second  wife  of  I'>astns  Lewin,  .Susan  Walker 
Lewin,  bore  him  five  childien,  as  follows: 
Anna,  who  died  at  the  age  of  thirteen  years ; 
Benjamin,  a  meat  dealer  in  Manchester,  who 
married  Hattie  Blood,  and  lias  two  children; 
Katie  and  Norman,  both  of  whom  died  in  in- 
fancy; and  Palmer,  who  married  Nellie  West- 
gate,  of  Plainfield,  has  si.v  children,  and  is  in 
the  meat  business  in  Manchester.     The  father's 


third  marriage  was  contracted  with  Olive  P. 
Clark.  The  only  child  of  this  union,  P>ank 
C,  now  a  travelling  salesman,  is  married,  and 
lives  in  Davenport,  la. 

Cnrtis  I'ranklin  Lewin  acquired  a  practical 
education  in  the  schools  of  Plainfield.  Hav- 
ing learned  the  meat  and  provision  business 
with  his  father,  he  has  since  followed  it  with 
success.  Besides  carrying  on  his  meat  busi- 
ness, he  owns  and  cultivates  a  good  farm  situ- 
ated within  the  limits  of  the  village.  His 
enterprise  and  close  attention  to  business  have 
won  for  him  considerable  wealth.  In  1875, 
October  6,  he  married  Lucy  M.  Clough,  who 
was  born  March  30,  1S56,  daughter  of  Charles 
S.  Clough,  of  Grantham,  N.H.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Lewin  have  had  nine  children,  born  as  fol- 
lows: Charles,  June  17,  1S76;  P'anny,  March 
29,  1878;  Robert  E.,  August  11,  1881;  Mary 
E.,  P'ebruary  17,  1883;  Carl,  August  4,  1884; 
Leroy,  June  2,  1887;  Ruth  H.,  July  5,  1890; 
Catharine  E.,  in  October,  1891  ;  and  Margue- 
rite P:.  ,  March  i,  1896.  Of  these  Robert 
Iv ,  Ruth  II.,  and  Marguerite  ¥..  are  living. 
In  politics  Mr.  Lewin  is  a  Democrat,  but 
he  takes  no  active  interest  in  iiublic  affairs. 
Devoting  his  whole  time  to  his  business  and 
the  care  of  his  farm,  he  is  one  of  the  busiest 
men  in  Plainfield.  Sharing  the  musical  talent 
of  the  Lewins,  he  often  uses  it  for  his  own 
amusement  and  that  of  his  family. 


XDRh:W     JACKSON      KICLLICV, 

i'ostmaster  of  Dimond  Hill,  llopkin- 
ton,  a  successful  agriculturist  of 
this  town,  and  one  of  the  brave  men  who 
fought  in  the  late  war,  was  boin  Januaiy  22, 
1835,  in  Webster,  Merrimack  County,  son  of 
Timothy  and  Jane  (Hurbank)  Kelley.  Timo- 
thy Kelley  was  born  December  25,  1778,  in 
Kilcoloman,  County   Waterford,    Ireland.       lie 


NAPOLEON     B.    HALE. 


IIIOCK  \rill(\|,    KKVIFAV 


2f)7 


was  an  ofTiccr  in  tlic  Irisli  rcliullion,  and  on  ils 
sii|>|ircssinii  L'.si.-a|)c<l  by  Ijcing'  .smuggled  on 
l)(i;ii(l  a  slii|)  lidinid  for  New  York.  Making 
his  way  from  thai  city  to  Massachusetts,  he 
lived  for  a  linn;  in  Ncwjjniy,  Mass.,  where  he 
wooed  and  won  his  wife.  .Subsequently,  re- 
moving to  Webster,  N.ll.,  he  was  engaged 
in  agricidtural  pursuits  initil  his  death,  July 
15,  1S54,  aged  seventy-five  years  and  si.\ 
months.  J  lis  wife  survived  him  many  years, 
dying  in  May,  1S73,  at  the  venerable  age  of 
eighty-si.N  years. 

Andrew  J.  Kelley  sjient  the  days  of  his  b(jy- 
hood  and  early  maidiood  in  Webster.  Soon 
after  the  commencement  of  the  late  war  he 
enlisted  in  Company  ]'",,  ]5urdan's  sharp- 
shooters, under  Captain  Amos  B.  Jones,  being 
mustered  into  service  .September  g,  1861, 
lie  spent  the  ensuing  winter  in  Washington 
on  guard  duty.  In  the  spring  he  went  to  Fort 
Smith,  Virginia,  and  afterward  took  an  active 
party  in  thirty  of  the  more  important  engage- 
ments, including  those  of  l-'alls  Church,  York- 
town,  the  Wiklerness,  Spottsylvania,  Peters- 
burg, Manassas,  and  Mine  Run. 

He  remained  with  his  company  to  the  end  of 
the  contest,  serving  forty-seven  months,  and, 
though  he  was  continually  on  the  skirmish 
line,  was  neither  woundeil  nor  ca[)tured. 
After  the  capitulation  of  the  Confederates  he 
saw  Lee's  men  stack  their  guns,  and  he  was 
present  at  the  Grand  Review  in  Washington 
with  his  comrades.  At  Kelly's  I"^)rd  the 
sharpshooters  ca[)tured  the  Tenth  South  Caro- 
lina Regiment,  losing  but  few  of  their  men  in 
the  engagement.  I'"or  gallant  and  meritorious 
conduct  Mr.  Kelley  was  successively  pro- 
moted to  the  ranks  of  Corporal  and  Orderly 
Sergeant.  He  was  recommended  for  a  Lieu- 
tenancy, which  was  given  to  another,  owing, 
he  believes,  to  a  favoritism  shown  Republi- 
cans.     On    returning  to   Webster,    he   worked 


tliere  liiv  a  short  tinie,  and  then  in  tiie  saw- 
mills at  Concord  or  Goshen  for  s(Miie  years.  In 
1878  he  moved  to  his  pre.sent  farm  of  thirty 
acres  on  Dimond  Hill,  which  is  in  the  vicin- 
ity of  the  original  iJimond  settlement  made  in 
1754.  In  August,  iSy3,  the  present  post- 
office  was  established ;  and,  on  the  recommen- 
dation of  those  who  were  instrumental  in  hav- 
ing it  located  here,  Mr.  Kelley  was  appointed 
the  Postmaster.  In  politics  he  has  always 
been  a  straightforwanl  Democrat,  fearless  in 
the  expression  of  his  ojjinions.  At  hisdining- 
table,  with  his  old  eompanions-in-arms,  he 
often  lives  over  his  army  e.xpericnces  in 
thought  and  story.  He  is  an  active  worker  in 
his  party,  and  generally  attends  its  conven- 
tions. 

In  iS'S.S,  at  Webster,  Mr.  Kelley  niarricd 
Miss  Almira  I-'.  Rijjley,  of  Hopkinton.  She 
died  in  May,  1872,  leaving  three  sons  and 
a  daughter.  These  are:  Willie,  who  is  in  a 
laundry  in  Concord,  N.  H.  ;  George,  who  is  a 
trainman  on  the  Old  Colony  Railway;  James, 
a  slate  roofer,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
three  years;  and  Clara,  the  wife  of  James  C. 
Colbinn,  of  Nashua,  N.  H.  Mr.  Kelley  con- 
tracted a  second  marriage  on  May  21,  1874, 
with  Miss  Roxanna  \V.  Jones,  of  this  town, 
daughter  of  Peter  and  Ann  Eliza  (Locke) 
Jones,  both  of  Cambridge,  Mass.  INIrs. 
Kelley  was  born  and  reared  in  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  near  Bunker  Hill.  Of  this  union  two 
children  have  been  born,  namely:  Arthur  J., 
of  Concord,  N.  H.  ;  and  a  daughter  who  died 
in  early  childhood. 


■^.APOLLON  B.  HAI.I-:,  a  rising  young 
lawyer  of  Concord,  was  born   in   San- 

-^  V^  _  bornton.  N.H.,  April  4,  1S63,  son 
of  Herman  T.  and  Hannah  G.  (Sanborn)  Hale. 
His  father  also  was  a  native  of  Sanbornton, 


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BIOGRAl'HICAL    REVIEW 


and  originally  bore  the  name  of  Jacob  T. 
DolJolT,  but  changed  it  to  Herman  T.  Hale. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  John  Dolloff,  grand- 
son of  Samuel  ]3olloff,  is  said  to  have  been  of 
Russian  descent.  He  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Sanliornton,  where  he  passed  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  farming.  Mr.  N.  li. 
Hale's  grandmother,  the  wife  of  John  Dol- 
loff, was  Nancy  Thomas,  whose  fathei',  Jacob 
Thomas,  was  at  fifteen  years  of  age  a  fifer  in 
the  Revolutionary  War.  He  was  a  son  of 
Jonathan,  a  noted  hunter  in  the  niden  time, 
last  heard  from  as  a  scout  in  Maine.  He  is 
reputed  to  have  married  an  Indian  squaw. 

Through  his  mother  the  subject  of  this 
sketch  is  a  descendant,  in  the  tenth  generation, 
of  John  Sanborn,  who  was  born  about  1600,  in 
Derbyshire,  England,  and  died  there  in  young 
manhood.  His  widow,  a  daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Stejihen  Bachiler,  came  to  this  countr\'  with 
her  father  and  her  sons  in  1632,  and  in  1638 
settled  at  Hampton,  N.  H.  The  eldest  son. 
Lieutenant  John,  born  about-  1620,  was  for 
many  years  a  .Selectman  of  Hampton  and  a 
Representative  to  the  General  Court.  His  son 
Richard,  the  third  in  line,  was  the  father  of 
Ensign  John,  whose  son  Ebenezer,  born  in 
1712,  was  a  [irominent  citizen  of  Hampton, 
serving  as  Town  Clerk  and  .Selectman,  also 
as  Sheriff  of  the  count)',  and  was  a  commis- 
sioned officer  in  the  old  ]'"rench  war.  Ser- 
geant John,  son  of  ICbenezer,  born  in  1736  at 
Hampton,  served  in  the  old  French  war  and 
also  in  the  Revolution.  He  was  the  first 
[lermanent  settler  of  Sanbornton,  X.  H.,  whci-e 
he  built  a  house  in  1765.  Jeremiah,  seventh 
in  the  ance.stral  line,  born  in  November,  1764, 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  enlisted  as  a  nine  months' 
man  in  the  Continental  army,  and  was  at  West 
I'oint  at  the  time  of  Arnold's  treason.  Later 
in  life  he  was  for  two  terms  a  Representative 
from    Hampton    to   the  (ieneral  Court;  and    in 


1S12  he  was  chosen  messenger  to  carry  the 
votes  of  this  State  for  President  to  Washing- 
ton, D.C.  His  son,  Jesse  Sanborn,  born  in 
1794,  a  highly  intelligent,  capable  man,  an  ex- 
cellent school  teacher,  also  a  farmer  and  a 
Ca[itain  in  the  militia,  was  the  father  of  Han- 
nah G.   Sanborn,  who  became  Mrs.   Male. 

Herman  T.  Hale,  son  of  John  and  Nancy 
(Thomas)  Dolloff,  born  July  15,  i<S'20,  spent 
the  greater  part  of  his  life  as  a  farmer  in  San- 
bornton ;  but  for  some  ten  years  he  conducted 
a  grist-mill  at  Hillsborough  Bridge.  He  was  a 
man  prominent  in  local  affairs,  and  was  elected 
to  the  office  of  Selectman,  though  a  Republi- 
can in  the  midst  of  a  strong  Democratic  com- 
munity. He  died  August  3,  1S86,  aged 
sixty-si.x  years.  He  was  twice  married;  and 
by  his  first  wife,  Elvira  M.,  daughter  of  Jesse 
and  Martha  (March)  Sanborn,  of  Sanbornton, 
he  had  four  children,  two  of  whom  died  young. 
The  two  still  living  are:  Sarah  Augusta,  who 
married  Aaron  Eastman,  and  resides  in  San- 
bornton ;  and  Martha  G.,  who  married  Frank 
J.  Thomas,  and  is  also  a  resident  of  Sanborn- 
ton. For  his  second  wife  Mr.  Herman  T. 
Hale  married  Hannah  G.  Sanborn,  a  sister  of 
his  first  wife,  and  l*y  her  became  the  father  of 
three  children,  namely  :  E.  Lettie,  who  mar- 
ried Oscar  P.  Lane,  and  resides  in  Laconia; 
Napoleon  B.,  whose  name  appears  at  the  head 
of  this  sketch;  and  Charles  1'.,  who  is  un- 
married and  resides  at  home. 

Napoleon  B.  Hale  was  educated  in  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  Sanbornton  and  at  tin;  New 
Hampton  Liter, ii-y  Inst  itntiim.  Pour  hculth 
handicajiped  him  for  a  time,  but,  gaining  in 
strength,  he  devoted  himself  to  farming;  and 
after  the  death  of  his  father  he  had  charge  of 
the  home  farm  for  about  three  years.  In  May, 
i88g,  he  engaged  in  the  study  of  law  with 
Daniel  Barnard,  then  Attorney  General  of  the 
State,  at  his  nfiice    in    l'"ranklin,  where   he   re- 


niOCk  AI'IIKAI,    KIAII'AV 


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iiKiined  Ihrcc  years.  Soon  after  Mr.  Haniard's 
decease  Mr.  Hale  came  to  C(jncord  and  com- 
pleted liis  [ireparatory  course  of  study  with 
Leach  &  Stcvcii.s.  He  was  admitted  to  tiie 
Merrimack-  County  liar,  IVfarch  17,  1.S93,  and 
.soon  after  o]icned  an  office  in  Concord.  lie 
has  since  lieen  successfully  engaged  in  the 
practice,  ol  liis  pinfessiun.  I'olit it'all}',  he 
affiliates  with  the  Republicans;  and  he  cast 
liis  fir.st  Presidential  vote  for  James  G.  Blaine 
in  1S.S4.  lie  is  a  mcniher  of  the  h'irst  Baptist 
Chinch  of  Concord.  He  is  also  a  member  of 
Kear.sarge  Lodge,  No.  48,  K.  of  P.,  and  Capi- 
tal Grange,  No.   113,  P.  of  H.,  of  Concord. 


— 4-»«*-«— 


01 1. V  15.  SANBORN,  a  well-known 
citizen  of  Concord  and  a  ]irominent 
New  p]ngland  stock-raiser,  was  born  in 
the  eastern  part  of  Concord,  April  i,  1S31, 
son  of  Iliman  and  Mary  A.  (I5ean)  Sanborn. 
His  paternal  grandfatlier,  Tristram  Sanborn, 
a  nati\e  of  the  old  Bay  State  and  a  farmer, 
moved  to  Boscawen,  near  Warner,  bringing 
his  wife  and  a  few  household  goods  on  a  sled 
drawn  by  a  yoke  of  steers.  There  he  settled 
on  wild  land,  which  he  converted  into  a  good 
farm  and  made  his  home  for  many  years. 
Prior  to  the  erection  of  the  modern  house  the 
family  dwelt  in  a  log  cabin,  in  the  primitive 
fireplace  of  which  it  is  told  that  one  of  the 
chiklren  received  severe  burns  on  his  feet 
from  the  hot  ashes.  Tristram's  youngest  son 
now  owns  the  old  homestead.  There  were  five 
boys  and  five  girls  in  the  family. 

Iliman  Sanljoin  receis'ed  his  eilucation  in 
the  schools  of  his  native  town  and  at  lioscawen. 
Ujion  reaching  his  majority,  he  walked  to  Bos- 
ton, a  long  journey  in  those  days,  when  the 
roads  were  poor  and  much  of  the  country  was 
unbroken.  Upon  arri\ing  there,  he  secured 
work  in  a  stable,  and  was   employed    there   for 


a  season.  He  then  returned  to  Bo.scawcn, 
married,  and  went  to  work  on  a  farm.  ]''!- 
nally,  he  bought  a  farm  in  I''ast  Concord,  there 
s])ent  the  remainder  of  his  life  engaged  in 
agriculture,  and  died  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
three  years.  He  did  not  aspire  to  civil  [jrc- 
ferment,  but  his  ability  and  many  virtues  as  a 
citizen  conld  not  pass  unnoticed;  and  he  was 
prevailed  upon  to  serve  the  jiublic  in  various 
capacities.  He  was  Selectman,  Councilman, 
and  Alderman,  as  well  as  Justice  of  the  Peace. 
His  first  wife,  Mary  A.  (Bean)  .Sanborn,  was 
a  daughter  of  Abraham  ]5ean,  who  was  High 
Sheriff  for  many  years.  She  bore  him  four 
children  —  Abram,  Charles,  John  B.,  and 
Sarah  A.  A  second  marriage  united  him  to 
Clarissa  Batchelder,  of  Loudon,  who  bore  him 
one  son -- Charles  H.,  now  living  in  Concord. 
His  third  marriage  was  contracted  with  Laura 
Jones,  of  Warner. 

John  B.  Sanborn  was  sent  to  the  district 
schools  and  later  to  Pembroke  Academy. 
b'rom  early  boyhood  he  worked  on  his  father's 
farm  until  lie  was  twenty-one  years  old. 
Then  he  bought  a  farm,  on  which  he  has  since 
resided.  l^esidcs  erecting  on  it  a  fine  brick 
residence,  he  has  rebuilt  the  barns.  lie 
makes  a  specialty  of  raising  thoroughbred 
Devon  cattle  and  Shrojishire  and  Southdown 
sheep.  He  now  owns  a  thousand  acres  of  land, 
all  within  si.v  miles  of  the  city.  His  first 
marriage  was  contracted  with  Miss  Nancy 
Powers,  of  Alexandria,  N.H.,  whose  daughter 
by  him,  Sarah  J.,  married  William  Sargent, 
and  lives  at  Gilmantini.  A  second  marriage 
united  him  to  Hannah  A.  Stone,  daughter  of 
Amos  Stone,  of  Boscawen.  She  bore  him  five 
children — John  W.,  George,  Frank  P., 
Charles  H.,  and  Harley  H.  John  married 
Clara  Ames,  and  has  one  daughter,  Mabel. 
George  married  Abbie  Smith;  and  his  chil- 
dren   are  —  Clarence,    Genella,   and   Percy  H. 


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Frank  P.  dictl    s(jme  time  ago.      Charles   mar 
ried  Hattie  llousel,  of  Springfield,  N.II. 

Like  his  father,  Mr.  Sanborn  has  been 
prominent  in  town  affairs.  He  has  served  in 
the  City  Council,  and  he  was  Assessor  for  two 
terms.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  he 
has  been  chairman  of  his  ward  committee  for 
years.  His  first  Presidential  vote  was  cast  in 
1852  for  P'ranklin  Pierce.  He  and  his  sons 
are  known  all  over  New  England,  as  they  have 
exhibited  their  cattle  at  all  the  leading  fairs 
for  the  last  thirty-five  years,  and  won  a  large 
number  of  jiremiums. 


^. 


[^I-:NJAMIN  F.  heath,  a  well- 
known  resident  of  Warner  and  its 
present  Representative  in  the  State 
legislature,  was  born  August  2,  1835,  in  that 
town,  at  the  Lower  Village,  son  of  Matthias 
Heath.  The  father,  a  native  of  Henniker, 
this  count)-,  born  in  1790,  came  to  Warner  in 
early  manhood.  He  married  Mary  Rand,  who 
was  born  in  Warner  in  1797,  in  the  log  house 
in  which  her  parents,  Iq^hraim  and  Lucy 
(Noj'es)  Rand,  began  housekeeping.  Matthias 
Heath  was  a  teacher  for  some  years.  Subse- 
quently he  engaged  in  trade  in  I5radford, 
N.H.,  and  then  in  Hillsborough,  finally  set- 
tling in  Warner,  where  he  resided  until  his 
death  in  1846.  His  wife,  who  survived  him 
many  years,  passed  away  in  1887,  in  her 
ninetieth  year.  They  were  the  parents  of 
three  chijtlren,  namely:  Henjamin  1'".,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  Anna  W.,  who  is  liv- 
ing in  Warner;  and  Lydia  M.,\vho  was  an 
invalid  from  her  early  girlhood,  and  ilieil  at 
the  age  of  forty-three  years. 

Benjamin  V.  Heath  completed  his  educa- 
tion at  the  Hopkinton  Academy  at  the  age  of 
nineteen,  and  for  four  years  thereafter  taught 
school    in    Hoiikinton    and    Warner.      He    was 


then  employed  for  five  years  as  clerk  in  a 
store  in  this  town.  This  situation  he  gave  up 
to  accept  the  position  of  cashier  and  head 
book-keeper  in  the  office  of  the  Boston  Culti- 
vator in  Boston.  He  remained  tliere  until 
failing  health  warned  him  to  seek  a  more  ac- 
tive occupation,  and  outdoor  exercise  became 
imperative.  Then  he  went  West  for  a  year, 
after  which  he  returned  to  Warner  village, 
where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits 
for  four  years,  in  company  with  Ira  Harvey 
and  H.  S.  Willis.  From  1874  until  1887 
Mr.  Heath  successfully  carried  on  the  business 
alone.  Since  that  time  he  has  been  largely 
engaged  in  probate  work,  settling  many  es- 
tates, mostly  in  Warner.  He  has  also  often 
served  as  commissioner  on  estates,  has  been 
an  appraiser  of  real  estate,  and  has  written 
many  insurance  papers.  For  about  a  year 
after  its  incorporation  he  was  the  Secretary  of 
the  Merrimack  Glove  Company.  An  unswerv- 
ing Republican  in  politics,  he  has  attended 
all  the  conventions  of  the  party  in  this  vicin- 
ity, and  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the  man- 
agement of  local  affairs.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  School  Board  for  a  number  of  terms, 
and  he  served  several  terms  in  the  capacities 
of  Town  Treasurer  and  Town  Clerk.  In  i8g6 
he  was  elected  for  a  term  of  two  years  to  the 
State  legislature.  He  has  been  a  Trustee 
and  the  Treasurer  of  the  Pillsbury  Free  Li- 
brary since  it  was  founded  in  1871. 

On  May  19,  1S70,  Mr.  Heath  married  in 
Boston  Miss  Julia  A.  Wadleigh.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Philip  S.  H.  and  Rhoda  W. 
(Kendrick)  Wadleigh,  of  .Sutton,  M.H.,  and 
a  graduate  of  the  New  London  Literary  and 
Scientific  Institution.  Their  only  child,  h'red 
Harvey  Heath,  a  bright,  intelligent  lad  of 
fourteen,  is  now  attending  the  high  school. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs  Heath  attend  the  Baptist 
church.     An  active  and  prominent  Mason,  Mr. 


BIOGKAIMIICAL    KKVIKW 


^7' 


Ilcath  was  one  of  the  first  applicants  for  ml- 
niissioii  III  Harris  I.od^c,  No.  91,  of  Warner; 
is  a  Nirnilicr  ol  Wnuds  (  li.iptcr,  No.  14,  of 
IIciinil<cr,  in  wliirli  he  has  passed  all  tlie 
cliairs,  and  served  as  liigli  I'riesl;  lias  i)een 
an  oCdcer  in  tlic  (iiand  I.od^e;  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  llie  Council  of  llu'  order  nf  ili,L;h  I'ricst- 
hood,  whose  membership  included  the  late 
|ohn  J.  Hell,  of  iCxeter.  The  deep  interest 
Mr.  Heath  has  constantly  taken  in  educa- 
tional matters  found  useful  employment  in 
the  legislature  of  1897,  when  he  was  an  active 
and  eifuient  member  of  the  Committee  on  I'",d- 
ucation.  In  his  leL^islative  capacity  he  also 
serveti  on  the  Conference  and  other  commit- 
tees, and  was  the  introducer  of  several  bills 
that  passed  both  houses  and  received  the  sig- 
nature of  the  iidvenuir. 


ON.    AUS'l'IN    TYLMR,  who   was  an 
extensive     builder    and     the     largest 
'■^  '  land-owner    of    his    tlay    in    Clare- 

mont,  was  born  there,  January  6,  1790,  son  of 
I'.phraini  and  Abigail  (I'ardee)  Tyler.  His 
grandfather,  Colonel  Henjamin  Tyler,  born  at 
Wallingford,  Conn.,  b'ebruary  23,  1732,  mar- 
ried Meliitable  Andrews,  and  removed  to 
I'^irmington,  Conn.  b'rom  that  place  Colonel 
Tyler  went  to  Claremont  in  the  spring  of 
1767.  and  the  Town  History  gives  the  in- 
formation that  he  built  the  first  dam  across 
Sugar  River  at  West  Claremont,  having  been 
given  a  tract  of  land  for  that  purpose  by  the 
town.  After  the  completion  of  the  dam  he 
returned  to  l'"armington  ;  and  in  the  following 
March,  with  his  wife,  si.\  children,  and  house- 
hokl  effects  on  an  o.\  sled,  he  started  for 
Claremont.  In  1768  he  built  a  grist-mill  and 
saw-mill  in  connection  with  his  dam.  The 
blocks  for  the  millstones  were  obtained  from 
a  quarry   on   Ascutney    Mountain,    worked   by 


him  and  his  .sons  for  several  years,  and  were 
carried  over  the  Connecticut  River  on  the  ice, 
and  brought  to  West  Claremont.  Here  they 
were  finisheti  into  millstones,  and  supplie<l  to 
mills  in  nearly  all  jiarls  of  New  ICngland, 
Canada,  and  New  York.  Colonel  Tyler  built 
another  dam  near  the  site  of  High  Uridge, 
and  a  f(jrge  and  smelting  works  in  connection 
therewith.  The  ore  used  was  brought  from 
Charlestovvn,  N.H.,  and  the  lime  from 
Weathersfield,  Vt.  The  Colonel  invented 
and  had  patented  a  process  for  dressing  fla.x. 
He  also  devised  an  imj^roved  bucket  for  a 
wooden  water  wheel  with  an  upright  shaft, 
called  the  rye  lly  or  tub  wheel,  for  which  he 
was  granted  two  patents  successively,  in  1800 
and  in  1S04.  When  seventy-five  years  old  he 
retired  finm  active  business,  and  was  suc- 
ceeded by  his  sons  John,  Benjamin,  and 
Noah.  He  died  in  Claremont,  March  9, 
1 8 14,  leaving  eleven  children,  to  each  of 
whom  he  gave  a  good  farm.  He  was  Select- 
man in  1768  and  1769.  His  son,  Mphraim 
Tyler,  who  died  December  16,  1S23,  at 
the  age  of  si.\ty-four  years,  married  Abigail 
I'ardee,  who  died  March  18,  1814,  aged  fifty- 
three  years.  They  had  the  following  chil- 
dren; namely.  Miles,  Rebekah,  Sally,  Benja- 
min, Pardee,  William,  ICphraim,  Jr.,  Austin, 
Sarah,  Abigail,  Lola,  and  Maria. 

One  of  the  most  active,  enterprising,  and 
public-spirited  men  of  his  time,  Austin  Tyler 
built  the  Sullivan  factory  and  the  Stone 
paper-mill.  His  enterprise  included  all 
branches  of  his  business.  The  clearing  of  the 
land  and  the  lumbering,  as  well  as  the  build- 
ing, were  peisonally  conducted  by  him.  He 
constantly  employed  from  thirty  to  forty 
men,  and  he  built  for  rent  and  sometimes  for 
sale  throughout  his  active  life.  He  held  va- 
rious offices  of  public  trust,  the  duties  of 
which  he  discharged  with  the  utmost   fidelitv. 


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RIOGRAPHICAL    REVI E\V 


He  was  Selectman  of  Claremont  for  nine 
years,  was  Moderator  on  many  occasions, 
served  in  the  capacity  of  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
was  Representative  to  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature  for  eight  years,  and  was  State 
Senator  in  1838. 

Mr.  Tyler  married  Almira  Kingsbury,  the 
only  child  of  Esquire  Daniel  Kingsbury.  She 
was  born  in  Keene,  N.H.,  March  6,  1799, 
and  died  December  g,  1867.  Mr.  Tyler  died 
August  12,  1844.  They  had  seven  children 
—  Henry  D.,  Louise,  Emeline,  Elizabeth 
Bailey,  Frederick  Austin,  Sarah  Frances,  and 
Ellen  Almira.  Henry  D.  Tyler,  who  was 
born  August  13,  181 5,  when  thirty-one  years 
old  enlisted  under  Captain  Webster,  Com- 
pany A,  went  with  his  regiment  to  Mexico, 
took  an  active  part  in  the  war,  and  died  at 
San  Antonio,  Tex.,  June  16,  1868,  aged  fifty- 
three  years.  Louise,  born  March  30,  18  iS, 
who  was  highly  educated,  became  the  wife  of 
Nathaniel  Westgate,  of  Enfield,  N.  H.,  and 
died  March  6,  1895.  Emeline,  who  was  born 
April  21,  1820,  married  Asa  T.  Starbird,  and 
died  at  Dover,  Kan.,  March  4,  1876.  Eliza- 
beth Bailey,  born  September  15,  1822,  died 
in  Boston,  April  26,  1868,  the  wife  of  Sam- 
uel W.  Howe.  Frederick  Austin,  born  De- 
cember 10,  1824,  who  was  a  prominent  hotel 
man  in  his  time,  married  Mary  Ro!)bins,  and 
died  February  11,  1890.  Sarah  Frances,  born 
December  27,  1834,  married  Joseph  K.  Eger- 
ton,  and  died  at  Northfield,  Vt. ,  March  9, 
1886.  Ellen  Almira,  born  May  29,  1827,  on 
January  18,  1854,  married  John  Leonard 
Lovcring,  of  Hartford,  Vt.,  who  died  at  Fari- 
bault, Minn.,  in  1862.  They  had  two  chil- 
dren—  Leonard  Austin  and  Anna  Tyler.  Of 
the  son  the  Town  History  says:  "Leonard 
was  born  at  Hartford,  Vt.,  November  13, 
1855;  was  appointed  cadet  at  West  Point  in 
1872;  graduated  and  was  commissioned  Second 


Lieutenant  of  the  Fourth  United  States  Infan- 
try, June  15,  1876;  was  promoted  First  Lieu- 
tenant of  same,  January  3,  1S85,  and  Cap- 
tain of  same,  October  15,  1893.  He  was 
detailed  by  the  War  Department  Assisting 
Professor  of  Chemistry,  Mineralogy,  and 
Geology,  at  the  United  States  Military  Acad- 
emy, West  Point,  1881-85;  Engineer  Ofificer, 
Department  of  the  Columbia,  1888-89;  Aide- 
de-camp  to  Brigadier-general  Thomas  H. 
Ruger,  of  the  United  States  Army,  1891  ;  and 
in  command  of  his  company  at  Boise  City, 
Idaho,  in  1894.''  He  is  now  acting  Captain 
at  F"ort  Sheridan,  Chicago,  111.  His  sister 
Anna  was  born  at  Hartford,  Vt.,  September 
21,  1857.  She  married  April  14,  1S87, 
Charles  W.  Barrett,  of  Melrose,  and  has  two 
children. 


OLONEL   ABIAL    ROLFE,   a  promi- 


nent resident  of  Penacook,  was  born 
March  29,  1823,  on  the  estate  where 
he  now  resides,  son  of  Henry  and  Deborah 
(Carter)  Rolfe.  His  grandfather,  Nathaniel 
Rolfe,  came  here  from  Haverhill,  Mass.,  when 
there  were  but  few  settlers  in  this  section. 
Nathaniel  converted  a  tract  of  wild  land  into 
a  good  farm,  built  a  frame  house,  and  carried 
on  farming  and  lumbering  throughout  the  rest 
of  his  life.  His  son  Henry  grew  uji  on  the 
farm,  receiving  his  education  in  the  Concord 
schools.  When  old  enough  to  engage  in  busi- 
ness for  himself,  Henry  followed  .the  same  oc- 
cupations that  had  been  pursued  by  his  father. 
In  connection  with  the  lumber  business  he 
controlled  a  water-power,  and  did  considerable 
sawing.  He  was  a  very  influential  man  in  the 
town,  took  an  interest  in  pulilic  affairs,  and 
was  a  strong  Whig.  In  the  command  of  a 
militia  company,  he  was  an  exacting  and 
painstaking  drill-master.  He  tiled  at  the  age 
of   seventy   yeiirs.      His    wife,    Deborah,  a  na- 


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273 


tivc  of  West  Concord,  was  the  mother  of  seven 
<^irls  and  four  l)()ys;  namely,  Judith  N. ,  Jane 
C,  khoda  C,  I'h(.l)e  W.,  Deborah,  I.ydia, 
Martha,  N'allianiel,  'riiunlhy,  Ilciny,  and 
Ahial. 

C()h)iiel  Rdllc  was  educated  in  tjie  [)rivate 
school  at  I  lii|ikint(ui,  under  the  famous  John 
Hallard,  and  at  the  institutes  in  remiiroke  and 
Salisbiuy.  After  eompieting  his  studies  he 
taught  seliDol  (nr  tour  terms,  acquiring  a  high 
reputation  as  a  disciplinarian,  and  succcss- 
fiUly  managing  a  school  which  several  preced- 
ing masters  had  failed  to  control.  Since  that 
time  Colonel  Rolfe  has  retained  a  warm  inter- 
est in  public  education.  After  giving  up 
school  teaching,  he  was  engaged  in  the  manu- 
facture of  doors,  sashes,  and  blinds,  for  a 
period  of  fifteen  years.  In  1S55  he  was  first 
elected  to  the  School  Board  of  Concord,  on 
which  he  continued  to  serve  for  over  thirty 
years.  In  1856  and  1857  he  was  sent  to  rep- 
resent the  town  in  the  State  legislature,  and 
in  i860  was  appointed  on  Governor  Goodwin's 
staff,  where  he  served  for  two  years,  and  re- 
ceived his  title  of  Colonel.  In  1882  he  was 
elected  Ward  Assessor,  which  office  he  filled 
for  eight  years  with  entire  impartiality.  Colo- 
nel Rolfe  is  now  a  bank  messenger  in  I'ena- 
cook,  and  also  transacts  some  business  in 
insurance. 

Colonel  Rolfe's  connection  with  banking 
and  insurance  has  led  him  to  become  inter- 
ested in  the  various  methods  of  computing  in- 
terest. ]>lecognizing  the  need  of  uniformity 
in  this  particular,  he  has  formulated  a  simple 
anil  practical  rule,  which  he  hopes  to  have 
legalized  as  the  court  rule  by  the  legislat- 
ure. It  provides  for  computing  the  annual  in- 
terest, which  is  the  legal  interest  in  this 
State,  on  interest-bearing  notes  covered  by 
partial  payments,  at  different  rates  of  per 
cent.,    and    when    there   are   odd    months    and 


days.  'I'he  method  of  doing  this  is  judjlishcfl 
in  a  pamphlet  copyrighted  by  the  author,  in 
the  belief  that  it  meets  a  long-felt  want. 

Colonel  Rolfe  married  Sarah  Ivli/.abeth 
Call,  who,  born  in  West  Hoscawen,  now 
Webster,  died  in  1881.  A  daughter,  JJzzie 
I'^,  who  was  for  twenty-two  years  a  teacher  in 
the  schools  of  I'enacook,  survives  her.  Colo- 
nel Rolfe  is  a  veteran  fireman,  having  been 
connected  with  the  pioneer  engine  company  of 
I'enacook  for  thirty  years.  He  was  manager 
for  many  years  of  the  old  Merrimack  County 
Agricultural  Society.  The  Colonel  is  an  es- 
teemed member  of  Horace  Chase  Lodge,  No. 
72,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Penacook;  and  of  Contoo- 
cook  Lodge,  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fel- 
lows. In  politics  he  is  a  Republican,  and  he 
cast  his  first  Presidential  vote  for  Henry  Clay 
in  1844.  His  religious  belief  is  the  Congre- 
gational. 


I  R  A  M    r  A  R  K  1:  R  ,     Postmaster  of 
empster,  and  an    ex-member  of   the 

i®   V» New     Hampshire     legislature,    was 

born  in  this  town,  July  3,  1830,  son  of 
Benjamin  and  Olive  (Nichols)  Parker.  His 
grandfather,  Joseph  Parker,  moved  his  family 
from  New  Ipswich,  N.H.,  to  Lempster,  first 
settling  in  the  northern  part  of  the  town.  At 
a  later  date  Joseph  removed  to  the  farm  now 
owned  by  his  grandson.  While  he  owned  and 
successfully  conducted  a  farm,  he  was  also  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  potash.  His 
death  occurred  March  14,  1835.  He  married 
Sarah  Wright,  a  native  of  Washington,  N.  H.; 
and  his  children  were:  Sally,  Jeremiah, 
Joseph,  Benjamin,  Jonas,  Bateman,  Almena, 
George,  and  Hiram. 

Benjamin  Parker,  who  was  born  in  New 
Ipswich,  came  to  Lempster  when  he  was  three 
years  old.  He  was  engaged  in  farming;  and 
he  attained  prominence  in  public  affairs,  serv- 


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ing  as  Selectman,  County  Road  Commissioner, 
and  Representative  to  tlie  legislature.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Democrat  and  in  religious 
belief  a  Universalist.  He  died  in  1S45.  His 
wife,  Olive,  was  a  daughter  of  Timothy  and 
Ann  (Carey)  Nichols,  of  Lempster,  who  had 
eight  children;  namely,  Polly,  Cynthia, 
Eunice,  Olive,  Lavina,  Niantha,  Timothy, 
and  Troop.  Benjamin  Parker's  children  were: 
lunily  L.,  Hiram,  and  Hosea  \V.  luiiily  is 
now  the  widow  of  Ransom  P.  Beckwith,  late 
of  Lempster,  and  has  two  children  —  Walter 
P.  and  Hira  R.  Walter  P.  Beckwith,  who 
is  the  principal  of  the  State  Normal  School 
in  Salem,  Mass.,  wedded  Mary  Sails,  of 
Adams,  Mass.,  and  has  one  daughter,  Fanny. 
Hira  R.  Beckwith,  now  an  architect  and 
builder  in  Claremont,  married  Tibbie  Martin, 
a  native  of  Springfield,  Vt.  The  Hon.  Hosea 
W.  Parker,  who  was  a  member  of  Congress, 
and  is  now  an  attorney  in  Claremont,  married 
Louvisa  Southgate,  of  Bridgewater,  Vt.  His 
only  daughter,  Lizzie  S.,  is  now  the  wife 
of  the  Rev.  Lee  McCoUester,  of  Detroit, 
Mich.,  and  has  two  children  —  Parker  and 
Catharine.  Mrs.  Benjamin  Parker  died  March 
10,   1887. 

Hiram  Parker  acquired  a  common-school  ed- 
ucation. He  was  but  fifteen  years  old  when 
the  death  of  his  father  made  it  necessary  for 
him  to  take  the  management  of  the  homestead 
farm.  In  1887  he  moved  to  the  village,  and 
engaged  in  business  at  his  present  stand. 
His  store,  stocked  with  a  good  assortment  of 
general  merchandise,  is  largely  patronized, 
and  brings  him  a  good  income.  At  the  same 
time  conducting  his  farm  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  acres,  he  is  one  of  the  busiest  men  in 
town.  Politically,  he  supports  the  Demo- 
cratic party;  and  he  is  a  leading  spirit  in  local 
public  affairs.  For  thirteen  years  he  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Boartl  of  Selectmen.      He  was 


Town  Clerk  and  Treasurer  for  two  years,  he 
served  on  the  School  Board  for  si.x  years,  he 
represented  this  town  in  the  legislature  in 
1863  and  1864,  he  served  on  the  State  Board 
of  Agriculture  for  nine  years,  and  he  has 
been  Postmaster  for  the  past  four  years.  Ac- 
tively interested  in  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry, 
he  was  formerly  Master  of  Silver  Mountain 
Grange,  No.  196,  and  is  now  a  member  of 
Pomona  Grange  of  Sullivan  County.  Both  he 
and  Mrs.  Parker  are  members  of  the  Univer- 
salist Society,  which  he  serves  in  the  capacity 
of  secretary. 

On  October  11,  1854,  Mr.  Parker  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Helen  G.  Moore. 
She  was  born  in  Lempster,  June  16,  1836, 
daughter  of  Charles  and  Aira  (Beckwith) 
Moore.  Her  father,  who  was  a  native  of  Bol- 
ton, Mass.,  settled  upon  a  farm  in  this  town 
soon  after  his  marriage.  He  died  in  1870; 
and  his  wife,  who  was  born  in  Lenity,  N.  H., 
died  in  1882.  They  were  the  parents  of  four 
children,  namely:  Harriet,  who  became  the 
wife  of  J.  N.  Butler,  M.D.,  of  Lempster; 
George,  who  married  Almina  Weed,  of  Unity; 
Helen  G.,  who  is  now  Mrs.  Parker;  and 
Charles  Austin,  a  travelling  man,  who  married 
I^lla  Smith,  of  Ludlow,  Vt.,  and  resides  in 
Rutland.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Parker  have  had  four 
children,  namely:  Fred  C,  born  June  2-j , 
1858;  Frank  B.,  born  May  29,  i860,  who  died 
in  1863;  Jennie  L. ,  born  November  10,  1864; 
and  Carl  Austin,  born  April  28,  1879.  Fred 
C,  who  graduated  from  the  Agricultural  Col- 
lege in  Hanover  with  the  class  of  1880,  is  now 
a  merchant  in  Acworth,  N.II.  He  wedded 
Mary  Stafford,  of  Lempster,  who  has  had  two 
children:  Bertha,  born  in  March,  1893,  who 
died  in  infancy;  and  Leslie  Iliram,  born  No- 
vember 13,  1S95,  who  died  January  5,  181)7. 
Jennie  L.,  a  graduate  of  the  Claremont  High 
School,   is   now  the   wife   of    Herbert    !•".  Olm- 


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stead,  who  is  a  native  of  Sutton,  Canada,  and 
a  <Iealcr  in  musical  instruments  in  Lempstor. 
Siie  has  one  son,  Percy  !■".,  born  May  14, 
1.S93.  Carl  Austin  I'arker  is  attending  the 
Kimball  Union  Academy  in  Meridcn. 


iA'IN  W.  SANDERS,  one  of  the  lead- 
ing merchants  of  Pittsfield,  was  born 
in  this  town,  October  5,  1850,  son 
ol  William  and  Adeline  (Reyn(dds)  Sanders. 
His  grandfather,  Samuel  Sanders,  who  was  a 
resident  of  Strafford,  N.II.,  followed  shoe- 
making  and  farming  throughout  the  active 
period  of  his  life,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy  years.  Samuel's  wife,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Betsey  Cater,  lived  to  be  eighty 
years  old.  She  was  the  mother  of  nine  chil- 
dren, all  now  deceased,  of  whom  William  was 
the  youngest. 

William  Sanders  was  born  in  Strafford,  and 
reared  upon  a  farm,  lie  learned  the  shoe- 
maker's trade,  and  afterward  worked  at  it,  and 
also  conducted  a  good  farm  in  PittsfieUl.  In 
[lolitics  he  was  a  Democrat.  He  marricil  for 
his  first  wife  Abiagail  Sanders,  witlow  of 
William  Sanders,  of  Strafford;  and  by  that 
union  there  were  five  children,  of  whom  the 
only  survivor  is  Betsey.  His  second  mar- 
riage was  contracted  with  Adeline,  daughter 
of  John  Reynolds,  of  Strafford;  and  she  be- 
came the  mother  of  five  children,  four  of 
whom  are  living  —  Alvin  W.,  Martin,  Clara, 
and  George.  Martin  wetkled  ICva  Noyes,  of 
Barnet,  Vt. ;  and  Clara  is  the  wife  of  ]-5en- 
jamin  Rollins,  of  Concord,  N.H.,  and  has  two 
children  —  Moreace  and  Bertha.  Mrs.  Will- 
iam Sanders,  who  is  seventy-two  years  old,  is 
residing  at  the  homestead  in  this  town. 

Alvin  W.  Sanders  acquired  his  education  in 
the  schools  of  Barnstead,  N.H.  During  the 
ensuing  three  years  he  was  employed  in  vari- 


ous cotton-mills  in  this  State.  Then  he  was 
connected  with  the  New  Hampshire  Insane 
Asylum  for  eleven  years,  .serving  in  the  capac- 
ity of  keeper  for  five  years,  and  afterward 
having  charge  of  the  culinary  department. 
On  leaving  the  asylum  he  returned  to  Pitts- 
field,  where  in  1889,  after  working  in  the  shoe 
shops  for  three  years,  he  opened  a  general 
store.  He  deals  in  groceries,  provision.s, 
grain,  and  feed,  and  receives  a  large  share  of 
patronage. 

On  October  23,  1S73,  Mr.  Sanders  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Augu.sta  Sanborn, 
daughter  of  Frank  and  Nancy  (Flanders)  San- 
born, of  Salisbury,  N.II.  Politically,  Mr. 
Sanders  is  a  Prohibitionist.  He  is  connected 
with  Suncook  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  in  the  im- 
portant chairs  of  which  he  has  served.  Both 
he  and  Mrs.  Sanders  are  members  of  the  Free 
Will  Baptist  church. 


OHN  F.  BARTLETT,  Postmaster  of 
Suncook  and  an  e.\-membcr  of  the 
New  Hampshire  legislature,  was  born 
in  Newton  Upper  F'alls,  Mass.,  November  15, 
1836,  son  of  George  W.  and  Jane  (Nickelson) 
Bartlctt.  His  grandfather,  Abijah  Bartlett, 
who  served  as  a  sailor  in  the  War  of  1812,  was 
a  rope-maker  in  Salem,  Mas.s.  Abijah  mar- 
ried Elizabeth  Bartlett,  of  Marblehead,  and 
reared  a  family  of  six  children. 

George  W.  Bartlett,  born  in  Marblehead, 
resided  in  Newton  Upper  Falls  and  later  in 
Nashua,  N.  H.,  where  he  followed  the  business 
of  storekeeper.  He  died  at  the  age  of  forty- 
five  years.  In  politics  he  was  originally  a 
Whig,  but  later  became  a  Democrat.  His 
wife,  Jane,  who  was  a  native  of  Marblehead, 
became  the  mother  of  eleven  children,  of  whom 
Mary  Ann,  John  F. ,  Benjamin  B.,  and  Susan 
M.    are    living.      Mary    Ann   married    for    her 


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first  husband  Clark  T.  Rose,  by  whom  she 
has  two  children  —  William  C.  and  Lilly.  By 
her  second  husband,  Ozem  Hurd,  she  has  had 
no  children.  Susan  M.  is  the  wife  of  Albeit 
F.  Barney,  of  Laconia,  N.  H.  ;  and  her  chil- 
dren are:  Henrietta  and  Carrie.  Mrs.  George 
\V.  Bartlett,  who  is  still  living,  was  born  July 
4,  1S06,  is  now  over  ninety  years  old,  and 
enjoys  good  health.  She  is  a  member  of  the 
Methodist  church. 

John  F.  Bartlett  attended  schools  in  New- 
ton Upper  I'\t11s,  Mass.,  and  in  Nashua  anil 
Jlookset,  N.H.  After  his  studies  were  com- 
pleted, he  was  employed  in  a  mill  in  Hookset 
for  a  short  time.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he 
went  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he  served  an 
apprenticeship  at  the  machinist's  trade.  After 
following  this  trade  as  a  journeyman  in  Bos- 
ton for  twelve  years,  he  purchased  a  residence 
in  Allenstown,  N.  H.,  and  therein  made  his 
home.  He  continued  in  the  machinist's 
business  for  several  years  after  working  in 
Manchester  and  Hookset.  He  then  engaged 
in  the  restaurant  business  in  Suncook,  open- 
ing an  establishment  on  each  side  of  the  river. 
Subsequently  he  disposed  of  his  interest  in 
these  places  and  went  to  the  mining  districts 
of  the  West,  where  he  remained  for  a  short 
period  and  was  fairly  successful.  Returning 
to  Suncook,  he  entered  the  grocery  and  pro- 
vision business,  which  he  conducted  for  about 
twelve  years.  Then  he  retired  from  trade,  and 
was  for  some  years  engaged  in  farming.  In 
1894  he  was  ap|)ointed  Postmaster  at  Suncook 
village,  and  is  still  serving  in  that  capacity. 

On  October  31,  iSj.S,  Mr.  Bartlett  was 
joined  in  marriage  with  Mary  Flizabeth  Gor- 
don, daughter  of  Joseph  Ouincy  Gordon,  of 
Kingston,  N.  II.  They  have  three  children 
—  Ada,  Henrietta,  and  George  F.  Ada  mar- 
ried Dr.  J.  B.  I'ettingill,  of  Amherst,  N.  H., 
and  has  four  children  —  Edith,  George,  Grace, 


and  Frank.  Henrietta  is  the  wife  of  George 
W.  Fowler,  of  Manchester,  N.  H.,  and  has  one 
son,  Sherborne.  George  F.  married  Viola  A. 
Page,  of  Pembroke,  N.H.,  and  has  one  daugh- 
ter, p:dith  May.  Mrs.  Bartlett  died  August 
4,  1894,  aged  fifty-seven  years  and  nine 
months.  In  politics  Mr.  Bartlett  is  a  Demo- 
crat, and  he  has  long  been  a  leading  spirit  in 
local  affairs.  He  was  a  member  of  the  Pru- 
dential Committee  for  three  years,  and  of  the 
Board  of  Selectmen  in  1875;  and  he  was  ten- 
dered nomination  to  the  latter  office  for  the 
following  year,  but  declined  to  serve.  He  was 
Town  Treasurer  for  three  years,  and  has  held 
other  offices.  In  188S  he  was  elected  a  Rep- 
resentative to  the  legislature.  He  is  con- 
nected with  the  Masonic  Lodge  in  Pembroke, 
and  has  occupied  all  of  the  important  chairs 
in  the  lodge  of  Odd  Fellows.  Mr.  Bartlett 
attends  the  Baptist  church. 


LBERT  S.  WAIT,  of  Newport,  the 
oldest  lawyer  in  active  practice  in 
Sullivan  County,  was  born  in  Ches- 
ter, Windsor  County,  Vt.,  April  14,  1S21, 
son  of  Daniel  and  Cynthia  (Reed)  Wait.  His 
grandfather,  John  Wait,  was  among  the  early 
settlers  of  Mason,  N.H.  John  moved  to  Wes- 
ton, Vt. ,  and  was  a  sturdy  farmer  of  that 
Green  Mountain  town  and  a  iiighly  respected 
member  (jf  the  community.  He  died  in  Wes- 
ton at  a  good  old  age.  His  children  were: 
James,  Jolin  Sumner,  Daniel  Amos,  Lucinda, 
and  Mrs.  Davis. 

Daniel  Wait,  who  followed  the  trade  of 
blacksmith,  was  a  Brigadier-geneial  in  the 
State  militia  and  in  his  last  years  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace.  He  first  settled  in  Chester  and 
afterward  in  the  village  of  Sa.xton's  River, 
Rockingham,  \'t.  He  was' grand  juror  of  the 
town   of   Rockingham,    which    is   an    office   i)e- 


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ciiliar  to  the  State  of  Vermont.  A  man  of 
f^diid  judgment,  he  had  the  esteem  of  his 
fellow-townsnicn.  In  1  rl  i;^inii  he  was  a  Uni- 
versalist.  lie  was  a  Democrat  in  politics, 
and  one  of  two  men  in  Chester  village  who 
voted  fur  Andrew  Jackson.  Me  died  in  1856 
iir  1.S57,  at  tiic  age  of  seventy.  His  wife, 
wiio  Ijclonged  to  the  Methodist  MjMscopal 
chinch,  died  when  ninety-two  years  of  age. 
Their  children  were:  Martha  E.  Spaulding, 
who  lives  in  West  Springfield,  Mass.  ;  Sarah 
A.  Spaulding,  now  deceased;  Otis  F.  R.,  who 
was  a  prominent  man  of  Claremont,  an  historian 
and  Justice  of  the  I'cacc,  and  died  in  1895; 
Albert  S.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and 
Daniel  If.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years. 

Albert  S.  Wait  spent  his  boyhood  in  Ches- 
ter and  Rockingham,  Vt.  His  early  educa- 
tion was  obtained  in  the  schools  of  Chester. 
He  began  the  study  of  law  at  the  village  of 
Saxton's  River,  in  the  office  of  Judge  Daniel 
Kellogg,  and  was  admitted  to  the  bar  in  1846 
at  Newfanc,  Windham  County,  Vt.  He 
first  located  in  Alstead,  N.  H.,  remaining 
tiierc  imtill  he  year  1857,  when  he  removed  to 
Newport.  Here  he  was  in  partnership  with 
the  Hon.  lulmund  Burke  for  ten  years.  Since 
the  termination  of  that  connection  he  has  been 
in  practice  alone.  He  is  to-day  the  oldest 
lawyer  in  the  county  in  active  practice. 

Mr.  Wait  has  been  married  three  times. 
His  [ireseiit  wife,  formerly  Miss  Ella  O.  Eno, 
of  Westfield,  Mass.,  has  one  daughter, 
Minerva  S.  Wait.  His  religious  creed  is  the 
Congregational.  In  politics  he  is  a  Demo- 
crat, and  he  is  a  member  of  the  IJoard  of  Trus- 
tees of  the  State  Industrial  School.  He  is 
connected  with  the  IMasonic  fraternity  by 
membership  in  Mount  Vernon  Lodge,  of  which 
he  has  been  Master.  He  has  also  been  Dis- 
trict Deputy  Grand  Master.  He  is  likewise 
a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire   State   His- 


torical .Siiciuly  and  ;in  honorary  member  of  the 
Naval  Order  of  the  United  States.  Mr.  Wait 
ranks  among  the  leading  men  of  his  profession, 
and  is  mentioned  in  linglish  law  books  as  an 
authority  on  fine  points  of  law. 


i 


IIARLES  L.  KENNEY,  a  pro.sper- 
ous  farmer  of  Loudon  and  son  of 
Bradley  H.  and  Rebecca  (Pease) 
Kenney,  was  born  in  this  town,  July  9,  1844. 
His  grandfather,  Joseph  Kenney,  was  one  of 
the  early  settlers  of  the  town,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  farming.  Joseph  went  West  in  his 
later  years,  and  died  in  Miiniesota,  at  the  home 
of  his  daughter.  His  son,  Bradley,  a  cooper 
by  trade,  who  was  also  engaged  in  farming, 
died  in  May,  1882.  Bradley's  wife,  Rebecca, 
who  came  from  Barnstead,  N.  H.,  died  in  1844. 
They  had  four  children:  Mary  Ann,  who  is 
the  wife  of  Joseph  A.  Foster,  and  lives  in  Man- 
chester; Clarissa,  who  died  in  April,  1895; 
Caroline,  who  married  Joseph  Hutchinson, 
and  lives  in  Concord,  N.  II.  ;  and  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.  All  received  a  good  common- 
school  education,  and  the  daughters  went  to 
select  schools. 

Charles  L.  Kenney  lived  at  home  with  his 
[iarents  until  his  marriage.  His  estate,  known 
as  the  Dimond  farm,  which  was  willed  to  him 
by  his  father,  now  contains  about  one  hundred 
and  twenty-five  acres  of  good  land.  An  in- 
dustrious and  capable  farmer,  he  has  much  im- 
proved the  property  since  it  came  into  his 
possession.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 
In  1869,  December  2,  he  married  Myra 
Knowles,  of  Canterbury,  where  she  was  born 
October  6,  1844,  daughter  of  Lester  and  Re- 
becca (Pluntoon)  Knowles.  Mr.  Knowles 
was  a  native  of  Gilmanton,  where  he  died  in 
I*"ebruary,  1875.  His  wife,  born  in  Canter- 
bury, and   now   in  her  eighty-eighth  year,  re- 


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sides  in  Penacook.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kenney 
have  three  children,  namely:  Maude,  the  wife 
of  Chester  Norris,  living  near  her  father  in 
Loudon;  and  Ellen  and  Forest  B.,  who  reside 
with  their  parents.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Ken- 
ney are  members  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist 
church.  Mr.  Kenney  is  also  a  Deacon  of  the 
society  and  the  superintendent  of  the  Sunday- 
school. 

« ■  ■  ■  I 

I^IAXK  IIKNRY  CARR,  one  of  the 
patriotic  men  who  periled  his  life  in 
the  cause  of  the  Union  during  the  late 
Civil  War,  now  an  enterprising  mill-owner  of 
West  Hopkinton,  was  born  in  West  Hopkin- 
ton,  I-'ebruary  8,  1841,  son  of  Thomas  W.  and 
Caroline  (Connor)  Carr.  The  grandfather, 
John  Carr,  removed  from  West  Newbury, 
Mass.,  to  Concord,  N.H.,  where  he  kept  an 
inn  for  a  short  time.  From  Concord  he  came 
to  West  Ho|)kinton  about  the  year  1821,  mak- 
ing his  residence  on  a  farm  which  had  been 
presented  to  his  wife  by  her  brother,  Thomas 
Williams.  While  a  carriage-maker  by  trade, 
he  had  a  natural  aptitude  for  general  mechan- 
ical work.  One  of  the  most  cherished  posses- 
sions of  his  grandson's  family  to-day  is  an  old 
'cello  made  by  him  in  his  leisure  hours.  In 
])olitics  he  was  an  ardent  Whig.  He  died  on 
the  old  farm  at  tiie  age  of  seventy-five.  His 
wife,  Abigail,  who  survived  him  some  years, 
attaining  the  age  of  eighty-si.\,  was  a  magnifi- 
cent specimen  of  New  England  womanhood, 
strong,  energetic,  and  cheerful  up  to  the  day 
of    her  death.      .She  left  a    lasting    impression 


upon 


her     grandchildren,    then     growing 


up 


about  her.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joiiii  C"arr  had  a 
family  of  eigiit  children  —  Anna,  lUiza, 
I'jiinia,  Abigail,  Almirn,  Helen,  Samuel,  and 
Thomas  Williams. 

Thomas  W.  Carr   spent   his   early   life    u])(in 
tlie  farm.      While   quite  a  young   man,  he   was 


a  Captain  of  militia.  Later  he  engaged  in 
farming  and  lumbering.  The  latter  business 
was  carried  on  in  a  factory  the  beam  of  which 
was  twenty-four  inches  square  and  seventy  feet 
long,  and  much  heavy  timber  was  turned  out. 
He  was  a  well-read  man  and  a  Republican  in 
politics.  He  married  Caroline  Connor,  of 
Henniker,  daughter  of  George  and  Hannah 
(Campbell)  Connor.  They  had  eight  children 
—  Philip,  John  Alfred,  George  Titcomb, 
Thomas  Tyler,  Frank  Henry,  Charles  Clinton, 
Caroline  l^llizabeth,  and  Ellen  Bruce.  Philip 
died  at  the  age  of  ten.  John  Alfred  is  now 
living  in  Boston.  Caroline  Elizabeth  is  a 
trained  nurse  in  Concord.  Ellen  Bruce,  who 
married  William  Carpenter,  of  Manchester, 
died  two  years  after  her  marriage.  Of  this 
family  four  sons  fought  in  the  Civil  War,  one 
giving  up  his  life  therein.  George  Titcomb 
served  in  the  United  States  Navy.  In  Septem- 
ber, 1 86 1,  Thomas  Tyler  enlisted  in  Company 
B,  Second  New  Hampshire  Volunteers,  was 
made  Sergeant,  served  his  full  term,  and  was 
wounded  at  P^air  Oaks  and  Gettysburg. 
Charles  Clinton  enlisted  in  the  Fourteenth 
Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Volunteers,  on 
September  23,  1S62,  being  then  a  boy  of  nine- 
teen. He  was  wounded  at  Cedar  Creek,  Oc- 
tober 19,  1864,  and  died  in  the  hospital  at 
Winchester,  Va.,  November  2  of  the  same 
year.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thomas  W.  Cair  sjicnt 
their  last  years  in  West  Hnpkinton  with  their 
son  I'rank  Plenry. 

I'rank  Henry  Carr  livetl  witli  his  jiarents 
until  he  was  eighteen  }'ears  old,  at  which  age 
he  went  to  Henniker.  He  enlisted  September 
28,  i86[,  in  Coni])any  G,  Second  Regiment  of 
United  States  Shar|)shooters,  mustering  for 
service  Uecemljcr  12,  1861,  at  Concord. 
Discharged  on  the  expiration  of  his  term,  he 
enlisted  again  December  21,  1863,  at  Cul- 
pcfjcr,  Va.,   in  the   same   command;   was   made 


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Sergeant  before  Petersburg,  November  i,  1S64; 
was  transferred  to  tlie  l-'ifth  New  Hampshire 
Volunteers,  January  30,  i<S65,  becoming  at  tlie 
same  lime  ( )r(lerly  Sergeant  of  Company  H; 
was  promoted  to  tlie  rank  of  Second  Lieutenant 
in  the  same  company  on  the  first  of  the  fol- 
lowing Ma}';  and  was  niListered  out  July  8  of 
the  same  year.  This  brave  soldier  and  patriot 
was  engaged  in  over  eighty  battles  and  skir- 
misiies,  including  the  second  Hull  Run,  Cedar 
Mountain,  Anlictam,  l-'redericksburg,  and 
(jettysl)urg.  At  b'redericksburg  he  was  capt- 
ured liy  the  Confederates,  and  confined  in 
Libby  I'rison  until  January  14,  1863,  when 
he  was  sent  on  parole  to  Annapolis  and  ex- 
changed, regaining  his  regiment  at  l-'redericks- 
burg. At  Cicttysbiug  he  received  three  sligiit 
gunshot  wounds,  not  enough,  however,  to  keeji 
him  from  duty.  lie  was  one  of  the  five  mem- 
bers of  his  company  who  lost  no  time  in  tlie 
ser\'ice  except  wiiile  im|3risoned.  After  tlie 
war  he  retnincd  tn  Ilcnniker,  wheie  lie  re- 
mained until  Decemix'r,  1S71,  working  in  a 
kit  factory  and  grist-mill.  In  1872  he  bouglit 
a  mill  in  West  Ilopkinton,  where  he  engaged 
in  maiuifactuiing  mackerel  kits.  When  the 
mill-dam  was  swept  away  in  1876,  besides 
rebuilding  it  he  ])ut  in  new  machinery,  adding 
a  saw-mill  and  a  sli ingle  machine.  Since  then 
he  has  done  general  saw-mill  wiuk,  althiuigh 
selling  mainly  to  dealers.  lie  cuts  a  million 
feet  of  timber  in  a  season,  ami  lie  has  cleared 
off  a  large  acreage  of  stumjjage.  Hcsides  the 
property  in  West  Ilopkintcni,  he  owns  a  farm 
in  Flenniker,  holding  it  chiefly  for  its  lumber. 
In  iSfiS  Mr.  Carr  married  Mary  A.  Chand- 
ler, daughter  of  William  anil  Anne  (.Straw) 
Chaneller.  They  have  four  children,  namely  : 
Anna  Caroline,  now  married  to  Arthur  W. 
Dow,  ol  Ilcnniker;  William  Thomas,  a  saw- 
mill operatoi',  li\ing  at  home;  Clara  I.ucv, 
who    was  training   at    a   surgical    hosjjital      in 


Boston,  and  died  March  6,  1897,  of  pleuro- 
pneumonia; and  John  I'rank,  who  lives  at 
home.  The  family  are  held  in  high  esteem  by 
their  fellow-townsmen.  In  politics  Mr.  Carr 
has  always  been  a  Republican.  He  is  greatly 
res]iected  for  his  business  integrity  as  well  as 
for  his  devotion  to  his  country. 


i'Ci)/  ll.lAAM  1II-:NRY  HARRISON' 
teV  MOODY,  of  Clarcmont,  a  retired 
shoe  manufacturer  and  one  of  the 
wealthiest  and  most  prominent  men  of  New 
Hampshire,  was  born  here,  May  10,  1842,  son 
of  Jonathan  Moody.  His  father  made  shoes 
by  hand,  employing  several  men  in  his  busi- 
ness. Jonathan  Moody  took  a  lively  interest  in 
military  matters  thrcjughout  his  life.  A  tenor 
drummer  of  reputation,  he  was  always  in  de- 
mand at  military  training  and  at  muster. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  the  seventh 
child  in  a  family  of  eleven,  was  named  for 
President  William  Henry  Harrison.  When 
fourteen  years  old,  he  entered  the  shoe  factory 
of  Russell  W.  I'^arwell,  of  Claremont,  to  learn 
the  business;  and  he  continued  with  that  firm 
four  years.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  Troop  L, 
New  iMigland  Cavalry,  served  for  a  few  months 
in  the  Ci\  il  War,  and  was  then  honorably  dis- 
charged. In  the  fall  of  1S62  he  engaged  as 
travelling  salesman  for  a  large  shoe  jobbing 
firm  in  IJoston,  and  was  very  successful  in  sell- 
ing goods  all  over  the  country.  His  em- 
ployers took  him  into  ]3artncrship  in  1867, 
when  the  firm  name  became  McGibbons, 
Moody  &  Raddin.  His  capital  was  little 
more  than  ability  and  knowledge  of  the  busi- 
ness. In  1873  he  became  a  partner  in  the  firm 
of  Crain,  Moody  &  Rising,  who  established  a 
shoe  manufactory  at  Amoskeag,  N.  H.,  em- 
ploying one  hundred  hands,  and  making  shoes 
for  the  Western   and   Southern  trade.      After  a 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


few  3'ears,  the  business  having  outgrown  its 
quarters,  the  firm  removed  to  Nashua,  where 
they  remained  aljout  seven  years.  Then  the 
shoe  manufacturing  firm  of  Moody,  Estabrook 
&  Anderson  was  organized.  Mr.  Moody's  re- 
lations with  tliis  firm  continued  until  the 
spring  of  i8g6,  when  he  retired,  selling  his 
interest  to  his  partners.  The  manufactory 
became  the  largest  of  its  kind  in  the  country, 
its  business  amounting  to  about  two  millions 
of  dollars  per  annum.  The  goods  aie  sold 
wholly  to  jobbing  houses  in  the  South  and 
West.  The  firm  has  an  office  and  warehouse 
in  Boston.  Mr.  Moody,  well  known  among 
the  leather  people  of  that  city,  is  a  Director  in 
the  National  Shoe  and  Leather  Bank  there. 
Since  he  went  to  Boston,  he  has  acquired  one 
of  the  largest  fortunes  in  the  State.  His  deep 
interest  in  the  welfare  of  his  native  place,  with 
his  generous  support  of  everything  for  the  ad- 
vantage of  the  town,  has  made  him  one  of  the 
most  prominent  and  popular  men  of  Claremont. 
He  is  the  owner  of  the  property  of  the  Ilotel 
Claremont,  where  he  spends  most  of  the  win- 
ter months.  The  hotel  is  one  of  the  best  and 
largest  in  the  State. 

In  1878  Mr.  Moody  bought  what  was  known 
for  many  years  as  the  Mann  farm  of  eighty- 
seven  acres,  located  about  a  mile  south  of  the 
village.  To  this  farm  he  has  constantly 
added;  and  the  farm  contains  to-day  six  hun- 
dred acres,  the  larger  part  of  it  pasture.  At 
a  great  expense  he  has  erected  a  magnificent 
series  of  buildings,  making  it  one  of  the  finest 
])roperties  in  the  State.  As  a  relief  fr(jm 
business  cares  he  is  interested  in  the  breeding 
of  fine  horses,  and  the  possessor  of  a  large 
number  of  thoroughbreds.  Mr.  Moody  has 
spent  some  time  abroad  for  the  l)enefit  of  his 
health;  but  Highland  View  affords  him  pas- 
time and  diversion  such  as  he  can  find  nowhere 
else.      He  has  expended   thousands  of  dollars 


annually  in  the  improvement  of  the  estate, 
and  has  thus  added  to  the  wealth,  importance, 
and  beauty  of  his  native  town,  for  which  he  has 
always  had  a  strong  affection. 

Mr.  Moody  was  united  in  marriage  to  Miss 
Mary  A.  Maynard,  daughter  of  Levi  P.  and 
Loraiia  (Orr)  Maynard,  the  former  being  a 
native  of  Bath,  Me.,  and  the  latter  of  Bow- 
doinham,  Me.  Through  his  remarkable  suc- 
cess in  business  he  has  been  able  to  do  much 
for  his  townspeople  in  different  ways,  and  has 
proved  himself  by  his  generous  acts  one  of  the 
most  liberal  and  [ihilanthropic  of  men. 


T^HARLES  GILKEY,  a  prominent  resi- 
I  jp  dent  of  Cornish,  who  was  formerly  en- 
vjf__.^  gaged  in  the  gunsmith  business,  is 
a  native  of  Plainfield,  N.  H.,  born  September 
39,  1826.  Charles  Gilkey,  his  grandfather, 
born  in  Connecticut,  was  the  first  of  the  fam- 
ily to  come  to  Plainfield.  He  came  originally 
as  agent  of  a  wealthy  Connecticut  family,  and 
remained  in  their  employ  for  some  time. 
After  failing  in  an  attempt  to  buy  a  farm  with 
the  Continental  money  in  which  his  salary 
was  paid,  owing  to  the  depreciated  value  of 
that  currency  then,  he  succeeded  in  leasing 
one  from  the  State  for  nine  hundred  and 
ninety-nine  years.  This  property  is  still  in 
the  possession  of  the  family,  subject  to  an 
annual  rental  of  si.x  or  eight  dollars,  wliicli  is 
paid  to  the  treasurer  of  the  ICpiscopal  church 
of  the  town.  Grandfather  Gilkey  married 
Lucy  Avery,  who  bore  him  five  chiUh'cn  — 
Jonathan,  John,  Charles,  William,  and  James. 
Jonathan  married  a  Miss  Spaulding,  and  lived 
in  Vermont.  Joiin  married  and  spent  iiis  life 
in  Vermont,  woiking  at  the  trade  of  ship-car- 
penter. He  had  one  daughter,  who  married  tiie 
Rev.  Robert  Christie.  Charles  was  drowned 
when  a  young  man.      William  died  )oung. 


CHARLES     GILKEY. 


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283 


James  Gilkcy,  the  fatlicr  of  Cliarlcs  Gilkey, 
a  native  of  Connecticut,  l)f)in  in  September, 
1769,  came  to  Cornisli  when  about  seven  years 
(ibb  liy  tra(K'  he  was  a  mechanical  wood- 
cutler,  in  which  he  carried  on  a  iar<^e  business 
for  some  time.  After  the  death  of  iiis  lirother 
Charles  he  took  chai}^'e  of  the  farm.  Highly 
esteemed  in  the  community,  he  served  in  every 
office  in  the  gift  of  the  town,  including  that 
of  legislative  Representative.  He  married 
Naomi  Sniilli,  of  I'laiiificld,  who  was  born 
in  December,  1805.  Their  children  were: 
Ch.irles,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  George, 
horn  in  Cf)rnish,  who  died  in  1849;  J^imes, 
born  ill  I'lainlield,  who  was  a  railroad  man, 
and  died  in  Arkansas  of  a  fever  contracted 
there;  Jeannette,  who  married  Wats  Beck- 
worth,  of  Kansas;  John,  who  is  living  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Cornish;  Julia,  who  married 
lul  Bryant,  of  Cornish,  had  four  children,  and 
died  in  1889;  and  Asa,  living  in  l?rattleboro, 
who  lor  a  number  of  years  was  an  officer  of 
the  Asylum  for  the  Insane,  bought  a  farm, 
married  Lizzie  Harris,  and  has  one  daughter, 
Edith. 

Charles  Gilkcy,  the  eldest  child  of  his  par- 
ents, was  educated  in  the  schools  of  IMainfield. 
He  then  learned  the  trade  of  mechanical  wood- 
carver,  and  worked  at  Worcester  and  Chicopee, 
Mass.,  in  Connecticut,  and  at  Windsor,  Vt. 
Inheriting  the  mechanical  genius  of  his  father, 
he  had  no  difficulty  in  taking  up  tlie  manu- 
facture ot  guns  for  a  hnn  that  was  under  con- 
tract to  make  a  thousand  guns  for  the  Russian 
government.  In  1861,  when  the  Civil  War 
broke  out,  the  United  States  government  took 
all  the  guns  the  factory  could  turn  out.  A 
large  part  of  the  guns  carried  by  General 
Butler's  troops  on  his  trip  to  New  Orleans 
were  made  by  this  concern.  While  in 
Worcester,  Mr.  Gilkcy  made  the  machinery 
for  the   first   double-barrel   gun    manufactured. 


After  a  time  his  health  gave  out,  and  he 
bought  the  large  farm  in  Cornish  where  he 
now  resides.  He  has  been  prominent  in  town 
affairs,  has  been  Highway  Surveyor  and  a 
member  of  the  .School  Board,  and  he  was  Col- 
lector of  Ta.\es  when  only  twenty-one  years  of 
age.  Ill  politics  he  is  an  independent,  pre- 
ferring to  vote  for  the  best  man  or  for  the  party 
exemplifying  the  best  principles.  }Ie  showed 
his  honesty  in  this  respect  by  voting  in  the 
last  two  elections  respectively  for  Cleveland 
and  McKinley. 

Mr.  Gilkey  married  Laura  A.,  daughter  of 
Titus  and  Lucy  (Mills)  Sheppard.  Mrs. 
Gilkey  was  born  in  Dudley,  Mass.,  in  July, 
1820,  and  died  February  2,  1897.  Her  pater- 
nal grandfather  and  great-grandfather  were 
born  in  Dudley.  Her  maternal  grandfather, 
Nathaniel  Mills,  came  from  Scotland  to 
Thompson,  Conn.,  where  he  was  the  first  of 
the  name.  Her  grandmother  Mills  was  born 
in  Thompson,  Conn.  The  house  in  which  Mr. 
(iilkcy  lives,  although  about  one  hundred  and 
fifty  years  old,  is  in  an  excellent  condition 
still.  Its  timbers  of  solid  oak  are,  to  all  ap- 
pearances, good  for  another  century  and  a 
half.  For  years  it  was  considered  the  pretti- 
est cottage  in  the  district.  Among  many  in- 
teresting relics  preserved  by  the  family  is  a 
barrel  used  for  packing  pork,  that  had  been 
used  for  thirty  years  by  Mrs.  Gilkey,  and  no 
one  knows  how  long  it  was  in  use  before. 
I'.ven  the  brine,  which  is  submitted  to  an 
annual  purifying  process  is,  at  least  part  of  it, 
thirty  years  old. 


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-LIAM  H.  CARTER,  a  thrifty 
farmer  of  Canterbury  and  a  son  of 
John  and  Lydia  (Gill)  Carter,  was 
born  December  20,  1842.  His  grandfather, 
Nathan    Carter,    who    was    born    in    Boscawcn, 


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N.H.,  April  6,  1762,  lived  in  this  town  all 
his  life.  Nathan  carried  on  farming,  and 
conducted  a  tavern,  and  died  September  21, 
ICS41.  His  wife,  Sarah,  died  May  8,  1845. 
They  had  five  children,  namely:  Judith,  born 
December  5,  1787,  who  married  John  French, 
and  died  December  13,  1871;  Moses,  born 
August  6,  1790,  who  died  May  30,  1851; 
John,  born  December  10,  1797,  the  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Jeremiah,  born 
February  20,  1803,  who  died  in  1871;  and 
Nathan,  born  February  4,  1S07,  who  died 
February  16,   1875. 

John  Carter  in  his  younger  days  was  em- 
ployed in  rafting  lumber  down  the  river,  al- 
though his  main  business  was  farming.  He 
resided  at  different  times  in  Boscawen,  Fast 
Concord,  and  Canterbury,  and  died  August  12, 
1 87 1.  His  wife's  death  occurred  February  4, 
1S90.  They  had  six  children:  Bradbury  G., 
born  February  3,  1827,  who  married  Asenath 
Spiller,  and  is  now  a  widower  living  in  Con- 
cord; Luther,  born  August  24,  1S29,  who 
married  Mary  Ann  Coffin,  and  is  engaged  in 
the  shoe  business  in  Newburyport,  Mass.  ; 
John,  born  March  25,  1832,  who  died  in  1833; 
John  (second),  born  March  15,  1834,  who 
married  Julia  Bryant,  and  is  a  railroad  man 
living  in  Norwalk,  Ohio;  Sarah  R.,  born  Oc- 
tol)er  4,  1838,  the  widow  of  Robert  G.  Morri- 
son, living  in  Boscawen;  and  William  II.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

William  II.  Carter  was  a  pupil  of  the  VAm- 
wootl  Academy  in  Boscawen.  When  twenty 
years  old  he  went  to  I'enacook,  worked  there 
at  cabinet-making  for  a  year  and  a  half,  and 
then  returned  home.  Both  he  and  his  brother 
l.uther  joined  the  Union  army.  Me  enlisted 
September  i,  1864,  in  Company  E,  First  New 
Hampshire  Heavy  Artillery,  under  Lieuten- 
ant Colonel  Ira  McL.  Barton,  Colonel  Charles 
II.  LfHig,  and  Captain  Robert  S.  Davis.      The 


regiment  served  in  the  defences  of  Washing- 
ton for  most  of  the  time.  Mr.  Carter,  who 
was  a  non-commissioned  officer,  received  no 
wounds  in  the  army,  but  was  injured  in  health. 
He  was  discharged  at  Washington,  D.C.,  June 
15,  1865.  He  then  went  back  to  Penacook, 
proceeding  later  to  Canterbury,  where  he  re- 
mained with  his  parents  until  their  death. 
He  settled  on  his  present  farm,  known  as  the 
old  Blodgett  farm,  in  1865.  The  property 
contains  about  one  hundred  acres.  Besides 
making  many  other  improvements,  he  has  re- 
modelled the  buildings. 

Mr.  Carter  was  married  February  5,  1865, 
to  Martha  Ann  Wheeler,  daughter  of  Colonel 
John  and  Mary  Jane  (Blanchard)  Wheeler. 
Colonel  Wheeler,  who  came  from  Concord, 
Mass.,  and  obtained  his  military  title  in  the 
State  militia,  was  a  stone-cutter  in  early  life, 
afterward  a  farmer,  and  died  June  4,  1880. 
His  wife  is  living  with  her  son  in  Canterbury. 

In  politics  Mr.  Carter  is  a  Republican. 
He  has  been  a  Selectman  of  the  town,  and  he 
served  on  the  School  Board  for  three  years, 
besides  holding  other  less  important  offices. 
A  comrade  of  the  G.  A.  R.,  he  belongs  to 
W.  I.  Brown  Post,   No.  31,  of  Penacook. 


'ej-r'AMUKL  CHOATK,  a  prominent 
//^  farmer  of  Boscawen,  was  born  here, 
F"ebruary  24,  1830,  son  of  Royal 
and  Hannah  (Sav^'yer)  Choate,  who  were  na- 
tives respectively  of  Boscawen  and  Salisbury, 
N.H.  His  great-grandfather,  Thomas  Choate, 
who  came  from  Ipswich,  Mass.,  to  Boscawen 
about  1788,  settled  on  the  same  farm  and 
oecu|iied  the  same  house  where  the  present 
Mr.  Choate  now  resides.  Samuel,  a  son  of 
Thomas  and  grandfather  of  the  present  Sam- 
uel, born  March  18,  1769,  in  Ipswich,  came 
with  his  father  to  this  farm;  and  the  two  lived 


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there  the  rest  of  their  lives.  Two  interesting 
(locumcMls  preserved  i)y  iiini  were  ;i  commis- 
sion, si<;ncil  l)y  Kini;  Gcor^ic,  dated  ()ctoi)er 
29,  I7'')i,  and  aniitlicr  signed  by  Julin  I.ang- 
ilon,  bearing;  the  dales,  December  15,  iSoi; 
June  28,  1S08;  antl  Septemlier  10,  iSio.  He 
was  married  successively  to  ]5etsy  Kind)all, 
Nancy  Jackman,  and  Mary  I.oomis,  all  now 
deceased.  Tliere  was  one  cliild  by  the  first 
marriage,  Isaac  Chandler,  born  in  1794,  who 
died  in  i860.  By  the  second  marriage  there 
were  five  children:  Royal,  the  father  of 
Samuel,  Jr.;  Hetsey,  born  December  9,  1797, 
who  died  in  January,  1826;  Anna,  born  April 
13,  1800,  who  died  August  28,  1862;  Maria, 
born  August  12,  1802;  and  Nancy,  born  Octo- 
ber 22,  1804.  The  children  of  the  third 
union  were:  Mary,  born  in  i8io,  who  died 
January  7,  1827;  Sophia,  born  in  1S18,  who 
died  in  infancy;  and  Samuel,  born  in  181 5, 
who  died  in  the  same  year.  The  father  died 
June    12,    1847. 

Royal  Choate,  born  June  12,  1796,  was  a 
welldoiown  farmer  of  Boscawen.  His  first 
wife,  Hannah  Sawyer  Choate,  died  July  31, 
1S33.  lie  made  a  second  marriage  with  Mrs. 
Eliza  Huckins  Mewers,  of  New  Hampton, 
N.H.,  who  was  born  October  6,  181 2,  and 
died  December  26,  1881.  There  were  three 
cliildren  by  the  first  marriage  —  David  S., 
Samuel,  and  Nancy  J.  David,  who  was  born 
November  28,  1827,  died  February  21,  1833; 
and  Nancy  }.,  who  was  born  November  5, 
1832,  became  the  wife  of  Moses  C.  Sanborn, 
of  Concord,  and  died  November  24,  1S95. 
Royal  and  Lucy  were  the  children  of  the  sec- 
ond marriage.  Roy:d,  born  Ajiril  25,  1846,  is 
now  married,  lives  in  Hoscawen,  and  has  two 
children  —  IClmer  and  Van  Ness.  Lucy,  born 
October  3,  1849,  married  John  V.  Colby,  now 
deceased,  and  lives  in  Boscawen.  The  father 
died  March  27,   1882. 


Samuel  Ciioate  received  a  comnKjn-school 
education.  He  worked  on  the  farm  until  he 
was  twenty-one,  wiien  the  property  was  left  in 
his  charge  by  his  father,  who  moved  to  another 
farm.  He  still  lives  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  owns  about  three  hundred  and  si.xty-fivc 
acres  of  land.  The  place  is  well  kept  by  him, 
and  has  been  improved  by  the  addition  of  new 
buildings.  He  raises  siieep,  and  carries  on 
some  dairy  business,  keeping  about  twenty 
head  of  cattle.  In  1881  he  was  a  Representa- 
tive in  the  State  legislature.  He  has  been 
Selectman  for  about  eight  years,  served  as 
Collector  ten  years,  and  has  been  Supervisor. 
He  is  a  member  of  Contoocook  Lodge,  No. 
27,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  of  I'enacook,  takes  an  active 
interest  in  politics,  and  votes  the  Re])ubliran 
ticket. 

Mr.  Choate  was  married  November  3,  1S59, 
to  Caroline  M.  Perkins,  of  Georgetown, 
Mass.,  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mahala  (Mar- 
clcn)  Perkins,  the  former  of  Deerfield  and  the 
latter  of  Newburyport.  Mr.  Perkins,  who  be- 
longed to  Deerfield,  and  was  a  shoemaker  by 
trade,  died  January  i,  1885.  His  wife,  who 
was  a  native  of  Newburyport,  Mass.,  died  in 
1847.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Choate  have  two  chil- 
dren: Mary  IL,  born  July  20,  1863;  and 
Lizzie  M.,  born  January  10,  1865.  Both  live 
with  their  parents.  Mr.  Choate  is  a  Deacon 
of  the  First  Congregational  Church,  and  his 
wife  is  also  an  esteemed  member  of  the  so- 
ciety. 

RE1:D  L1:WIS,  the  well-known 
horse  dealer  and  auctioneer  of  Unity, 
was  born  in  Marlow,  N.  IL,  July 
10,  1837,  son  of  Gilbert  and  Orrilla  H.  (Hunt- 
ley) Lewis.  His  grandfather,  Dudley  Lewis, 
was  a  prosperous  farmer  and  lifelong  resident 
of  Marlow.  Gilbert  Lewis  was  born  and 
reared    in    Marlow.        In    1S39    he    moved    to 


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Goshen,  where  he  conducted  a  store,  and  re- 
mained three  years.  In  1S43  he  hicated  in 
East  Unity,  and  was  there  engaged  in  farming 
for  some  time.  His  last  days  were  passed  on 
a  farm  in  Unity  Centre,  where  he  died  No- 
vember 16,  1S72,  aged  sixty-two  years.  His 
wife,  Orrilla,  who  was  born  in  Duxbury,  Vt., 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Isaiah  Huntley,  became 
the  mother  of  three,  children,  namely:  C. 
Reed,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Corrinna  O., 
now  the  wife  of  Thomas  T.  Smith,  who  is  a 
watchmaker,  and  resides  in  Canton,  Ohio; 
and  Nathan  G.,  who  died  June  19,  1862, 
aged  seventeen  years.  Mrs.  Gilbert  Lewis 
was  eighty-one  years  old  when  she  died,  April 
20,   1S93. 

C.  Reed  Lewis  was  educated  in  his  native 
town.  At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  went  to 
Dicorah,  la.,  where  he  bought  a  farm,  and  re- 
mained a  year.  He  next  went  to  Oneida, 
111.,  where  he  was  employed  as  a  farm  assist- 
ant for  the  same  length  of  time.  After  his 
return  to  New  Hampshire  he  purchased  a 
farm  near  the  village  of  Lhiity.  He  occupied 
that  property  until  1889,  during  which  time 
he  attained  prosperity  as  a  general  farmer  and 
stock  dealer.  Then  selling  it,  he  bought  the 
Gilman  place,  where  he  now  resides.  This 
estate  contains  three  hundred  and  fifty  acres, 
which  for  the  most  jiart  are  under  cultiva- 
tion. In  addition  he  owns  some  outlying 
land.  The  greater  part  of  his  time  is  given  to 
auctioneering  and  the  buying  of  horses,  which 
are  shipped  to  him  from  Boston. 

In  March,  1856,  Mr.  Lewis  married  Ilattie 
E.  Sleeper,  daughter  of  John  and  Caroline 
Sleeper,  of  Unity.  Mrs.  Lewis  is  the  mother 
of  three  children,  namely:  Nellie,  born  in 
June,  1862;  Olive,  horn  in  May,  1870;  and 
I'jiiily,  born  in  May,  1872.  Nellie  was  edu- 
cated in  Claremontj  N.  IL,  and  is  now  teach- 
ing   school.      Olive    is    the    wife    of    Charles 


Hoffman,  a  plumber  of  Windsor,  Vt.  I'Lmily 
is  employed  by  the  Falls  Mountain  Paper 
Company  at  Bellows  P'alls,  Vt.  In  politics 
Mr.  Lewis  supports  the  Democratic  party,  and 
he  served  as  Collector  of  Taxes  for  four  years. 
He  is  widely  known  throughout  this  section 
for  his  energy  and  business  ability,  and  he  has 
the  confidence  of  his  many  friends  and  ac- 
quaintances. 

ESSP:  W.  S.  MOON,  a  retired  farmer, 
living  in  the  village  of  Bradford,  was 
born  in  Hopkinton,  -St.  Lawrence 
County,  N.Y.,  August  12,  1845.  His  par- 
ents, Jesse  and  Sophia  (Barker)  Moon,  are 
well  known  in  Bradford  through  their  frequent 
visits  to  their  son.  Mr.  Moon  was  reared  on 
a  farm,  living  with  his  parents  until  De- 
cember 30,  1863,  when  he  enlisted  for  service 
in  the  Civil  War  in  the  l^leventh  New  York 
Cavalry  as  a  recruit,  joining  his  regiment  in 
Washington  soon  after.  He  served  in  the 
South,  mostly  in  New  Orleans.  In  the  spring 
of  1864  he  did  guard  on  various  plantations 
lying  along  the  Mississippi,  being  for  some 
months  at  Baton  Rouge.  He  was  honorably 
discharged  May  16,  1865,  at  Memphis,  Tenn. 
Returning  to  New  York  State,  Mr.  Moon 
was  employed  on  the  old  homestead  for  a  few 
years.  In  December,  1869,  he  went  to  Boston 
to  work.  While  there  he  bought  his  i^resent 
farm  in  Bradford,  of  which  he  took  possession 
in  July,  1874.  His  estate  comprises  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  tillage  and  timber  land 
antl  five  hundred  acres  of  pasture.  He  has 
carried  on  mixed  farming,  paying  much  atten- 
tion to  dairying,  having  a  fine  herd  of  thirty 
full-blooded  Ayrshire  cattle,  which  he  con- 
siders tlie  best  milk  producers.  By  remodel- 
ling and  re])airing  the  dwelling,  and  erecting 
new  and  commodious  barns  and  out-buildings, 
he    has    made    his    tarni    one    ol     the    best    ap- 


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287 


pointed  properties  in  the  vicinity.  Recently 
lie  removed  to  the  villaj,'e,  where  he  and  his 
l.imily  an;  re^;ar(ie(i  as  a  most  desirable  ae<|ni- 
sitiim  to  tiie  community.  In  politics  he  has 
l)eeii  a  lifelong  Republican,  and  has  always 
voted  the  Republican  ticket.  While  he  is  not 
an  olTice-secker,  he  has  served  as  .Selectman. 

On  January  10,  1867,  at  Hurlington,  Vt., 
Mr.  Moon  married  Miss  Susan  V.  Delano,  who 
was  born  in  i  )n.\bury,  Mass.,  daughter  of 
Mclzar  1'.  and  Susan  V.  (I-aiglish)  Delano. 
Ilcr  father,  who  was  a  cousin  of  Columbus 
Delano,  came  of  French  ancestry,  his  progeni- 
tors in  I'rance  having  borne  the  name  of 
d'Lanoi.  He  was  a  cooper  and  graver  in  his 
early  years,  working  at  his  trade  in  Boston 
and  Medford,  Mass.  Afterward  he  removed 
to  New  York  City,  where  he  was  engaged  as  a 
lumber  dealer  until  his  death.  While  in  New 
York  he  bought  a  farm  in  Vermont,  where  he 
antl  ills  family  could  spend  their  summers  free 
from  the  heat  and  dust  of  the  city.  During 
one  of  their  periodical  stays  at  the  farm  his 
daughter  Susan  first  mot  her  future  husband. 
Ml',  and  Mrs.  Moon  have  four  daughters; 
namely,  I'annie  A.,  Emily  R.,  Susie  M.,  and 
Lizzie  K.  Susie  has  taught  school  for  several 
terms  in  Bradford.  Lizzie  E. ,  who  is  an  ac- 
complished musician,  takes  especial  jiride  in 
the  possession  of  a  remarkably  fine  piano. 
Bright,  ambitious  girls,  all  are  self-support- 
ing. Mr.  Moon  is  a  member  of  Robert  Camp- 
hell  Post,  No.  58,  G.  A.  R.  Mrs.  Moon  is  a 
Universalist  in  belief,  but  not  a  church  mem- 
ber. She  and  her  family  work  in  harmony 
with  the  I'resbyterians. 


/  ^TlToRGE     H.    ADAMS,    of    Hill,    the 

V  P  I       senior  proprietor  of   the   Hill    Needle 

Factory,     was     horn      at      Haverhill, 

Mass.,    son   of   the    late  .Harrison    Adams,   the 


founder  of  the  needle  industry  in  this  place. 
The  first  of  the  Adams  family  in  this  country 
was  I'jioch  Adams,  the  great-grandfather  of 
George  II.  He  came  to  America  frcjni  Eng- 
land, and  settled,  first  in  Newbury,  and  after- 
ward in  Salisbury,  N.  H.  His  last  years  were 
spent  in  the  western  part  <if  the  latter  town, 
near  Kcarsargc  Mountain.  His  son,  Russel, 
after  his  marriage  with  .Susanna  I'Mfield, 
moved  to  Hill,  where  a  family  of  eight  chil- 
dren were  born  to  him.  Of  these  the  only 
survivor  is  Enoch,  who  resides  in  Belmont, 
N.H. 

In  early  life  Harrison  Adams  was  a  shoe- 
maker and  worked  in  Massachusetts.  Subse- 
quently on  account  of  failing  health  he  re- 
turned to  Hill  and  carried  on  a  farm  here  for 
about  fifteen  years.  He  moved  into  the 
village  proper  in  1866,  after  which  he  had  no 
regular  occupation  for  several  years.  He  then 
started  the  needle  business  with  his  sons  and 
others,  and  afterward  retained  an  interest  in 
the  concern  until  his  death  at  the  age  of 
seventy-five  years.  He  was  the  second  Re- 
Ijublican  to  represent  this  town  in  the  State 
legislature,  and  he  served  in  the  capacity  of 
-Selectman  and  in  other  town  offices.  A  de- 
voted member  of  the  Congregational  church, 
at  the  time  of  his  death  he  had  been  senior 
Deacon,  for  some  time.  His  wife,  in  maiden- 
hood Margaret  Morse,  was  the  mother  of 
George  H.  and  Charles  F.  Adams. 

George  H.  Adams,  the  elder  son  of  Harri- 
son Adams,  has  always  been  a  progressive  and 
active  man.  Educated  in  the  public  schools, 
he  afterward  worked  on  a  farm  and  then  in  a 
grocery  store  at  Charlestown,  Mass.  Subse- 
cpiently,  after  working  for  six  years  on  the 
farm  of  his  wife's  father,  he  bought  an  interest 
in  the  needle  factory,  and  has  made  that  his 
chief  object  of  attention  since.  In  1S6S  he 
married    Miss    Abbie    Shaw,    of    Sanbornton, 


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N.  H.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Adams  have  had  four 
children,  of  whom  ICrving  died  when  a  little 
more  than  three  years  okl.  The  others  are: 
Mary  K.,  Ahbie  J.,  and  iMank  \i.  Mr.  Adams 
represented  the  town  in  the  legislature  in 
iSgi.  He  is  a  Mason  and  is  affiliated  with 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows. 
Like  his  father,  he  is  an  esteemed  member  of 
the  Congregational  church.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Republican,  and  he  cast  his  fir.st  vote  for 
General  Grant  in  iS68. 


UBBARD  ALONZO  BARTON,  of 
Newport,  a  member  of  the  present 
firm  of  editors  and  publishers  of 
the  A'fZi'  Hainpsliiic  Argus  and  Spectator,  was 
born  in  Croydon,  N.  H.,  May  12,  1842,  son  of 
Caleb  L.  and  Rethiah  (Tuck)  ]5arton.  The 
Bartons  are  descended  from  luiglish  emigrants 
who  came  to  the  country  previous  to  1640. 
They  have  embraced  many  who  have  become 
distinguished  in  the  learned  profes.sions  and 
in  other  vocations  in  life.  The  great-great- 
grandfather of  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was 
killed  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  he 
was  a  near  relative  of  General  ]5arton  (jf  Revo- 
lutionary fame.  The  great-grandfather,  Ben- 
jamin Barton,  Jr.,  who  was  born  in  Sutton, 
Mass.,  in  1755,  also  fought  for  American  in- 
dependence at  Bunker  Hill,  Bennington,  West 
Point,  and  New  York  City.  He  married  Me- 
hitablc  Frye  in  1779,  removed  to  Croydon  in 
March,  1784,  and  there  in  tLu'u  served  in  all 
the  offices  within  the  gift  of  his  adopted  town. 
His  son  John,  an  extensive  landholder  and 
a  successful  farmer,  was  distinguished  for  his 
common  sense.  Caleb  L.  Barton,  a  native 
of  Croydon,  N.H,,  born  February  5,  181 5, 
was  one  of  the  most  successful  and  substantial 
farmers  of  that  town.  He  has  now  retired 
frtjm    active   business,    and    lives  at    ICast    Vil- 


lage, Croydf)n.  In  religion  he  is  a  Universal- 
ist.  A  Democrat  in  politics,  he  has  been 
Selectman  and  has  served  in  minor  offices. 
His  three  children,  Mrs.  Fthan  Smith,  Sulli- 
van Barton,  of  Croydon,  and  Hubbard  A.,  are 
all  living. 

Hubbard  Alonzo  Barton  was  partly  edu- 
cated in  the  common  schools.  He  was  also 
taught  in  [irivate  by  the  late  John  Cooper,  a 
man  of  extensive  learning  and  a  well-known 
instructor.  Early  in  life  he  began  to  contrib- 
ute to  the  press  both  in  jirose  and  verse. 
Afterward  all  the  time  he  could  spare  from 
his  farm  occupations  was  devoted  to  study. 
He  served  as  Superintendent  of  the  Schools  of 
Croydon  for  seven  years  in  succession,  during 
which  period  the  work  done  by  these  institu- 
tions was  very  satisfactory.  In  April,  1879, 
he  antl  \V.  W.  Prescott  purchased  from  Henry 
G.  Carleton  and  Matthew  Harvey  the  Xctv' 
Hampshire  Argus  ami  Spectator,  a  Democratic 
paper  established  in  1823  by  Mr.  ]5arton's 
great-uncle,  Cyrus  I^arton,  who  in  his  day 
exercised  a  wide  influence  in  the  political 
affairs  of  the  State;  and  he  has  since  been  its 
senior  editor  and  proprietor.  The  firm  is  now 
Barton  &  Wheeler,  the  hitter  having  purchased 
Mr.  Prescott's  interest  in  the  fall  of  1S80. 
Since  Mr.  liarton  became  connected  with  the 
paper,  it  has  been  enlarged  several  times, 
new  and  improved  printing  machinery  intro- 
duced, and  the  circulation  of  the  paper  greatly 
increased.  The  following,  from  the  Ports- 
mouth Daiiy  Times,  in  January,  1S97,  .shows 
the  estimation  in  which  the  pai)er  is  hehl  : 
"The  New  Hampshire  Argtis  and  Spectator, 
published  at  Newport,  this  State,  comes  to  us 
in  enlarged  size  and  improved  form  and  in  a 
brand-new  dress.  It  has  been  changed  from  an 
eight-column  folio  to  a  si.xteen-column  quarto 
—  a  change  which  all  its  patrons  will  acknowl- 
edge is  an  im|)rovenient  when   tliey  get  u.sed  to 


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289 


it,  althmi^h  it  is  likely  tliiit  some  of  them  will 

be  (lisplciisci!  with  it  at   hrst.      'Ilaliit    is   scc- 

iiiid    nalurc, '    and    they    are    iiscil    t<i    tiie    old 

hlaiikrl    siieet.      Tho   Aixiis   is  a    ticdit  to  its 

pnjprictors,  to  its  section    of   tiic  State,  and  to 

the  State.      Its  editorial   department   lias   been 

coiidneU'd   with    di,i;nity,  aliilil)',  and    fairness; 

and  it  has  L;i\en  due  aUention  to  local    matters 

and  eorrespondeiue  from    neiyhhoring  towns  — 

the  'strong  holt  '  nf   a   coimtry  paper.      Such  a 

])aper   is  a  [)ositive    factor    in    the   progress   of 

any   district;  and    we  aie   pleased   to   see  that 

it   is  apiireciated    by    the    people   of    Sullivan 

County,    as  evidencetl   by   the    large  outlay  its 

pro|)rietors   have   felt    justilietl    in    iiicui'ring  to 

make  their   previously  good    paper   better   than 

ever. 

The  following   poem    fioin    the    ]ien   of    j\Ir. 

liarton,     which      appeared       in      the      (Jraiiitc 

MoHtlily,    is  a  sample  of    his    composition    in 

verse :  — 

CROYDON. 

My  native  town,  1  love  thee. 

Thy  hills  and  fit- Id.s  revere ; 
The  Ciod  that  lules  above  lliee 

Ila.s  slied  his  lile.ssing.s  here. 

Thy  rills  and  mountains  teeming 

Willi  nature's  rich  display, 
Thy  grand  old  forest-s  dreaming, 

Have  pictvires  bright  and  gay. 

I  fain  with  thee  would  tarry, 

I3ecause  thou  art  so  true  ; 
Thou  seem'st  to  me  a  fairy, 

liedecked  with  heaven's  blue. 

On  April  27,  1S82,  Mr.  Ikirtoii  married 
Miss  VA\a  I..  Wilmarth,  daughter  of  the  late 
Jonathan  M.  Wilmarth,  a  prominent  and  well- 
known  resident  of  Newport.  lie  has  one 
child,  Henry  Wilmarth  Barton,  born  Septem- 
ber 16,  1890.  Mr.  Barton  is  an  attendant  of 
the  Congregational  church.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Democrat.      He  has  taken   an  active  part   in 


Ma.sonic  malter.s,  and  is  a  member  of  Mount 
Vernon  Lodge,  No.  15,  A.  V .  &  A.  M.  ;  of 
the  Chapter  of  the  Tabernacle,  No.  M),  Royal 
y\rch  Masons,  and  Higii  I'riest  of  the  .same  for 
two  years;  and  of  .Sullivan  Commandcry,  K.  T. 
He  has  also  membership  in  Newport  I^odge, 
No.  42,  K.  of  P.  ;  in  the  Granite  State  Club; 
and  he  is  a  Trustee  of  the  Richard  Free 
Library.  Hesides  writing  for  hi.s  own  paper, 
he  is  the  correspondent  of  the  New  York 
1 1  era  Id  Un  .Sidlis'an  Coimty. 


SMON  B.  WAV,  M.lJ.,  a  leading 
physician  of  Claremont,  was  born  in 
Lempster,  N.  H.,  March  22,  1840, 
son  of  Gordon  Way  by  his  first  wife,  Abigail 
Per  ley  Way. 

His  grandfather,  George  Way,  settled  in 
Lempster,  removing  from  the  neighborhood  of 
New  London.  George  became  one  of  the 
town's  most  substantial  residents.  At  his 
death  he  left  a  large  family.  His  wife,  Sarah 
Douglas  Way,  was  a  descendant  of  a  noted 
family  of  Scotland  and  a  relative  of  the  dis- 
tinguished Stephen  A.  Douglas. 

Gordon  Way,  son  of  George,  went  to  Clare- 
mont in  1844  with  his  family,  and  there  took 
up  farming,  in  which  he  was  most  successful. 
Believing  that  he  could  not  fulfil  the  duties 
of  public  office  without  allowing  them  to  inter- 
fere with  his  motto,  "close  application  to 
work,"  he  refusetl  all  appeals  from  his  towns- 
people to  enter  into  politics  and  public  life. 
He  was  a  Trustee  of  the  Methodist  church. 
The  latter  part  of  his  life  was  passed  quietly 
in  the  village.  There  were  thirteen  children 
by  his  first  wife,  who  died  in  1S4S  at  the  age 
of  fifty.  A  lady  of  superior  intellect,  she  was 
a  sister  of  the  wife  of  the  late  Dr.  A.  A. 
Miner  and  of  the  wife  of  the  late  Bishop 
Osmon    C.    Baker,    LL. D.      His   second   wife 


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had  no  children.  He  died  July  31,  1880,  at 
the  age  of  eighty-two  years.  His  daughter, 
Eliza  M.,  now  deceased,  married  O.  B.  Kid- 
der, of  Claremont,  and  removed  to  Minnesota. 
Alonzo  G. ,  George  O. ,  Edwin  F.,  Orlo  F., 
and  Eliza  all  emigrated  to  Claremont,  Minn., 
in  1854.  Alonzo  was  the  first  white  settler 
of  the  place,  and  gave  the  town  its  name. 
George,  who  is  a  dealer  in  real  estate  in  Min- 
neapolis, formerly  resided  in  Claremont, 
Minn.  His  wife  was  the  first  white  woman  in 
Claremont.  Edwin  is  a  merchant,  and  the 
Judge  of  the  Probate  Court.  Orlo  F.  is  a 
noted  farmer  in  Claremont,  Minn.  Of  the 
other  children  Lucy  A.  married  the  Rev. 
J.  C.  Hoyt,  and  resides  in  New  York;  Louisa 
M.  married  Ira  Colby,  of  Claremont,  one  of 
the  first  lawyers  in  the  State  of  New  Hamp- 
shire; Evaline  married  Eliacum  Tandy,  and 
died  in  1848;  Emaly  died  in  the  same  year; 
Perley  Fl  died  in  1847;  and  the  remaining 
two  died  in  infancy. 

Osmon  B.  Way  was  a  typical  farmer  boy 
during  his  early  years.  Fie  was  educated 
at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden,  and 
studied  medicine  with  the  late  Professor  A.  B. 
Crosby,  M.  D. ,  of  Hanover,  and  the  late  Dr. 
Nathaniel  Tolles,  of  Claremont,  teaching 
school  in  the  meantime.  He  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  Medical  College  in  1865,  receiving 
the  first  prize  for  scholarship.  Later  he  took 
a  thorough  course  in  the  colleges  and  hospitals 
of  New  York.  After  practising  for  a  year  and 
a  half  at  South  Acworth,  he  returned  to  Clare- 
mont in  1867,  where  he  has  since  been  busy 
in  his  profession.  Ajipointed  United  States 
Examining  Pension  Surgeon  in  December, 
1873,  he  resigned  the  office  in  May,  1882. 
He  represented  this  locality  in  the  State  legis- 
lature in  1871  and  1872.  Fie  has  served  about 
fifteen  years  as  Superintendent  of  Schools  and 
nineteen  years  on  the  High  School  Committee. 


He  has  been  Trustee  of  the  Fiske  Free  Library 
from  its  inception ;  is  a  Director  of  the 
People's  National  Bank,  of  Claremont;  and 
was  formerly  for  many  years  President  of  the 
Board  of  Trade.  Dr.  Way  is  a  member  of  the 
Masonic  fraternity  of  the  third  degree.  He 
is  a  prominent  member  of  the  Methodist 
church,  has  been  a  trustee  twenty-five  years, 
and  president  of  the  society  nearly  as  long. 
Fie  built  and  now  owns  one-third  of  the  Union 
Block,  the  largest  and  most  attractive  business 
building  of  the  town,  if  not  of  the  State.  The 
fine  residence  he  occupies  in  Claremont  is  also 
his  property.  Having  bought  out  the  heirs  of 
his  father's  estate,  he  owns  the  fine  farm  of 
two  hundred  acres  in  West  Claremont  for 
many  years  known  as  the  old  Way  farm.  The 
house,  which  is  one  of  the  old  landmarks  of 
the  district,  was  built  by  the  grandfather  of 
the  distinguished  Chief  Justice  Salmon  P. 
Chase  in  1784.  The  farm  is  kept  well 
stocked,  and  the  Doctor  enjoys  many  an  hour 
of  recreation  in  its  rural  seclusion.  In  re 
cent  years  the  Doctor  has  given  much  time  and 
study  to  the  subject  of  bacteriology  and  to 
pathological  subjects.  Fie  is  also  an  authority 
on  all  general  diseases,  especially  all  diseases 
arising  from  germs,  to  the  investigation  of 
which  he  has  given  special  attention  for  the 
last  ten  years.  Analytical  and  microscopical 
investigations  have  also  occupied  a  large  share 
of  his  time.  In  truth,  he  has  a  large  reputa- 
tion as  a  microscoiMst,  bacteriologist,  and 
pathologist.  At  the  request  of  the  towns- 
peo[)le  he  often  gi\'es  most  interesting  and 
instructive  lectures  on  the  results  of  his  in- 
vestigations with  the  microscope.  His  genial 
disposition  and  peculiarly  pleasing  manners 
make  him  a  fascinating  lecturer. 

In  1867  Mr.  Way  married  first  Martha  L. 
Wightman,  who  died  after  one  year  of  married 
happiness.      In    1882   Mary  J.  Wightman,   the 


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sister  iif  llic  first  Mis.  Way,  liccaiiu-  liis  wife; 
She  luul  boon  a  successful  teacher  in  iiigh 
schdol  and  college  hefnrc  marriage.  She  was 
many  )'ears  instructur  in  the  famous  (iannett 
Institute,  iinsldn.  This  gifted  and  highly 
educated  woman  takes  the  deepest  interest  in 
the  study  of  bacteriology,  and  is  her  husband's 
constant  companion  and  assistant  in  his  re- 
searches. Dr.  Way  is  a  self-made  man  in  the 
l)est  sense.  I'liblic-spirited  to  a  high  degree, 
he  takes  an  earnest  interest  in  every  measure 
cakidaled  to  aih'ance  the  welfare  of  the   town. 


AMI'lS  MADISON  CONNOR,  a  snc- 
^->i  I  cessfnl  and  enterprising  farmer  (if  llop- 
v^jx  kinton,  was  born  in  Ilennikcr,  N.  H., 
August  21,  1828,  son  of  James  and  Lydia 
(Kimball)  Connor.  His  great-grandfather, 
David  Connor,  or  O'Connor,  and  two  brothers, 
all  natives  of  Ireland,  were  the  first  settlers  of 
the  name  in  the  district.  The  brothers  settled 
in  I'!.\eter,  near  Lake  Winiiepesaukce.  David, 
who  took  u\)  his  residence  in  Ilennikcr,  was  a 
Revolutionary  soldier.  His  son  James,  grand- 
father of  James  M.,  and  who  was  later  in  life 
called  Captain  James,  was  born  in  Henniker. 
The  Christian  name  of  his  wife  was  Dorcas. 

When  the  subject  of  this  sketch  was  three 
years  old,  his  parents  came  to  the  south  part  of 
Hopkinton;  and  the  father  died  there  at  the 
age  of  fifty-eight,  having  been  an  invalid  for 
some  time.  The  mother  survived  him  for 
years,  living  to  be  seventy-five,  ami  dying  at 
her  son's' farm.  Their  children  were:  Isaac 
K.,  Harlowe,  Lydia,  and  James  Madison. 
Isaac  is  a  mill-owner  and  carpenter  in  Warner, 
N.  II.  llarlowe  is  a  carpenter,  ami  lives  in 
Lancaster,  N.  H.  Lydia  is  the  widow  of 
Enoch  Danforth,  and  lives  in  Hopkinton,  near 
Stumpfield. 

James  Madison  Connor  learned   the   car])en- 


ter's  trade,  and  followed  it  for  several  years. 
Afterward  he  purchased  the  small  farm  on 
which  his  sister  now  lives,  reconstructed  the 
buildings,  and  engaged  in  farming.  The 
added  responsibility  of  caring  for  his  invalid 
father  seemed  to  spur  him  to  greater  effort  and 
better  success.  In  the  eight  or  ten  years  he 
spent  on  the  first  farm  he  bad  saved  one  thou- 
sand five  hundred  dollars.  This  sum  he  in- 
vested in  a  "rim  down"  farm  of  one  hundred 
acres,  which  by  extensive  imjjrovements  he 
made  a  profitable  place.  llere  he  has  made  a 
specialty  of  the  dairy  business,  keeping  about 
twelve  cows  the  year  round,  and  making  but- 
ter of  the  highest  grade  on  a  large  scale  with 
the  use  of  the  hand  separator  and  other  modern 
contrivances.  At  the  World's  Fair  his  dairy 
products  carried  off  the  medal  with  a  score  of 
ninety-nine  points,  while  he  also  received  a 
diploma  for  his  disiday.  He  has  often  exhib- 
ited elsewhere,  and  always  with  the  most 
gratifying  residts.  llis  annual  product,  which 
is  from  two  thousaiul  i'lvc  lumdred  pounds  to 
three  thousand  pounds,  is  taken  by  jjrivate 
customers  among  the  best  families  of  Concord 
at  the  maximum  price  now  of  about  thirty -one 
cents.  His  dairy  stock  is  of  the  Guernsey 
breed,  and  his  cows  average  nearly  three  hun- 
dred pounds  of  butter  a  year.  He  has  been 
President  of  the  State  Dairymen's  Association 
since  its  organization,  ten  years  ago.  The 
exhibit  at  Chicago  was  given  under  the  aus- 
pices of  this  Association,  they  sending  a  man 
to  take  charge  of  it.  About  twenty  years  ago 
New  Hampshire  had  no  rank  as  a  dairy  State; 
but  at  the  Fair  it  took  the  lead  both  as  regards 
quantity  and  quality^  and  that  in  a  number  of 
competing  displays.  There  are  now  about  fifty 
creameries  in  the  State,  a  fact  that  is  largely 
due  to  the  work  of  the  Association.  Mr. 
Connor  is  also  the  President  of  the  Guernsey 
Cieamery  Company  at  Contoocook.      A  writer 


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for  the  press  since  he  was  twenty  years  old,  he 
has  been  a  valued  contributor  to  agricultural 
publications  on  dairy  matters  and  general 
farming.  He  has  also  read  papers  before  the 
Board  of  Agriculture.  He  has  been  a  mem- 
ber of  Union  Grange  since  its  organization 
twenty  years  ago ;  the  Master  of  Pomona 
Grange  for  some  time;  a  member  of  the  E.xec- 
utive  Committee  of  the  State  Grange;  and  the 
chairman  of  the  committee  composed  of  all 
Masters  of  Pomona  Granges  in  the  State,  and 
chosen  to  consider  the  subject  of  improving 
the  roads.  He  is  a  Director  and  Trustee  in 
the  Grange  Fire  Insurance  Company,  which 
does  a  large  business;  and  he  is  Treasurer  of 
the  Merrimack  County  Grange  Fair  Associa- 
tion. The  latter,  which  is  a  grange  organiza- 
tion ex'clusively,  holds  fairs  at  Warner,  the  old 
centre  for  such  enterprises. 

On  December  20,  1859,  Mr.  Connor  mar- 
ried Judith  M.,  daughter  of  Ira  A.  and  Han- 
nah (Muzzy)  Putney,  of  Hopkinton.  They 
had  four  children  —  Maria  P.,  Carrie  J., 
Charles  H.,  and  Grace  li.  The  first  two  live 
in  Waltham,  Mass.,  Maria  being  the  wife  of 
Frank  Kimball;  Grace  is  at  home;  and 
Charles  H.,  who  was  born  September  24, 
1872,  died  October  18,  1S96.  Charles  was 
a  bright  and  popular  young  man,  and  his  death 
left  a  sad  blank  in  the  community  as  well  as  in 
his  home.  He  was  elected  Master  of  Union 
Grange  before  he  was  of  age,  and  served  two 
years.  At  the  time  of  his  death  he  held  the 
office  of  District  Deputy  Inspector  of  the 
Grange.  Mrs.  Connor  died  May  9,  1877;  and 
Mr.  Connor  married  again  Sejjtember  6,  1881, 
taking  for  his  second  wife  Catherine  Hoyt 
Watson,  daughter  of  Joseph  G.  and  Catherine 
(Parmelee)  Hoyt,  of  Newport,  N.  H.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Congregational  church,  and  he 
has  been  the  su]ierintendcnt  of  the  society's 
Sunday-school.      In  jiolitics  he  is  a  Democrat. 


RED  BEAN,  a  progressive  and  skilful 
farmer  of  Warner,  was  born  September 
30,  1857,  in  Waterloo,  Merrimack 
County,  son  of  William  H.  Bean.  His  pater- 
nal grandfather,  Daniel  Bean,  a  native  of 
New  York  State,  was  reared  to  manhood  in 
Newburyport,  Mass.  Afterward  he  moved  to 
Waterloo,  where  he  spent  his  remaining  days. 
William  H.  Bean  worked  at  the  wheel- 
wright's trade  more  or  less  until  he  started  in 
the  lumber  business  in  company  with  his 
brother  Daniel.  He  subsequently  purchased 
the  mill,  and  had  carried  on  the  manufacture 
of  lumber  alone  for  a  number  of  years  when  he 
sold  out  in  1872.  Thereafter  he  confined  his 
attention  to  the  management  of  his  farm. 
This  property  is  located  in  the  lower  edge  of 
Waterloo,  and  is  now  occupied  by  the  widow 
of  his  son  Walter.  He  married  Mary  S. 
Colby,  daughter  of  Philip  S.  Colby,  who 
owned  the  farm  just  opposite  his.  She  died 
in  1871,  and  he  in  1892,  at  the  venerable  age 
of  eighty-one  years.  They  had  a  family  of 
eight  children,  namely:  Philip,  who  is  in  the 
hardware  business  in  Concord,  N.  H.  ;  Will- 
iam H.  Bean,  Jr.,  who  was  agent  at  the 
Hillsborough  railway  station  for  fifteen  years, 
and  died  in  1S91,  at  the  age  of  fifty-three; 
Walter  H.,  who  was  mail  agent  on  the  Bos- 
ton &  Maine  for  twenty  years,  kept  a  hotel 
in  Claremont  for  a  time,  and  died  at  Warner 
in  P'ebruary,  1S95,  at  the  age  of  fifty-five 
years;  Harriet  E. ,  who  resides  in  Warner,  and 
is  the  widow  of  Henry  M.  Seavey ;  Sarah,  who 
lived  but  a  short  time;  Charles  A.,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  ten  years;  Fretl,  the  sjiecial  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch;  and  Mary  Lizzie,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  fifteen  years.  A  coincidence  of 
dates  is  noted  regarding  the  births  of  the  three 
older  children.  The  first  was  born  April  24, 
1836;  the  second,  April  24,  1838;  antl  the 
third  on  March  24,   1840. 


HERMAN     W.    GREENE. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIP:W 


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I'rccl  Rcan  remained  at  home  until  his  mar- 
riage, there  obtaining  a  |)ractical  experience 
in  general  agricuituial  work.  On  ()ct(jl)er  15, 
1877,  he  married  Miss  Frances  A.,  daughter 
of  l'"rancis  and  Aliigail  (Gage)  Robbins. 
Innnediately  after  he  moved  on  to  the  Rolibins 
homestead,  which  be  has  since  conducted. 
Mr.  Robl)ins  was  born  July  9,  1S15,  in  Mason, 
N.II.  In  early  life  he  engaged  in  the  lumber 
business  at  Enfield,  N.ll.  1 1  ere  he  was  mar- 
ried to  Abigail  Gage,  who  was  born  in  that 
town,  December  10,  18 14.  Subsequently  he 
carried  on  the  same  business  in  connection 
with  farming  in  the  town  of  Sutton,  coming 
from  there  to  Warner  in  1873,  and  erecting 
tiie  bouse  now  occupied  by  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bean. 
15oth  he  and  his  wife  continued  their  residence 
here  during  the  remainder  of  their  lives,  be 
dying  December  10,  1884,  and  she  December 
31,  1893.  Mr.  Robbins,  who  possessed  rare 
business  ability,  was  a  man  of  fine  appear- 
ance, tall  and  well  iimijortioned,.  weighing  two 
hundred  and  fifty  pounds.  .  Besides  carrying 
on  the  grain  and  lumber  business  in  Warner 
for  several  years,  he  was  an  extensive  land- 
holder, owning  three  farms  in  Warner  and  one 
in  Sutton.  He  bought  a  good  deal  of  land  for 
the  sake  of  the  timber,  raising  stock  on  it  after 
clearing  it.  lie  made  a  specialty  of  sheep- 
raising,  in  which  be  had  great  success.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  both  he  and 
his  wife  were  Adventists  in  religion. 

After  his  marriage  Mr.  Bean  continued  the 
sheep-raising  business  commenced  by  Mr. 
Robbins,  in  addition  to  carrying  on  the  farm- 
ing. He  also  superintends  one  of  the  other 
farms,  the  other  two  having  been  disposed  of 
by  him.  He  keeps  a  large  dairy,  which  brings 
him  the  most  profit;  and  he  has  engaged  to 
some  extent  in  breeding  fine  roadsters.  Mr. 
Bean  was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  the  War- 
ner Glove  Factory,  and  is  now  a  Director.      He 


is  also  a  Director  in  the  Farmers'  Fair  Asso- 
ciation. In  Masonry  he  is  quite  prominent 
and  active.  l'"or  three  years  he  was  Worthy 
Master  of  Harris  Lodge,  No.  91,  V.  &  A.  M., 
of  Warner.  He  has  served  as  Dictator  and 
Deputy  Grand  in  the  Grand  Lodge;  and  for 
a  year  he  was  High  Priest  of  Wood  Chapter, 
R.  A.  M.,  of  Hennikcr.  He  has  also  been 
closely  associated  with  the  leading  interests  of 
the  town,  having  served  as  Selectman  for  three 
years,  being  the  Chairman  of  the  Board  for 
two  years  of  that  time.  In  1889  he  was 
elected  a  Representative  to  the  State  legis- 
lature, where  he  was  active  as  a  member  of  the 
Committees  on  Insurance  and  on  Towns.  A 
stanch  Republican,  he  attends  all  the  local 
party  conventions.  He  takes  deep  interest  in 
educational  matters,  and  rendered  valuable  aid 
to  the  community  as  a  member  of  the  Free 
High  School  Committee  for  a  period  of  three 
years.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bean  have  one  daughter, 
Stella  May,  a  girl  of  thirteen  years.  The 
three  members  of  the  fanriily  belong  to  the 
Baptist  church.  In  the  society  Mr.  Bean  is  a 
Deacon  and  the  superintendent  of  the  Sunday- 
school. 

4-**«-« 

ERMAN  WELLS  GREENE,  for- 
merly a  lawyer  of  considerable  note 
-^  V^___,  in  Hopkinton,  was  born  here,  April 
II,  1836,  son  of  Herman  H.  and  Ellen  Chase 
(Little)  Greene.  His  only  brother  died  at  the 
age  of  fourteen  years;  and  his  only  sister  is 
now  the  wife  of  a  Mr.  Roberts,  of  Philadel- 
phia, Pa.  After  receiving  his  early  education 
in  the  public  schools  of  Hopkinton  and  at 
Pembroke  and  Gilmanton  Academies,  he  be- 
came interested  in  the  legal  profession,  and 
read  law  with  George  &  Foster,  of  Concord, 
and  later  with  Beard  &  Nickerson,  of  Boston, 
Mass.  On  his  twenty-first  birthday  he  was 
admitted  to  the  Suffolk  County  bar.      At  first 


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he  practised  with  Charles  E.  Pike,  afterward 
with  Ithmar  W.  ]5eard  and  James  P.  Sullivan. 
Subsequently,  on  account  of  failing  health,  he 
returned  to  his  native  place,  and  did  not  prac- 
tise for  about  seven  years.  On  resuming  his 
profession  he  was  for  a  time  associated  with 
Carlos  G.  Hawthorne.  In  politics  he  was 
an  enthusiast,  and  he  held  various  ofifices  of 
trust.  He  was  Moderator  of  the  town  meeting 
for  over  twenty  years  all  together,  was  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  for  five  years,  and  State 
Representative  in  1881,  1889,  and  1891.  In 
1 89 1  he  took  an  active  part  in  the  debates  of 
the  legislature,  and  served  on  the  Judicial  and 
Railroad  Committees.  He  was  County  Solic- 
itor of  Merrimack  County  five  years,  during 
which  period  he  was  obliged  to  be  in  Con- 
cord much  of  the  time.  In  early  life  a  Dem- 
ocrat, he  afterward  became  a  Republican,  and 
served  on  the  Republican  State  Committees, 
and  generally  attended  the  conventions.  He 
was  for  a  number  of  years  Curator  of  the  Hop- 
kinton  Antiquarian  Society,  and  was  Chair- 
man of  the  Library  Trustees. 

Before  he  was  of  age  Mr.  Greene  married 
Miss  Frances  Adeline  Willard,  of  Hopkinton, 
who  was  brought  up  by  her  grandmother,  Mrs. 
Sophia  Tebbets.  Mrs.  Greene  died  March  2, 
1873,  leaving  one  son,  Willard  T.,  now  a  resi- 
dent of  Hopkinton.  On  September  18,  1877, 
Mr.  Greene  married  for  his  second  wife  Miss 
Ansticc  Irene  Clarke,  daughter  of  Daniel  VV. 
and  Ruhamah  (Cochran)  Clarke,  of  Canaan, 
N.  H.  Mrs.  Clarke,  who  was  left  a  widow  by 
the  death  of  her  first  husband,  married  Judge 
Horace  Chase  when  Anstice  was  but  nine 
years  old;  and  they  went  to  Hopkinton  to  live. 
Mrs.  Greene  has  no  children.  She  still  lives 
in  the  old  Greene  homestead,  the  place  which 
belonged  to  the  beloved  mother  of  her  distin- 
guished husband.  Mr.  Greene  was  an  accom- 
plished public  speaker,  ready  with  telling  ar- 


gument and  bright  repartee.  He  was  versatile 
and  quick  to  discern  the  drift  of  legislation. 
The  important  positions  intrusted  to  him 
showed  that  he  had  the  esteem  and  confidence 
of  all.  For  years  he  was  President  of  the 
State  Republican  League,  and  with  that 
body  attended  the  Baltimore  Convention. 
Throughout  his  own  State  he  was  a  noted 
speaker.  In  making  public  addresses  he  used 
no  notes  e.xcept  for  headings,  and  never  wrote 
but  one  address.  In  his  legislative  career  he 
was  associated  both  in  an  official  and  warmly 
personal  way  with  Dr.  Gallinger,  of  Concord, 
the  well-known  United  States  Senator. 

Mr.  Greene  died  of  apople.\y,  March  i, 
1896,  at  the  age  of  si.xty  years.  He  had  felt 
that  death  was  impending,  and  had  shortly 
before  made  the  most  orderly  settlement  of  all 
his  affairs.  He  was  a  tall,  well-proportioned 
man,  in  manners  affable  and  courteous,  and  in 
disposition  calm  and  cheerful.  Always  a  man 
of  correct  habits,  his  life  was  well-nigh  blame- 
less. A  warm  affection  existed  between  him 
and  his  mother,  partly  because  he  was  the  only 
son  left  her.  He  remained  with  her  for  this 
reason,  and  these  family  ties  kept  him  from 
going  elsewhere  and  opening  a  law  office. 
While  he  was  not  a  member  of  any  secret  so- 
ciety, he  belonged  to  St.  Andrew's  Episcopal 
Church,  of  which  he  was  Warden.  The  latter 
church  contains  a  beautiful  family  memorial 
window  designed  by  his  niece,  who  is  a  noted 
artist,  Miss  lUs'ic  Roberts,  of  Philadelphia. 
He  was  an  unusually  well-reatl  man ;  and  he 
had  strong  tendencies  to  art,  especially  to 
music. 


■^I'AVELL  H.  WEBSTER,  now  a  prom- 
inent and  affluent  resident  of  Helena, 

L-?  x^  ^  Mont.,  was  born  November  29, 
1S36,  in  Henniker,  a  son  of  Jesse  and  Susan 
C.     (Newell)    Webster.      An    account    of    his 


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father's  life  will  be  found  elsewhere  in  this 
volume.  In  his  youth  Newell  was  known  as  a 
remarkably  bri^^ht  lad,  showing  even  then  the 
vigor  of  intellect  and  strength  of  character 
inherited  from  his  mother.  After  leaving 
school  he  learned  the  tailor's  trade  from  his 
father,  subsequently  spending  two  years  as  a 
clerk  in  IJoston.  His  health  failing,  a  change 
of  climate  was  advised;  and,  little  thinking 
what  the  future  years  had  in  store  for  him,  he 
bade  farewell  to  his  friends,  and  started  west- 
ward, arriving  in  Minnesota  early  in  1861. 
At  Hastings  he  joined  a  party  engaged  in  sur- 
veying for  a  railway,  being  employed  as  chain 
carrier.  His  investigating  turn  of  mind  and 
natural  desire  for  knowledge  caused  him  to 
note  the  transit's  record  in  a  book  of  his  own. 
Soon  after  he  became  expert  in  the  use  of  the 
instruments,  whereupon  the  engineer  in  charge 
placed  him  in  charge  of  the  transit.  When 
the  surveying  in  that  State  was  completed,  he 
received  and  accepted  a  flattering  offer  of  an 
engagement  in  the  same  line  of  business  in 
Colorado,  where  he  went  in  1863.  He  was 
subsequently  selected  to  lead  an  exploring 
party  into  Idaho  and  Montana;  and  he  was  at 
East  Bannack,  Montana  Territory,  when  the 
settlement  of  the  district  was  beginning. 

Deciding  at  once  to  locate  in  the  new  and 
undeveloped  region,  Mr.  Webster  identified 
himself  with  its  interests.  Eventually  he  es- 
tablished himself  in  business  in  the  future  city 
of  Helena,  where  he  erected  the  first  frame 
house,  fie  opened  a  store  for  general  mer- 
chandise, and  was  until  recent  years  one  of  the 
leading  merchants  of  that  and  surrounding 
towns.  Making  judicious  investments  of  his 
money,  he  has  accumulated  a  large  property, 
reaching  close  to  the  million  mark,  and  holds 
a  high  position  among  the  most  substantial 
and  highly  esteemed  men  of  Montana.  On 
May   21,     1876,    Mr.    Webster    married    Miss 


Ella  M.  Adams,  of  Helena.  He  makes  an- 
nual visits  to  his  old  home,  coming  here 
nearly  every  summer,  and  bringing  cheer  to 
his  aged  father  before  the  latter  died,  for 
whom  he  entertained  a  loving  and  loyal  affec- 
tion. 


■Tf^OSWELL  HUNTOON,  an  enterpris- 
I  S^  ing  farmer  residing  in  Langdon,  was 
VP  V  ^  born  in  the  town  of  Unity,  this 
county,  October  14,  1820,  son  of  Lemuel  and 
Sybil  (Palmer)  Huntoon.  Phillip  Huntoon, 
born  in  Wiltshire,  England,  in  16O4,  was  the 
immigrant  ancestor  of  this  family.  The  next 
in  line  was  John.  Then  came  Charles,  who 
was  born  October  12,  1725,  at  Kingston, 
N.  H.,  and  died  in  Unity,  May  27,  1819.  He 
was  a  very  prominent  man  in  Unity,  and  he 
served  in  the  General  Court  of  the  State.  He 
bore  arms  in  both  the  French  and  Indian  War 
and  the  Revolutionary  War.  His  son, 
Charles  Huntoon,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Unity,  De- 
cember 15,  1755,  and  died  January  2,  1838. 
Charles  married  Maria  Smith,  of  Kingston, 
N.H.  ;  and  their  union  was  blessed  by  the 
birth  of  six  children  —  Robert,  Jacob,  Pollie, 
Maria,  Lemuel,  and  Erastus. 

Lemuel  Huntoon  was  born  in  Unity,  No- 
vember 29,  1793.  About  the  year  1835  he 
came  to  Langdon,  and  lived  here  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  November  15,  1878, 
when  nearly  eighty-five  years  of  age.  He  was 
a  blacksmith  by  trade,  and  his  years  of  active 
labor  were  spent  at  the  forge.  He  was  one  of 
the  first  in  this  section  to  espouse  the  cause 
of  temperance  and  join  the  temperance  club. 
Sybil,  his  wife,  was  a  daughter  of  Benjamin 
Palmer.  She  was  born  September  20,  1794, 
and  died  May  i,  1874,  in  her  eightieth  year. 
They  had  seven  children,  all  born  in  Unity; 
namely,  Sybil  Palmer,  Lemuel,  Jr.,  Roswell, 
Joel,    Candace    A.,    Andrew    J.,     and    Jane. 


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Sybil,  born  February  15,  1817,  first  married 
Josiah  Prouty,  by  whom  she  had  one  child. 
She  is  now  the  widow  of  Rufus  Guild,  and 
lives  in  Alstead.  Lemuel,  Jr.,  born  July  23, 
181S,  died  April  24,  1891,  in  Lawrence, 
Mass.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  the  jewelry 
business.  He  married  Helen  M.  Cummings, 
and  had  two  children.  Joel,  born  October  14, 
1S23,  who  is  a  surveyor  and  civil  engineer  in 
Topeka,  Kan.,  married  Ellen  Richardson,  of 
Alstead,  N.H.,  and  had  seven  children. 
Candace  A.,  born  July  12,  1826,  was  the  wife 
of  Samuel  K.  Elwell,  of  Langdon,  and  had 
two  children.  Andrew  J.  and  Jane,  twins, 
were  born  February  29,  1832.  She  died  De- 
cember 17,  1848,  in  her  seventeenth  year. 
Andrew  is  a  physician  in  Topeka,  Kan., 
where  he  also  conducts  a  large  livery  busi- 
ness. He  married  Lizzie  P.  Foster,  of  Wal- 
pole,  N.H.,  and  had  four  children. 

Roswell  Huntoon  suijplemented  a  common - 
school  education  by  a  few  terms  at  Dr. 
Miner's  Military  Academy  of  Unity,  teaching 
school  during  the  winters.  On  completing 
his  studies  he  learned  the  blacksmith  trade. 
Subsequently  he  took  up  farming,  which  he 
has  since  followed.  For  eight  years  he  lived 
in  Charlestown,  N.H.;  but  for  over  forty 
years  Langdon  has  been  his  home. 

Mr.  Huntoon  married  Electa  J.  l^lwell, 
who  was  born  January  20,  1823,  daughter  of 
Samuel  Elwell,  of  Langdon.  They  have  had 
three  children  —  Horace  R.,  Marcella  B.,  and 
Harlcy  J.  Horace  R.,  born  in  Unity,  Sep- 
tember 14,  1843,  who  was  a  farmer  and  tanner, 
died  November  i,  1865.  Marcella  B. ,  born 
in  Langdon,  December  17,  1847,  has  been  an 
invalid  for  the  past  twenty  years.  Harlcy  J., 
born  in  Charlestown,  July  7,  1S56,  is  in  the 
gunsmith  business  at  Bellows  P'alls,  Vt.,  and 
is  a  prominent  musician  there,  playing  in  the 
band,  and  acting  as  jiromptcr  of  an   orchestra. 


He  married  Addie  Parkinson,  of  Langdon, 
and  has  three  children:  Perley  H.,  born  in 
Bellows  Falls,  July  17,  1879;  Edith  E.,  born 
December  12,  1885;  and  Florence  J.,  born 
May  6,  1889.  In  politics  Mr.  Huntoon  is  a 
Republican.  He  represented  his  town  in  the 
New  Hampshire  legislature  in  1875  '^^'^  1876, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  Committee  on 
P'isheries  and  Game.  He  is  an  attendant  of 
the  Universalist  church;  and,  like  his  father, 
he  has  been  an  active  temperance  worker. 


ILLIAM  TASKER,  one  of  the 
prominent  residents  of  Contoocook, 
was  born  August  21,  1852,  in  Pitts- 
field,  this  county,  son  of  William  and  Mary 
(Lougee)  Tasker.  The  grandfather,  Joseph 
Tasker,  and  his  brothers,  John  and  Paul,  re- 
moving from  Newington,  near  Portsmouth, 
were  the  first  settlers  of  Barnstead.  .  Paul 
Tasker  died  leaving  no  family.  Joseph  fol- 
lowed the  trade  of  shoemaker.  He  married 
Sally  True,  of  Pittsfield,  at  which  place  they 
both  died,  he  about  the  year  1878,  and  she  in 
1884.  His  son,  the  Rev.  Joseph  O.  Tasker, 
is  a  Congregational  minister  at  Short  P'alls, 
Epsom  township,  this  county.  William 
Tasker,  Sr.,  another  son  of  Joseph,  born  in 
Barnstead,  Belknap  County,  was  also  a  shoe- 
maker. He  was  a  resident  of  Pittsfield,  where 
he  died  in  1859,  at  the  age  of  forty,  leaving 
one  son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

William  Tasker  passed  his  boyhood  in  Pitts- 
field, receiving  his  education  in  the  academy, 
and  working  in  a  store  during  his  vacations, 
his  father's  home  being  in  the  village.  He 
yet  owns  this  place,  where  his  mother  still 
lives.  Subsequently  he  worked  in  the  grist- 
m'ill  of  Weeks  lirothers,  until  it  was  burned  in 
1880.  He  then  came  to  Contoocook,  and 
worked  for  a  year  and  a  half  as   miller   in    the 


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grist-mill  of  A.  B.  VVadsworth  &  Co.,  after 
which  he  returned  to  Pittsfield,  and  bought  an 
ice  business,  ;ind  conducted  it  for  five  years. 
In  iS.S':;  lie  was  chosen  Selectman,  and  in  the 
following  year  he  was  made  Chairman  of  the 
Board.  Among  several  matters  of  importance 
dealt  with  by  the  lioard  in  the  five  years  dur- 
ing which  he  was  a  member,  the  most  note- 
worthy was,  perhajis,  the  opening  of  a  system 
of  sewerage  in  Pittsfield.  In  1887,  July  i,  he 
was  appointed  l)y  the  ('ouiity  Commissioners 
superintendent  of  the  Merrimack  County  Farm 
at  North  Boscawen.  At  that  time  the  farm, 
which  contains  four  hundred  and  eighty-three 
acres  of  land,  was  also  the  location  ol  the 
House  of  Correction.  This  institution  had 
one  hundred  and  seventy-five  inmates,  of  whom 
over  forty  were  insane,  all  being  under  the 
charge  of  the  superintendent  and  his  wife. 
He  filled  this  office  efficiently,  making  such 
improvements  on  the  farm  as  to  cause  it  to  be 
regarded  as  a  model  for  its  kind  until  1895, 
when  a  change  in  the  administration  of  the 
county  resulted  in  his  removal.  On  April  1 
of  the  same  year  he  and  Mr.  Rand  formed  the 
firm  of  Rand  S:  Tasker,  which  has  since  lieen 
in  business  in  Contoocook.  Keeping  a  stock 
valued  at  fourteen  thousand  dollars,  they  have 
a  very  satisfactory  trade. 

On  November  30,  1882,  Mr.  Tasker  married 
liertha  L.  Osgood,  daughter  of  Abrani  B.  and 
Lucy  (Sargent)  Osgood,  who  was  born  at 
Loudon,  N.  II.  Mrs.  Tasker  was  in  charge  of 
the  house  while  on  the  County  Farm,  and  to 
her  efficient  management  is  largely  due  the 
success  of  Mr.  Tasker's  administration  of  that 
institution.  She  had  been  to  some  extent 
fitted  for  her  arduous  task,  as  from  the  age  of 
sixteen,  when  her  mother  died,  until  her  mar- 
riage, she  was  her  father's  housekeeper.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Tasker  have  three  children,  namely: 
Ethel    I'rances,    born    May  15,    1884;   William 


Martin,  born  September  12,  1887;  and  Lucy 
Ik-rtha,  born  August  i,  1892.  Mrs.  Tasker  is 
a  memjjcr  of  the  I'rce  Will  Baptist  Church  of 
Pittsfield.  Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Tasker  arc 
members  of  Contoocook  Grange,  P.  of  IL 


ON.  ISAAC  DARWIN  MPIRRILL, 
a  well-known  public  man  of  Contoo- 
cook, is  a  son  of  Isaac  and  Mary 
(Wyman)  Merrill,  born  October  i,  1814,  in 
Hopkinton  village,  N.H.  The  father,  a  na- 
tive of  Hollis,  Hillsborough  County,  born 
June  15,  1784,  was  a  cooper  by  trade,  and 
worked  in  Boston,  Portland,  and  Troy,  N.Y. 
When  Isaac  D.  was  about  a  year  old,  the  fam- 
ily moved  from  IIo|)kinton  to  Hillsborough 
Bridge,  where  his  father  was  employed  at 
his  trade.  Later,  more  than  si.xty  years  ago, 
he  settled  in  Contoocook,  built  the  house 
where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  now  resides, 
worked  at  his  trade  for  some  time  longer,  and 
died  there,  September  8,  1883,  aged  ninety- 
nine  years,  two  months,  and  twenty-four  days. 
He  is  well  remembered  in  the  community, 
among  whom  he  is  still  sjioken  of  as  "Boss 
Merrill."  He  was  a  man  of  strong  frame  and 
good  health,  industrious  and  apt  to  outdo  his 
coworkers.  Shortly  before  his  death  he  be- 
came blind;  and  his  last  years  were  spent 
quietly  at  the  homestead  with  his  son,  Isaac 
Darwin  Merrill.  He  had  three  wives,  whom 
he  outlived.  His  first  marriage  was  made 
witli  Mary  Wyman,  of  Deering,  who  died  May 
31,  1843.  She  had  eight  children,  si.x  of 
whom,  three  sons  and  three  daughters,  reached 
maturity.  The  eldest,  Clarinda,  married  Jo- 
seph L.  Upton,  of  Contoocook,  where  she  died 
after  passing  her  eightieth  year.  Her  hus- 
band, who  was  a  wheelwright,  built  their 
house  in  Contoocook.  The  second  child,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  is  the  only  one  of  this 


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family  now  living.  The  rest  of  the  six  re- 
ferred to  were:  Milton  Wyman,  who  did  not 
marry,  resided  with  his  father,  and  died  in 
1S56,  at  the  age  of  forty  years ;  James  Madi- 
son, who  was  also  a  bachelor,  and  lived 
chiefly  in  New  York  and  Boston;  Emily, 
who  married  Alonzo  Currier,  of  Contoocook, 
and  died  in  I^'ebruary,  1896;  and  Annette, 
who  married  Levi  F.  Mason,  of  Marlboro, 
N.LL,  and  died  in  1S92. 

When  ten  years  old,  Isaac  Darwin  Merrill 
went  to  live  with  an  uncle,  John  Smith,  on  a 
farm  at  Newport.  Here  he  remained  until 
he  was  fourteen,  doing  much  hard  work,  and 
often  walking  back  the  twenty-five  miles  from 
Hillsborough  after  visiting  his  family. 
After  leaving  Newport,  he  worked  on  a  farm 
in  Hillsborough,  attending  school  in  the 
winter  and  boarding  at  home.  Having 
learned  the  cooper's  trade,  he  worked  at  it 
somewhat  with  his  father  and  others  in  Con- 
toocook. When  about  eighteen  years  of  age 
his  father  placed  him  with  a  store-keeper,  who 
was  also,  at  that  time,  the  [lostmaster  of  East 
Wcare.  At  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  or 
thereabout  he  went  to  Boston,  and  afterward 
worked  as  a  hotel  clerk  there  and  in  Maiden 
for  about  five  years.  In  1843,  having  saved 
about  eight  hundred  dollars,  he  returned  to 
Contoocook,  and  in  company  with  his  brother, 
Miltiin  W. ,  started  a  store,  to  which  he  de- 
voted his  attention  for  several  years,  although 
it  did  not  prove  a  very  profitable  venture. 
From  1853  to  1861  he  served  for  much  of 
the  time  as  Postmaster,  and  in  1843  he  was 
made  Justice  of  the  Peace.  In  the  latter 
capacity  he  has  served  continuously  for  over 
half  a  century,  doing  the  greater  part  of  the 
conveyancing  of  Contoocook,  officiating  at 
many  marriages,  and  settling  many  estates. 
Although  not  a  member  of  the  bar,  he  has 
an     extensive    knowledge    of     law,    and    re- 


ceives the  full  confidence  of  those  whose  busi- 
ness he  has  conducted.  As  its  Treasurer  he 
handled  the  funds  of  the  town  for  more  than 
thirty  years.  In  1854  and  again  in  1856  he 
served  in  the  State  legislature,  securing  the 
incorporation  of  the  local  academy,  which  has 
been  of  much  benefit  to  the  village.  His 
money  is  largely  invested  in  his  own  town, 
where  he  owns  much  real  estate.  He  has 
never  married.  Now,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two 
years,  Mr.  Isaac  Darwin  Merrill,  is  a  whole- 
souled,  genial  man,  attending  personally  to 
his  numerous  affairs,  in  connection  with  which 
he  visits,  with  something  of  his  old  energy, 
the  business  centres  to  which  those  duties 
draw  him.  Even  at  his  advanced  age  he  is 
still  keen,  shrewd,  and  active. 


l'i:i.    WHITCOMB,  a  resident  of  New 


London,  Merrimack  County,  for 
-^  V  ^  nearly  fifty  years,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 20,  1822,  in  Newport,  N.  H.,  which  was 
also  the  birthplace  of  his  parents,  Parmenas 
and  Rua  (Hard)  Whitcomb.  His  mother  was 
a  daughter  of  Samuel  Hurd,  a  pioneer  settler 
of  Newport.  His  father's  father,  Benjamin 
Whitcomb,  removed  from  Henniker,  this 
county,  to  Newport  at  an  early  period  of  its 
settlement. 

Parmenas  Whitcomb  was  a  farmer  and  lum- 
berman, and  heljoed  build  a  saw-mill  in  his 
native  town,  living  in  Newport  until  his  death, 
at  the  age  of  eighty-five  years.  His  first  wife 
died  at  the  age  of  si.xty-seven  years,  leaving 
four  children,  namely:  Kuel;  Sarah  Ann,  who 
was  the  wife  of  the  late  James  Emerson  ;  Lydia, 
who  married  Willard  Morse,  of  Minneapolis, 
Minn.;  and  Parmenas,  of  Hanover,  N.H.,  a 
])rinter  at  Dartmouth  College.  The  father 
subsecpiently  married  Mrs.  Orpha  Metcalf,  who 
died  a  few  years  later,  leaving  no  children. 


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30' 


Riiel  Whitcomb  remained  with  his  parents 
until  seventeen  years  old,  wlien  he  went  to 
Croydon  to  learn  the  Idacksniith's  trade.  lie 
served  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  with 
Dennisiin  linniphrey,  his  father  taking  his 
wages.  Having  mastered  the  trade,  he  fol- 
lowed it  for  two  years  as  a  journeyman,  and 
then  entered  a  .scythe  shop  in  Newport,  work- 
ing there  for  Larncd  &  Sibley  two  years.  In 
I1S49  Mr.  Whitcomb  came  to  New  London, 
cii)taining  a  situation  in  liie  scythe  factory  at 
.Scytlu'villc.  The  plant  had  then  been  estab- 
lisiiccl  but  a  few  years,  and  was  controlled  by 
Phillips,  Messer  &  Colby.  lie  took  a  posi- 
tion as  tempcrer,  and  remained  there  in  that 
capacity  forty  years,  during  which  period  the 
business  increased  so  that  the  force  of  men 
employed  was  enlarged  from  twent}'-four  to 
fifty.  In  the  meantime  there  were  various 
changes  in  the  firm  ;  and  at  the  disbandment 
of  the  organization  in  nSSq,  all  of  the  original 
mcmluMs  of  the  company  having  died,  his 
emplovers  were  N.  'I',  ("ireenwood  &  Sons. 
The  village,  which  was  once  quite  thriving,  is 
now  almost  deserted;  and  the  jjost-office,  in 
which  he  served  during  President  Cleveland's 
first  administration  as  Postmaster,  had  its 
name  changed  in  January,  1S96,  to  l^lkins. 
Mr.  Whitcoiub  has  always  been  a  stanch  Dem- 
ocrat, much  interested  in  his  party;  and  he 
has  attended  the  vai  ions  local  conventions 
since  a  young   man. 

Ml'.  Whitcomb  was  married  October  31, 
1 84 1,  to  Miss  Samantha  R.  Crosby,  of  Croy- 
don. She  died  some  eighteen  years  later, 
leaving  one  son,  Edwin  Kuel,  of  lilkins.  He 
married  Nellie  Dill,  of  Gardiner,  Me.  ;  and 
they  have  one  child,  Brainard  Edwin  Whit- 
comb. On  January  7,  i86g,  Mr.  Whitcomb 
was  married  to  Miss  Lucy  A.  Woodbury, 
daughter  of  Judge  John  and  Nancy  (Wells) 
Woodbury,    of   W'ilmot   Flat.       Judge    Wood- 


bury was  a  carpenter  by  occupation,  and  was 
one  of  the  leading  Democrats  of  his  town. 
He  served  in  the  State  legislature  four  years. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Whitcomb  have  one  child,  a 
daughter  —  Bcrnette  S. ,  who  is  an  accom- 
]3lished  musician,  having  taken  a  thorough 
course  of  study  in  music,  which  she  now 
teaches  with  much  success.  Mr.  Whitcomb 
and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Methodist 
I'4)iscopal  church  at  Wilmot. 


lL\KLi:S  O.  J'lASTMAX,  formerly 
the  Postmaster  of  Claremont,  was  born 
October  25,  1824,  in  Lisbon, 
N.H.,  one  of  the  seven  children  of  Nicholas 
and  Hannah  (Baker)  ICastman.  Until  he 
reached  the  age  of  twenty-one  years  he  re- 
mained with  his  ])arents,  receiving  his  educa- 
tion in  the  district  schools  and  the  Methodist 
Seminary  at  Newbury,  from  which  he  duly 
graduated.  After  leaving  the  seminary,  he 
taught  schotd  for  several  winters.  In  1845 
he  left  home  to  go  to  Windsor,  Vt.,  where  he 
remained  for  five  years.  Coming  to  Claremont 
in  1850,  he  was  first  employed  in  the  book- 
bindery  of  the  Claremont  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany. While  in  their  employ  he  was  at- 
tacked by  a  serious  illness,  from  which  he 
never  fully  recovered  during  the  ensuing 
thirty-five  years  of  his  life.  This  long  period 
was  one  of  patient  suffering  and  of  noble 
struggle  with  disease.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Republican  [larty.  In  1861  President 
Lincoln  appointed  him  Postmaster  of  Clare- 
mont. Having  entered  upon  the  duties  of  the 
office  on  June  17  of  the  same  year,  he  contin- 
ued to  serve  until  July  11,  1870,  a  term  of 
service  distinguished  by  marked  ability  and 
faithfulness.  He  is  spoken  of  as  having  been 
most  accommodating  and  exceptionally  fitted 
for  the  office.      Beginning  in  1S72,  he  by  care- 


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ful  and  honorable  methods  built  up  the  large 
and  profitable  business  of  the  Eastman  Insur- 
ance Agency,  which  is  so  widely  known. 
While  his  integrity  was  above  suspicion,  his 
agreeable  manners  made  many  friends  for  him. 
Then  his  judgment  was  greatly  trusted  by  the 
companies  he  represented,  and  he  became  one 
of  the  most  prominent  and  successful  insurance 
agents  of  Western  New  Hampshire.  He  was 
a  director  of  no  less  than  four  insurance  com- 
panies of  the  State,  and  he  was  regarded  as  a 
safe  and  wise  counsellor. 

To  quote  the  words  of  one  who  knew  him 
well,  Mr.  Eastman  was  "a  pronounced  and 
consistent  Methodist.  OLiiet  in  his  demon- 
strations, the  spiritual  and  temporal  welfare  of 
his  church  held  a  sacred  place  in  the  deeper 
recesses  of  his  heart."  In  his  seventeenth 
year  he  had  joined  the  Free  Baptist  church  at 
Lisbon;  but,  on  locating  at  Claremont,  he 
united  with  the  Methodist  church  there. 
He  was  for  thirty-si.x  years  the  secretary  of  the 
Methodist  Society,  and  for  twenty-one  years  its 
treasurer.  Also,  for  a  time  he  was  the  Secre- 
tary of  Claremont  Junction  Camp  Meeting 
Association.  His  accounts  bespoke  faithful- 
ness and  accuracy.  From  the  year  1864  he 
was  a  prominent  member  of  the  Masonic 
order.  October  4,  1893,  succumbing  at 
length  to  the  disease  which  had  so  long  made 
his  life  one  of  patient  suffering,  he  died  of 
cancer  at  his  home  in  Claremont.  He  left  to 
the  town  a  perpetual  fund,  amounting  to  three 
hundred  dollars,  one-half  of  the  annual  inter- 
est to  i)e  used  in  the  purchase  of  books  for  the 
town  library,  and  the  balance  for  the  purpose 
of  caring  for  the  family  monument  and  lot. 
He  also  willed  the  same  amount  to  Lisbon, 
N.  H.,  his  native  town,  to  be  used  in  the  keep- 
ing of  his  father's  monument  and  lot  in  good 
condition,  and  for  the  piu'chase  of  books  for 
the  town  library. 


On  February  25,  1849,  Mr.  Eastman  mar- 
ried Eleanor  Jane  Carroll,  daughter  of  John 
Prince  and  Rachel  (Powers)  Carroll,  then  liv- 
ing at  Cornish,  N.  H.  Her  father  was  a 
grandson  of  the  niece  of  Aquilla  Chase. 
Aquilla  Chase,  who  was  noted  for  his  wealth 
in  England,  fled  to  this  country  to  escape  per- 
secution. Mrs.  Eastman's  maternal  grand- 
father was  Ezekiel  Powers,  of  Croydon,  N.  H.  ; 
and  her  great-grandfather,  also  named  Ezekiel, 
was  one  of  the  original  settlers  of  Croydon. 
Her  parents  had  eight  other  children; 
namely,  Susan,  Saphronia,  Eliza,  Salena, 
Alonzo,  Amanda,  Lysander,  and  Rachel. 
Susan  married  J.  Wakefield;  Saphronia  mar- 
ried George  Stockwell,  of  Croydon;  Eliza 
married  Moody  Hook,  of  Cornish;  and  Salena 
married  Carnovas  Gage,  of  Enfield.  Alonzo, 
who  was  well  known  throughout  the  State, 
spent  an  active  life.  In  1868  he  entered  into 
business  at  Warner,  taking  his  son  Edward 
into  a  partnership  that  continued  for  twenty 
years.  Then  the  business  was  sold,  and  he 
afterward  had  charge  of  the  Winslow  House 
on  Mount  Kcarsarge  and  of  the  Kearsargc 
House  at  Warner.  An  outspoken  Republican, 
he  never  sought  political  honors;  and  he  was 
much  interested  in  the  welfare  of  his  town. 
His  reputation  was  that  of  a  man  of  high 
integrity  and  generous  impulses.  He  died 
April  21,  1S94,  leaving  a  widow  and  two  sons. 
The  former  before  marriage  was  a  Miss  Mar- 
garet Adams  of  Warner.  The  sons  are: 
Edward  II.  Carroll  and  Professor  Clarence  F. 
Carroll.  Professor  Carroll,  who  is  a  graduate 
of  Yale  College,  and  was  formerly  a  teacher  of 
the  Normal  School  at  New  Britain,  Conn.,  is 
now  the  .Suiierintendent  of  Schools  at  Worces- 
ter, Mass.  Alonzo  Carroll's  first  marriage 
was  contracted  with  Mercy  Hale.  Amanda 
married  John  (i.  Ih^ockway,  whose  son,  Di'.  I'"red 
Brockway,  is  Professor  of  Anatoni)'  in  the  Col- 


BIOGK  AI'IIICAI,    RF.VIF.W 


3'--'3 


Ic^a:  iif  T'liysiciniis  ami  .Siir^enns  in  New  York 
mill  a  writer  of  sumo  tlisliiiclion  on  anatomy, 
lie  was  tiic  lirst  Mouse  Surgeon  ol  tiie  Johns 
IIo|ikiii.s  liiispila]  al  Hailiniore,  I\I(1.,  having 
i)een  selected  lor  that  position  on  account  of 
his  ahility  and  sch(darsiii|).  He  is  thoroughly 
versed  in  iiis  profession.  To  increase  his 
knowledge  of  medicine  he  travelled  abroad 
and  studied  with  an  eminent  physician  in 
Scotland.  Colonel  Lysander  Carroll,  of  Con- 
cord, N.II.,  is  a  strong  and  inlluential  Repub- 
lican and  well  known  in  politics.  lie  held 
the  position  of  Postmaster  of  Concord  for  a 
nimibcr  of  years.  Rachel,  the  youngest  child, 
died  young. 

(sjYOII-^  !'■  HUNT,  a  prominent  farmer 
and  a  well-known  veteran  of  Mill,  was 
born  in  ]3orchestcr,  N.  H.,  January  S, 
iSjfi,  son  of  Jonathrui  and  Kliza  (Holmes) 
Hunt.  His  grandfather,  who  was  born  in 
Lexington,  Mass.,  kept  a  tavern  at  the  time 
Washington  took  command  of  the  Continental 
army.  Jonathan  Hunt  was  a  carriage-builder, 
and  also  kejit  a  lumber  wharf  at  East  Cam- 
bridge, Mass.,  until  the  Lowell  railroad  was 
built.  Pie  died  at  Hopkinton,  N.  PL,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-four  years.  He  first  married 
Hannah  Larkin,  of  Lexington,  Mass.  His 
second  wife,  in  maidenhood  Plliza  R.  Holmes, 
was  the  mother  of  John  H.  Hunt,  who  is  the 
only  child. 

As  his  father  was  living  in  blast  Cambridge 
during  his  son's  boyhood,  John  Plunt  obtained 
his  education  in  the  schools  of  that  town. 
After  leaving  school  he  went  to  sea,  and  when 
only  twenty-three  years  okl  he  was  master  of 
a  vessel.  Subsec[uently  for  five  years  he 
traded  on  the  east  and  west  coasts  of  Africa. 
During  Mr.  Hunt's  sea  life  he  had  some 
thrilling  experiences.  While  sailing  in  the 
.shij)    "United     States,"    Captain     Calvin    G. 


Worth,  the  shi|)  was  wrecked,  and  the  crew 
were  without  fooil  and  water  for  tw(j  days  and 
two  nights.  Pinaliy  they  succeeded  ii)  mak- 
ing a  landing  on  'J'ongataboo,  one  of  the 
P'riendly  Islands,  where  they  remained  three 
months.  They  then  went  to  Ivia,  another 
island  of  the  same  group,  and  were  at  length 
taken  off  by  a  ves.sel  and  landed  on  Van  Die- 
men's  Land,  where  for  four  months  Mr.  Hunt 
did  not  see  a  white  man.  On  another  occasion 
Mr.  Hiuit  incurred  the  displeasure  of  the 
British  government  by  assisting  the  political 
exile,  William  Smith  O'Hrien,  in  an  attempt  to 
escape  from  New  Zealand.  Nine  years  elapsed 
from  the  time  at  which  he  embarked  from 
l^oston  before  he  set  foot  in  that  city  again. 
During  that  period  he  was  sailing  vessels  on 
the  Pacific,  going  as  far  north  as  the  Sea  of 
Okhotsk  and  as  far  south  as  New  Zealand. 

At  length,  abandoning  the  sea,  Mr.  Plunt 
l)ecame  proprietor  of  a  store  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  which  he  kept  for  two  years.  Pie 
then  sold  out;  and  in  1858  he  bought  of  Sen- 
ator Austin  V.  Pike  a  farm  in  P'raiiklin, 
N.IP,  near  Shaw's  Corner.  When  the  Civil 
War  broke  out,  in  1861,  Mr.  Plunt  enlisted  as 
a  private  in  Company  A,  Captain  Sturtevant, 
of  the  P'ifth  New  Hampshire  Regiment. 
After  being  discharged  from  Davis  Island 
Plospital  on  November  23,  1862,  he  returned 
home  and  stayed  until  1863,  when  he  joined 
the  invalid  corps.  A  member  of  Comjiany  E, 
Thirteenth  Regiment,  he  was  assigned  for  a 
time  to  the  Beach  Street  barracks  in  Boston, 
and  also  served  in  the  Provost  Marshal's  office 
at  Concord,  Mass.,  receiving  his  final  dis- 
charge ill  August,  1865.  In  1863,  while  on  a 
furlough,  Mr.  Hunt  sold  his  farm  in  P'ranklin 
and  bought  the  Jonathan  Dickerson  place  in 
the  town  of  Hill,  near  the  Danbury  line. 
Having  repaired  the  buildings  on  the  property, 
he  has  since  made  it  his  home. 


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Mr.  Hunt  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  Harriet  N.  Hood  Hunt,  was  the 
mother  of  two  children  —  Elizabeth  C.  and 
Mary  P.  Elizabeth  married  Frank  P.  Hill, 
of  Portsmouth ;  and  Mary  is  the  wife  of 
George  L.  ]5atchelder  and  the  mother  of  two 
children  —  Willie  and  Ora  Bell.  The  present 
Mrs.  Hunt  was  Miss  Caroline  T.  Swett,  of 
Hill,  daughter  of  John  and  Sally  (Sargent) 
Swett.  In  politics  Mr.  Hunt  is  an  Indepen- 
dent. He  is  a  member  of  the  Nelson  Post, 
No.  40,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Bristol;  and  he  has  been 
Selectman  of  the  town  for  two  years.  His 
first  Presidential  vote  was  cast  in  1856  for 
James  Buchanan. 


/2)e()RGE  S.  bond,  a  manufacturer  of 
\J^  I  Charlestown,  was  born  in  that  town, 
March  2,  1837,  son  of  Silas  and 
Alice  (Abbot)  ]5ond.  His  grandfather,  Will- 
iam Bond,  who  was  born  in  Watertown,  Mass., 
at  the  age  of  twenty  years  came  to  Charles- 
town,  and  thereafter  carried  on  general  farm- 
ing during  the  remainder  of  his  active  life. 
One  of  his  si.\  children  was  Silas  Bond,  who 
married  Alice  Abbot,  and  also  was  the  father 
of  si.x  children,  including  the  subject  of  this 
sketch. 

George  S.  Bond  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  the  town.  At  the  age  of  seven 
years  his  father  died.  When  abnut  nine  years 
old  he  went  to  l-'all  River,  where  he  worked 
for  two  years.  After  his  return  to  Charles- 
town  he  worked  on  various  farms  in  Charles- 
town  and  Acworth  for  about  five  years.  lie 
subsec|ucntly  went  to  Ikockton,  Mass.,  learned 
the  shoe  finishing  business,  and  remained 
there  until  he  was  eighteen  years  of  age.  He 
then  went  to  Syracuse,  N.Y.,  where  he  worked 
at  his  trade  for  two  years.  In  1856  he  re- 
turned   to    Charlestown   and   took    up   the   tin 


smith  trade.  He  tiien  went  to  Putney,  Vt., 
where  he  worked  for  four  years.  In  1865  he 
bought  out  the  tin  store  of  VV.  B.  Downer, 
and  afterward  carried  it  on  for  fifteen  years. 
On  retiring  from  that  business,  he  bought  out 
the  violin  case  manufactory  that  had  been 
established  in  Charlestown.  There  was  but 
little  work  done  here  at  first,  and  he  employed 
but  one  man.  Subsequently  he  had  to  en- 
large the  place,  and  in  1893  he  had  forty  hands 
in  his  employment  and  was  using  a  fifty  horse- 
power engine.  In  that  year  the  factory  was 
burned.  I^leven  weeks  later  his  substantial 
new  factory  was  ready  for  business.  He  has 
now  a  si.xty  horse-power  engine,  and  he  em- 
ploys from  twenty-five  to  thirty-five  hands. 
The  factory  is  said  to  be  the  best  equipped  es- 
tablishment of  its  kind  in  the  world,  having 
a  capacity  of  twenty-four  dozen  violin  cases 
per  day.  Mr.  Bond  has  dealings  with  some 
of  the  largest  firms  in  this  country.  He  is 
also  interested  in  the  Charlestown  National 
Bank,  of  which  he  is  the  President.  The 
community  has  had  the  advantage  of  his  ser- 
vices on  the  School  Board  for  several  years. 
He  went  as  delegate  to  Concord  in  the  Consti- 
tutional Convention  in  1889.  A  prominent 
Mason  of  P'aithful  Lodge,  No.  13,  he  was  its 
Master  for  a  period  of  eight  years.  In  i860  he 
married  Mary  M.  Way  ;  and  they  have  one  son, 
Herbert.  That  he  is  now  one  of  the  solid 
men  of  Charlestown  is  almost  entirely  the 
result  of  his  perseverance  and  industry. 


fs^ACOB  N.  FLANDERS,  an  inflnential 
citizen  of  West  Concord,  N.  H.,  was 
born  on  the  estate  which  is  now  his 
home,  March  25,  1825,  son  of  Jacob  and  Hul- 
dah  (Abbott)  Flanders.  His  great-grand- 
father, Richard  l*"landers,  was  a  large  landed 
projirietor  of    Millville   and   ownei'  of  all    the 


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water- power  in  tliat  vicinity.  He  came  to 
Concord  in  the  latter  part  of  iiis  life,  and 
divided  liis  land  among  his  sons.  His  wife 
was  a  T'owler.  Ivicharcl's  son,  Riciiard,  Jr., 
was  a  mill  hand  and  a  farmer,  and  helped  in 
clearing  the  land  now  owned  by  his  grandson. 
The  first  crojis  had  to  be  stacked  in  the  open 
air  witlidut  shelter;  but  later  on  he  built  a 
barn,  and  his  sons  afterward  added  to  it.  He 
lived  to  be  ninety  years  old.  His  brother  was 
one  of  the  patriot  soldiers  wlm  fought  for 
freedom  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  Richard 
Inlanders,  Jr.,  married  Mary  Chandler  West, 
and  they  had  ten  children. 

Their  son,  Jacob,  father  of  Jacob  N.,  was 
educated  in  the  old  district  school  located  near 
the  pond ;  and  after  he  left  school  he  began 
farming.  His  life  of  fifty-one  years  was  spent 
at  the  family  homestead.  He  was  a  fife 
major  in  the  old  State  militia.  He  was  musi- 
cal, had  a  fine  strong  voice,  and  taught  sing- 
ing-school here  for  several  years.  His  wife, 
Huldah,  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Mary 
Story  Abbott,  of  Hopkinton,  N.  H.  She  be- 
came the  mother  of  five  children;  namely, 
Richard  M.,  Lucy  Ann,  Jacob  N.,  Samuel  A., 
and  William  H. 

Jacob  N.  is  the  only  one  of  these  children 
now  living.  He  passed  his  boyhood  and  youth 
on  his  father's  farm,  and,  like  many  another 
who  has  made  his  mark  in  the  world,  was  edu- 
cated in  the  district  schools.  Mr.  I*"landers 
has  a  farm  of  one  hundred  antl  forty-five  acres, 
and  does  a  prosperous  business  in  agricultural 
lines.  He  married  Almira  B.,  daughter  of 
Jonathan  C.  and  Mary  (Dimond)  Runnels. 
A  tlaugliter  Mary,  one  of  the  two  children  born 
to  them,  died  in  infancy.  The  surviving  child 
is  a  daughter  named  Lucie  Ann. 

Mr.  Flanders  has  given  much  time  to  the 
stutly  of  public  questions  and  to  the  affairs  of 
his  town.      He  is  well    informed  on  all  mailers 


of  general  interest,  and  his  native  qualifica- 
tions for  public  service  were  early  recf)gni/.ed. 
He  has  been  chosen  to  serve  as  .Selectman  for 
two  years,  as  Assessor  for  three  years,  and 
as  a  member  of  the  Common  Council  for  two 
years.  He  has  been  a  Highway  Surveyor  for 
five  yeans,  and  Clerk  of  the  School  Ui.strict 
for  thirty- five  years.  Here  he  has  made  a 
record  not  only  for  long  and  faithful  service, 
but  for  great  efficiency.  Mr.  ]''landers  is  a 
member  of  the  North  Congregational  Church 
of  Concord.  His  political  affiliations  arc 
with  the  Republican  party,  his  first  vote  for 
President  having  been  cast  for  Zachary  Taylor, 
the  Whig  candidate,  in  1848. 


ON.  GARDNER  BATCH KLDKR 
EMMONS,  a  successful  business 
man  of  Concord,  N.H.,  who  is  now 
serving  his  first  term  as  a  State  Senator,  was 
born  in  Bristol,  Grafton  County,  this  State, 
February  18,  1847,  son  of  Horace  M.  and 
Maria  (Batchelder)  luiimons.  The  paternal 
ancestors  have  been  identified  with  the  history 
of  Bristol,  N.H.,  for  at  least  one  hundred  and 
fifty  years;  while  the  Batchelders  have  been 
inhabitants  of  Reading,  Mass.,  about  two 
hundred  and  fifty  years. 

Gardner  15.  Emmons  attended  the  public 
schools,  of  Bristol  in  his  boyhood,  and  com- 
pleted his  course  of  study  in  New  Hampton 
Institute  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years.  For 
the  first  two  years  of  his  active  career  he  was 
employed  in  a  provision  store  in  Bristol,  com- 
ing thereafter  to  Concord.  He  subsequently 
established  himself  in  business  in  Tilton, 
N.H.  Returning  to  Concord  in  1871,  he  has 
since  been  engaged  in  the  meat  provision  busi- 
ness in  this  city.  He  is  half-owner  in  the 
Concord  Coal  Company,  a  Director  in  the 
Concord   Street   Railway  Company,  a  Trustee 


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in  the  Union  Guaranty  Saviny;s  Bank,  and  a 
Director  and  leading  sjiiiit  in  the  Concord 
Cattle  Company,  the  headquarters  of  which 
are  at  Miles  City,  Custer  County,  Mont. 

In  politics  Mr.  Emmons  is  a  stanch  Repub- 
lican. He  has  served  four  years  on  the  Board 
of  Aldermen,  and  in  i<S89  he  was  a  member  of 
the  House  of  Representatives  in  the  legislat- 
ure. In  the  fall  of  1896  he  was  nominated  by 
acclamation  for  State  Senator,  and  was  elected 
by  a  larger  majority  than  had  been  received  by 
any  of  his  predecessors.  Mr.  Emmons  is  a 
voter  in  Ward  Six,  which  has  not  been  repre- 
.sented  in  the  Senate  for  many  years. 

On  November  25,  1869,  Mr.  Emmons  was 
married  to  Sarah  Jane  Flanders,  of  Concord. 
By  this  union  there  have  been  four  children, 
three  of  whom  are  living:  Harry  G.,  a  dry- 
goods  merchant  in  this  city;  Oscar  F.,  who  is 
also  in  Concord;  and  Ilattie  S.  For  a 
quarter  of  a  century  Mr.  Emmons  has  been  a 
member  of  the  First  Baptist  Society,  and  for 
seven  years  he  has  served  as  a  Trustee  and  the 
Treasurer.  He  has  been  connected  with  the 
White  Mountain  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  I'".  He  is 
a  member  of  the  Wonalancet  Club,  the  leading 
social  organization  of  Concord. 


ALBERT  PEASLEE,  an  important 
factor  of  the  agricultural  and  business 
community  of  Bradford,  Merrimack 
County,  was  born  in  this  town,  on  the  farm 
that  he  still  owns,  December  14,  1S45.  His 
father,  John  I'easlee,  a  son  of  Samuel  Peaslee, 
was  a  lifelong  resident  of  Bradford.  He  was 
the  Representative  of  an  early  settled  family 
in  New  Hampshire,  and  one  whose  descentl- 
ants  are  numerous  in  Hillsborough  County, 
where,  in  the  town  of  I'elham,  they  have  an 
annual  gathering. 

John  Peaslee  settled  on  the  homestead   farm 


now  owned  by  his  son,  J.  Albert,  soon  after 
attaining  his  majority,  purchasing  at  first  I)ut 
ten  acres.  As  time  went  on  he  bought  other 
land,  made  valuable  improvements;  and  at  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  March,  1884,  at  the 
venerable  age  of  fourscore  and  four  years,  he 
hail  one  of  the  most  valuable  and  attractive  es- 
tates in  the  vicinity.  He  was  twice  married. 
His  first  wife  was  Chloe  Ma.xfield,  daughter  of 
Richard  Maxfield,  who  once  owned  the  village 
of  Bradford,  then  called  Fishersfield.  She 
ilied  leaving  two  sons  —  Oliver,  now  of  Brad- 
ford; and  William,  of  Amherst,  N.H.  —  and 
four  daughters,  namely:  Margaret,  wife  of 
Stillman  Parkhurst,  of  Bedford,  N.H.;  Minda, 
wife  of  B.  B.  Whiting,  of  Amherst;  Hannah, 
wife  of  Timothy  Morse,  of  Newbury,  this 
county;  and  Sally,  who  died  unmarried.  He 
subsequently  married  Mrs.  Betsey  Presby  Mar- 
shall, daughter  of  James  Presby  and  grand- 
daughter of  Captain  William  Presby,  the  first 
settler  in  Bradford.  Her  first  husband,  Silas 
Marshall,  left  her  a  widow  with  several  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  William  P.,  of  Boston; 
l^zekiel  H.,  also  of  Boston;  Kendall  W. ,  a 
former  resident  of  Bradford,  who  died  in  1892; 
Clara  M.  (deceased),  who  married  B.  W.  P'air- 
banks,  of  Manchester;  and  Elizabeth  M.  (de- 
ceased), who  was  the  wife  of  the  late  David 
Shattuck,  of  Cambridgeport,  Mass.  Of  John 
Peaslee's  second  union  there  was  but  one 
child,  J.  Albert,  the  special  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Mrs.  Betsey  P.  M.  Peaslee  survived 
her  husband  but  a  short  time,  dying  on  the 
home  farm  in  June,  1885,  aged  eighty-three 
years. 

J.  Albert  I'easlee  was  reared  on  his  father's 
farm,  which  he  began  managing  when  but 
twenty-one  years  old.  Some  years  later  his 
parents,  who  continued  to  live  with  him,  gave 
him  a  deed  of  the  estate.  In  his  early  mature 
life  he  s[)ent  one  year  in  Boston;   but  he  after- 


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ward  carried  on  the  old  home  until  1S78, 
when  he  look  charge  of  the  county  farm  at 
Nortii  Hoscavvcn,  just  after  the  old  l>uildings 
had  heen  destroyed  by  fire.  He  superintended 
the  erection  of  new  buildings,  and  remained 
there  four  yc;irs.  lie  was  then  elected  a 
County  Commissioner.  The  suiicrinteiident 
who  succeeded  him  at  the  county  farm  not 
proving  satisfactory,  he  was  asked  by  the 
Hoard,  of  which  lie  was  a  member,  to  again 
take  the  position.  lie  acconlingly  returned 
to  North  Hoscawen,  and  stayed  there  until  his 
term  of  office  as  Commissioner  had  expired. 
In  1885  he  went  back  to  the  ancestral  home- 
stead, where  he  was  actively  engaged  in  gen- 
eral farming,  dairying,  and  stock-raising, 
until  about  three  years  since,  when  he  removed 
to  the  village,  although  he  has  the  oversight 
of  his  farm  still,  lie  cuts  one  hundred  tons 
of  hay  each  year,  and  kee[)s  from  forty  to  fifty 
cows,  raising  his  own  "stock  Ironi  thorough- 
bred llolsteins,  which  he  was  the  first  to  in- 
troiluce  into  the  town.  This  farm  is  particu- 
larly well  adapted  to  cultivation,  being  well 
watered  and  remarkably  free  from  rocks,  his 
father  having  been  obliged  to  haul  the  stones 
used  in  building  twenty-five  hundred  rods  of 
wall  the  distance  of  a  mile. 

The  Bradford  and  Newbury  b'air  Associa- 
tion has  held  its  annual  fairs  on  his  farm  since 
1S75,  fifty  acres  lying  in  a  valley,  about  one 
and  one-half  miles  west  of  the  village,  being 
a[>|)ropriate(l  to  its  use.  These  grounds,  of 
which  Mr.  Peaslee  is  the  superintendent  and 
treasurer,  are  well  improved,  having  fine 
stables,  water  -  works,  a  three-story  grand 
stand,  and  a  half-mile  regulation  track,  the 
whole  being  one  of  the  best  and  most  complete 
fair  grounds  in  the  State.  Colonel  Tajipan, 
President  of  the  Association  the  first  twelve 
years,  was  one  of  the  prime  movers  in  secur- 
ing this  advantageous  location,  working  for  it 


in  company  with  Alburton  I'easlee,  Albert  Jj. 
ICaton,  and  John  h'armer.  Hiram  Cheney,  its 
second  President,  held  the  ofiTice  si.x  years, 
and  was  then  succeeded  by  Jonathan  Rowe,  of 
Newbury,  who  is  now  holding  the  oflTice.  The 
first  twenty  years  this  was  a  free  fair;  but  of 
late  years  all  excepting  exhibitors  have  been 
charged  an  admission  fee,  and  no  premiums 
have  been  given,  though  a  few  awards  arc 
made  each  year.  These  fairs,  usually  held 
the  last  of  September,  draw  people  from  miles 
around,  being  the  event  of  the  season,  the  vis- 
itors numbering  from  three  thousand  to  seven 
thousand.  There  is  always  a  fine  exhibition 
of  fancy  stock,  and  in  1896  si.xty-three  trotters 
were  entered. 

Mr.  Peaslee  has  served  as  Selectman  several 
terms,  having  been  Chairman  of  the  Hoard 
part  of  the  time.  He  has  also  been  a  member 
of  the  School  Board,  and  has  held  every  other 
township  office,  including  that  of  Moderator, 
in  which  position  he  has  served  some  twelve 
years.  In  1S85  he  represented  the  town  in  the 
legislature,  serving  on  the  Committee  on 
Roads  and  Bridges,  and  on  Appropriations. 
He  is  the  Bradford  representative  of  the  Mer- 
rimack County  Fire  Insurance  Company,  and 
for  twenty-five  years  has  been  Justice  of  the 
Peace.  lie  is  an  active  politician,  supporting 
the  principles  of  the  Democratic  party,  attend- 
ing all  campaign  meetings,  where  he  not  infre- 
quently makes  neat  little  speeches.  He  was 
made  a  Mason  in  .St.  Peter's  Lodge,  l*".  & 
A.  M.,  thirteen  years  ago,  and  has  for  some 
time  been  its  Secretary.  He  is  a  fine  musi- 
cian, has  been  a  member  of  the  church  choir 
since  a  boy,  and  is  often  asked  to  sing  at 
funerals. 

On  November  22,  1871,  ^Ir.  Peaslee  mar- 
ried Maria  R.  Smith,  who  was  born  in  New 
London,  N.H.,  November  24,  1841.  Her 
father,  Ira  Smith,  was  born   in   New  London, 


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January  i6,  1799;  and  he  there  married  June 
27,  1S22,  Amanda  Dow,  who  was  born  in  New 
London,  September  21,  1799.  In  1862  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Smith  settled  in  the  village  of  Brad- 
ford, where  his  death  occurred  a  few  years 
later,  August  i,  1S67,  and  hers,  August  2, 
1883.  Of  their  four  children  Mrs.  Peaslee  is 
the  only  survivor.  Her  brother  James  F.,  a 
boot  and  shoe  dealer,  died  in  Woonsocket, 
R.I.,  at  the  age  of  fifty-two  years;  her  sister, 
Mary  E.,  died  at  the  age  of  thirty,  unmarried; 
and  her  brother  Nahum  W. ,  who  was  prin- 
cipal of  the  high  school  in  Woonsocket,  R.I., 
died  there  when  but  twenty-four  years  of  age. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peaslee  have  had  one  daughter, 
Lura  AL  Peaslee.  She  was  born  March  12, 
1874,  and  died  F"ebruary  10,  1897,  at  the  age 
of  nearly  twenty-three  years.  She  was  a 
young  lady  of  an  unusually  gentle  and  lovely 
character,  and  the  high  esteem  and  love  in 
which  she  was  held  were  testified  to  by  the 
large  number  of  her  acquaintances,  both  old 
and  young,  who  paid  their  last  respects  by 
attendance  at  her  funeral,  and  by  the  kindly 
visits  of  sympathizing  friends  at  the  home. 


MOS  RICHARDSON,  an  influential 
resident  of  Cornish,  was  born  here, 
November  27,  18 17,  son  of  Amos 
and  Sophia  (Cummings)  Richardson.  He  is 
a  descendant  of  Dr.  Amos  Richardson,  who 
was  a  physician  of  note  in  Pelham,  N.H.  Dr. 
Amos's  son,  Joseph,  was  grandfather  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch.  Joseph's  children  were: 
Miriam,  Joseph,  David,  Josiah,  Sarah,  Mercy, 
Rebecca,  and  Amos.  Miriam,  now  deceased, 
was  the  wife  of  Joshua  Wyman,  of  Pelham, 
and  the  mother  of  seven  children;  Joseph  mar- 
ried Polly  Hilliard,  of  Cornish,  and  had  a 
family  of  twelve  children;  David,  now  de- 
ceased, married  Sarah  l'"ord,  and  was  the  father 


of  seven  children;  Josiah,  wb.o  was  unmar- 
ried, is  deceased;  Sarah  marrieil  John  Ilug- 
gins,  and  is  now  deceased ;  Mercy,  who  mar- 
ried Aaron  Hibbard,  had  no  children,  and  is 
now  deceased;  Rebecca,  who  never  married, 
lived  to  be  eighty-two  years  of  age. 

Amos  Richardson,  Sr. ,  a  native  of  Pelham, 
born  in  November,  1785,  moved  to  Cornish 
with  his  parents  when  only  four  years  of  age. 
After  finishing  his  education,  which  was  ob- 
tained in  the  town  schools,  he  went  to  Massa- 
chusetts; but  after  a  while,  at  the  urgent  re- 
quest of  his  parents,  he  came  back  to  carry  on 
the  farm,  the  present  homestead  of  his  son. 
He  was  very  prominent  in  the  town,  and  was 
much  interested  in  town  affairs.  He  was  Tax 
Collector  for  a  number  of  years,  also  Select- 
man ;  and  he  was  a  candidate  for  the  legislat- 
ure. In  politics  he  was  a  Federalist.  Of  a 
religious  disposition,  he  was  Deacon  of  the 
Baptist  church  for  many  years.  He  married 
Sophia  Cummings,  who  bore  him  eight  chil- 
dren—  Sarah,  Amos,  Louisa,  William, 
George,  Cummings,  Cordelia,  and  Charlotte. 
Sarah  is  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  Jonathan  Her- 
rick,  of  Troy,  N.H.  Louisa  is  deceased. 
William  served  in  the  Civil  War,  and,  while 
on  his  way  home,  died  of  sickness  in  New 
York  City.  George,  Cordelia,  and  Cum- 
mings are  also  deceased.  Cummings  was  in 
California  when  he  died. 

After  receiving  his  early  education  in  the 
schools  of  the  town  and  in  Kimball  Academy, 
Amos  Richardson,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
studied  in  the  medical  department  of  Dart- 
mouth College  for  about  two  years.  Later  he 
abandoned  the  study  of  medicine  and  began 
teaching.  Afterward  he  went  to  I^'lorida,  and 
entered  a  mercantile  business,  remaining  there 
for  a  number  of  years.  From  P'lorida  he  re- 
turned to  the  homestead  on  learning  that  his 
parents'  health  was  failing,  and  he  lias  resided 


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there  since.  Mr.  Richardson  at  once  tooiv  a 
prominent  place  anioni;'  the  citizens  of  his  na- 
tive town,  anil  is  still  Ui  lie  lunnd  at  the  Front 
in  all  movements  for  jjrogress  or  reform.  He 
has  heen  Town  Treasurer  of  Cornish.  His 
unqnestionahle  intej,nity  and  many  amiable 
(|ualities  have  trained  for  him  not  only  a  large 
circle  of  personal  friends,  hnl  the  confidence 
of  the  business  community.  He  attends  the 
Haptist  church,  and  is  an  active  h'ree  Mason, 
an  Otld  l'\  lliiw,  and  a  member  of  the  grange. 

Mr.  Richardson  has  been  twice  married. 
His  first  wife,  -Salome  Richardson,  bore  him 
two  children  -— Sidney  K.  and  l''nink.  The 
present  Mrs.  Richardson  was  before  her  mar- 
riage Sarah  J.  Hilliard.  She  is  the  mother  of 
three  children  —  Fred  11.,  Flora,  and  Nellie. 
Sidney  Richardson,  b(irn  June  2g,  iiS46,  was 
educated  in  the  town  schools  and  at  Kimball 
Academy.  After  leaving  school  he  learned 
the  machinist's  trade  at  Lebanon,  N.H.,  and 
worked  at  that  until  his  health  gave  out.  He 
then  had  charge  of  the  toll  bridge  at  Windsor, 
Vt.,  for  four  years.  After  that  he  bought  the 
laini  where  he  is  now  living.  He  was  in  the 
late  war  for  two  years;  and,  like  so  many  of 
the  brave  men  who  risked  their  lives  in  de- 
fence of  the  Union,  he  came  back  with  shat- 
tered health.  b'or  the  past  nine  years  he  has 
been  Ta.x  Collector.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Army  and  the  grange,  and  has  held 
offices  in  these  orders.  He  married  Ella 
Sturtcvant,  and  has  two  children  —  Henry  and 
Charles.  Henry,  born  September  19,  1873, 
at  l^randon,  Vt.,  was  educated  at  Kimball 
Acatlemy  and  in  Dartmouth  C(dlege.  He  is 
now  a  teacher  of  the  high  school  at  VValpoIe, 
N.H.,  and  a  very  popular  young  man  in  that 
town.  Charles,  born  May  9,  1886,  is  still  in 
school,  b'rank,  the  second  son  of  Mr.  Amos 
Richanlson,  was  in  California  for  a  number  of 
years,  and  is  now  with  his  father   carrying  on 


the  extensive  farm.  I'rcd  H.,  another  son, 
born  (Jctober  1,  1859,  niarrietj  (jertrude 
ilaven,  and  is  one  of  the  officials  of  the  .Stale 
Prison  at  Windsor,  Vt.  l'"lora,  born  in  i8f5i, 
died  in  1886.  Nellie  is  the  wife  of  Kliner  li. 
York,  a  successful  school  teacher  of  Cornish. 


fffjYAMI'.S  !■:.  J5ARNAK1J  is  a  lawyer  of 
pmminence  at  I'Vanklin,  N.II.,  his  na- 
tive place.  He  was  born  on  January 
29,  1863,  son  of  the  Hon.  Daniel  and  Amelia 
(Morse)  Barnard. 

His  father,  Daniel  liarnard,  was  born  Janu- 
ary 23,  1827,  in  Orange,  N.H.  Naturally  of 
a  studious  turn  of  mind,  as  a  youth  he  attended 
the  academy  in  winter,  and  worked  on  his 
father's  farm  in  the  summer  months.  He  sub- 
sequently taught  school  in  different  counties 
of  New  Ham[)shire.  In  1851  he  began  to  read 
law  with  the  Hon.  George  W.  Nesmith,  and 
in  1854  he  became  junior  partner  in  a  law  firm 
with  the  Hon.  Austin  F.  I'ike.  Mr.  Nesmith 
retired  from  active  business  in  1863;  and  Mr. 
Barnard  withdrew  from  the  connection  he  had 
formed,  and  started  out  for  himself  at  Frank- 
lin, where  he  had  a  large  practice  for  over 
thirty  years.  In  1860-62  he  was  State  Repre- 
sentative, in  1S65-66  I'resident  of  the  State 
Senate,  1870-71  member  of  the  Governor's 
Council,  in  1872  he  was  a  member  of  the  Re- 
publican Committee  that  met  in  convention  at 
Philadelphia,  I'a.,  in  1867  he  was  County  So- 
licitor, and  in  1872  he  was  re-elected  to  that 
position.  He  was  a  Trustee  of  the  Franklin 
Savings  Hank,  and  was  a  Director  and  also 
Vice-Fresident  of  the  Franklin  National  Hank 
of  Franklin  Falls.  He  was  appointed  At- 
torney General  in  1887,  and  held  the  office 
until  his  death.  His  reputation  as  a  lawyer 
was  very  high,  and  he  was  identified  with  all 
the  leading  enterprises  in  Franklin.     He  and 


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his  wife  were  tlie  parents  of  seven  cliildren: 
William  M. ;  Emma  S.  ;  Mary  A.;  James  E., 
the  subject  of  this  article;  Daniel,  Jr.,  who 
died  in  infancy;  Charles  Daniel;  and  Frank 
E.  The  first-born,  William  M.,  was  gradu- 
ated at  Dartmouth  College  in  1S76,  and  was 
for  many  years  in  partnership  with  his  father 
in  a  law  office.  He  died  in  1S86,  aged  thirty 
years.  Emma  S.  became  the  wife  of  Captain 
Samuel  Pray,  of  Newtonville,  Mass.,  formerly 
commander  of  a  vessel  and  now  a  commission 
merchant.  Mary  A.  married  Fred  H.  Daniell, 
superintendent  of  the  Sulloway  Hosiery  Mills 
in  Franklin.  Charles  D.  married  Jennie  An- 
derson, and  is  a  real  estate  dealer  in  Chicago, 
111.  Frank  E.  is  a  lawyer  in  Boston,  Mass., 
and  has  an  office  in  the  Globe  Building.  The 
Hon.  Daniel  Barnard  died  January  10,  1892; 
and  his  widow,  Mrs.  Amelia  M.  Barnard,  sur- 
vives him,  making  her  home  among  her  chil- 
dren. 

James  E.  Barnard  was  fitted  for  college  at 
the  Franklin  High  School,  and  took  a  two 
years'  course  at  Dartmouth,  receiving  his  de- 
gree in  1886.  He  then  went  on  a  sea  voyage 
to  Australia,  China,  and  the  East,  being  away 
for  two  years.  This  greatly  improved  his 
health;  and  on  his  return  he  engaged  in  the 
Franklin  National  Bank  as  General  Assistant, 
where  he  remained  about  two  years.  For  one 
year  after  that  he  was  in  the  National  Bank  of 
the  Republic  in  Boston;  but  at  the  time  of 
his  brother's  death  he  returned  home,  and 
commenced  to  read  law  with  his  father. 
Later  on  he  attended  f^oston  University  Law 
School.  He  was  graduated  in  1890,  admitted 
to  the  bar  in  July,  1890,  and  began  practice 
with  his  father.  He  continued  thus  until  his 
father's  death,  and  since  that  time  he  has  car- 
ried on  the  business  by  himself.  He  is  agent 
for  several  fire  and  life  insurance  companies. 
Mr.  ]5arnard  is   connected  with    tiie    l^piscopal 


church,  and  is  a  member  of  the  following  Ma- 
sonic societies:  Meridian  Lodge,  No.  60,  F. 
&  A.  M.,  and  St.  Omer  Chapter,  No.  22, 
R.  A.  M.,  in  Franklin;  Mount  Horeb  Com- 
mandery,  K.  T.,  at  Concord,  N.H.;  also  Ed- 
ward A.  Raymond  Consistory  at  Nashua,  in 
which  he  has  taken  the  thirty-second  degree. 
He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pyth- 
ias, St.  Andrew's  Lodge,  No.  21,  of  Franklin. 
He  is  clerk  of  the  Franklin  Library  Asso- 
ciation and  of  the  Odell  Band,  is  President 
of  the  Franklin  Republican  Club,  Justice  of 
the  Peace,  and  Notary  Public.  In  March, 
1893,  he  was  appointed  Justice  of  the  Police 
Court  of  Franklin,  which  position  he  still 
holds. 

Mr.  Barnard  was  married  June  18,  1 891,  to 
Maude  Redwood,  of  Fort  Wayne,  Ind.  She  is 
the  daughter  of  P'rederick  Redwood,  a  former 
mill  superintendent  at  Andover,  Mass.,  and 
was  born  July  14,  1864.  Mr.  Barnard  is  one 
of  the  leading  young  men  of  P'ranklin,  and 
promises,  like  his  father,  to  make  his  mark  in 
the  world. 


'p^AJOR  HH^AM  FIFIELD  GER- 
RISH,  of  Concord,  N.H.,  the  pres- 
ent Deputy  State  Treasurer,  was 
born  in  Boscawen,  N.  H.,  September  27,  1839. 
His  parents,  Calvin  and  Ann  S.  (Fifield)  Ger- 
rish,  were  both  lifelong  residents  of  Merri- 
mack County.  Major  Gerrish  is  a  descendant 
of  Colonel  Henry  Gerrish,  one  of  the  early 
residents  of  Boscawen,  who  was  an  officer  dur- 
ing the  war  of  the  Revolution,  serving  as 
Lieutenant-Colonel  in  Colonel  Stickny's 
regiment,  and  was  present  at  the  battles  of 
Bennington  and  Saratoga.  Colonel  Gerrish 
was  one  of  the  leading  citizens  of  his  town 
and  State,  holding  many  positions  of  trust 
and  responsibility,  being  conspicuously  iden- 
tified witli  i>uhlic  alfairs  in  the  early  history  of 


HIRAM     F.    GERRISH. 


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3^3 


the  State,  llis  son  Jacob  was  for  many  years 
a  well-known,  public-spirited  citizen  of  the 
town  and  a  large  land-owner.  Calvin  Ger- 
rish,  the  father  of  Major  Gerrish,  was  a  farmer 
and  mechanic,  and  was  at  one  time  promi- 
nently connected  with  the  State  militia.  He 
died  January  31,  1890. 

Major  Gerrish   attended  the  public   schools 
at  I-'ranklin,  I'enacook,  and  Concord,  but  at  the 
age  of  fifteen  entered  the  employ  of  the  Con- 
curd  Railroad,  continuing  thus   engaged   until 
the  breaking  out  of  the  war,  when  he  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  Company  B  of  the  Second  New 
Hampshire    Regiment,    then    commanded     by 
General    Gilman    Marston,    and    was    mustered 
into    service    in    June,     1861.       November    3, 
1861,  he  was  rclicvetl  from  duty  with  his  regi- 
ment, and  placed  on   detached  service  at   the 
headquarters  of  General  Joseph  Hooker,  Com- 
mander of  the  Second  Division,  Third  Corps, 
where   he   remained   until   after  the  battle  of 
Gettysburg,    when    he    was    ordered    to    Point 
Lookout,    Maryland.      The  May  following  he 
was  appointed  a   Lieutenant,  and   assigned  to 
duty  on   the  staff  of  General    1^.    A.    Hincks, 
going  from  Point  Lookout   to   City    Point,  Va. 
In  June  of  the  same  year  he  was  appointed  As- 
sistant Chief  Quartermaster  and   Aide  on   the 
staff    of    Major-general    W.    H.    Smith,    then 
commanding    the    Eighteenth    Army    Corps, 
Army  of  the  James.     Upon  the  reorganization 
of  that  army  he  was  appointed  to  the  same  po- 
sition on  the  staff  of  the  Twenty-fourth  Corps, 
with   the    rank    of    Captain.     The   corps    was 
commanded  in  turn  by  Major-generals  E.  O.  C. 
Ord,  John  Gibbons,  and  Godfrey  Weitzel,  all 
of   wdiom   are   now   dead.      Major    Gerrish    re- 
mained on  this  staff  until  after  Lee's  surrender 
at  Appomattox,  when  he   brought   the   flags   of 
the  surrendered  army  to   Richmond,    Va.      He 
was  brevetted   Major,  and  was   soon   after  pro- 
moted to  the  full  rank  of   Major,  and   assigned 


to  duty  on  the  staff  of  Major-general  Charles 
Devens,  then  in  command  of  the  Department 
of  North-eastern  Virginia,  and  was  stationed 
at  Fredericksburg,  Va.  In  August,  1865,  he 
was  mustered  out  of  the  army.  During  his 
term  of  service  he  was  at  the  battle  of 
the  first  Bull  Run,  Fredericksburg,  Malvern 
Hill,  Chancellorsvillc,  Gettysburg,  Fort  Har- 
rison, Petersburg,  and  at  Appomattox,  and  was 
in  many  other  minor  engagements.  With  one 
exception  his  promotions  came  from  recom- 
mendations made  by  Major-generals  of  the 
regular  army  with  whom  he  served.  After 
the  surrender  at  Appomattox  he  was  placed  in 
charge  of  the  railroad  from  that  place  to  I'arm- 
villc,  and  kept  busy  bringing  the  sick  and 
wounded  to  the  latter  place  and  carrying  sup- 
plies to  the  front. 

In  1866  Major  Gerrish  returned  to  New 
Hampshire,  and  was  employed  here  and  in 
Massachusetts  in  railroad  offices,  going  there- 
after to  Texas.  In  18S0  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  John  A.  White  Machine  Company 
of  Concord,  remaining  ten  years.  In  June, 
1 89 1,  he  was  appointed  Deputy  State  Treas- 
urer, which  position  he  still  holds.  In  poli- 
tics he  is  a  Republican.  On  August  26, 
1865,  at  Concord,  he  was  married  to  Edith  A. 
Eaton,  of  Concord.  They  have  had  four  chil- 
dren, only  one  of  whom  is  living,  Blanche 
May  Gerrish. 

ENRY  GUY  CARLETON,  of  New- 
port, N.H.,  President  of  the  New- 
port Savings  Bank,  a  position  which 
he  has  held  more  than  twenty  years,  is  a 
printer  by  trade,  and  was  for  a  period  of  about 
forty  years  one  of  the  editors  and  publishers 
of  the  XcTu  Hampshire  Argus  and  Spectator  at 
Newport,  N.  H.,  the  firm  name  being  Carleton 
&  Harvey.  He  has  held  the  office  of  Regis- 
ter of  Deeds  and  of   Probate  for  the  County  of 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


Sullivan,  and  has  been  a  member  of  the  legis- 
lature. He  was  elected  a  Director  of  the  First 
National  Bank  of  Newport  at  its  first  annual 
meeting  after  its  organization  in  January, 
1854,  and  has  been  annually  re-elected  since 
that  year,  a  period  of  more  than  forty-six 
years.  We  are  indebted  to  this  gentleman,  an 
active-minded  octogenarian  with  a  wealth  of 
memories,  having  been  born  in  1S13,  who 
takes  an  intelligent  interest  in  genealogical 
matters,  for  the  following  carefully  jjrepared 
sketch  of  the  Carleton  family,  the  facts,  he 
says,  being  mostly  derived  from  Iliram  Carle- 
ton,  formerly  of  Montpelier,  Vt.,  a  graduate 
of  the  U.  Vt. ,  lawyer.  State's  attorney, 
Judge  of  Probate,  and  President  of  Vermont 
Historical  .Society;  and  Mrs.  Augusta  II. 
Worth  in,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  a  devoted  searcher 
of  family  history.  The  name  of  Carleton  is  a 
variation  of  "de  Corlarton. "  This  would 
seem  to  indicate  a  French  origin  about  four 
hundred  and  fifty  years  ago.  The  emigrant 
ancestor  and  first  of  the  name  in  New  ling- 
land  was  luhvard  Carleton,  born  in  England  in 
1600.  He  was  of  the  company  of  the  Rev. 
Ezckiel  Rogers,  and  settled  in  Rowle}',  Mass., 
in  1639,  was  made  freeman  in  i''>43,  was 
member  of  the  General  Court  several  years, 
and  returned  to  England  before  1656.  On  the 
pages  of  history  ajipear  the  names  of  Dudley 
Carleton,  the  English  Ambassador  to  Ger- 
many, who  was  created  Viscount  Dorchester, 
and  of  Sir  Guy  Carleton,  Governor  of  Canada, 
who  was  in  command  of  the  British  forces 
when  Generals  Arnold  and  Montgomery  made 
their  attack  upon  Quebec,  where  the  brave 
Montgomer)'  fell,  the  American  army  then 
being  driven  out  of  Canarla.  After  the  defeat 
of  tlu!  Prilish  army  at  ^'orktown,  Va.,  in 
1 78 1,  the  last  battle  of  the  Revolution,  he  was 
appointed  Commander-in-chief  of  the  ]5ritish 
arm}-,  to  jneiiare   the  way  for  a  treaty  of  peace. 


He  was  created   Lord    Dorchester,  and   ilied  in 
England  in  1808. 

John  Carleton,  son  of  Edward,  born  in  Eng- 
land about  1630,  was  sent  to  America  by  his 
father  to  settle  up  his  affairs,  as  he  was  a  man 
of  property.  He  settled  in  Haverhill,  Mass., 
in  1661,  and  after  holding  several  important 
positions  in  that  town  died  January  22,  166K. 
P'rom  him  have  descended  nearly  all  by  the 
name  of  Carleton  in  New  lingland.  He  had 
four  sons  —  John,  Jr.,  Joseph,  Edward,  and 
Thomas.  The  last-named,  Thomas,  born  in 
1667,  died  in  1734,  lived  in  Bradford,  Mass., 
and  had  four  sons  —  Thomas,  George,  Ebene- 
zer,  and  John.  The  latter  was  the  great- 
grandfather of  the  writer  of  this  sketch.  He 
was  born  July  29,  170S,  and  lived  in  Brad- 
ford and  Haverhill,  Mass.,  until  1759,  when 
he  purchased  or  built  the  mills  in  Billerica, 
now  North  Billerica,  where  the  large  woollen- 
mills  in  that  town  now  stand.  He  married 
Hannah  Piatt.  Their  children  were:  Eliza- 
beth, born  November  24,  1733,  who  married 
Thomas  Todd;  Hannah,  born  .September  i, 
1736,  married  Thomas  Laws;  John,  born  May 
10,  1738;  Lydia,  born  May  26,  1740;  Solo- 
mon, born  June  26,  1742;  Amos,  born  March 
13,  1744;  Anna,  born  December  i,  1746; 
Moses,  born  September  13,  1749;  and  Na- 
than, baptized  August  22,   1754. 

Moses,  the  fourth  son  of  John  and  Hannah, 
married  January  15,  1771,  Margaret  Sprague. 
She  tiled  July  7,  1782.  He  married  second 
Sybil  Shedd,  widow  of  Reuben  Shedd.  The 
children  by  the  first  wife  were:  Moses,  born  in 
1771;  Sybil,  born  May  18,  1773;  Nicholas, 
born  Decembci-  13,  1774;  and  Henr)',  born 
July  10,  1778.  I  leniy  Carleton,  son  of  Moses 
and  Margaret  (Sprague)  Carleton,  married 
first  Polly  Greeley,  born  July  17,  1786;  and 
after  her  death,  which  occurred  December  3, 
1842,    he    married     in    Januar)',    1846,     Polly 


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3'S 


Tlionipsnii.  lie  died  January  27,  1S64.  The 
followiii};  is  a  lecorci  of  liis  ciiildrcn,  wlio  were 
all  i)y  his  first  wife:  Sylvia,  hmii  Septemher 
30,  iSo.S,  died  January  2,  1892.  Joseph  G., 
Ixirn  May  24,  1812,  died  May  29,  1885. 
ilcni)  (Iiiy  was  horn  in  Hucksport,  Me.,  No- 
vendicr  ^o,  i.S'13.  Mary  II.,  born  l-'ehruary  4, 
iSiC),  died  March  28,  18S9.  Margaret,  born 
September  20,  1817,  married  May  10,  1842, 
Georj^c  Alfred  I'illsbury.  The  Margaret 
rillsbmy  Hosjiital  in  Concord,  N.ll.,  takes 
its  name  from  her,  being  a  gift  of  her  husband 
to  the  city  of  Concord.  lie  also  gave  a 
librar)'  building  to  the  town  of  Warner,  N.II., 
and  a  soldiers'  monument  to  Sutton,  N.II., 
his  native  town.  Sarah,  born  January  13, 
1820,  married  Solomon  Searlcs,  had  no  chil- 
dren, and  tlied  January  21,  1S93.  John, 
born  I'ebruary  5,  1822,  who  died  February  12, 
1890,  married,  and  had  two  children  —  Emma 
and  l{va.  Charles  C. ,  born  April  14,  1826, 
died  May  10,  1830.  Sylvia,  Joseph,  and  Mary 
never  married. 

Henry  Guy  Carleton,  born  November  30, 
1813,  son  of  Henry  and  Polly  (Greeley)  Carle- 
ton,  married  December  12,  1848,  Miss  Han- 
nah E.  French.  She  was  born  P'ebruary  18, 
1827,  and  died  June  11,  1856.  He  married 
second  on  July  3,  i860,  Mrs.  Mary  J.  Nel- 
son, born  February  10,  1834.  The  children 
by  the  first  marriage  were:  Frank  Henry, 
born  October  8,  1849;  and  George  I'rench 
Carleton,  born  October  18,  1853,  who  died 
March    5,    1855. 

l""rank  II.  Carlett)n  is  a  graduate  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  was  a  clerk  for  a  number  of 
years  of  the  Municipal  Court  of  St.  Paul, 
Minn.,  was  private  secretary  to  Governor 
I'illsbury  of  that  State,  and  was  Assistant  City 
Solicitor  of  Minneapolis.  He  is  now  a  mem- 
ber of  the  successful  law  firm  of  Cross,  Hicks, 
Carleton  &  Cross,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.      He 


married  March  24,  1881,  Nellie  Jone.s.  His 
children  are:  Edwin  Jones  Carleton,  born  April 
15,  1883;  Henry  Guy  Carleton,  born  March 
21,  1885;  Ge(jrge  A.  Carleton,  born  April  24, 
1888;  Frank  H.  Carleton,  Jr.,  born  January 
21,  1893;  and  Fred  P.  Carleton,  born  August 
29,   1896. 

There  are  others  of  the  Carleton  name  who 
arc  connected  with  the  above.  Among  the 
number  was  Captain  Osgood  Carleton,  who 
had  the  reputation  of  being  a  great  lunar  navi- 
gator and  who  wrote  a  book  upon  navigation; 
also  Will  Carleton,  the  poet.  The  name  has 
a  good  record. 

fs^OIIN  W.  SEVERANCE,  a  prominent 
resident  of  Chichester,  Merrimack 
Count)',  and  an  ex-member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  legislature,  was  born  February  3, 
1822,  in  Sandwich,  Carroll  County,  which  was 
also  the  birthplace  of  his  parents,  Asa  and 
Rhoda  (Webster)  Severance.  His  great- 
grandfather, liphraim  Severance,  was  one  of 
the  pioneer  farmers  of  that  town,  having  gone 
there  from  Deerfield,  N.II. 

John  Severance,  son  of  Ephraim  and  grand- 
father of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  life- 
long resident  of  Sandwich.  He  was  an  able 
farmer  and  possessed  considerable  mechanical 
ingenuity,  which  he  applied  to  various  kinds 
of  handicraft.  He  took  a  leading  part  in  pub- 
lic affairs  as  a  supporter  of  the  Whig  party, 
aTid  served  as  Tax  Collector  for  sixteen  consec- 
utive years.  He  married  Lydia  Jewell,  and 
had  twelve  children.  The  only  survivor  of 
the  family  is  James  M.,  who  resides  in  Bos- 
ton. His  wife,  Adeline  Randall,  died  leav- 
ing four  children  —  Eliza,  Nancy,  Alonzo, 
and  Waldo.  John  Severance  died  at  the  age 
of  seventy-three,  but  his  wife  lived  to  be 
eighty  years  old.  They  were  members  of  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


Asa  Severance,  son  of  John  and  father  of 
John  W.  Severance,  was  reared  to  agricultural 
pursuits;  and  when  a  young  man  he  bought  a 
farm  adjoining  the  parental  homestead.  He 
displayed  an  ability  which  foreshadowed  a  suc- 
cessful future;  but  his  prosperous  career  was 
cut  short  by  his  death,  which  occurred  at  the 
age  of  twenty-eight  years.  A  man  of  excel- 
lent character,  he  possessed  the  esteem  and 
good  will  of  his  neighbors;  and  his  untimely 
demise  was  deeply  deplored.  In  politics  he 
acted  with  the  Democratic  party.  In  his  re- 
ligious views  he  was  a  I'rce  Will  I^aptist. 
His  wife,  Rhoda  Webster,  survived  him  many 
years,  and  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven. 
Two  of  her  children  grew  to  maturity,  namely: 
John  W. ,  of  Chichester;  and  Asa,  who  mar- 
ried Hannah  M.  Webster,  of  Sandwich,  and 
is  residing  in  that  town.  Mrs.  Rhoda  W. 
Severance  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Will 
Baptist  church. 

John  W.  Severance  attended  school  in  .Sand- 
wich until  he  was  ten  years  old,  at  which  time 
he  came  to  reside  in  Chichester.  When  a 
young  man  he  learned  the  trade  of  an  edge-tool 
maker,  and  followed  it  for  a  short  time  in  this 
town.  He  afterward  worked  in  a  machine 
shop  ia  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  later,  taking  up  his 
residence  in  Manchester,  N.  H.,  was  there 
employed  for  more  than  twenty  years  as  a  prac- 
tical machinist.  Relinquishing  his  trade,  he 
then  returned  to  Chichester,  and,  settling 
ujion  the  farm  which  was  ftnmerly  the  home- 
stead of  his  wife's  [xuents,  has  since  resided 
here. 

On  November  25,  1841,  Mr.  Severance 
married  Hannah  Jane  Kaime.  She  is  a 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  Sally  Watson 
Kaime,  both  of  whom  were  natives  of  Pitts- 
field  and  passed  their  last  years  in  Chichester. 
Benjamin  Kaime  was  a  blacksmith  and  a 
farmer.      In  politics  he  voted  with   the  Repub- 


lican party,  and  he  served  as  a  Selectman  of 
the  town  for  some  time.  P"or  many  years  he 
was  a  Deacon  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 
He  lived  to  be  eighty  years  old,  and  his  wife 
died  at  seventy-eight.  They  were  the  parents 
of  twelve  children.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  .Severance 
have  no  children. 

Politically  a  Republican,  Mr.  Severance 
represented  Manchester  in  the  legislature  with 
marked  ability  during  the  years  1855  and 
1856  and  again  in  1876  and  1S77.  He  is 
connected  with  Mechanics'  Lodge,  No.  13, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Manchester,  and  served  as  its 
Chaplain  for  a  number  of  years.  He  is  ac- 
tively interested  in  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry, 
and  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  Catamount 
Grange,  of  Pittsfield.  An  industrious  and 
successful  farmer,  an  upright  man  and  a  useful 
citizen,  he  is  highly  esteemed  by  his  fellow- 
townspeople.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Severance  are 
members  of  the  I-'ree  Will  Baiitist  church. 


RANK      GILMAN      EDGFRLY,      the 

efficient  High  Sheriff  of  Merrimack 
County,  N.H.,  was  born  in  Meredith, 
N.  H.,  on  P^ebruary  19,  1853.  His  parents 
were  William  M.  and  Lydia  (I'ogg)  P^dgerly. 
His  ancestors,  paternal  and  maternal,  were  of 
English  extraction.  Thomas  Edgerly,  the 
emigrant  progenitor  on  his  father's  side,  came 
to  America  in  1664,  settling  near  what  is  now 
known  as  Durham,  N.  H.  Thomas  Edgerly 
was  a  well-educated  man,  prominent  in  the 
early  history  of  New  Hampshire,  being  one  of 
the  Justices  before  whom  were  tried  many  im- 
portant cases  involving  the  civil  and  religious 
rights  of  citizens. 

Frank  G.  Edgerly  acquired  a  public-school 
education  in  Meredith,  N. II,,  completing  his 
studies  at  the  age  of  si.xteen  years.  He  then 
came  to  Concord  and  served   an   ajiprenticeship 


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as  pi  inlii's  devil  in  llic  nffirc  ol  llic  htdcpen- 
thiil  Dcinocmt,  afterward  the  huUpiiidiut 
StdlixiiKiii,  remaining  for  fourteen  years.  In 
1883  he  started  a  printing  establishment,  in 
which  ]u;  icmtinued  as  projirictor  until  1889, 
when  he  became  a  real  estate  broker.  In 
i8(j3  he  was  aiipoiiitcd  Deputy  Sheriff ;  and  on 
April  I,  i8(j5,  lu:  became  1 1  igh  Sheriff;  \vhic:h 
position  he  still  holds,  being  also  Jailer,  hav- 
ing been  re-elected  by  the  largest  vote  ever 
accorded  aii)'  High  Sheriff  in  Merrimack 
Comity.  In  politics  Mr.  Mdgcrly  afifiliates 
with  the  Kepid)lican  party.  In  iSSijand  1S90 
he  was  Representative  to  the  legislature  from 
CJ)iicord. 

On  April  i,  1893,  he  was  married  to  Anna 
M.  Swasey,  of  Lisbon,  N.  II.  They  have 
one  child,  a  daughter  Lydia.  Fraternally, 
Ml'.  Mdgcrly  is  a  thirty  second  degree  Mason 
in  the  Ancient  and  Accepted  Scottish  Rites, 
lie  is  a  member  of  Hlazing  Star  Lodge,  No. 
11,  !■■.  &  A.  M.,  in  which  he  has  ofificiated  as 
Worshipful  Master  for  two  years;  of  'I'linity 
Chapter,  Ro)'al  Arch  Masons,  which  he  has 
served  as  iligh  I'ricst  two  years  ;  Horace  Chase 
Council,  Royal  and  .Select  Masters,  officiating 
as  Thrice  Illustrious  Master  for  two  years; 
Mount  Horeb  Commandery,  K.  T.  ;  and  of 
Aleppo  Temple,  Order  of  the  Mystic  Shrine, 
of  Boston.  He  is  connected  with  White 
Mountain  Lodge,  No.  5,  I.  O.  O.  ]•".,  and 
Concord  Lodge,  No.  8,  K.  of  P.,  being  Past 
Chancellor,  aiivl  he  is  Life  Member  of  four 
organizations:  (^rder  of  High  I'riestliood  of 
New  Hampshire ;  Grand  Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  of 
New  Hampshire;  Grand  Council  of  Royal  and 
Select  Masters,  and  Grand  Royal  Arch  Chap- 
ter of  New  Hampshire.  He  is  also  a  member 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Press  Association,  the 
New  Hampshire  Historical  Society,  and  the 
Dcrryfield  Social  Club  of  Manchester,  N.  II. 
In  religion  he   is   of  the   Episcopal    faith,  and 


is  a  higlily  respected    member  of    St.    I'aul's 
Church,  of  which  he  is  one  of   the  Vestrymen. 


n^ANCIS  W.  lU.AKi:,  one  of  i'ilts- 
field's  successful  farmers,  was  liorn  in 
ilampton  Falls,  N.II.,  .September  3, 
1837,  son  of  pjioch  and  Lydia  (Smith)  l?lake. 
The  family  is  of  Pjiglish  origin.  Its  founder, 
Jasper  Blake,  who  came  from  Fngland  in 
1640  and  settled  at  Ham|)ton,  N.H.,  was  a 
relative  of  Robert  Blake,  the  famous  British 
admiral  of  that  period.  The  great-grandfather 
of  Francis  W.  was  Jeremiah  Blake,  son  of 
Joshua.  He  was  a  native  of  IIam]3ton  l-'alls, 
and  a  farmer  by  occupation.  He  was  the 
father  of  five  children,  of  whom  Fnoch  (first), 
the  grandfather,  was  the  eldest. 

luioch  Blake  (first)  was  born  in  Ilampton 
Falls,  and  grew  to  manhood  as  a  farmer  in 
that  town.  He  served  in  the  Revolutionary 
War  under  General  Stark.  In  1787  he  moved 
to  Pittsfield,  Mild  occupied  a  |)art  of  the  farm 
now  owned  by  his  grandson,  I-"rancis  W.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  and  in  religious 
belief  he  was  a  P'rce  Will  Baptist.  At  his 
death  he  was  sixty-nine  years  old.  He  mar- 
ried Hannah  Eastman,  a  native  of  Kensington, 
N. H.  Of  their  five  children  who  attained 
maturity  Enoch  (second)  was  the  eldest. 
Born  in  Pittsfield,  August  22,  1796,  he  was 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  during  the 
greater  [lart  of  his  active  period,  and  also 
followed  the  trades  of  carpenter  and  cooper  to 
some  extent.  Prosperity  rewarded  his  indus- 
try. In  ]iolitics  he  supported  the  Democratic 
party.  His  last  years  were  passed  in  retire- 
ment, and  he  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of 
ninety-one  years.  Having  been  a  soldier  in 
the  War  of  18 12,  he  was  in  receipt  of  a 
government  pension  at  the  time  of  his  death. 
His   wife,    Lydia,  who   was  a   daughter   of  Jo- 


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siah  and  Bathshclxi  Rand  Smith,  of  Chichester, 
N.H.,  became  the  mother  of  five  children,  of 
whom  there  are  living:  Jeremiah,  Charles, 
and  Francis  W.  Jeremiah  married  Lydia  A. 
Tilton,  of  Loudon,  N.H.,  who  died  leaving 
two  children  —  Mary  and  Kllen.  The  first  of 
Charles  Blake's  three  marriages  was  contracted 
with  Angeline  Carter.  He  has  no  children 
living.  Francis  W.  Blake's  mother  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-eight.  Both  parents  were 
members  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 

After  acquiring  his  education  in  Pittsficld 
and  Hampton  Falls,  I'^rancis  W.  Blake  learned 
the  shoemaker's  trade.  At  the  age  of  twenty- 
five  he  moved  with  his  [jarents  to  Pittsfield, 
where  he  continued  to  work  at  his  trade  for 
some  years.  .Since  tlien  he  has  been  success- 
fully engaged  in  farming  at  the  homestead. 
He  owns  one  hundred  and  twenty-five  acres  of 
well-located  land,  eighty  acres  of  which  are 
under  cultivation.  He  is  also  quite  exten- 
sively interested  in  lumbering. 

On  June  21,  1866,  Mr.  Blake  wedded  Mary 
Judkins.  She  is  a  daughter  of  .Simon  I?,  and 
Catherine  (Hoyt)  Judkins,  of  Kingston,  N.  H. 
Mr.  Judkins  died  at  the  age  of  si,\ty-five  years. 
He  was  well  known  in  Kingston.  In  politics 
he  acted  with  the  Repuljlican  party.  Li  his 
religious  belief  he  was  a  Congregationalist ;  and 
he  was  Deacon  of  the  church  in  that  place  at 
the  time  of  his  tleath,  having  held  the  office 
for  twenty-two  years.  Mrs.  ]ilake's  parents 
had  five  children,  four  of  whom  are  living. 
Her  sister  Emma  is  the  wife  of  Joshua  Lyford, 
of  Brentwood,  N.  IL,  having  one  son,  Henry. 
Her  brother  John  married  Sarah  Diamond,  of 
Danville,  N.  H.,  and  is  the  father  of  two  chil- 
dren—  Clifton  and  I'rancis.  Lydia  B.  resides 
on  tiie  homestead  in  Kingston  with  her 
mother.  Anna  JC.  married  William  J5rown, 
of  ]'"remont,  N.  IL,  and  died  leaving  one 
daughter,  Katie  J.      Mr.  and   Mrs.   lilakc  have 


four  children  —  L^lizabeth  F.,  Emma  A., 
George  linoch,  and  Edna  F.  Elizabeth  F. , 
who  was  born  June  18,  1867,  graduated  from 
New  Hampton  Institution,  and  is  now  teach- 
ing school  in  New  Hampton,  N.H.  Emma 
A.,  born  September  9,  1869,  graduated  from 
the  Boston  Conservatory  of  Music  in  1891, 
and  is  an  accomplished  music  teacher  in  Bos- 
ton, where  she  has  a  large  number  of  jnipils. 
George  luioch,  born  July  30,  1878,  is  attend- 
ing school  in  New  Hampton ;  and  b^dna  F. 
was  born  June  17,  1888.  In  politics  Mr.  Blake 
is  independent.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Selectmen  for  three  years,  and  he  was 
Ta.\  Collector  for  one  year.  He  is  connected 
with  Pittsfield  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 
Both  he  and  Mrs.  Blake  are  members  of  the 
Free  Will  Baptist  church,  and  he  has  been  its 
clerk  for  twenty  years. 


M 


AVID  WARREN  COGSWELL,  one 
of  Henniker's  most  highly  es- 
teemed residents  and  a  prominent 
Odd  Fellow,  was  born  in  this  town,  January 
I,  1824,  son  of  David  and  Hannah  (Haskell) 
Cogswell.  His  father,  who  was  a  son  of 
Joseph  Cogswell,  was  a  native  of  Essex, 
Mass.,  born  April  25,  1790.  David  Cogswell 
learned  the  blacksmith's  trade  with  David 
Choate  in  his  native  town,  and  worked  for  a 
time  as  a  journeyman  on  Cape  Ann.  He  was 
First  Lieutenant  of  a  Gloucester  Military 
Company  during  the  War  of  18 12,  and  subse- 
quently received  for  his  services  a  warrant  f(u- 
one  hundred  and  sixty  acres  of  land.  In  1815 
be  settled  in  Hennikcr,  where  he  established  a 
blacksmith  shoj)  near  the  stone  bridge;  and,  as 
from  forty  to  si.xty  horses  were  constantly  em- 
ployed in  transporting  goods  between  Boston 
and  Vermont,  his  shop  was  for  many  years  a 
favorite  place  for  horse-shoeing  and  repairing. 


BIOOkAl'lllCAL    REVIFAV 


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lie  continued  to  carry  on  business  until  1850, 
when  he  sold  the  slio])  to  his  son  ;  nnd  for  some 
years  allerward  he  divicK'd  his  time  between 
the  for^e  and  his  farm.  In  1.S20  he  erected 
tiie  house  wjiicii  is  now  oei.u])ied  by  David  \V., 
and  in,'  resided  in  it  for  nearly  fifty  years, 
ik'inj;'  a  man  ol  It'inper.ite  habits,  he  was 
strong'  and  vi,noi-ous.  At  his  death,  on  June 
30,  iSfiS,  wJiieh  was  caused  by  a  cancer  in  IJie 
stomach,  he  was  over  seventy-ei<;iit  years  old. 
(^n  January  3,  1X13,  he  married  Hannah 
Haskell,  dau^liter  of  Stephen  and  Anna 
Haskell,  of  I'Lssex  County,  Massachusetts. 
Anion;;  her  twelve  cliildi'en  were:  Colonel 
I.eandei'  Winslow  Cogswell,  the  well-known 
historian  of  llenniki;r;  the  late  Parsons  JS. 
('o<;swell,  lormerly  edit(M'  of  the  Concord 
Monitor- Diinoiral  \  and  David  \V. ,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.      She  died  January  13,   1872. 

David  Warren  Coj^swell  be<^an  to  assist  his 
father  in  the  blacksmith  shop  at  the  age  of  ten 
years.  In  this  jicriod,  when  working  at  the 
anvil,  he  was  obliged  to  stand  u|ion  a  ]ilat- 
form;  and  his  day's  labor  lasted  until  nine 
o'clock  in  the  evening.  It  was  his  custf)m, 
after  performing  his  share  of  the  forge  work 
from  .September  to  March,  to  spend  the  sum- 
mer in  helping  on  the  farm.  He  remained  at 
home  until  he  was  twenty-four  years  okl,  after 
which  he  was  emijloyed  for  two  years  in 
machine  shops  in  North  Chelmsford  and  Win- 
chendon,  Mass.  In  1850,  at  his  father's 
desire,  he  bought  the  shop  in  Henniker;  and 
he  conducted  his  trade  until  iSSi.  He  then 
rented  the  shop  to  other  parties:  and  it  was 
subscfiuently  destroyed  by  fire  in  1S93,  after  an 
existence  of  over  seventy-five  vears.  After 
relini|uishing  his  trade,  Mr.  Cogswell,  in  com- 
pany with  his  brother-in-law,  N.  S.  Johnson, 
bought  land  on  .Sunapee  Mountain,  and  erected 
a  large  summer  boarding-house,  which  was 
destroyed    by    fire   some   three    or    four   years 


afterward,  e  lUr^ing  a  heavy  loss  to  its  owners. 
After  cutting  considerable  timber  from  the 
land,  it  was  sold;  and  .Mr.  Cogswell  is  now 
engaged  in  cultivating  his  farm  of  sixty  acres. 
In  the  early  days  of  the  abolition  movement  he 
was  an  earnest  worker  in  the  cause.  As  a 
member  of  the  I'"rec  Soil  party  he  supported 
the  candidacy  of  John  1'.  Hale  for  the  Presi- 
dency, and  he  has  voted  with  the  Republican 
[larty  since  its  formation.  He  has  been  active 
in  educational  matters.  While  Deputy  Sheriff 
from  1864  to  1874,  he  induced  so  many  parties 
to  settle  their  differences  out  of  court  that 
there  was  but  one  trial  before  a  justice  in 
Henniker  timing  his  term  of  ofTice.  In  18O3 
and  1863  he  was  Moderator  at  town  meetings. 
y\t  that  time  these  assemblages,  about  equally 
divided  between  the  opposing  parties,  were 
continued  far  into  the  morning  hours;  and  it 
was  difficult  to  maintain  order.  A  firm  sup- 
porter of  the  cause  of  the  Union,  Mr.  Cogs- 
well did  much  toward  caring  for  the  families 
of  soldiers  during  the  war.  When  sixteen 
years  old  he  joined  an  independent  military 
company  known  as  the  Grenadiers,  and  was 
attached  to  it  until  the  new  laws  did  away 
with  the  old  muster  days,  lie  has  acted  as  a 
Justice  of  the  Peace  since  1862. 

Mr.  Cogswell  has  been  twice  married.  On 
February  20,  185 1,  he  wedded  for  his  first 
wife  Mary  S.  Johnson,  of  Weare.  She  died 
March  2},.  1859,  leaving  no  children.  On 
Decemiier  10  of  the  same  year  he  was  again 
married  to  Eliza  L.  Sawyer,  who  was  of 
Ouaker  parentage,  and  resided  in  Weare.  Hy 
this  union  there  arc  three  sons — -John  C, 
l.eander  A.,  and  Willis.  John  C.  has  been 
Town  Clerk  for  five  years;  Leander  A  is  a 
shoe  manufacturer  in  Manchester.  N.ll.:  and 
Willis  is  a  machinist  of  that  city.  Mr.  Cogs- 
well is  a  charter  member  of  Crescent  Lodge, 
No.  66,  I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  is  also  a  member  of 


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the  encampment.  He  has  occupied  all  of  the 
important  chairs  of  both  organizations,  and 
represented  both  in  the  Grand  Lodge  and 
Grand  Encampment  of  New  Hampshire.  He 
is  especially  qualified  for  the  work  of  initia- 
tion. Since  the  organization  of  the  lodge  he 
has  assisted  in  introducing  every  candidate, 
including  his  three  sons,  to  the  mysteries  of 
Odd  Fellowship.  There  is  probably  no  man 
in  this  part  of  the  State  who  has  taken  a 
greater  interest  in  the  order.  His  initiatory 
work  has  been  highly  complimented  by  the 
officers  of  the  Grand  Lodge.  Mrs.  Cogswell 
is  very  active  in  the  Rebecca  Lodge. 


IRAAI      II.       YORK,     a     well-known 
farmer    of    Cornish,    has    always    re- 
1^  ^  sided    in    this    town    on    the    estate 

where  he  was  born  December  6,  1S23.  His 
grandfather,  William  York,  also  burn  in  Cor- 
nish, was  prominently  identified  with  the 
Democratic  party  of  the  early  days.  Will- 
iam, in  many  ways  the  most  prf)minent  man 
in  the  town,  was  a  noted  veterinary  surgeon, 
whose  practice  covered  an  extensive  district. 
He  was  Sheriff  of  Sullivan  County  for  many 
years.  In  the  later  ])art  of  his  life  he  joined 
the  Methodist  church.  A  man  capable  of 
much  physical  endurance,  he  had  a  remark- 
able constitution,  which,  perhaps,  accounts  in 
a  measure  for  his  activities  in  many  directions. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  ninety-five  years.  He 
was  twice  married.  His  first  wife  was  Esther 
llilliard  York,  and  his  second  was  Betsey 
Choate   York. 

Uriah  York,  also  born  in  Cornish,  was  sent 
to  the  common  schools  of  the  town.  Later  he 
began  farm  work,  in  which  lie  continued 
engaged  throughout  the  rest  of  his  life.  He 
married  Betsy,  daughter  of  Stephen  Williams; 
and   their  five  children   were:    ]£sther,    Hiram 


H.,  Lavinia,  John  0.,  and  Allen.  Esther 
became  the  wife  of  Mr.  Mitchell  Coburn,  and 
had  one  child  —  Willis,  who  is  now  a  musician 
living  at  Cornish.  Mrs.  Mitchell  Coburn  died 
in  1895.  Lavinia  is  now  Mrs.  James  Lam- 
berton,  of  Claremont.  John  O.,  who  died  in 
1S91,  was  a  farmer,  a  mason,  and  a  general  me- 
chanic; and  for  some  years  he  filled  the  office 
of  Highway  Surveyor.  He  was  twice  married. 
Emmeline  Fitch  York,  his  first  wife,  bore 
him  no  children.  Esther  Corliss  York,  the 
second  wife,  was  the  mother  of  ten  children, 
three  of  whom  are  living — Hattie,  Lillian, 
and  Addie.  Allen  York  lived  in  Cornish 
until  he  was  twenty-five  years  of  age,  when  he 
moved  to  Vermont,  where  he  died  in  188S  at 
the  age  of  fifty-one.  He  was  engaged  in  car- 
pentering and  other  mechanic's  work,  and  did 
some  farming.  He  married  Lucinda  Owen, 
and  had  a  family  of  ten  children. 

Hiram  II.  York  attended  the  common 
schools  of  Cornish,  and  then  followed  in  the 
footsteps  of  his  father  by  engaging  in  agricult- 
ural pinsuits.  He  owns  a  farm  of  sonic  one 
hundred  and  thirty- five  acres,  has  always  been 
industrious  and  thrifty,  and  is  now  reaping  the 
reward  of  his  labors.  He  married  Eliza  A. 
Walker,  and  she  is  the  mother  of  two  children 
—  Elmer  E.  and  Ida  E.  Elmer  married 
Nellie  Richardson,  and  has  three  children  — 
Clayton,  Amos,  and  Marion.  He  has  been 
a  school-teacher,  and  is  now  a  butcher  at  Cor- 
nish and  Claremont.  Ida  married  Luman  H. 
llilliard,  of  Claremont,  N.  H.,  who  is  engaged 
in  the  livery  business  there.  Their  cliildien 
are  —  Mary  Eliza  and  Ruth  Iila. 


OHN    SHACKFORD    KIMBALL    was 
an   enterprising  lawyer  of  Boston  and  a 
business    man    of    Burlington,     la.      A 
son  of    David   and    Abigail  (Perkins)  Kimball, 


liHKiRAlMIICAL    RKVIKW 


lie  was  horn  at  I'cnilirukc,  N.  If.,  i\i)iil  28, 
1S12.  His  (IcsLX'iit  from  Micliaul  Kimball, 
who  married  licttic  Kuniiulls,  came  through 
David  Kimball  of  the  second  generation  and 
David  Kimball  of  the  third,  who  married  Abi- 
gail Perkins.  'I'he  fifth  generation  is  now 
representeil  by  John  Stevens  Kimball.  Mr. 
Kimball's  parents  died  at  Pembroke  when  he 
was  thirteen  years  old,  leaving  nine  children 
—  ]5etsey,  Asa,  Perkins,  John  Shackford,  Abi- 
gail, Sarah  Towle  (widow  of  Timothy  Colby, 
of  Concord),  Joseph,  Mary  Lewis  (widow  of 
.S.inniel  15.  Wright,  of  lUirlington,  la.),  and 
Harriet.  Of  these  Sarah  and  Mary  are  living. 
Mary,  who  was  about  five  years  old  at  the 
death  of  her  parents,  subsequently  lived  in  the 
family  made  famous  at  that  time  by  the  noted 
Prcscott  murtler.  Perkins,  after  sjiending 
some  time  in  the  jirinting  business,  was  later 
employed  in  the  ]?oston  custom-house,  and  then 
kei)t  a  store  in  partnership  with  J.  1^'rank 
Hoyt  in  Concord.  On  retiring  from  business, 
he  returned  to  Hopkinton,  and  died  there  De- 
cember 15,  1876.  He  first  married  I.ydia 
Reed  Wilde,  of  Boston,  a  sister  of  Joseph 
Wilde,  of  the  well-known  firm  of  Lawrence, 
Wilde  &  Co.,  furniture  dealers,  Cornhill,  Bos- 
ton. His  second  marriage  was  made  with 
Savalla  Mason,  of  Grafton,  N.  H.,  who  sur- 
viv'ed  him  with  one  daughter,  Sarah  Under- 
wood Kimball.  Mother  and  daughter  are  now 
residents  of  Hopkinton,  the  latter  being  the 
present  librarian  of  the  Hopkinton  P'lee  Li- 
brary. 

When  a  young  man,  John  .Shackford  Kim- 
ball went  to  Concord  and  worked  in  a  bakery. 
Afterward  he  entered  Hill  &  Sherburne's  print 
ing-odRce,  and  there  learned  book  and  job  print- 
ing. \\'hile  yet  new  in  this  occupation,  he 
gained  considerable  fame  as  a  card  printer  by 
the  introduction  of  enamel  work.  Li  his  school 
life  at   New  Hampton,  N.  H.,  he  was  an  asso- 


ciate of  the  Hon.  J(jhn  Wentworth,  and  was 
one  of  the  founders  of  the  .Social  l*'raternity 
Library.  He  was  clerk  in  the  old  Franklin 
book  store  in  Concord  for  a  time,  and  was 
a.ssociated  in  the  printing  business  with  his 
brother  Perkins. 

From  Concord  he  went  to  New  i Liven, 
Conn.  Later  he  was  for  three  years  a  night 
clerk  in  the  loost-office  at  Portland,  Me. 
While  there  he  read  law  with  District  Attor- 
ney Haynes.  Afterward  he  took  the  law 
course  at  Llarvard  College,  and  was  associated 
in  practice  with  the  noted  Robert  S.  Rantoul, 
of  l^oston.  Li  1S38  he  went  to  Burlington, 
la.,  where  his  youngest  brother,  Jo.seph,  was 
conducting  a  general  store  in  company  with 
Xathaniel  Chase  from  Warner,  \.  H.  Mr. 
Chase  soon  dying,  Mr.  Kimball  bought  out 
the  hitter's  interest  in  the  business;  and  he 
and  Joseph  were  partners  till  the  latter's 
death.  The  firm  then  became  J.  S.  Kimball 
&  Co.,  the  company  being  his  brother-in-law, 
.S.  B.  Wright,  whose  wife  still  resides  there. 
.Shortly  after  starting  the  business,  prompted 
to  the  step  by  his  failing  health,  he  retired 
from  the  legal  profession,  and  came  East  in  the 
capacity  of  buyer  for  the  firm.  The  sales  of 
the  firm  in  the  course  of  time  increased  from 
eight  or  nine  thousand  dollars  a  year  to  more 
than  one  million  dollars,  this  being  the  largest 
business  of  the  kind  in  the  State.  In  1S63 
the  business  cleared  above  all  expenses  one 
hundred  and  ten  thousand  dollars  ujion  an  in- 
vestment of  three  hundred  thousand  dollars. 
Li  1864  quarters  were  secured  in  Chicago, 
but  owing  to  Mr.  Kimball's  ill  health  nothing 
was  done  there.  He,  however,  outlived  all 
the  partners  he  ever  had  e.xcept  Mr.  Wyman, 
formerly  a  clerk  of  the  firm,  and  Krastus 
Chamberlain,  who  was  sent  to  the  firm  from 
Massachusetts.  The  former  is  now  the  head 
of  the  great  firm  of  Wyman,  Rand  &  Co.      In 


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iS66  RFr.  Kimball  sukl  out  to  \Villi:)m  I^cll, 
a  Scotchman,  and  retired  from  the  business. 
In  1854  he  ]uirchased  a  summer  residence  at 
Hopkinton,  which  has  since  become  his  per- 
manent home;  but  his  business  interests  were 
still  with  the  Burlington  firm.  He  spent 
much  time  in  Boston,  especially  during  the 
winter.  Another  of  his  associates  in  the  law 
business  was  General  N.  P.  Banks,  who  had 
been  one  of  his  fellow-students.  His  services 
in  the  legislature  were  mainly  on  the  Judiciary 
and  Banking  Committees.  Me  was  an  able, 
persistent,  and  forcible  speaker.  He  was  a 
careful  student,  was  well  read  in  history,  and 
had  attained  considerable  knowledge  of  Ger- 
man, so  that  in  his  later  life  he  was  able  to 
undertake  translations  from  the  German.  He 
paid  a  bounty  to  the  first  ten  men  who  enlisted 
in  H()i)kinton,  besides  advancing  the  money 
for  the  State  bounty. 

Mr.  Kimball  married  Mary  E.  Stevens, 
daughter  of  Dr.  John  Stevens,  of  Goffstown, 
N.  H.,  afterward  a  noted  physician  of  Charles- 
town  and  Boston.  She  was  brought  up  in  Bos- 
ton and  was  married  there.  'The  children  of 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Kimball  are:  John  Stevens, 
Robert  Rantoul,  George  Alexander,  Mary 
Grace,  and  Kate  Pearl.  Both  daughters  are 
unmarried  and  reside  with  their  mother  in 
llcipkinton.  Mr.  Kimball  contributed  liber- 
ally to  all  the  churches,  while  he  hatl  no  pro- 
fessed creed.  He  did  much  to  assist  in 
local  developments,  and  was  most  active  in  all 
progressive  movements.  His  burial  i^lace  is 
in  Forest  Hills  Cemetery,  ]5oston,  Mass. 


LjI.IAS    \V.     I'lKl-:,  of  (loshen,  an  e.\-mem- 

[/'      ber  of  the   New    liampshire    legislature 

and  a  veteran   (jf  the  Civil  War,  was 

born    in    this   town,    October    12,    1838,   son   ot 

Wilson  S.  and  Julia   G.    (Martin)    Pike.      His 


grandfather,  Jarvis  Pike,  who  resitled  in  New- 
port, N.  H.,  was  a  prosperous  farmer. 

Wilson  S.  Pike,  who  was  reared  to  farm  life 
in  Newport,  removed  when  about  twenty-one 
years  old  to  Goshen,  where  he  was  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits  for  the  greater  part 
of  his  active  period,  and  died  in  Septem- 
ber, 1866.  The  maiden  name  of  his  first 
wife  was  Harriett  Currier.  Her  five  chil- 
dren by  him  were:  Mary,  now  the  widow  of 
Ezekiel  Bates,  late  of  Cohasset,  Mass.  ;  Ma- 
hala,  the  widow  of  James  Homer,  who  was  for- 
merly in  the  livery  business  in  Boston;  Lo- 
dema,  the  wife  of  William  Morgan,  a  retired 
jeweller  of  Providence,  R.I.;  Julia,  who  died 
in  1849;  and  Cyrus  F.,  born  in  1833,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  twenty-two  years.  Wilson 
S.  Pike's  second  marriage  was  contracted  with 
Julia  G.  Martin,  of  Alexandria,  N.  H.,  who 
became  the  mother  of  eight  children.  These 
were:  Elias  W.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
William  Henry;  Martha,  I^zra  G.,  Harriet, 
and  James  Homer,  who  are  deceased ;  Ruth 
G.,  the  wife  of  Eben  A.  Purington,  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  and  a  Selectman  of  Goshen  ;  and 
Ezra  G.  (second),  who  married  Emma  L. 
Purington,  and  is  engaged  in  agricultural  i)ur- 
suits  in  this  town.  Mrs.  Wilson  S.  Pike  is 
still  living,  and  resides  in  Goshen. 

l^lias  W.  Pike  was  educated  in  the  tlistrict 
schools  and  at  the  New  London  Academy. 
He  was  engaged  in  farming  until  October  15, 
1862,  when  he  joined  Company  F,  Si.xteenth 
Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Volunteers,  under 
Colonel  James  Pike  and  Cajitain  James  Woods. 
He  served  in  the  Dejiartment  of  the  Gulf  upon 
the  lower  Mississijipi  during  the  late  war,  and 
contracted  a  severe  illness  that  necessitated 
his  discharge  on  August  20,  1863.  After  his 
return  home  he  settled  upon  a  farm  located  in 
the  western  ])art  of  this  town,  and  was  there 
engaged    in    agriculture    until    November    20, 


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lS(>.|,  wln'ii  he  |uiicli;iseil  his  present  l;irni  al 
Mill  X'ilhi^c.  (  )m  this  inupcrly,  wliicli  con- 
tains one  lunuirud  antl  twunty  acres  of  land,  ho 
carries  on  general  farming  and  ilairying,  raising 
considerable  poultry;  and  he  makes  a  specialty 
(if  dealing  in  cattle.  In  politics  he  supiiorts 
the  Republican  party.  ills  record  in  the  pub- 
lic service  is  one  of  which  he  has  every  reason 
to  be  [)rou(l.  l'"or  eight  years  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  ISoard  of  Selectmen,  and  he  was  its 
Chairman  for  four  years  of  that  time.  He  has 
also  served  as  Town  Treasurer,  Collector  of 
Ta.ves,  and  member  of  the  .School  Hoard  ;  and 
he  was  Postmaster  for  some  time  and  Census 
I'jiumerator  in  1880  and  1890.  As  a  member 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  in  1887  and 
i.SSS  he  made  himself  conspicuous  by  his 
able  committee  work  and  the  zeal  with  which 
he  labored  for  the  best  interests  of  the  State. 
On  July  3,  1859,  iMr.  I'ike  wedded  Mary  1-". 
I'urington.  She  was  born  in  Coshen,  I'^ebru- 
ary  6,  1843,  daughter  of  Imri  and  Mary  (I. ear) 
I'urington,  natives  respectively  of  Ilenniker, 
N.I  I.,  antl  Goshen.  Imri  I'urington  settled 
upon  a  farm  in  Goshen,  where  he  resided  imtil 
his  death,  which  occurred  aliout  the  j'ear  1S91. 
Mrs.  Pike's  mother  died  within  the  same  year. 
They  were  the  [larents  of  four  chiklren, 
namely:  Mary  V.,  now  Mrs.  I'ike;  H.  Jennie, 
the  wife  of  E.  II.  Carr,  a  livery  man  of  New- 
port, N.H.  ;  I'.ugene  I.,  who  married  Luella  J. 
Greggs,  and  resides  in  this  town;  and  Emma 
L. ,  Eugene's  twin  sister,  who  married  I^zra  G. 
Pike,  of  Goshen.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Pike  have 
had  eight  children  —  Dora  M.,  Etta  F. ,  Ered 
W. ,  Sherman  L. ,  Jennie  L.,  Hatch  C. ,  Harry 
I'".,  and  Josephine  15.  Dora  M.  is  the  wife  of 
W.  O.  Sides,  2d,  a  letter-carrier  in  Ports- 
mouth, N.  II.  ;  l^tta  E.  married  P'rank  W. 
Haker,  of  Goshen,  and  dietl  A[)ril  [5,  1881, 
leaving  one  son  —  Ered  W.  ;  l-'red  W.  Pike, 
who     is    a    prosperous    farmer    of    this    town. 


wedded  Mary  J.  Oakes,  (jf  Vermont,  and  has 
one  son  —  Howard  E. ,  born  July  31,  1893. 
.Sherman  I,.,  who  is  operating  a  grist-mill  in 
New'ijort,  N.  H.,  married  Jkrtha  J.  Rii.«sell, 
of  Goshen,  and  has  two  children  —  Bernard  T. 
and  Gladys  E.  Jennie  E.  is  the  wife  of  ]'.r 
nest  H.  Hurd,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  has  one 
son,  Harry  !•;.  Harry  E.  Pike  and  Hatch 
were  twins.  The  former  is  a  shoemaker 
in  Portsmouth,  N.H.  Hatch  C.  and  Jo.scph- 
iiie  ]}.  are  residing  at  home.  Mr.  Pike,  Sr. , 
is  Master  of  Pomona  Grange,  of  Sullivan 
County,  and  is  connected  with  Sunapce  Moun- 
tain Grange,  No.  144,  of  Mill  Village.  He 
takes  a  loyal  interest  in  the  general  welfare  of 
the  community.  Both  he  and  Mrs.  Pike  are 
members  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 


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^OIIX  W.  .STAPI.i:S,  M.D.,  a  punm- 
nent  physician  of  Eranklin  Falls, 
N.H.,  and  a  native  of  Wells,  Me.,  was 
born  January  25,  1855.  His  parents,  John 
and  Ann  (Wells)  Staples,  also  natives  of 
Wells,  belonged  to  families  that  had  lived  in 
that  town  for  a  number  of  generations.  John 
Staples,  who  was  a  farmer,  spent  his  life  in 
the  jilace  of  his  birth,  and  died  in  1879.  His 
wife  had  died  in  1^77.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  The 
others  were:  Albert,  who  tlieil  when  nine 
years  old;  Moses,  a  farmer  in  Wells;  and 
John  W.,  the  subject  of  this  article. 

John  W.  Staples  received  his  early  education 
by  attending  the  district  schools  in  the  winter 
season.  In  the  summer  he  worked  on  the 
farm.  He  afterward  went  for  two  terms  to 
])rivate  schools;  and  when  fifteen  years  old  he 
entered  South  Berwick  Academy  in  Maine, 
graduating  in  the  class  of  1872.  On  leaving 
the  academy,  he  became  a  student  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  and  there  graduated  in   1S76. 


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Then  lie  took  the  medical  course  at  Vermont 
University,  where  he  remained  until  iSSo,  re- 
ceiving his  degree  when  twenty-five  years  old. 
In  that  year  he  began  practice  in  Franklin 
Falls,  where  he  has  since  been  located.  He 
has  also  an  office  in  Tilton,  N. H. 

The  Doctor  was  married  January  25,  1882, 
to  Miss  Martha  L.  Kimball,  daughter  of  FLzra 
S.  and  Klizabeth  (Colburn)  Kimball,  both  of 
Haverhill,  N.  H.  They  have  one  child  — 
Charles  Wells,  born  August  29,  1884,  who  is 
at  home.  Dr.  .Staples  has  an  excellent  prac- 
tice in  the  village,  and  sufficient  patients  in 
Tilton  to  occupy  about  two  or  three  hours  each 
day.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  School 
Board  for  six  years,  and  he  has  also  served 
acceptably  for  several  years  on  the  Board  of 
Health.  He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
both  he  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the  Uni- 
tarian .Society.  He  has  been  sLiccessfu)  in  life, 
and  is  higjil)'  regarded  in  the  community. 


ENRY  M.  BAKER,  of  Bow,  Merri- 
mack County,  lawyer  and  Congress- 
man, and  son  of  Aaron  VVhittemore 
and  Nancy  (Dustin)  Baker,  was  born  in  Bow, 
January  11,  1S41.  He  comes  of  patriotic  and 
heroic  ancestry.  His  great-great-grandfather. 
Captain  Joseph  Baker,  a  Colonial  surveyor, 
married  Ifannali,  only  daughter  of  Captain 
John  Lo\cwell,  the  famous  Indian  fighter,  who 
was  killed  in  the  battle  of  I'igwacket,  May  8, 
1725.  A  few  years  later  the  township  of  Sun- 
cook,  or  Lovewell's  town,  which  included 
much  of  the  present  town  of  Pembroke,  was 
granted  by  Massachusetts  to  the  surviving  par- 
ticipants and  the  heirs  of  tiiosc  killed  in  that 
battle.  As  its  boundaries  contiicted  with 
those  of  the  town  of  Bow,  chartered  May  10, 
1727,  by  Governor  Wentworth,  of  New  Hamp- 
shire,   the    grantees    never    received    the    full 


benefits  of  the  grant.  The  resulting  conten- 
tion was  terminated  December  13,  1804,  when 
that  part  of  Bow  east  of  the  Merrimac  River 
was  annexed  to  Pembroke  and  Concord.  The 
Colonial  heroine,  Hannah  Dustin,  was  a 
maternal  ancestor  of  Henry  M.  Baker. 
Another  maternal  relative  was  Walter  Bryant, 
who  surveyed  many  of  the  townships  and  the 
eastern  boundary  of  the  State,  and  was  ]jromi- 
nent  in  Colonial  affairs. 

Captain  Baker's  son,  Joseph,  married  a  de- 
scendant of  one  of  the  Scotch  Covenanters, 
and  settled  in  Bow.  He  was  among  the  first 
to  locate  there,  and  the  acres  he  cleared  and 
cultivated  are  a  part  of  the  family  homestead. 
He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution  and  a  man 
of  energy  and  influence.  James  Baker,  son  of 
Joseph,  married  a  grand-daughter  of  the  Rev. 
Aaron  Whittemore,  the  first  clergyman  settled 
in  Pembroke.  Of  their  six  children  Aaron 
Wiiittemore  Baker  was  the  eldest.  When  liis 
father  died  from  injuries  accidentally  re- 
ceived, he  was  only  twelve  years  old,  an  early 
age  to  take  up  the  burden  of  life.  However, 
resolutely  meeting  the  responsibilities  he 
could  not  escape,  and  with  the  aid  of  his 
mother,  he  managed  so  that  the  younger  ciiil- 
dren  were  well  educated,  and  the  farm  was 
successfully  cultivated.  He  was  a  man  of 
sterling  integrity,  of  advanced  thought,  a 
bitter  opponent  of  slavery,  an  ardent  advocate 
of  temperance,  and  the  friend  of  the  friend- 
less. His  wife,  Nancy  Dustin  Baker,  a  lady 
of  high  character,  sweet  disposition,  and  great 
talent,  was  generally  beloved.  Of  their  chil- 
dren the  only  other  survivor  is  John  B.  Baker, 
of  Bow,  a  member  of  the   legislature   of    1897. 

Tile  Hon.  Henry  M.  Baker  attended  liie 
schools  of  his  native  town,  the  academies  in 
Pembroke  and  Hopkinton,  the  New  IIam])shire 
Conference  Seminary  at  Tilloii,  and  Dart- 
mouth    College,    graduating     from    the     last- 


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iKimeil  iiislitulinii  in  i.S^^.  Three  years  later 
lie  received  Uie  dei^i'ee  ol  Master  ot  Arts. 
Soon  after  graduation  lie  commenced  tlie  study 
of  law  under  the  direction  of  Judge  Minot,  of 
Concord.  I-larly  in  i(S64hewa.s  appointed  to 
a  clerkship  in  the  War  Uepai'tmenl  at  Wash- 
ington, D.C.,  and  a  few  montiis  later,  at  his 
request,  was  transferred  to  the  Treasury  JJe- 
partment,  where  he  filled  different  positions  of 
trust  and  responsibility  for  several  years. 
During  this  time  he  continued  his  law  studies, 
and,  having  entered  the  law  department  of  the 
Ciilunihian  University,  gratluated  as  Jiachelor 
of  I.aws  in  1866,  and  was  admitted  to  the  liar 
of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the  District  of 
Columbia.  In  i.SiS2  he  was  admitted  to  prac- 
tice in  the  Suiireme  Court  of  the  United 
States.  For  several  years  he  practised  his 
profession  at  the  seat  of  national  government, 
where  he  soon  obtained  a  large  clientage,  and 
was  engaged  in  many  important  cases.  His 
practice  was  varied,  rei|uiring  close  applica- 
tion to  details  and  a  knowledge  of  many  sub- 
jects nut  included  in  the  ordinary  course  of 
professional  work. 

The  sons  of  the  Granite  State  are  noted  for 
their  love  of  home  and  for  attachment  to  the 
hills,  valleys,  lakes,  and  ri\'ers  which  make 
that  State  so  picturesc]ue  and  beautiful. 
Wherever  they  roam,  or  however  long  absent, 
they  turn  with  loving  devotion  to  the  old 
homesteads,  and  greet  with  equal  joy  old 
friends  and  accustomed  scenes.  Though  nec- 
essarily absent  for  months  at  a  time  in  a 
period  of  several  years,  Mr.  ]5aker  has  never 
ceased  to  be  a  resident  of  his  native  town;  and 
no  year  has  passed  without  a  visit  to  the  old 
home,  to  mingle  with  his  neighbors  and 
friends  and  enjoy  its  pinx'  air  and  beautiful 
scenery.  He  has  always  been  an  aggressive 
Rc])ublican,  and  every  general  election  has 
fountl  him  at  the  polls.      No  demand  has  been 


made  for  iiis  aid  or  services  that  he  has  not 
promptly  met.  As  a  campaigner  he  has  few 
superiors.  No  eflicient  plan  for  the  develop- 
ment of  our  material,  social,  educational, 
political,  or  religious  interests  or  reputation  is 
without  his  approval  or  hearty  co-operation. 
No  son  of  New  Hampshire  is  more  jealous  of 
her  good  name  and  high  standing  in  all  that 
constitutes  a  worthy  commonwealth  than  Mr. 
Haker.  At  every  ojiportunity  he  has  been 
earnest  in  his  advocacy  of  State  aid  to  her 
public  libraries,  institutions  of  learning  and 
of  charity,  ami  for  the  preservation  of  her  his- 
torical records  and  objects  of  patriotic  interest. 
In  1886-87  Mr.  Baker  was  Judge  Advocate 
General  of  our  National  Guard,  with  the  rank 
of  Brigadier-general.  He  was  nominated  in 
the  Merrimack  District  by  acclamation  as  the 
candidate  of  his  party  for  the  State  Senate  in 
1890.  It  was  close  fighting-ground  ;  for  in  the 
two  preceding  elections  there  had  been  no 
choice  by  the  people,  and  in  the  last  election 
the  Democratic  candidate  had  received  a  plu- 
rality. Cieneral  Baker  took  personal  charge 
of  his  campaign,  and  won  a  great  political 
victory,  running  largely  ahead  of  the  general 
ticket.  While  in  his  district  the  Repul)lican 
candiilate  for  governor  had  a  plurality  of  only 
seventy-si.x  votes,  he  received  a  plurality  of 
one  hundred  and  fifty  and  a  majority  of 
seventy-five  votes.  At  the  same  time  his 
energetic  canvass  contributed  greatly  to  the 
general  success  of  his  party,  and  its  control  of 
the  legislature  that  year  was  largely  due  to 
him.  In  the  Senate  he  was  Chairman  of  the 
Judiciary  Committee,  a  member  of  several 
other  important  committees,  and  the  Chairman 
of  the  Joint  Special  Committee  on  the  Revis- 
ion, Codification,  and  Amendment  of  the 
I'ublic  Statutes  of  the  State.  He  took  an 
active  part  in  all  the  proceedings  of  the  ses- 
sion, became  the   Republican   leader,  and  was 


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recognized  as  a  forceful  and    logical    debater, 
well  informed  upon  all  public  questions. 

General  Baker  was  elected  Representative 
in  Congress  from  the  Second  District  in  1S92 
by  a  good  plurality,  reversing  the  Democratic 
victory  in  the  preceding  election.  In  1894  he 
was  re-elected  by  a  plurality  more  than  four- 
teen times  greater  than  that  of  1892.  In 
the  Fifty-third  Congress  he  was  assigned  to 
the  Committees  on  Agriculture  and  on  the 
Militia.  In  the  ne.xt  Congress  he  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Committees  on  the  Judiciary  and  on 
the  Election  of  President,  Vice-President,  and 
Representatives  in  Congress.  He  was  active 
and  faithful  in  committee  work,  and  was 
Chairman  of  one  of  the  standing  subcommit- 
tees of  the  Judiciary  Committee.  Several 
important  matters  were  reported  by  him. 

His  principal  speeches  in  Congress  were 
made  in  opposition  to  the  repeal  of  the  Federal 
election  laws,  on  the  Methods  of  Accounting 
in  the  Treasury  Department,  in  favor  of  the 
Purchase  and  Distribution  to  the  Farmers  of 
the  Country  of  Rare  and  Valuable  Agricult- 
ural and  Horticultural  Seeds,  on  the  Tariff, 
on  Protection  not  Hostile  to  Exportation,  on 
the  Necessity  of  Adequate  Coast  Defences,  on 
the  Criminal  Jurisdiction  of  the  United  States 
Suijreme  Court,  and  on  Civil  Service  Reform. 
Several  of  these  speeches  were  printed  in 
pamphlet  form,  and  many  thousand  copies  of 
them  were  distributed.  Mr.  Baker  was  a  fre- 
quent participator  in  the  general  discussions 
of  the  House,  and  the  Congressional  Record 
shows  his  views  upon  every  important  subject 
of  recent  national  legislation.  He  was  not 
again  a  candidate  for  re-election. 

General  Baker  has  been  heard  upon  the 
stump  frequently,  and  is  active  wherever  he 
can  aid  his  party.  His  campaign  speeches  are 
distinguished  for  fairness,  the  entire  absence 
of  abuse,  and   for  a   clear  and   vigorous  pres- 


entation of  the  policy  and  platform  of  the 
several  parties.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Club,  and  has  spoken  before  it  on 
several  occasions  in  advocacy  of  the  educa- 
tional, historical,  and  business  interests  of  our 
State.  His  remarks  in  favor  of  the  substitu- 
tion of  silver  or  silver  certificates  for  the 
United  States  and  Treasury  notes  now  in  cir- 
culation, but  to  be  cancelled  as  silver  or  silver 
certificates  are  issued,  were  printed,  and 
attracted  considerable  attention.  In  religion 
he  is  a  Unitarian.  He  is  a  Mason,  a  Knight 
Templar,  and  a  Noble  of  the  Mystic  Shrine. 
He  has  made  valuable  contributions  to  the  New 
Hampshire  Historical  Society,  of  which  he  is 
a  member,  and  has  established  prizes  in  Dart- 
mouth College.  He  has  been  an  extensive 
traveller  in  America  and  liurope,  and  a  close 
student  and  keen  observer.  An  independent 
thinker,  he  investigates  every  subject  upon 
which  he  is  called  to  speak  or  to  act.  He  is 
a  good  organizer,  is  not  discouraged  by  opposi- 
tion, and  possesses  high  executive  ability. 
He  has  achieved  no  success  he  has  not  earned. 


OHN  TYLER  was  well  known  in 
Claremont  as  an  inventor  and  builder. 
He  was  a  son  of  John  Tyler  and  a 
grandson  of  Benjamin  Tyler,  both  eminent 
mechanics.  Benjamin,  who  settled  in  Clare- 
mont in  the  spring  of  1776,  built  the  first  dam 
across  the  Sugar  River  at  West  Claremont, 
and  was  for  many  years  one  of  the  most  public- 
spirited  men  in  town.  The  History  of  Clare- 
mont gives  the  following  facts  concerning  his 
grandson : — 

"John  Tyler  was  born  in  Claremont,  March 
26,  1818.  He  learned  the  trade  of  mill- 
wright, serving  an  apprenticeship  of  seven 
years,  and  was  then  for  eight  years  foreman  of 
the  shop  where  he   learned   his  trade  in  Barre, 


JOHN    TYLER. 


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V't.  He  went  to  West  Lebanon  in  i.S'50,  and 
for  several  years  did  a  large  Inisincss  in  biiild- 
\\-\y;  mills,  sometimes  employing  fifty  men. 
lie  returned  to  Clareniont  in  1S72,  where  he 
has  sinee  resided.  lie  was  engineer  and 
superintendenl  in  building  the  Sugar  Kiver 
|)a|)er-mill,  and  was  a  |iiincipal  stockholder 
and  the  President  ot  the  comiiany. 

"Mr.  Tyler  is  the  inventor  of  the  Tyler 
tuibine  water-wheel,  which  he  had  patented 
in  1S56,  and  which  he  manufactured  for  many 
years.  Ifis  was  the  first  iron  water-wheel 
made,  and  nine  different  patents  were  subse- 
ipiently  granted  him  foi-  improvements  u|)on  it. 
These  wheels  found  their  way  all  o\er  the 
country,  some  of  them  also  finding  their  way 
abroad  ;  and  for  years  they  were  considered  the 
best  turbine  wheels  manufactured,  this  fact 
being  thoroughly  developed  some  years  ago  by 
a  comparative  and  competitive  test  of  the 
])rodncts  of  other  makers  of  similar  wheels. 
He  was  also  the  inventor  and  ])atentee  of 
Tyler's  copper  cylinder  washer  for  washing 
l)aper  stock.  In  1S74  he  built  the  reservoir 
known  as  the  Bible  Hill  Aqueduct,  which 
su]iplies  over  two  hundred  families  in  Clare- 
niont village  with  ]nirc  fresh  spring  water  for 
household  pui|)oses.  He  was  a  stockholder  of 
the  Ben  Mere  Inn  at  Sunapee  Lake,  also  in 
the  Woodsum  Steamboat  Company.  In  both 
of  these  enterprises  Mr.  Tyler  was  deeply  in- 
terested. He  not  onl}'  used  his  influence  to 
make  Sunapee  Lake  what  it  is  to-day,  but  he 
opened  his  purse  wide  to  aid  in  its  inijirove- 
ment.  He  was  a  far-seeing  and  sagacious 
business  man.  If  he  started  into  any  kind  of 
business  that  was  backward  in  <:etting  on  to  a 
]iaying  basis,  he  labored  the  harder  for  it. 
He  was  a  stanch  Republican.  He  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  legislature  in  1891-92,  and  his 
record  is  a  clean  one.  He  was  a  public- 
spirited,  genial  man;  and    in  his  death  Clare- 


niont lost  a  most  worthy  citizen.  He  was 
a  lover  of  good  horses,  and  in  his  stables  could 
always  be  found  the  best  blooded  and  hand- 
somest to  be  had.  In  religious  convictions  he 
leaned  toward  the  Universalist  faith;  and  he 
always  attended  divine  worshi])  at  the  I'"irst 
Universalist  Church,  although  never  uniting 
with  the  society."  He  was  a  most  liberal 
man,  and  no  worthy  cause  was  brought  to  his 
notice  that  failed  to  receive  assistance  at  his 
hands.  He  died  at  his  home,  November  28, 
1 896. 

While  a  young  man  working  at  his  trade  in 
Barre,  \'t. ,  he  married  Ko.xalana  Robinson,  of 
that  town,  who  died  on  the  first  anniversary  of 
their  marriage.  Not  long  after  he  married 
Miss  Mary  J.  Smith,  of  Rutland,  Vt.,  with 
whom  he  lived  for  fifty  years,  she  passing  away 
but  a  few  years  since  at  their  home  on  Pleas- 
ant Street.  Mr.  Tyler  married  for  the  third 
time,  October  31,  1S94,  Miss  Anna  Maria, 
daughter  of  Taylor  and  Sybil  (Lawton)  Alex- 
ander, who  survives  him.  .She  is  also  a  Lhii- 
versalist. 


AMUKL  SMITH  PAGE,  who  for 
more  than  forty  years  was  one  of  the 
most  esteemed  residents  of  Ho))kin- 
ton,  was  born  September  30,  1822,  in  Dunbar- 
ton,  N.  H.  He  is  a  descendant  of  Benjamin 
Page,  who  was  born  in  1640,  in  Dedham,  fift)'- 
seven  miles  north-east  of  London,  England. 
In  1660,  on  account  of  religious  differences, 
Benjamin  came  to  America,  locating  in  Haver- 
hill, Mass.,  where  on  September  21,  1666,  he 
married  Mary  Whittior,  who  belonged  to  the 
family  from  which  the  poet,  John  G.  Whit- 
tier,  sprung.  Their  son,  Jeremiah,  the  eldest 
of  a  family  of  sixteen,  born  September  14, 
1667,  was  the  next  ancestor.  He  married 
Deborah  Hendrick,  of  Xewburyport,  Mass., 
July  2,  i6g6;  and  they  reared  seven  children, 


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two   sons   and    five  daughters,    the  sons    being 
Caleb  and  Joshua.      He  died  in  1752. 

Caleb  Page,  the  next  in  line  of  descent,  was 
born  August  16,  1705,  and  died  in  1785.  He 
married  in  172S  or  1729  Ruth  Wallingford, 
of  Boston,  who  died  in  1738.  In  1740  he 
married  a  widow  Carleton,  of  Newbnryport, 
who  weighed  three  hundred  and  fifteen  pounds. 
She,  together  with  a  huge  arm-chair,  now  in 
the  possession  of  the  Stark  family,  had  to  be 
carried  to  meeting  on  an  ox  sled.  In  1749 
Caleb  Page  removed  from  Haverhill,  Mass.,  to 
Atkinson,  N.  H.,  where  he  is  said  to  have 
owned  land  measuring  one  mile  in  opposite 
directions  from  the  site  of  the  present  acad- 
emy. In  1 75 1  he  sold  his  lands  in  Atkinson 
for  his  wife's  weight  in  silver  dollars,  and  lo- 
cated in  Dunbarton,  this  county.  The  country 
was  then  infested  with  Indians;  and  his  daugh- 
ter Elizabeth,  who  later  became  the  wife  of 
General  John  Stark  of  Revolutionary  fame, 
often  stood,  musket  in  hand,  as  guard  at  the 
rude  block-house.  In  1758  Governor  Went- 
worth  appointed  Caleb  Page  Captain  of  Provin- 
cials. The  commission  given  to  him  on  this 
occasion  is  copied  in  full  in  the  History  of 
Dunbarton.  Caleb,  who  is  said  to  have  had  a 
noble  and  benevolent  spirit,  had  ample  means 
to  indulge  his  generous  impulses.  His  money, 
comprising  golden  guineas,  silver  crowns  and 
dollars,  was  kept  in  a  half-bushel  measure 
under  the  bed.  He  owned  many  slaves.  His 
hou.se  was  the  abode  of  hospitality  and  the 
scene  of  many  a  hajjpy  gathering.  In  1753, 
previous  to  receiving  his  Captain's  commis- 
sion, the  governor  sent  him  as  a  guide  with 
Colonel  Lowell,  of  Dunbarton,  Major  Talford, 
of  Chester,  and  General  John  Stark,  to  mark 
out  the  road  from  Stcvenstown,  now  Salisbury, 
to  Coos.  He  was  a  firm  patriot,  and  in  1775 
was  the  first  delegate  from  Dunbarton  and  How 
to    the    Provincial     Congress.      His     children 


were:  Caleb,  Jeremiah,  I'llizabeth,  and  Molly. 
Caleb  Page,  Jr.,  who  held  a  Lieutenant's  com- 
mission in  the  P'rench  and  Indian  War,  to- 
gether with  his  company  was  ambushed  by  Ind- 
ians between  Crown  Point  and  Ticonderoga, 
and  killed  in  the  ensuing  massacre  with  sev- 
eral of  his  men,  January  21,  1757.  Lliza- 
beth,  born  in  1736,  who  died  in  1817,  married 
General  John  Stark,  by  whom  she  had  eight 
children;  namely,  John,  Caleb,  Archibald, 
Charles,  lillen,  Polly,  Sophia,  and  Prank. 
Molly  married  Deacon  James  Russell,  of  Pow. 
Jeremiah  Page,  born  in  August,  1730,  died 
November  29,  1807.  In  1745  he  bought  land 
in  Dunbarton,  and  from  that  time  until  his 
death  was  actively  identified  with  local  affairs. 
He  served  as  Justice  of  the  Peace,  and  did 
most  of  the  surveying  for  Hillsborough 
County.  In  1784  he  was  appointed  Judge  in 
the  New  Hampshire  courts.  In  1752  he  mar- 
ried Sarah  Merrill,  of  Billerica,  Mass.,  who 
was  born  in  1732,  and  died  September  5,  1807. 
Their  children  were:  Caleb,  the  grandfather 
of  Samuel  Smith  Page;  Sarah,  born  in  Dracut, 
Mass.,  December  24,  1754,  who  married  A. 
Stinson,  and  died  in  1835.  Jeremiah,  a  native 
of  Dunbarton,  born  in  1756,  who  tlied  in 
1842;  Achsah,  born  .September  25,  1759,  who 
died  in  1831,  and  whose  successive  husbands 
were  first  B.  Plummer,  Plsq.,  who  died  in 
1816,  and  Captain  C.  Coffin;  Elizabeth,  born 
August  2,  1765,  who  married  William  Ten- 
ney,  and  died  October  22,  1838;  John,  born 
in  1767,  who  married  M.  Story  in  1810,  and 
died  August  14,  1837;  and  Ruth,  born  in 
1770,  who  married  Dr.  S.  Sawyer,  and  died 
June  27,  1804.  Caleb  Page,  the  ihiril  bearer 
of  the  name,  was  born  in  Dracut,  Mass., 
in  April,  1751,  and  died  June  3,  1816.  His 
wife,  Hannah,  bore  him  seven  children,  three 
of  the  sons  being  named  Caleb,  John,  and 
Peter     Carleton.       Peter     Carleton     Page,     the 


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33* 


fatlicr  "f  Siiiiiucl  S.  I'a^je,  was  Ijoni  July  i, 
1783,  and  died  October  15,  1858.  He  niar- 
lied  Miss  Lucy  Smith,  who  was  born  Novem- 
ber 26,  1792,  in  Ilopkintnn.  They  reared 
three  sons;  namely,  Calelj,  Samuel  Smith,  and 
George. 

Samuel  Smith  Page  received  his  education 
in  Pembroke,  Ilopkinton,  and  New  Hampton. 
Ill  health  forced  him  to  abandon  further  study; 
and  at  the  age  of  eighteen  years  he  began 
teaching  school  in  Weston,  Mass.,  where  his 
mathematical  ability  was  well  displayed.  A 
pupil  relates  that  when  the  te.\t-book  was  com- 
|)lcted  the  young  teacher  propounded  questions 
that,  he  said,  had  baffled  Dartmouth  pro- 
fessors, the  class  often  spending  its  energies 
for  a  whole  week  on  some  of  them.  After  his 
marriage  he  bought  the  Grcenough  homestead 
on  Uimond  Hill  on  the  dividing  line  between 
Concord  and  Hopkinton,  and  there  success- 
fully carried  on  general  farming  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  on  Thursday,  October 
22,    [896. 

In  1S52,  June  10,  Mr.  Page  married  Miss 
Kllen  Maria  Cutter,  of  Weston,  Mass.,  one  of 
his  pupils,  who  was  five  years  younger  than 
himself.  He  was  a  man  of  great  intelligence 
and  force  of  character,  having  the  courage  of 
his  convictions,  which  he  was  never  unwilling 
to  express  or  defend.  He  served  several  terms 
as  Moderator  of  Dunbarton,  was  a  member  of 
the  Suijerintending  School  Committee,  and  in 
1864  and  1865  was  one  of  the  Selectmen  of 
Hopkinton.  In  1840  he  imited  with  the  Bap- 
tist church  of  his  native  town,  having  been 
converted  during  a  revival,  and  for  more  than 
half  a  century  after  was  devoted  to  the  Chris- 
tian work  of  that  denomination  as  well  as  to 
the  broader  needs  of  humanity,  his  large  and 
loving  heart  beating  in  sympathy  with  those 
of  every  sect  and  clime.  Throughout  his  long 
illness  he  was    a    most    patient    and    cheerful 


sufferer,  trusting  serenely  in  the  goodness  of 
the  Divine  Master.  His  death  was  a  sad  lo.ss, 
not  only  to  his  immediate  family,  but  to  the 
community  in  which  he  had  so  long  lived. 
The  only  child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Page  was  a 
daughter — Lucie  Elizabeth,  who  is  now  the 
wife  of  Arthur  J5orden,  of  Denver,  Co].,  and 
has  one  child,  Marguerite  Uorden. 


CHERT    W.      IIOIT,    of    Mast    Yard, 


Concord,  N.  H.,  son  of  Robert  H.  and 
-^  V_  ^  Hannah  (Goodwin)  Hoit,  was  born 
July  15,  1859,  on  the  ancestral  estate  on  Horse 
Hill,  Penacook,  where  he  still  makes  his 
home. 

His  great-grandfather,  Oliver  Hoit,  born  in 
November,  1747,  married  first  Rebecca  Gerald, 
and  second  widow  Rhoda  Hoit  Whittier.  He 
had  by  his  first  wife  fifteen  children,  thirteen 
of  whom  lived  to  maturity.  Mrs.  Rebecca  G. 
Hoit  died  in  1S08,  aged  fifty-eight  years ;  and 
Mrs.  Khoda  Hoit  died  in  1851.  Oliver  Hoit 
died  September  11,  1827.  Oliver  Hoit 
settled  in  1772  on  Horse  Hill  in  the  north- 
western part  of  Concord,  being  the  first  settler 
in  that  part  of  the  town.  On  March  7,  1775, 
a  parisii  of  Concord  voted  to  lease  him  the 
eighty-acre  school  lot  for  nine  hundred  years, 
he  paying  six  dollars  annually;  but  this  vote 
was  reconsidered  March  4,  1777,  and  the  Se- 
lectmen were  directed  to  receive  of  him  one 
hundred  dollars  in  full  consideration  for  said 
lot. 

The  son  Enoch,  born  to  Oliver  and  Rebecca, 
August  16,  1783,  eventually  came  into  posses- 
sion of  the  farm.  He  married  a  widow,  Mary 
P'rench  Lloyt,  who  had  five  children  by  her 
former  husband;  namely.  Freeman,  Sewall, 
Mary  French,  William,  and  French  Hoyt. 
The  children  of  Pinoch  and  Mary  Hoit  were  as 
follows:  Robert  B.,  Gillman  T.,  Oliver,  Pris- 


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cilia,  Rosette  raid  Jeanette  (twins),  Henry, 
Enoch,  and  Wyette.  The  twin  to  Oliver  died 
young.  Enoch  Hoit  was  an  industrious 
farmer,  and  added  many  improvements  to  the 
farm.  He  died  July  31,  1S56.  His  wife 
Mary  died  August   i,    184S. 

Their  son,  Robert  B.,  the  next  proprietor 
of  the  homestead,  where  he  was  born,  received 
such  education  as  was  afforded  by  the  district 
schools.  He  was  always  a  farmer;  and,  with 
the  exception  of  a  few  years  in  Massachusetts, 
he  spent  the  whole  of  his  life  on  the  estate, 
which  he  enlarged.  He  built  a  fine  set  of 
brick  buildings  about  thirty  years  ago,  and 
these  still  stand  out  very  prominently  in  the 
town.  He  died  July  18,  1887,  on  his  seven- 
tieth birthday.  He  was  a  very  prominent 
citizen,  and  served  as  Selectman  and  as  Coun- 
cilman, and  was  tw'O  terms  in  the  State 
legislature.  He  married  in  1843  Hannah 
Goodwin.  She  died  April  g,  1896,  aged  sev- 
enty-four years.  They  had  five  children  — 
Katherine  P.,  Mary  F. ,  Luc}',  Willie,  and 
Robert  W.  Eucy  and  Willie  died  young. 
Katherine  P.  Hoit  married  Sherwin  Colby. 
They  reside  in  W^est  Concord,  and  have  four 
children  —  Evelyn  M.,  Kate  P.,  Idella,  and 
Clarence  Colby.  Mary  1'.  Hoit  married 
George  I'rench.  They  reside  in  Boscawen, 
and  have  Jio   children. 

Robert  W.  Hoit,  of  Mast  Yard,  N.  H.,  was 
born  at  the  homestead  on  Horse  Hill,  as  above 
stated,  about  thirty-eight  years  ago.  He  was 
educated  here,  and  has  always  made  this  place 
his  home.  His  father  bequeathed  the  estate 
to  iiim,  and  he  is  now  in  possession.  He  mar- 
ried November  20,  1882,  Bessie  B.  Deatherage, 
whf)  was  born  February  29,  1 864,  at  Wavcrly, 
111. 

Mr.  Hoit  is  a  loyal  Rcpul)lican.  He  is 
known  to  be  keenly  interested  in  all  the  lead- 
ing questions  of   the  day,  and  well  informed  in 


political  and  educational  and  other  public 
matters.  Pie  takes  an  active  part  in  political 
affairs,  and  has  served  as  Councilman.  His 
first  Presidential  vole  was  cast  for  James  A. 
Garfield. 


REDERIC  AUGUSTUS  BRIGGS, 
a  well-known  hotel  man  of  Claremont, 
N.H.,  was  born  in  Charlestown,  this 
State,  September  9,  1838,  son  of  Joseph  Gil- 
man  and  Abigail  (Woods)  Briggs.  Some  in- 
teresting facts  concerning  the  origin  of  the 
Briggs  family  may  be  found  in  Burke's  "Peer- 
age" and  in  the  History  of  the  County  of 
Norfolk,  England,  by  Bloomfield.  It  is 
shown  that  before  the  time  of  Edward  I. 
(1272)  the  representatives  of  the  family  as- 
sumed the  surname  of  De  Ponte  or  Pontibus. 
Many  of  them  from  the  time  of  de  Ponte  de 
Salle,  whose  son  John  was  born  in  1383,  be- 
came men  of  mark,  and  held  high  and  respon- 
sible positions  in  church  and  State,  or  accom- 
plished deeds  of  renown.  One  Thomas 
Brygge,  of  Holt,  in  1392,  in  company  with 
Sir  Thomas  Swinbourne,  made  a  pilgrimage 
to  the  Holy  Sepulchre  ;  and  an  account  thereof, 
written  by  himself,  is  still  extant  in  a  manu- 
script preserved  in  the  library  of  Caius  Col- 
lege, Cambridge  University,  England. 

Thomas  Bryggs,  Rector  of  Risingham  in 
1539,  subsequently  became  Chaplain  to  Lady 
Mary,  sister  of  King  Edward  VI.  He  was 
also  Vicar  of  Kenninghall  and  later  Vicar  of 
Windham.  Henry  Brygge,  born  at  Halifax, 
Yorkshire,  in  1556,  was  a  mathematician.  In 
1617  he  visited  Napier  at  Edinburgh,  and  in- 
duced him  to  make  an  important  change  in 
his  recently  invented  system  of  logarithms. 
Augustine  Briggs,  a  determined  Royalist, 
fought  for  Charles  I.,  joining  the  Earl  of 
Newcastle's  forces,  and  taking  part  in  the 
siege  of  Lynn  in  T643.     Plis  son  William  be- 


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333 


c;iniL'  a  pliysician  and  oculist  of  great  repute, 
and  was  a  friend  of  Sir  Isaac  Newton.  In 
i6<S2  he  i)ul)lisiie(l  a  work  entitled  "Theory  of 
Vision,"  and  tlircc  years  later  a  Latin  version 
of  the  same,  to  wiiieh  Sir  Isaac  Newton  wrote 
the  [ireface. 

The  earliest  mention  of  the  name  Hri};f;s  in 
this  country  apjiears  in  the  records  of  the 
I'lymoLitii  Colony,  wherein  one  Clement  Briggs 
is  said  to  have  arrivetl  in  the  good  ship 
"Fortune,"  November  9,  162 1.  Mention 
was  made  of  him  by  Bradford  in  his  letter  to 
John  Winthrop  in  163 1.  lie  settled  in  Dor- 
chester in  1630-31,  and  married  Joan  Allen. 
Two  years  later  he  removed  to  Weymouth. 
IIl'  had  children  as  follows:  Thomas,  Jona- 
tlian,  John,  David,  Clement,  Redmond,  all  of 
whom,  together  with  his  second  wife,  Eliza- 
beth, executrix,  are  mentioned  in  his  will. 
He  was  born,  it  is  ]iositively  known,  in  Bar- 
mimdsey  Street,  South  wark,  England,  and 
died  July  28,   1659. 

The  line  was  continued  as  follows:  Jona- 
than, the  second  son  of  Clement,  married  and 
had  a  son  Jonathan,  whose  son  John  married 
Ellen  Hewitt,  and  had  William,  who  married 
Ellen  Rice;  and  their  son  I^liphalet,  born  in 
1734  at  Norton,  Mass.,  settled  in  Keene, 
N.  II.,  and  married  Mary  Cobb.  At  the  time 
of  his  death,  October  11,  1776,  he  was  Chair- 
man of  the  Board  of  Selectmen  of  Keene,  one 
of  the  Town  Committee  of  Safety,  and  had 
been  a  delegate  to  the  Safety  Convention  held 
at  Walpole.  This  convention  was  called  by 
order  of  a  subcommittee  of  the  several  Com- 
mittees of  Safety  in  the  county.  He  was 
Captain  in  the  Indian  War.  His  wife  died 
June  9,  1S06,  and  left  Eliphalet,  Jr.,  born  in 
Keene  in  1765,  who  died  in  1827.  He  mar- 
ried lilizabeth  Stiles,  daughter  of  Captain 
Jeremiah  Stiles,  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Keene  and  one  of  its  most  prominent  citizens. 


He  was  Captain  of  the  Kecnc  company  in 
I'aul  Dudey  .Sargent's  regiment,  and  was  at 
the  battles  of  Lexington  and  Bunker  Hill.  He 
was  continually  in  office  from  1765  until  his 
death  in  1800.  He  was  Kecne's  delegate  to 
the  Constitutional  Convention  in  1778. 

Joseph  Oilman  Briggs,  son  of  Eliphalet, 
Jr.,  and  Elizabeth,  and  father  of  Frederic 
Augustus,  was  born  in  Keene,  N.H.,  June 
10,  1805.  He  served  an  ajiprenticcship  as  a 
cabinet-maker  with  his  eldest  brother,  Ivliph- 
alet,  in  Keene.  He  was  a  gifted  and  an  ac- 
complished singer.  He  taught  the  first  sing- 
ing-school in  Keene,  and  for  several  years  was 
the  leader  of  the  First  Congregational  Church 
choir;  and  Miss  Woods,  who  became  his 
wife,  was  his  leading  soprano.  After  his 
marriage  he  removed  to  Montpelier,  Vt., 
where  he  went  into  business,  but  by  the 
urgent  request  of  his  uncle  William,  of 
Charlestown,  N.H.,  he  was  induced  in  1S28 
to  go  to  that  town.  William  Briggs,  of 
Charlestown,  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth,  class 
of  1799,  was  a  lawyer  by  profession  and  a 
stanch  Whig.  In  1824  he  was  appointed  a 
committee  to  build  the  vault  and  stone  work 
of  the  first  Connecticut  River  Bank,  and  was  a 
Director  of  that  institution  during  its  ex- 
istence. He  was  President  of  the  new  bank 
from  its  beginning  until  his  death  in  1847. 
In  that  year  Joseph  G.  Briggs  removed  to 
Claremont,  where  he  engaged  extensively  in 
the  manufacture  of  furniture,  looms,  school 
furnishings,  etc.  He  built  many  houses  in 
town,  including  the  Terrace  School-house. 
He  was  liberal,  and  encouraged  everything 
that  tended  to  the  growth  and  prosperitj'  of  the 
town.  Briggs  Street  was  named  in  i860  by 
the  Selectmen  in  his  honor.  He  married 
Abigail  Woods,  daughter  of  Elijah,  who  was 
the  son  of  William  and  Naomi  (Langley) 
Woods,  the  former  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 


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Keene.  Elijah  Woods  married  Sally  Brown, 
who  was  of  the  sixth  generation  in  descent 
from  Peter  Brown,  one  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers 
who  landed  from  the  "  Mayflower "  at  Plym- 
outh in  1620. 

Joseph  G.  Briggs  died  November  12,  1876. 
His  children  were:  William  Henry;  Joseph 
G. ,  Jr.:  Juliet  P^lizabeth,  born  in  1831,  died 
in  i.S'32;  Sarah  Louisa;  Charles  Lyman; 
Samuel  Edgar;  P^rederic  Augustus;  Abba; 
and  Mary  Elizabeth.  William  Henry  Briggs, 
born  in  1827,  married  ]\Iary  Augusta  Ander- 
son, of  Boston,  Mass.  Joseph  G.,  Jr.,  born 
1830,  married  Ellen  L.  West,  of  Cliarles- 
town,  N.  H.,  was  a  famed  hotel  man  in  his 
day,  and  died  P'ebruary  10,  1894.  Sarah 
Louisa,  born  in  1833,  married  Francis  R. 
Stebbins,  of  Adrian,  Mich.,  one  of  the  pioneers 
of  that  city  and  founder  of  the  Adrian  Ex- 
positor, who  died  in  1S92.  Charles  Lyman, 
born  in  1835,  married  Maria  Hall  Tripler,  of 
New  York,  and  is  proprietor  of  the  Clarendon 
Hotel  and  manager  of  the  "Plorence"  in  that 
city.  Samuel  P^dgar,  born  in  1836,  who  was 
graduated  at  Norwich  University,  Norwich, 
Vt.,  married  Mary  A.  Hoover,  of  Los  An- 
geles, Cal.,  and  died  at  P'itzwilliam,  N.H., 
in  1888.  His  two  children  were:  Mary 
Louisa,  who  died;  and  Lillie,  who  married 
Dr.  MacGowan  in  i8go,  and  resides  in  Los 
Angles,  Cal.  Abba  Briggs,  born  in  1841, 
married  Stephen  Batcheller,  of  Fitzwilliam, 
N.IL,  son  of  Dr.  James  Batcheller,  of  Marl- 
boro, N.  PL  They  have  one  child,  Fanny, 
who  married  Donald  Mclver  Blair,  of  Boston. 
Mary  P^lizabcth  Briggs,  who  was  born  in  1844, 
and  died  in  1874,  married  George  W.  Merri- 
field,  of  Claremont,  N.  H. 

P'rederic  Augustus,  the  seventh  child  of 
his  parents,  and  the  subject  of  our  sketch, 
married  Juliette  Rebecca  Cowles,  daughter  of 
Albert    and    Rebecca   (Wark)   Cowles,   grand- 


daughter of  Leman  and  Clara  (Bunnel) 
Cowles,  and  great-grand-daughter  of  Timothy 
and  Sarah  (Stilson)  Cowles,  of  Farmington, 
Conn.,  who  settled  in  Claremont  in  1780. 
The  children,  all  born  in  Claremont,  except 
Robert  Percy,  are  as  follows:  Abba  Louisa, 
born  April  16,  1863;  Frederic  Augustus,  Jr., 
born  August  8,  1864;  Mary  Rebecca,  born 
March  27,  1866;  Joseph  Albert,  born  Decem- 
ber 24,  1867,  who  married  Margrette  Sur- 
rette,  April  12,  1889,  and  has  a  child, 
Bertha  Augusta,  born  March  6,  1890;  Juli- 
etta  Augusta,  born  October  29,  1869;  Sarah 
Plunice,  born  August  30,  1872,  who  married 
Charles  S.  Wilson,  December  6,  1893,  and 
had  a  child,  Paul  Dunbar,  born  in  Claremont, 
October  22,  1894;  Robert  Percy,  born  in 
New  York  City,  October  2,  1875;  Lilla  Steb- 
bins, born  June  19,  1877;  Justina  Adeline, 
born  P'ebruary  26,  1879;  Emily  Victoria, 
born  May  23,   18S4. 


OBERT     H.     ROLFE,    the    courteous 


and  efficient  cashier  and  ailvcrtising 
^  \^_  ^  manager  of  the  Republican  Press 
Association  at  Concord,  N.IL,  was  born  here, 
October  16,  1S63,  and  is  the  son  of  Henrv 
Pearson  and  Mary  Rebecca  (Sherburne)  Rolfe, 
of  this  city.  In  his  boyhood  he  attended  the 
public  schools  of  Concord,  and,  after  graduat- 
ing" from  the  high  school,  entered  Dartmouth 
College,  where  he  was  graduated  in  the  class 
of  1884.  He  then  for  a  short  time  engaged 
in  the  study  of  law;  but,  feeling  more  inclina- 
tion for  a  business  career,  he  abandoned  the 
thought  of  a  profession,  and  entered  the 
employ  of  the  Boston  &  Lowell  Railroad  as  an 
accountant.  He  afterward  served  the  Boston 
&  Maine  Railroad  in  the  same  capacity.  In 
1889  he  went  to  North  Adams,  Mass.,  as 
assistant  superintendent  of  the  Zylonite  Man- 


I'.IOOkAI'IIICAI,    kl'A'IKW 


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tif.iilmiii;;  Company,  witli  wliicli  concern  lie 
stayed  until  it  was  sold  out  to  the  Celluloid 
Company  of  New  Jersey,  lie  then  returned 
to  Concord,  and  soon  after  was  offered  his 
jiresent  ])osition  of  cashier  and  advertising 
mana.L;cr  of  the  Republican  Press  Association, 
which  he  lillswith  <;reat  acce])tance  to  all  con- 
cerned. y\fler  graduating;'  Irom  college,  hi' 
entered  the  New  Hampshire  National  Guard 
as  a  private  in  Company  C  of  the  Third  Regi- 
ment of  New  Hampshire,  and  has  been  rapidly 
piiuniited  until  tliri'e  years  ago  he  attained  the 
rank  of  Colonel  in  the  regiment,  and  has  held 
it  ever  since. 

Coloiud  Rnlfe  makes  a  line  officer;  and  not 
only  is  he  a  very  popular  young  man  among 
his  own  ]Kirlicular  friends  and  associates,  but 
he  also  possesses  the  gootl  will  of  his  fellow- 
townsmen    generalh'. 


^TORACK  I.eROY  CHOATE,  a  well- 
known  and  res|)ected  farmer  of  Hop- 
kinton,  N.H.,  was  born  in  Ileniii- 
ker,  Merrimack  County,  April  20,  1833,  a  son 
of  George  and  J5etscy  Davis  Choate.  He  is  a 
lineal  descenilant  of  one  John  Choate,  who  was 
a  son  of  Robert  and  Sarah  Choate,  and  was 
ba[itizecl  at  Groton,  l^oxford,  Colchester,  Eng- 
land, June  6,  1624.  In  I''i43  John  emigrated 
to  New  lingland,  an.l  at  the  ago  of  nineteen 
was  a  resident  of  C'hebacco  in  Ipswich,  Mass. 
Soon  after  he  bought  u[)  shares  of  common 
lands  allotted  to  the  proprietors  on  I  log  Island 
(which  acquired  its  name  from  its  resemblance 
to  a  hog  lying  on  its  back  in  the  water),  and 
in  1690  he  was  almost  the  sole  owner  of  its 
three  hundred  acres.  The  earliest  deed 
extant,  dated  in  167S,  was  for  the  site  of  the 
present  Choate  house,  the  birthplace  of  the 
Hon.  Rufus  Choate,  New  England's  great 
jurist   and   advocate.      John    Choate  was   often  I 


in  disgrace,  the  records  showing  that  he  was 
frequently  before  the  magistrates,  and  not  al- 
ways ff)r  the  offence  of  some  one  else.  He  was 
tried  for  stealing  apples,  but  was  acquitted; 
and  he  was  arraigned  for  lying,  hut  the  charge 
was  dismissed.  In  numerous  other  cases  by 
the  use  of  his  own  keen  wit  he  succeeded  in 
evading  punishment,  lie  was  a  natural  liti- 
gant and  lawyer,  and  his  fertility  of  resource 
in  defence  seems  to  have  been  transmitted  to 
his  descendants  with  increasing  power, 

Thomas  Choate,  son  of  the  first  John,  b(irn 
at  Chebacco,  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1671,  resided 
on  Hog  Island.  A  very  prominent  man,  he 
was  familiarly  knowMi  as  Governor  Choate;  anrl 
he  served  as  a  Representative  to  the  General 
Court,  to  which  he  was  first  elected  in  1723, 
for  several  terms.  He'  was  married  succes- 
sively to  Miss  Mary  Varney,  Mrs.  Mary  Calef, 
and  Mrs.  Hannah  Burnham,  and  died  in  1745. 
His  last  wife  survived  him  until  17S2.  His 
son  Ebenezer,  the  ne.xt  in  line  of  descent,  was 
born  in  1706,  and  dieil  in  1766.  Ebenezer 
was  an  innkeeper,  a  Notary  Public,  and  the 
Coroner  of  the  town.  In  1730  he  married 
Miss  I^lizaheth  Greenleaf.  Their  son  John, 
born  December  27,  1745,  in  Newburyport, 
Mass.,  married  January  8,  1767,  Abigail 
Tyler;  and  their  only  child  was  John  Tyler 
Choate.  John  Tyler,  who  was  born  in  New- 
buryport, July  II,  1768,  married  Hannah 
Pearson,  also  a  native  of  Newburyport,  born 
July  15,  1770.  After  their  marriage  they 
removetl  to  Hopkinton,  N.II.,  locating  first 
near  the  centre  of  the  town.  Afterward  they 
removed  to  the  part  in  which  his  grandson, 
Horace  I.eRoy,  lives.  John  Tyler  subse- 
quently acquired  the  adjoining  farm,  where  he 
afterward  carried  on  farming  and  worked  at 
his  trade  of  blacksmith  until  his  demise  on 
February  20,  1844.  Shortly  after  his  widow 
with   her  eldest   child  wont  to  Underbill,  Vt., 


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where  her  death  occurred,  November  14,  1S48. 
Their  children  were:  Susanna,  Nabby,  John 
Tyler,  Michael,  Isaac  Newton,  Polly,  George, 
Tlionias,  Ebenezer,  Thirza,  Benjamin,  Aaron, 
Langdon,  and  William  Pearson.  Susanna, 
born  March  2,  1790,  married  first  Amos  John- 
son, second  James  Dodge,  and  died  April  6, 
1870.  Nabby,  born  October  4,  1791,  died  in 
infancy.  John  Tyler,  born  October  21,  1792, 
first  married  Abiah  Stanley.  After  her  death 
lie  wedded  Mrs.  Lydia  Powell  Lincoln,  and 
died  August  18,  1S71.  Michael,  bom  August 
12,  1794,  died  two  days  later.  Isaac  Newton, 
burn  June  i,  1795,  successively  married 
Amarilla  Bostwick  and  Elizabeth  Chamber- 
lain, and  died  in  March,  1870.  Polly,  born 
April  6,  1797,  died  April  i,  1829.  George, 
born  January  5,  1799,  died  Sei^tember  13, 
1SS8.  Thomas,  born  September  8,  1800, 
married  Harriet  Swan,  and  died  March  13, 
1885.  Ebenezer,  born  April  15,  1802,  who 
successively  married  Phebe  Hanson  Hull 
and  ]5etsey  Harvey,  died  in  April,  1882. 
Thirza,  born  November  24,  1803,  married 
Marshall  Morse,  and  died  March  28,  1885. 
Benjamin,  born  June  16,  1805,  married  Mar- 
garet Stearns,  and  died  March  15,  1858. 
Aaron,  born  November  28,  1807,  died  January 
3,  1888.  Langdon,  born  September  7,  1810, 
married  Deborah  V.  Jones,  anti  is  now  living 
in  Hamilton,  Hancock  County,  III.  William 
Pearson,  born  February  10,  1812,  married 
Martha  Bailey,  and  died  October  29,   1879. 

George  Choate  was  a  mason  and  a  black- 
smith in  the  village  of  Henniker  for  many 
years.  Coming  from  there  to  Hopkinton  in 
1836,  he  settled  on  the  present  homestead 
farm,  where  he  resided  until  liis  death.  Dur- 
ing the  last  ten  years  of  his  life  he  was  an 
invalid.  He  was  celebrated  as  a  fifer  in  the 
time  of  the  old  militia.  In  his  later  years, 
accompanied    by   the   late  Jonah    Campbell,  a 


famous  drummer,  he  used  to  furnish  music 
at  all  public  functions.  In  March,  1832,  he 
married  Betsey  Davis,  who  was  born  March  8, 
1808,  in  Hopkinton,  daughter  of  Abraham  and 
Priscilla  (Currier)  Davis.  She  died  February 
8,  1880,  leaving  two  children — Horace  LeRoy 
and  Lizzie  Annie.  Lizzie  Annie,  born  Sep- 
tember 13,  1839,  on  December  10,  1S73, 
married  Nathan  S.  Smith,  of  Salem,  N.IL, 
and  died  January  15,   1890,  leaving  no  issue. 

Horace  LeRoy  Choate  worked  at  the 
mason's  trade  in  his  earlier  life.  Afterward 
he  was  employed  in  a  mill  at  Manchester,  this 
State,  for  a  time,  and  then  spent  a  year  with 
his  uncle  in  Illinois.  Returning  to  New 
Hampshire,  he  was  engaged  as  a  meat  dealer 
in  Concord  for  three  or  four  years.  In  that 
period  he  was  also  deputy  keeper  of  the  Mer- 
rimack County  jail.  He  assumed  the  manage- 
ment of  the  old  home  farm  in  1859,  and  has 
since  resided  there,  successfully  engaged  in 
general  agriculture.  Mr.  Choate  has  been 
twice  married.  On  December  10,  1863,  Mary 
Mabel  Heath,  daughter  of  Christopher  and 
Sarah  (Call)  Heath,  became  his  wife.  She 
was  born  June  3,  1835,  in  Pittsburg,  N.H., 
and  died  on  the  homestead,  November  i,  1882. 
On  December  10,  1883,  the  twentieth  anniver- 
sary of  his  first  marriage,  and  the  tenth  anni- 
versary of  his  sister's  wedding,  he  married 
Frances  Emma  Coomes,  a  widow,  and  a  daugh- 
ter of  Cyrus  and  Hannah  (Rand)  Ford.  She  was 
born  in  Monroe,  Me.,  December  12,  1842,  and 
died  August  13,  1890.  For  the  past  five  years 
Mr.  Choate  has  had  the  services  of  Mrs.  Nancy 
B.  Silver,  one  of  the  frienils  of  his  early  life, 
in  the  capacity  of  housekeeper.  In  [lolitics  he 
is  a  stanch  Democrat,  but  he  has  never  been 
an  aspirant  for  official  honors.  He  has  always 
been  a  devotee  of  the  rod  and  gun,  being  as 
fond  of  angling  as  Isaac  Walton  himself,  and 
as  keen  a  sportsman  as  ever  handled  a  rifle. 


BIOGRAIMIK  AL    RK\IKW 


3,?7 


ii:v.  iii'-.Nin'  HARRISON  hart 

W'l'",  1,1.    is    ;in    esteemed   resident    of 
'■-^  ^  /MKiisluwii,  where  he  has  served  for 

a  hni;;  time  as  Superintendent  of  Schools  and 
in  otlicr  im[)c)rtant  town  offices.  He  was  born 
in  I  Iillsboron<;h,  N.ll.,  Octoi)er  i8,  1819,  son 
of  William  and  Ik'tsey  (Wilkins)  llartwell. 
1  lis  j;r.indf,ither,  Juhn  ll.iilwell,  was  a  typical 
New  Hampshire  man,  strong-  in  mind  and 
body,  and  respected  by  all  who  knew  him. 
John  llartwell  taught  school  in  early  life.  In 
1724  he  was  1  Highway  Surveyor;  and  in  1757 
he  was  Selectman  of  Concord,  N.H.  A  mem- 
ber of  the  State  militia,  he  was  Ensign  some 
time  previous  to  1741.  He  married  Mary, 
(laughter  of  Job  and  Mary  (llartwell)  Parling, 
and  reared  a  large  family.  His  son,  William, 
born  August  26,  1795,  '"  Hillsborough, 
besides  working  at  iiis  trade  of  carpenter,  also 
cultivated  a  farm.  An  industrious  man  and 
endowed  with  great  bodily  strength,  William 
looked  for  little  lei.sure  during  his  life.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Democrat,  in  religious  belief 
a  iMethodist.  He  died  April  14,  1861,  and 
his  wife  died  at  the  age  of  eighty-four. 
I^leven  children  were  born  to  them,  two  ilaugh- 
ters  ami  nine  sons.  Of  these  the  survivors 
are:  Henry  Harrison  and  Elizabeth  J.  The 
latter  is  the  wife  of  William  H.  Collins,  of 
Canibiidge,  Mass.,  and  the  mother  of  three 
children —  Ilattie,   Herbert,  and  Annie. 

Henry  Harrison  llartwell  acquired  most  of 
his  education  in  his  native  town.  He  became 
a  member  of  the  New  Hamiishii-e  Annual  Con- 
ference when  he  was  twenty  years  old,  and 
for  a  great  many  years  labored  as  a  Meth- 
odist pastor  in  Great  Falls,  Rochester,  New 
Market,  Manchester,  Nashua,  Lawrence,  Ports- 
mouth, and  other  places.  He  had  been  a  zeal- 
ous worker  in  the  Christian  vineyard  for  forty 
years,  when  his  voice  failed,  and  he  was 
obliged    to    retire.      Afterward    he    spent    four 


years  in  California  and  Nevada,  resting  and 
recuperating,  and  then  took  up  the  auction  and 
connnission  business  in  Allenstown,  in  whicli 
he  is  at  present  engaged.  He  moved  to  this 
place  in  1867,  and  in  the  thirty  ycar.s  of  his 
residence  here  he  has  helil  the  respect  of  iiis 
townsmen.  In  jjolitics  he  is  independent. 
He  has  served  in  the  capacity  of  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  twenty  years.  He  has  been  Ta.\ 
Collector  of  Allenstown  for  a  number  of  years, 
.Superintendent  of  .Schools  for  eleven  years, 
and  Chairman  of  the  Hoard  of  Selectmen  for 
one  year. 

Mr.  llartwell  was  married  May  i,  1842,  to 
Flora  Ann  Swett,  of  Webster,  N.H.,  who  died 
in  September,  1858.  She  was  the  mother  of 
four  children,  of  whom  Charles  H.  and  Leon 
I.  are  living.  Charles  married  Flora  Moore, 
of  Lawrence,  Mass.  Leon  has  been  twice 
married,  and  has  two  children — -Harry  and 
Warren  W.,  respectively  borne  by  his  first 
and  second  wives.  His  second  wife,  who  is 
living,  was  Miss  Bertha  Wheeler,  of  Salem, 
N.H.  The  Rev.  Mr.  llartwell  contracted  a 
second  marriage  April  10,  1861,  with  Mrs. 
-Sarah  Sargeant  Hirsch,  a  daughter  of  Major 
Sterling  Sargeant.  By  this  union  he  has  one 
child.  Flora  A.,  who  is  now  the  wife  of  Park 
Mitchell,  of  Manchester,  N.H.,  and  has  three 
children  —  Emma  May,  I'lorence  S.,  and 
Henry  O.  Mrs.  llartwell  died  May  19,  1S97, 
nearly  seventy-three  years  old. 


OHN  E.  FRI-:NCH,  one  of  the  leading 
men  of  affairs  of  Bradford,  Merrimack 
County,  was  born  in  this  town,  Febru- 
ary 27,  1843.  He  is  a  son  of  Daniel  French, 
and  the  grandson  of  Offin  French,  an  early 
settler  of  Bradford. 

Offin  l""rench    was    born  in  South    Hampton, 
N.H.,  in  1761 ;  and  when  but  a  boy  he  entered 


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the  Revolutionary  army,  in  whicli  he  served 
until  the  close  of  the  war.  At  the  battle  of 
Bennington  he  became  acquaintetl  with  Paskey 
Pressy,  one  of  the  brave  soldiers  who  enlisted 
from  Warner;  and  after  the  war  was  over  he 
came  to  Bradford,  N.H.,  and,  continuing  the 
acquaintance  formed  on  tlie  battlefield,  met, 
wooed,  and  won  as  his  wife,  Susannah,  a 
daughter  of  Mr.  Pressy.  After  marriage  the 
young  couple  settled  on  a  farm  one-half  mile 
east  of  Bradford  Centre;  and  here  were  born 
and  reared  their  children,  thirteen  in  number. 
Offin  French  lived  to  the  age  of  threescore 
years  and  ten;  and  his  wife,  who  was  born 
some  years  later  than  he,  died  within  the 
remembrance  of  her  grandson,  John  E.,  at  the 
age  of  eighty-seven  years. 

Daniel  l-'rench  came  into  possession  of  the 
old  homestead,  and  cared  for  his  parents  in 
their  declining  years.  He  afterward  settled 
on  a  place  a  third  of  a  mile  north-east  of  Brad- 
ford, where  he  farmed  for  twenty-eight  years, 
removing  then  to  the  village,  in  which  he 
lived  until  his  death  in  1867,  aged  threescore 
and  ten  years.  His  wife  survived  him,  tlying 
in  1876,  aged  seventy-si.x  years.  Her  maiden 
name  was  Abigail  Cressy.  She  was  born  in 
Bradford,  and  was  a  daughter  of  John  Cressy, 
whose  father  was  a  soldier  in  the  French  and 
Indian  War,  and  also  in  the  Revolution,  prob- 
ably serving  from  Bradford.  Daniel  and  Abi- 
gail (Cressy)  French  were  the  parents  of  five 
children,  namely:  Mary  Jane,  widow  of  J.  V. 
Marshall,  living  at  Hawk's  Park,  F"la. ;  Ira 
C  ,  for  some  years  a  merchant  in  Bradford, 
subsequently  engaged  in  the  same  line  of  busi- 
ness in  Lansingburg,  N.Y.,  where  he  died  at 
the  age  of  fifty-seven  years;  Sabria  A.,  the 
widow  of  Frederick  Cheney,  living  in  this 
town;  Christina  P.,  the  wife  of  Thomas 
Little,  of  Peterboro,  N.II.;  and  John  K.,  the 
direct  subject  of  this  biography. 


John  E.  French  lived  on  the  home  farm 
until  fifteen  years  of  age,  when  he  came  to  the 
village,  where  he  learned  the  tinner's  trade. 
While  serving  his  apprenticeship  of  three 
years,  he  was  given  three  months'  schooling 
each  year,  and  at  the  end  of  the  time  received 
two  hundred  and  ten  dollars  in  cash.  He  fol- 
lowed his  trade  four  years  here  and  in  Sutton, 
and  was  then  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
in  Bradford  for  seven  years,  keeping  a  store 
well  stocked  with  a  general  line  of  hardware, 
and  running  eight  or  ten  pedlers'  carts.  Dis- 
posing of  his  entire  stock,  he  then  embarked 
in  the  lumber  business,  buying,  in  partnership 
with  George  W.  Tucker,  of  this  place,  large 
tracts  of  land,  often  including  whole  farms, 
for  the  sake  of  the  timber,  which  they  manu- 
factured into  lumber  of  all  kintls.  P'or  ten 
years  Mr.  French  has  been  engaged  to  some 
extent  in  settling  estates,  the  last  three  years 
of  the  time  making  that  business  a  specialty, 
and  in  the  meantime  he  has  had  the  guardian- 
ship of  several  minors,  insane  persons,  and 
others  debarred  for  special  reasons  from  look- 
ing after  tlieir  own  interests.  He  is  one  of 
the  Directors  of  the  Citizens'  National  Bank 
of  Newport,  N.II.,  and  has  a  large  interest  in 
a  sheep  ranch  in  Wyoming.  As  a  loyal  and 
faithful  citizen  he  takes  an  active  interest  in 
public  affairs.  He  has  held  the  office  of 
Selectman;  and  in  1879  he  was  a  Representa- 
tive to  the  State  legislature,  serving  while 
there  on  the  Mining  Committee.  He  is  a 
sound  Democrat,  influential  in  ]iolitical  circles, 
attending  all  the  county  and  State  conven- 
tions, and  was  one  of  the  ninety  that  walked 
out  of  the  State  Convention  in  i8g6.  He  has 
been  a  member  of  the  State  Committee  three 
terms. 

Mr.  French  was  married  September  15, 
1873,  to  Mis.i  Emma  F.  Day,  who  was  born  in 
Orford,  N.  H.,  but  was  reared  and  educated    in 


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CiiiiCdid.  lie  was  made  a  Mason  in  St.  I'ctcr's 
I,()(lj;c,  1'.  &  A.  M.,  iif  this  town,  one  of  the 
oldest  lodges  in  tlie  country,  and  is  a  mem- 
ber of  Woods  Chapter,  R.  A.  M.,  of  llen- 
niker,  in  wiiicii  he  has  served  in  various 
official  capacities.  Mr.  I-'rench  is  a  noted 
sportsman,  and  has  shot  more  fo.xes  tlian  any 
otiier  man  in  Meiriniack  Ccjunty.  lie  is  a 
good  marksman,  very  successful  in  duck  and 
partridge  shooting,  and  an  expert  at  trout  and 
salmon  fishing. 


IFARLKS    E.    ]'UTNI<:Y,   a  farmer    of 


high  staufling  in  Webster,  N.  II.,  is  a 
native  of  that  place.  lie  was  born 
June  lo,  1827,  the  son  of  Stephen  and  Sallie 
(I'^astman)  Putney.  Mis  father,  who  was  born 
I'-ebruary  12,  1765,  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revo- 
lutionary War,  serving  in  1780  and  17S1.  lie 
afterward  purchased  the  farm  where  Charles 
K.  now  lives,  and  settled  down  there.  He 
was  marrieil  three  times,  first  to  Sallie  K. 
Eastman,  of  Hopkinton,  who  died  in  i.Sog; 
second  to  Susan  Eastman,  who  ilied  in  Sep- 
tember, KS20;  and  then  to  Sallie  Eastman, 
who  died  April  6,  i<S67,  aged  seventy-nine 
years.  The  three  wives  were  cousins.  Hy 
the  first  marriage  there  were  six  chiklren  — 
Nelson,  Enoch,  True,  Pluma,  Anna,  and 
Stcjihcn.  The  chiUIren  of  the  second  mar- 
riage were  five  in  number — Clarissa,  Sarah, 
David,  Lucy,  Azariah ;  and  of  the  third  there 
were  four:  Charles  Monroe,  who  died  in  in- 
fancy; Mary  Angeline;  Charles  E. ;  and 
Samantha  S.  Mary  A.  was  born  July  6,  1825, 
and  died  July  20,  1825.  Samantha  S.,  born 
August  3,  1829,  married  Dustin  Spaulding, 
now  a  carpenter  in  Contoocook,  N.II.,  where 
they  now  reside. 

Charles  E.  Putney,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  receivetl  the  orilinary  education 
afforded   by   the   common   schools,  and   always 


lived  at  home  with  his  parents.  After  his 
marriage  he  took  charge  of  the  old  homestead, 
and  carried  on  farming  until  his  retirement  a 
few  years  ago,  when  his  son,  Charles  H.,  be- 
came manager  of  the  property.  The  old  farm 
embraces  about  one  hundred  and  sixty  acres, 
and  Charles  H.  owns  another  farm  of  one  hun- 
dred and  seventy-five  acres.  15oth  places  are 
kept  well  uj)  to  the  times,  and  a  general  farm- 
ing business  is  pursued. 

Mr.  Putney  was  married  December  26, 
1850,  to  Susan  C.  Sanborn,  of  Webster,  a 
daughter  of  John  and  Rebecca  (Coffin)  San- 
born, both  of  Boscawcn.  She  was  born  Octo- 
ber 20,  1830.  Her  father  was  a  farmer  in  that 
place,  and  in  the  sledding  season  he  engaged 
somewhat  in  drawing  lumber.  He  died 
August  30,  1887,  aged  eighty-eight,  his  wife 
having  died  November  26,  1869.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Sanborn  had  ten  children;  namely, 
Abbie,  Moses,  Susan,  Emily,  John,  Ellen, 
Charles,  Sarah,  Hannah,  and  Henry.  This 
large  family  is  now  widely  separated,  as  fol- 
lows: Abbie  is  in  Reading,  Mass.;  Moses,  in 
Concord;  John  is  deceased;  Ellen  lives  in 
Wakefield,  Mass.;  Charles  married  Jennie 
Colby,  of  Salisbury,  and  lives  in  Webster,  as 
does  also  Sarah,  who  married  I.  !•'.  Ualch,  of 
Lyme,  N.II.  ;  Emily  lives  in  Penacook;  Han- 
nah,  in  Chicago;  and  Henry,   in   Xenia,  Ohio. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Putney  have  five  children  — 
Ida  J.,  Charles  H.,  John  S.,  Cora  E.,  and 
Bertha  M.  Ida  J.  was  born  October  24,  1851, 
and  is  now  a  dressmaker  in  Concord.  Charles 
H.  Putney  was  born  February  19,  1853,  and  is 
a  carpenter  by  trade,  but  now  has  charge  of  the 
homestead  farm,  as  stated  above,  still,  how- 
ever, doing  some  carpentering.  He  has  been 
Collector  of  Taxes  for  several  years,  and  still 
holds  that  position.  John  S.  Putney  was  born 
January  27,  1855,  and  is  in  the  gravel,  sand, 
and  cement  business  in  Chicago.     He  married 


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Lucile  Melton,  of  St.  Louis,  Mo.  ;  and  they 
have  one  child,  John  S.,  Jr.  Cora  E.  Putney 
was  born  September  28,  1857,  and  is  a  suc- 
cessful school  teacher,  having  taught  schools 
in  Concord,  N.H.,  and  vicinity.  Bertha  M. 
was  born  July  6,  1868,  and  became  the  wife  of 
Eilward  Little,  a  farmer  formerly  of  Massachu- 
setts, but  now  living  in  Webster.  They  have 
one  child,  Gladys  Susan.  These  five  children 
were  all  given  the  benefit  of  the  education 
afforded  by  the  best  schools. 

r^Ir.  Putney  is  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He 
has  been  Justice  of  the  Peace  and  Prudential 
School  Committee.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are 
members  of  the  Congregational  Church  of 
Webster.  He  has  always  been  an  active, 
energetic  man,  has  been  successful  in  his  life 
work,  and  is  much  respected  in  the  community. 


^tephp:n     ALDEN      TRACY,     a 

well-known  resident  of  Cornish, 
was  born  here,  October  31,  1833, 
son  of  Stephen  and  .Sarah  (Alden)  ^"racy. 
The  family  is  one  of  the  oldest  in  this  coun- 
try, and  traces  its  descent  to  Lieutenant 
Thomas  Tracy,  who  came  from  England  in 
1636  and  settled  in  Connecticut.  Lieutenant 
Tracy  was  son  of  Nathaniel  and  grandson  of 
Richard  Tracy,  of  Stanway,  England.  Na- 
thaniel's eldest  brother  was  made  a  baronet 
by  King  James  I.  on  June  29,  161 1,  being  the 
thirteenth  of  the  order  created  by  James.  The 
Tracy  coat  of  arms,  in  the  possession  of  the 
family,  shows  the  scallop  shell  (indicating 
that  some  ancestor  was  a  Crusader)  between 
two  narrow  red  bands,  and  a  crest  surmounted 
by  a  shell  between  two  wings  of  gold,  with  the 
motto,  "Memoiia  Pii  -Eterna. "  The  line  of 
descent  from  Lieutenant  Tracy  is  through 
Thomas,  Jr.,  father  of  Jeremiah  Tracy.  An- 
drew,   the   ne.Nt    in    descent,    lived    in    Lisbon, 


Conn.  He  married  Ruth  Smith,  daughter  of 
Captain  Elijah  .Smith,  of  Barnstable,  Mass., 
and  had  eleven  children.  His  son  Andrew, 
Jr.,  born  March  17,  1750,  who  died  Decem- 
ber 28,  1S19,  was  the  first  to  come  to  Cor- 
nish. This  Andrew  married  Annie  f^ingham, 
of  \Vindham,  Conn.,  whose  children  by  him 
were:  Lemuel,  Ruth,  Lucy,  Elias,  Stephen, 
Anna,  Andrew,  and  Jesse.  Lemuel,  born 
July  29,  1773,  who  married  Phcebe  Parker, 
had  moved  to  Cornish  with  his  father  in  1783; 
and  they  were  the  first  settlers  of  the  family  in 
this  section.  The  Tracy  homestead,  which  is 
one  of  the  oldest  houses  in  the  town,  was  built 
in  1793.  It  has  since  been  remodelled  ;  but  the 
solid,  oaken  timbers  are  still  intact,  and  strong 
enough  to  last  another  century.  Lemuel  died 
in  Claremont.  Ruth,  born  March  30,  1775, 
died  unmarried,  October  17,  1856.  Lucy, 
born  November  4,  1777,  tlied  unmarried, 
April  20,  1824.  P^lias,  born  in  Lisbon, 
Conn.,  January  22,  1780,  was  a  cripple,  and 
supported  himself  by  making  gloves.  He  died 
June  20,  1850.  Anna,  the  first  of  the  family 
born  in  Cornish,  died  March  i,  1S30,  aged 
forty-si.\  years.  Andrew,  born  January  21, 
1789,  died  in  Vermont,  January  8,  1S64.  He 
was  a  farmer  and  had  cpiite  a  family  of  chil- 
dren. Jesse,  born  March  21,  1792,  died  Au- 
gust 30,  1857.  He  was  married  and  had  sev- 
eral children. 

Stephen  Tracy,  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  born  July  2,  1782,  and  died  at 
Cornish,  October  23,  1865.  He  was  a  cabi- 
net-maker, and  worked  at  his  trade  in  Plain- 
field  and  in  Connecticut.  After  the  death  of 
his  father  he  returned  to  the  homestead,  and 
managed  the  fai'm  foi"  the  remainder  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church.  Though  interested  in  jiublic 
affairs,  he  never  cared  for  political  honors  and 
nevei'   held    a    town    orfu-e.      lie   first    married 


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Rel)ccc:i  Tracy,  "f  T.islion  ;  and  she  bore  him 
thix'c    cliildrcii  —  Virginia,     Kliza,    and    Very 
Ann,  all  nf   wlicini   are  deceased.      Mis  second 
wile,   lictscy  15(ianlni;in  Tracy,  who  came   fnmi 
Vermont,    gave    birth    to    five    children — l\e- 
becca,  William    N.,  Sabra   S.,  George  B.,  and 
Jonas    15.       Rcbcna,     burn    August    25,     iSiS, 
married  blbenezer  Cole,  a  farmer,  and   had   one 
child.      .She  died    November    16,    1S93.      Will- 
iam,   burn   May  30,    1820,  died  in   California, 
August    12,     1 894.      lie    married    Harriet    T. 
Kellcy,  a  widow,  and  was  a   watchman    in   the 
office  of  the  State  Treasurer  at  .Sacramento  for 
some  years.      Sabra,  born   May  23,    1822,  died 
February    6,     1S85.      She    married    the     Rev. 
J.     B.    Ramsey,     of    Virginia,    and     was    the 
mother  of  three    children.      George    B.,    born 
March    15,    1826,  a   soldier   in   the   Civil  War, 
was  wounded  in  the  ankle  at  the  battle  of  the 
Wilderness,  and   died   at  Washington,  June  6, 
1864,  just  a  month   after   that.        It    is  related 
of  him,  concerning   that   occasion,  that   he    lay 
fur   twenty  hours   between    the   battle    lines   of 
the  two  armies,  where   he  was   almost   covered 
with  the   earth    ploughed   up   by  cannon    balls, 
and  that  some  Southern  soldiers,  who  held  the 
grounil  for  a  space,  took  away  his  ammunition, 
lie  married  -Sarah  Ilibbard,  of  Cornish.      Jonas 
]].,  born  March    25,    1S28,  was   twice   married. 
His   first  wife,    Ruth    M.   Wood  Tracy,  had  no 
childi"en.        His    second    marriage    was     made 
with  Mrs.    Laura   A.     Stevens,    of    Wisconsin, 
who  bore   him    three    children.      He    is   Town 
Treasurer    of    Milton,    Wis.,     and     a    popular 
school  teacher  of   that  town.      Stephen  Tracy's 
third     marriage    was    contracted     with     Sarah 
Alden,  a  descendant  in  the  seventh   generation 
of  John  and  Priscilla  Alden,  who  came  over  in 
the  "Mayflower."     Born   in   Lebanon,    N.H., 
November  i,    1790,  she  died  October  14,  1867. 
Her  three  children  were:  Sarah   E. ,  born   Oc- 
tober 10,  1 83 1  ;  Stephen  Alden,  the  subject  of 


this  sketch;  and  Caroline  S.,  born  (Jctober  8, 
1835.  Caroline  married  Charles  S.  Cahill,  a 
prominent  cigar  manufacturer  of  Lowell, 
Mass.,  who  died  in  the  spring  of  1894. 

.Stephen  Alden   Tracy   received    his    educa- 
tion   in    the    public    schoids  of    Cornish    and 
at    Thetford    Academy,    Vt.      After    finishing 
school,  he  went   West  and  was  three  years  in 
the  lumber  districts  of  Wisconsin.      He  then 
returned  to  Cornish  to  care  for  his  parents  in 
their  old  age  and  to  manage  the  farm.      He  has 
always  been  a  prominent  figure   in  the  social 
and    political    life   of    the   town.      In     1S75-76 
he  was    a    Representative  to    the    legislature; 
and  he  was  Selectman    for    five   years,   being 
Chairman  of  the   Board   for  three  years.      He 
has  also  served  on  the   .School   Board   for  some 
years.       While    in     the    legislature    he    was    a 
member  of  the  Committee  on   Insurance,  and 
he  is  well   informed  on  all   matters  pertaining 
to    that    subject.      He     attends     the     Baptist 
church  of    I'lainfield,   and    is  a   Mason   and    a 
prominent  member  of  the  grange.      Mr.  Tracy 
has    been    twice    married.      He    first    married 
I'jiiily   ]•"..   Norris,   of   Cornish,   who   died   June 
19,    1862.      His   second   marriage,   which   took 
place  August   31,   1865,  united  him   to  Agnes 
Bailey,     daughter    of    John    and     Eliza    Ann 
Bailey,   of  Enfield,    N.  H.      She   has   been  the 
mother   of   seven    children;  namely,    Franklin 
B.,  Emily,  Evelyn  A.,  Charles  A.,  Ellen   N., 
William   B. ,    and    Sarah    E.      Franklin,    born 
October    15,    1866,    and  educated  at  Kimball 
Academy,   is  a  member  of  the  firm    of    Stone, 
Tracy  &  Co.,    of   Windsor,   Vt.      He   married 
Ida  Stone,  daughter  of  Samuel   N.  Stone,  who 
is  a  partner  in   the  business.      They  have  one 
son  —  Gordon  S. ,  born  April  2,  1S95.      Emily 
Tracy,  born  September  12,  1868,  who  was  edu- 
cated at  Kimball  Academy,  is  a  teacher  at  Gor- 
ham,  this  State.  '  Evelyn  A.,  born  October  2, 
1870,  who  was  educated  at  Kimball  Academy 


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and  at  New  London,  N.  M.,  is  also  a  graduate 
of  the  business  college  at  Worcester,  Mass. 
Charles  A.,  born  November  i6,  1872,  is  in 
the  Senior  class  at  Dartmouth  College.  Ellen 
N.,  born  May  8,  1875,  is  a  teacher  of  marked 
ability  and  success.  William  B.,  born  Octo- 
ber 24,  1S77,  who  was  educated  at  Windsor, 
\'t. ,  is  at  home  with  his  father  and  mother. 
Sarah  E. ,  born  April  20,  1881,  is  a  student  in 
the  high  school  at  Windsor. 


ARON  L.  BROWN,  of  North  Grant- 
ham, the  second  rej^resentative  of  his 
family  in  the  ownership  of  his  farm, 
was  born  February  i,  1828,  son  of  Jonathan 
and  Mehitable  (Stevens)  Brown.  The  family 
name  is  well  known  in  every  country  where 
the  English  language  is  spoken.  In  America 
Browns  have  been  prominent  statesmen,  edu- 
cators, and  soldiers.  Jonathan  Brown,  the 
great-grandfather  of  Aaron  L.,  was  a  patriot 
soldier  of  the  Revolution.  He  was  the  first 
ancestor  of  this  family  to  come  to  this  country. 
II is  son,  Jonathan  Biown,  Jr.,  was  the  first  of 
the  family  to  settle  in  the  town  of  Grantham. 
This  was  nearly  one  hundred  years  ago,  in  the 
early  days  of  the  town.  Jonathan,  Jr.,  who 
was  an  industrious  and  well-to-do  farmer,  took 
an  active  interest  in  the  affairs  of  the  town, 
but  never  aspired  to  public  office.  He  mar- 
ried -Sarah  Ouimby;  and  they  had  a  family  of 
seven  children  —  Jacob,  Nancy,  Jonathan, 
Sarah,  Aaron,  Sanborn,  and  Lyman.  Jacob 
married  in  New  York  State,  where  he  spent 
the  greater  ].iart  of  his  life,  chiefly  occujiicd 
in  farming.  Nancy  married  Asa  Clark,  of 
Grantham,  a  farmer  and  carjienter.  Sarah 
became  Mrs.  David  ]'"rye,  of  Grantham. 
Aaron,  who  was  a  farmer  and  conducted  a 
grist-mill,  lived  in  Canada.  .Sanborn  was  a 
carpenter   and  farmer  of   this    town.      Lyman 


lived  in  Boston  during  the  greater  part  of  liis 
life,  and  carried  on  an  extensive  milk  business. 
Jonathan  l^rown,  the  third  bearer  of  the 
name  and  the  father  of  Aaron  L. ,  born  at  Can- 
dia,  N.H.,  June  23,  1795,  died  November  15, 
1 868.  He  came  to  Grantham  when  two  years 
old,  and  received  his  education  in  the  jjublic 
schools  here.  After  leaving  school,  he  worked 
on  the  farm  with  his  father;  and  upon  the  death 
of  the  latter  he  took  entire  charge.  As  a 
farmer  he  was  progressive,  and  as  a  citizen 
energetic  of  the  estate.  Recognized  by  his 
fellow-townsmen  as  a  man  of  ability,  they 
sent  him  t(j  the  State  legislature  in  1845  and 
1S46.  He  was  a  member  and  a  steward  of  the 
Methodist  church.  Of  his  nine  children  the 
fourth-born  died  in  infancy,  before  it  was 
christened.  The  others  were  :  John  N.,  Orvil 
C,  Aaron  L.,  Sarah  A.,  Sarah  A.  (second), 
Jonathan,  Arabella  A.,  and  Hannah  E.  John 
N.,  born  June    11,   1S23,  who   died    November 

28,  1862,  was  a  storekeeper,  and  served  the 
town  in  the  capacities  of  Sheriff  and  Select- 
man. He  married  Eliza  Roundy,  and  had  two 
children  —  Ann  K.  and  Charles  W.  Orvil  C, 
born  April  27,  1826,  had  finished  his  education 
and  had  taught  school  for  a  short  time  when  he 
died,  January  24,   1853.      Sarah    A.,  born  May 

29,  1S30,  died  October  10,  1832.  Sarah  A. 
(second),  born  October  7,  1833,  died  in  1851. 
Jonathan,  the  fourth  bearer  of  the  name,  born 
December  13,  1836,  died  October  25,  1841. 
Arabella  A.,  born  December  26,  1839,  died 
December  28,  1851  ;  and  Hannah  E.,  who  was 
born  November  ici,  1S41,  died  December  28, 
185  I. 

After  receiving  his  education  in  the  schools 
of  the  town  Aaron  L.  Brown  stayed  on  the 
homestead  farm  with  his  father  until  the  death 
of  the  latter,  when  he  assumed  the  manage- 
ment. He  was  an  extensive  sheejj-raiser  until 
about  si.x  years  ago,  when  wool-growing  ceased 


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to  be  profitable.  Since  that  time  he  has  been 
cnj^aficd  in  dairy  farming.  lie  is  one  of  the 
leailinj^  farmers  (if  the  (.Miunty  and  clnsely  iden- 
tified with  the  public  life  of  the  town.  He 
has  held  the  office  of  Selectman,  and  he  served 
as  legislative  Representative  in  1872  and 
1873.  In  the  legislature  he  was  a  member  of 
the  Committee  on  Asylums  and  Claims.  He 
married  .Sarah  J.  J^oyce,  of  .S[)ringfield,  N.H., 
who  was  luirn  July  25,  1832.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
]kown  have  had  five  children,  namely:  Orvil, 
born  December  8,  1852,  who  died  April  24, 
1854;  Curtis  L.,  born  August  14,  1855,  who 
died  .Scjitember  7,  1857;  Mary  K. ,  born  Au- 
gust 15,  1857,  who  married  b'red  A.  Leavitt, 
resides  at  Henniker,  N.ll.,  and  has  two  chil- 
dren—  Ethel  J.  and  Curtis  H.  ;  Jonathan  J., 
born  July  14,  1860,  who  died  September  27, 
1862;  and  Imla  S. ,  who  was  born  July  8, 
1865.  The  latter,  who  lives  with  his  father 
on  the  farm,  is  a  worthy  representative  of  the 
family.  He  has  been  Selectman  and  is  jjromi- 
nent  in  tiic  civil  affairs  of  the  town.  He  mar- 
ried Amy  ]•'..  Newton,  of  Acworth,  N.H.,  and 
has  two  children:  I'earl  y\.,  born  June  9, 
1893;  and  I  hirold  Aaron,  born  January  ig, 
1895.  The  ]5rowns  are  eligible  for  member- 
ship in  the  celebrated  society  of  Sons  and 
Daughters  of  the  kc\(ilution,  which  embraces 
on  its  muster-roll  the  most  distinguished  fam- 
ilies of  New  Knjrland. 


II.LIAM  GKKGG  ANDREWS,  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Sutton,  Merri- 
mack County,  N.ll.,  was  born  July 
7,  1834,  oil  the  farm  upon  which  he  now  lives. 
His  father  was  Nathan  Andrews,  Jr.,  a  native 
of  Sutton;  and  his  paternal  grandfather  was 
Nathan  Andrews,  Sr. ,  born  in  Dan  vers,  Mass., 
in  1767,  a  son  of  Samuel  Andrews.  He  came 
to  Merrimack   County  when  a  young  man,  and 


in  1795  he  married  Hannali  <)r(-gg  and  at  once 
settled  ujMiii  a  farm  at  l-'ishersfield.  His  wife 
was  a  daughter  of  James  and  Janet  (Collins) 
Gregg,  and,  though  lame  from  childhood, 
was  energetic  and  industrious,  and  lived  to  the 
age  of  ninety-four,  a  very  bright  and  interest- 
ing old  lady.  In  181 1  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Nathan 
Andrews,  Sr.,  built  a  frame  house  in  Sutton, 
which  with  other  buildings  was  burned  in 
1834.  They  then  built  a  brick  hou.se,  which 
was  destroyed  by  fire  on  August  28,  1890. 
Mr.  Andrews  passed  to  the  higher  life  Sep- 
tember 7,  1853.  Mrs.  Andrews  died  A\nU  7, 
1866. 

Their  .son,  Nathan,  Jr.,  was  born  in  Sutton, 
March  30,  1802,  and  died  March  16,  1883. 
He  married  Dolly  Sargent  Pillsbury,  who  was 
born  February  16,  i8or,  and  died  June  29, 
1883.  In  early  years  they  attended  the  Con- 
gregational church  at  Hradford  Centre,  but 
were  later  identified  with  the  Haptist  church  at 
Hradford  Mills  Village.  Uncle  Nathan,  as  he 
was  called,  was  a  very  strict  Haptist,  very  de- 
cided in  his  opinions,  and  almost  Puritanical 
in  his  methods  of  training  his  famil)'.  He 
was  a  very  well-read  man,  intelligent  and  a 
great  student  of  the  Hible  as  well  as  of  other 
literature;  and  his  wife.  Aunt  Dolly,  was  a 
most  lovable,  gentle  woman.  .Mr.  Nathan 
Andrews,  Jr.,  was  a  very  successful  farmer, 
owning  his  farm  over  fifty  years,  and  was  en- 
gaged in  general  agriculture,  besides  for  many 
years  being  a  brickmaker. 

William  Gregg  Andrews  had  one  sister  — 
Himnah  J.,  the  wife  of  Hilas  Dickey,  of  Man- 
chester, N.ll.,  who  died  in  1885;  and  five 
brothers,  namely:  Thomas  V.  and  George  H., 
pioneer  merchants  of  Minneapolis, Minn.,  the 
former  of  whom  died  in  1891  ;  CajDtain  James 
G.,  who  died  in  Memphis,  Tenn.,  in  1882; 
Frank,  who  died  in  childhood;  and  Horace  E., 
a  resident  of   Memphis,  Tenn.,  where  he  had 


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been  Clerk  of  the  United  States  Court  for 
seventeen  years. 

William  G.  received  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  Sutton  and  at  Kimball  Union  Acad- 
emy, Meriden,  N.  H.  At  the  age  of  twenty 
he  began  his  mercantile  life  as  clerk  in  a  store 
at  Manchester;  and  two  years  later  he  became 
junior  member  of  the  firm  of  Adams  & 
Andrews,  continuing  in  the  grocery  business 
for  five  years.  He  and  his  brother  James 
were  engaged  in  a  general  mercantile  business 
in  Concord,  N.H.,  for  seven  years,  after  which 
Mr.  Andrews  went  to  Boston,  where  he  associ- 
ated himself  with  S.  M.  Pennock  under  the 
firm  name  of  Pennock  &  Andrews,  wholesale 
dealers  in  hops  and  malt.  While  in  Boston 
Mr.  Andrews  incurred  those  severe  physical 
afflictions  which  changed  the  tenor  of  his  life, 
compelling  him  to  sacrifice  the  business  to 
which  he  had  devoted  the  energy  of  twenty 
years,  and  causing  him  to  alter  many  plans  in 
hopes  of  restoring  his  health.  A  year  was 
spent  at  Hot  Springs,  Ark.,  in  vain  attempt 
at  a  cure  of  muscular  rheumatism.  Much  time 
was  occupied  in  efforts  to  restore  failing  eye- 
sight. 

Although  science  was  powerless  to  restore 
health,  Mr.  Andrews  has  accomplished,  with 
his  disadvantages,  more  than  many  in  health 
have  tried  to  do.  Returning  to  Sutton,  he 
built  a  commodious  brick  residence  on  the 
site  of  the  old  house  wliich  had  been  destroyed 
by  fire  and  in  fac-simile  of  the  first  one.  This 
he  invited  his  parents  to  share  with  him. 
He  then  energetically  set  about  improving 
the  old  farm,  which  had  much  deteriorated. 
With  modern  imiirovements  and  well-directed 
efforts  the  fields  are  restored  to  more  than 
former  fertility,  and  a  large  herd  of  Jersey 
and  Holstein  cows,  many  of  which  are  regis- 
tered, have  been  bred  by  him,  he  being  the 
first  in  town  to  raise  Holstein   stock  and  regis- 


ter the  same.  The  farm,  witii  its  excellent 
a]JiK)intnients,  is  one  of  the  best  and  most 
flourishing  in  Merrimack  County. 

In  1866  Mr.  Andrews  was  married  to  Miss 
Lucinda  J.  Currier,  in  whom  he  has  found  a 
wife  of  rare  energy  and  beauty  of  character, 
remarkable  not  only  for  her  ability  in  her 
home,  but  for  her  value  in  the  community. 
She  was  born  in  Manchester,  N.H.  Her 
parents  were  Charles  and  Eliza  W.  (Cram) 
Currier.  The  former  was  one  of  the  pioneer 
cotton  manufacturers  of  Manchester,  going 
there  in  1842,  and  associated  until  his  death, 
in  1880,  with  the  Amoskeag  Mills.  Mr.s. 
Currier,  a  bright  old  lady  of  eighty-three 
years,  makes  her  home  with  Mr.  and  Mrs.  An- 
drews. The  education  which  Mrs.  Andrews 
received  at  the  Manchester  schools  was  sup- 
plemented by  a  thorough  musical  training. 
Since  her  residence  in  .Sutton  she  has  been 
especially  interested  in  the  schools.  She  is 
serving  her  second  term  as  member  of  the 
School  Board,  and  as  Chairman  she  has  helped 
to  perform  a  notable  work  in  elevating  the 
town's  schools  and  in  placing  them  among  the 
best  in  the  State.  One  of  her  efforts  was  the 
purchase  of  national  flags  for  the  school-houses 
and  the  cultivation  of  patriotism  among  the 
scholars.  Mrs.  Andrews  by  her  musical  gifts 
has  also  been  of  benefit  to  the  community  as 
member  of  the  choir  of  the  Bradford  church. 
As  wife,  mother,  hostess,  and  social  leader, 
she  has  united  with  her  husband  in  the  im- 
provement of  the  town  and  community. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrews  have  two  sons.  The 
elder,  James  Currier,  is  with  the  Pillsbury  & 
Washburn  I'lour  Mill  Company,  of  Minneap- 
olis, Minn.,  in  the  cajiaeity  of  shipper,  leav- 
ing college  and  entering  their  employ  in  1888. 
While  he  is  devoted  to  his  business,  he  is  also 
greatly  interested  in  the  military  affairs  of  the 
.State.      During  his   service   of   seven   years   in 


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the  State  militia  he  lias  been  promntcd  from 
piivale  ti)  Serj^caiil,  Treasiinr,  I  .iciiteiiaiil, 
.111(1  Ailjutaiil  cil  the  I'irst  Regiment  uf  Na- 
tional (iiiaiils  of  the  State  of  Minnescjta,  which 
position  he  now  holds.  He  was  married  to 
Miss  Ilaiiiet  L.  IJlake,  youngest  daughter  of 
Ivlwin  W.  and  Sarah  {(lagc)  Hlake,  of  Man- 
ihester,  N.I  I.,  in  i  S94.  The  younger  son, 
Harry  Howard,  has  personal  charge  of  a  large 
business  of  feed  shijipers,  in  which  he  is  asso- 
ciated witli  his  fatiicr  under  the  firm  name  of 
Andrews  6Ii  Co. ,  having  an  olfice  in  Guaranty 
Loan  lUiilding  in  Minneapolis.  This  firm 
sliippcd  the  lirst  solid  train  luad  (jf  bran  that 
was  ever  exported  from  the  (Jueen  b'lour  City 
(Minneapolis),  which  has  resulted  in  estab- 
lishing a  large  export  trade  of  this  commodity. 


ALTI'lR  SARGI'.NT,  of  I<:im  Farm, 
in  the  town  of  Warner,  N.ll.,  is 
well  known  as  one  of  the  most 
skill  111,  progressive,  anil  successful  agricultu- 
rists of  Merrimack  County.  He  was  born  De- 
cember J5,  iiSi7,  in  Warner  Lower  Village,  a 
son  of  Abner  and  Martha  J.  (Morrill)  Sargent. 
He  is  of  ICnglish  antecedents,  tracing  his 
lineage  back  to  Richard  Sargent,  an  English 
naval  officer,  whose  son  William,  boin  in 
iMigland  in  1602,  was  the  emigrant  ancestor. 
He  came  to  New  England  at  an  early  period, 
taking  witli  him  a  family  oi  daughters,  who 
had  been  left  motherless  by  the  death  of  his 
first  wife,  Judith  Perkins,  and  was  one  of  the 
twelve  men  who  began  a  settlement  at  Ipswich, 
Mass.,  in  1635.  He  subse(|uently  helped  form 
settlements  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  Hampton, 
N.IL;  and  in  1640  he  removed  to  Salisbury, 
Mass.,  becoming  one  of  the  eighteen  original 
proprietors  of  that  part  of  Essex  County  now 
included  within  the  limits  of  Amesbiu-y.  His 
second  wife,  Elizabeth,  bore   him   two  sons  — 


Thomas  and  William.  He  received  several 
grants  of  land,  and  in  1667  was  one  of  the 
Selectmen  of  the  town.  He  continued  liis 
residence  in  Amesbury  until  his  death  in 
1675. 

The  line  was  continued  through  his  son 
Thomas,  who  was  born  June  11,  1643,  and 
married  Rachel  Harnes.  Their  son,  Thomas, 
Jr.,  born  November  15,  1676,  was  the  father 
of  Stephen  Sargent,  who  was  born  .September 
14,  1710,  married  Judith  Ordway,  of  West 
Newbury,  Mass.,  September  26,  1730,  and  was 
made  Deacon  of  the  Second  Congregational 
Church  of  Amesbury,  May  10,  1757.  Deacon 
Sargent  and  his  wife,  Judith,  reared  fourteen 
children,  ten  of  them  being  sons.  Four  of 
these  —  Amasa,  Ezekiel,  Thomas,  and  Moses 
—  spent  their  entire  lives  in  their  native 
town.  A  fifth,  James,  established  a  home  in 
Methuen,  Mass. ;  and  the  other  five  —  Peter, 
Nathan,  Stephen  (second),  Abner,  antl  ICben- 
ezer  —  came  to  Merrimack  County,  New 
Hampshire,  the  first  three  locating  in  Hopkin- 
ton,  and  the  other  two  in  Warner.  Abner 
married  Sarah  Rowell,  and  settled  on  Hurnt 
Hill,  where  his  son  Stephen,  third,  who  mar- 
ried Betsey  Currier,  of  Warner,  was  born  and 
reared.  One  of  their  children  was  Abner,  the 
father  of  Walter  Sargent,  of  Warner.  Abner 
Sargent  grew  to  manhood  in  this  town,  and 
was  for  many  years  engaged  as  a  merchant  in 
Warner  Lower  Village,  in  partnership  with 
Thomas  Bartlett.  He  subsequently  disposed 
of  his  interest  in  the  business,  and  bought  a 
farm  in  what  was  then  Hoscawen,  but  is  now 
Webster,  where  he  resided  until  1.S66,  when 
he  purchased  a  farm,  on  which  his  son  Walter 
now  lives;  and  here  he  died. 

Walter  Sargent  was  brought  up  to  farm  life, 
having  been  but  two  years  of  age  when  his 
parents  removed  to  Boscawen.  He  was  a 
bright    scholar,   quick   to  learn  and  eager   to 


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acquire  a  good  education,  which  he  obtained 
at  the  district  school  and  in  the  academies  of 
Salisbury,  Hopkinton,  Franklin,  and  Contoo- 
cook.  He  afterward  taught  school  a  few 
terms,  meeting  with  success  as  instructor,  and 
winning  the  lifelong  friendship  of  his  pupils. 
A  part  of  each  year  he  assisted  on  the  farm, 
and  also  worked  at  the  carpenter's  trade,  gain- 
ing a  knowledge  and  experience  that  have  since 
proved  of  inestimable  value  to  him.  In  1863 
Mr.  Sargent  married  Miss  Addie  C.  Morrill, 
daughter  of  Captain  Samuel  Morrill,  of  Ando- 
ver;  and  for  a  few  years  after  that  event  he  had 
charge  of  his  father-in-law's  farm.  In  1S67 
he  returned  to  his  birthplace,  settling  on  the 
farm  where  he  now  resides.  He  has  made 
substantial  improvements  on  the  place,  en- 
tirely remodelling  and  repairing  the  buildings, 
and,  having  purchased  other  land,  has  now 
about  two  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  one  of  the 
most  attractive  and  valuable  farming  estates 
in  this  part  of  the  county.  He  carries  on 
all  branches  of  farming,  raising  much  stock, 
breeding  Delaine  Merino  sheep,  and  has  a  fine 
dairy  of  Guernsey  and  Jersey  cattle.  He 
makes  butter,  which  he  sells  to  regular  cus- 
tomers, giving  the  skim  milk  to  the  hogs, 
which  thrive  under  his  care.  He  raises  all 
the  corn  needed  for  feed,  finding  it  cheaper 
than  to  buy,  even  at  the  present  low  prices, 
his  crop  averaging  from  two  to  three  hundred 
bushels  annually.  He  is  very  systematic  in 
all  his  work,  and  for  more  than  thirty  years 
has  kept  an  account  of  his  cash  receipts  and 
expenses  in  his  diary. 

Mr.  Sargent  takes  great  interest  in  local 
affairs,  and  has  served  with  credit  as  a  member 
of  the  School  Board  for  three  years,  and  for 
two  years  as  one  of  the  Selectmen  of  Warner. 
Until  his  hearing  became  impaired,  he  was 
an  active  worker  in  local,  county,  and  State 
granges,  having  been  made  a  member  of  War- 


ner Grange,  with  which  he  is  still  connected, 
in  1877;  and  he  was  Secretary  of  Merrimack 
County  Council,  P.  of  H.  ;  and  of  the  Merri- 
mack County  Grange  from  the  time  of  its 
organization  until  compelled  to  retire  from 
office  on  account  of  this  infirmity. 

Mr.  Sargent's  first  wife  died  in  1S73,  leav- 
ing two  sons,  namely:  Frank  II.,  Assistant 
Postmaster  at  Harriman,  Tenn. ;  and  George 
H.,  who  was  for  several  years  city  editor  of 
the  St.  Paul  (Minn.)  Pioneer  Press,  and  is 
now  on  the  editorial  staff  of  the  Boston  Tran- 
script. On  October  3,  1877,  Mr.  Sargent  mar- 
ried Mrs.  Fannie  A.  Fellows  Shaw,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Richard  F"ellows,  of  Salisbury. 
She  presides  over  his  household  with  a  grace 
and  dignity  very  attractive  to  their  many  warm 
friends,  their  pleasant  home  at  Elm  Farm 
being  the  abode  of  generous  hospitality.  For 
some  years  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sargent  threw  open 
their  doors  during  the  summer  seasons,  as  a 
place  of  rest  and  recreation,  to  boarders  from 
the  city;  but  the  labor  connected  therewith 
proved  too  arduous,  and  they  now  entertain 
only  their  more  intimate  friends  and  kinsfolk. 


iN.  GEORGE  PEABODY  LITTLE 
is  an  influential  citizen  of  Pembroke, 
N.  H.  In  his  veins  flows  the  blood 
of  two  old  and  reputable  New  luigland  fami- 
lies, the  Littles  of  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  the 
Peabodys  of  Danvers,  the  famous  banker  and 
philanthropist,  George  Peabody,  having  been 
his  kinsman.  Mr.  Little  was  born  in  Pem- 
broke, N.Y.,  June  20,  1834,  a  son  of  Dr.  El- 
bridge  G.  and  Sophronia  Phelps  (I'eabody) 
Little.  He  is  of  the  eighth  generation  of 
Littles  in  this  country,  tracing  his  descent 
from  George  Little,  who  settled  in  old  New- 
bury, Mass.,  in  1640  or  soon  after.  George 
Little  was  a  tailor  by  trade,  and,  like   most  of 


GEORGE    P.    LITTLE. 


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the  early  colonists,  ciif^ajjcil  in  farming  also. 
In  1650  he  bought  the  freehold  right  in  New- 
bury of  John  Osgood,  Sr. ;  and  he  subsequently 
made  many  other  ]iurchases  of  land.  The 
date  of  his  death  is  uncertain,  but  is  probably 
1693  or  1(594.  He  married  first  Alice  Poor, 
who  came  from  ICngland  in  1638.  She  died 
December  i,  1680,  aged  si.\ty-two.  She  was 
the  mother  of  all  his  children,  five  in  number, 
llis  second  wife,  ICleanor,  widow  of  Thomas 
Barnard,  of  Amesbury,  Mass.,  survived  him, 
dying  November  27,  1694. 

Joseph,  the  second  child  and  eldest  son  of 
George  and  Alice  (Poor)  Little,  is  next  in 
line  of  descent.  He  was  born  in  Newbury, 
Sejitember  22,  1653,  and  was  a  permanent 
resident  of  the  part  of  the  town  now  called 
Newburyport  from  1700  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  A  very  prominent  and  active  citizen, 
he  held  most  of  the  ofifices  within  the  gift  of 
the  town.  He  attained  the  advanced  age  of 
eighty-seven.  On  October  31,  1677,  he  was 
married  to  Mary,  daughter  of  Tristram  Coffin 
and  his  wife,  Judith,  widow  of  Henry 
Somerby,  and  daughter  of  Captain  Edmund 
Greenleaf.  She  was  born  November  12, 
1657,  and  died  November  28,  1725.  Joseph 
Little  and  his  wife  were  active  members  of  the 
Congregational  Church  of  Newbury.  They 
were  the  parents  of  nine  children.  Enoch, 
the  fifth  child,  was  born  in  Newbury,  Decem- 
ber 9,  1685.  He  was  one  of  the  first  settlers 
in  West  Newbury,  locating  there  about  1708, 
and  clearing  a  large  tract  of  land.  He  died 
April  28,  1766.  Enoch  Little  was  married 
May  19,  1707,  to  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  John 
and  Elizabeth  (Webster)  Worth.  She  was 
born  August  17,  1688,  and  died  September 
20,  1766.  This  couple  were  the  parents  of 
seven  children,  the  fourth  child,  Edmund, 
being  the  great-great-grandfather  of  George 
P.  Little.     Edmund  Little  was  born   in  West 


Newbury,  September  5,  171 5,  and  died  Au- 
gust 29,  1803.  He  was  married  March  18, 
1736,  to  Judith,  daughter  of  Dr.  Matthew  and 
Sarah  (Knight)  Adams.  She  was  born  April 
2,  1716,  and  died  September  7,  1784.  His 
second  wife  was  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Dea- 
con John  Noyes,  of  Newbury,  and  widow  of 
Captain  James  Smith.  She  died  September 
22,  1 81 7,  aged  eighty-six.  ]?y  his  first  wife 
l-'.dmund  Little  had  ten  children,  P'noch,  sec- 
ond, the  Hon.  George  P.  Little's  great-grand- 
father, being  the  fifth.  Juioch  Little,  second, 
was  born  June  7,  1748.  He  was  a  farmer  of 
West  Newbury,  and  died  there  August  15, 
1820.  His  wife,  Mary,  daughter  of  Ezekiel 
and  Mary  (Sargent)  Hale,  died  at  the  age  of 
sixty-nine.  They  were  the  parents  of  three 
children.  Enoch,  third,  the  elder  son,  who 
was  born  May  11,  1773,  was  the  grandfather 
of  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  He,  too,  was  a 
farmer  of  W^cst  Newbury,  and  died  there, 
March  23,  18 16.  On  September  15,  1796,  he 
was  united  in  marriage  with  Mary  Brickett, 
who  was  born  May  12,  1771,  and  died  Sep- 
tember 12,  1855.  They  had  a  family  of  four 
children,  Elbridge  G.  being  the  youngest. 

Elbridge  G.  Little  was  born  August  5, 
1807.  He  obtained  his  preliminary  educa- 
tion at  E.xeter,  N.H.,  and  graduated  from  the 
Medical  College  at  Cleveland,  Ohio.  He 
attained  eminence  in  his  profession,  and  in 
New  Lisbon,  Wis.,  where  his  last  years  were 
passed,  he  was  one  of  the  wealthiest  and  most 
prominent  citizens.  His  wife,  who  was  born 
November  4,  1 809,  was  a  daughter  of  Thomas 
and  Judith  (Dodge)  Peabody,  of  the  part  of 
old  Danvers,  Mass.,  now  known  as  Peabody. 
She  was  a  sister  of  George  Peabody,  the 
wealthy  and  benevolent  banker,  who  died  in 
London,  and  who  bequeathed  to  her  son, 
George  Peabody  Little,  a  portion  of  his  vast 
wealth.     Six  children  were  born  to  Dr.   and 


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Mrs.  Little,  three  of  whom  are  living:  George 
P.  ;  Allen  F.,  who  was  born  August  12,  1838; 
and  Henry  C,  who  was   born  March  31,   1843. 

George  Peabody  Little  was  educated  in  the 
academy  in  Lewiston,  N.Y.,  Pembroke  Acad- 
emy of  Pembroke,  N.H.,  and  the  gymnasium 
and  military  institute  here,  a  branch  of  the 
Norwich  Military  Academy  of  Vermont.  Lie 
taught  school  for  one  term  in  Pembroke, 
N.H.,  when  he  was  eighteen  years  old,  and 
the  following  year  went  to  Portland,  Me., 
where  he  was  engaged  in  mercantile  business 
some  si.\  years.  The  ten  years  ensuing  he 
managed  a  photograph  studio  at  Palmyra, 
N.\'.,  having  taken  a  fancy  to  chemicals  and 
cameras.  Returning  then  to  Pembroke, 
N.H.,  he  purchased  his  present  homestead, 
and  turned  his  attention  to  general  farming 
and  cattle  breeding.  In  1868  he  erected  a 
handsome  residence,  a  spacious  barn,  and 
other  buildings.  Mr.  Little  has  about  two 
hundred  and  twenty-five  acres  of  land  in  the 
home  farm,  and  owns  other  farms  and  wood 
land  aggregating  about  eight  hundred  acres. 
He  was  for  a  number  of  years  extensively  en- 
gaged in  breeding  registered  Jersey  cattle  and 
blooded  horses,  but  is  now  practically  retired. 
He  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  the  Suncook 
Valley  Creamery,  of  which  he  is  at  present 
Treasurer. 

Mr.  Little  was  married  August  22,  1854,  to 
Elizabeth  A.,  daughter  of  Daniel  McClintock 
Kno.x,  of  Pembroke.  Si.x  of  the  seven  chil- 
dren who  blessed  their  union  are  now  living. 
The  eldest,  the  Hon.  Clarence  B.  Little,  was 
educated  for  the  bar.  He  now  resides  in  Bis- 
marck, N.Dak.,  is  President  of  the  First  Na- 
tional Bank  of  that  city,  and  has  been  Chair- 
man of  the  Judiciary  Committee  in  the  State 
Senate  ever  since  North  Dakota's  admission 
as  a  State.  lie  married  a  cousin,  Caroline  G. 
l,ittle,    and    has   two    chiklren  —  Viroque    M. 


and  George  P.  The  other  children  of  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  George  P.  Little  are:  Mary  G.,  wife  of 
James  E.  Odiin,  of  Lynn,  Mass.,  and  mother 
of  three  children  —  Margaret,  Elizabeth,  and 
Christiana;  Elizabeth  E. ,  wife  of  L.  F. 
Thurber,  of  Nashua,  N.H.,  and  mother  of  two 
children  —  George  F.  and  Dorothy;  Nettie  K., 
wife  of  Frank  S.  Shepard  of  Concord,  N.H.; 
Lucy  B. ,  unmarried;  and  Clara  1".,  wife  of 
Harmon  F.  Salt,  of  Brooklyn,  N.Y. 

Mr.  Little  is  an  active  and  esteemed  mem- 
ber of  the  Republican  party.  While  living 
in  New  York  State,  he  served  as  Deputy 
United  States  Internal  Revenue  Collector. 
In  Pcnibrnke  he  has  filled  the  office  of  Town 
Treasurer  for  several  years,  and  was  on  the 
Board  of  Selectmen  three  years;  and  he  repre- 
sented this  district  in  the  State  legislature  in 
1876,  1877,  1890,  and  1891.  He  was  Treas- 
urer of  Merrimack  County  four  years,  and  was 
a  delegate  to  the  last  Constitutional  Conven- 
tion. A  member  of  the  Historical  Society  of 
Concord,  N.H.,  he  has  been  on  the  Board  of 
Trustees  of  Pembroke  Academy  for  the  past 
twenty-five  years,  and  is  at  present  Chairman 
of  the  P^xecutive  Committee  ai  1  Secretary  of 
the  Board  of  Trustees.  He  has  taken  thirty- 
two  degrees  in  Masonry,  is  a  prominent 
Knight  Ternplar,  and  belongs  to  the  Inde- 
pendent Order  of  Odd  I-'ellows.  Mr.  Little 
is  a  Deacon  of  the  Congregational  church,  of 
which  his  wife  also  is  a  member. 


YgTENRY    BATCHELDER,  a  well-to-do 
r^l       farmer  of  Sunapee,    was    born    here, 

■*-^  \^ ,  January  17,    1843,   son  of  Nathaniel 

and  Sarah  (Trask)  Batchelder,  both  natives  of 
Beverly,  Mass.  His  grandfather,  Zachariah 
Batchelder,  a  shoemaker  by  trade,  was  an  early 
settler  of  .Sunapee.  Both  Zachariah  and  his 
wife  (lied  in  tliat  town.      Nathaniel,  wiio  came 


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here  when  a  mere  boy,  was  a  well-known 
farmer  <if  the  town,  and  owned  a  valuable 
piece  ol  property.  A  man  of  very  positive 
opinions,  he  was  the  only  Whi<;  in  Sunapce 
for  several  years;  and  he  voted  the  ticket 
alone.  Active  in  religious  work,  he  was  an 
esteemed  member  (if  the  Methodist  Epi.scopal 
church  at  Newport.  He  died  in  Sunapce  at 
the  age  of  eighty-si.\.  His  wife  lived  to  the 
age  of  ninety-two  years.  They  had  si.v  chil- 
dren, three  of  whom  are  now  living.  Those 
deceased  are:  I'lllen,  who  died  in  infancy; 
Nathaniel,  who  died  in  tlie  Civil  War;  and 
Zachariah,  who  reached  the  age  of  ten  years. 
The  eldest  of  the  living  children,  Mrs.  Mary 
R.  Sleeper,  is  the  wife  of  15.  R.  Sleeper,  with 
whom  she  lives  on  the  old  ]5atcheldcr  farm  in 
Sunapce.  Alfred  T.  Ratcheldcr,  the  other 
surviving  son,  is  a  lawyer  of  Keene,  N.H. 

Henry  Batchelder  grew  up  in  his  native 
town,  receiving  his  education  in  the  common 
schools  and  at  New  London  Academy.  He 
has  been  chiefly  engaged  in  farming.  Until 
recently  he  owned  an  interest  in  the  old  home 
tarm.  He  sold  out  this  interest,  and  pur- 
chased another  place  in  Sunapce,  containing 
one  hundred  and  fifty  acres,  where  he  has 
since  carried  on  general  farming.  He  has 
also  discharged  the  duties  of  station  agent  on 
the  Concord  Division  of  the  Boston  &  Maine 
Railroad  since  1874  with  painstaking  care  and 
fidelity,  winning  the  confidence  of  both  his 
employers  and  the  public.  A  record  of  twenty- 
three  years  is  one  that  any  man  can  be  proud 
of.  Mr.  Batchelder's  residence  is  an  excel- 
lent one.  At  this  writing  he  is  actively 
engaged  in  making  some  special  improvements 
on  his  farm.  The  place  is  on  the  way  to  a 
rank  among  the  superior  farms  of  the  locality. 
He  aims  to  put  into  practice  the  most  ad- 
vanced ideas  of  the  times,  and  spares  no  jiains 
or  e.Kpcnsc  to  secure  the  best  results.      He  has 


on  the  farm  some  vciy  gu.^d  sjjecimcns  of  live 
stock,  although  he  makes  no  specialty  of  stock- 
raising  or  dairying.  Both  he  and  his  wife  are 
liberal  in  their  religious  views.  In  politics 
he  is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Batchelder  was  married  December  25, 
1879,  '^o  Fanny  T.  Angell,  daughter  of  Mcrvin 
and  Lemira  Angell.  Mr.  Angell  belonged  to 
an  old  family  in  Sunapee.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Batchelder  have  had  si.x  children,  of  whom 
Nathaniel  died  at  the  age  of  nine  months. 
Those  living  are:  Alice  M.,  born  May  10, 
1881;  Ethel  K.,  born  August  17,  18S4; 
Lizzie  T.,  born  September  15,  i<S87;  Alfred 
T.,  born  December  25,  1890;  and  Leland  H., 
born  August  27,  1893. 


/^TkORGE  WHITEFIELD  ABBOTT, 
V mT"  of  Penacook,  President  of  the  J.  E. 
Symonds  Table  Company,  cabinet- 
makers, was  born  in  West  Boscawen,  now 
Webster,  N.H.,  on  March  13,  1837.  His 
parents  were  Nathaniel  and  Mary  (Fitts) 
Abbott,  the  former  a  resident  of  West  Bos- 
cawen and  the  latter  of  Sandown,  N.H. 

George  \V.  Abbott  in  his  youth,  after 
attending  the  public  schools  of  Warner,  com- 
pleted his  education  at  a  private  academy  in 
West  Salisbury,  N.H.  He  went  immediately 
to  Boston,  Mass.,  where  he  was  employed  as  a 
clerk  until  1861,  when  he  came  to  Penacook, 
N.  H.,- to  engage  in  the  grocery  business  with 
his  brother,  under  the  firm  name  of  H.  & 
G.  W.  Abbott.  In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted 
in  Company  li,  Seventh  New  Hampshire  Vol- 
unteer Infantry,  going  directly  to  St.  Augus- 
tine, Fla. ,  remaining  until  May,  1863.  From 
that  city  he  went  to  IMorris  Island,  South 
Carolina,  being  engaged  all  summer  at  Forts 
Wagner,  Gregg,  and  Sumter.  He  then  went 
to  St.  Helena,    S.  C.jand  in  February,  1864, 


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he  joined  an  expedition  under  General  Tru- 
man Seymour,  the  objective  point  of  which 
was  Lake  City,  Fla.  Severely  wounded  at 
the  battle  of  Olustee,  Fla.,  on  February  20, 
he  was  obliged  to  stay  in  the  hospital  until 
April,  1865,  shortly  before  the  close  of  the 
war.  Later  he  was  returned  to  his  regiment, 
and  mustered  out  at  Goldsboro,  N.C.,  in  June, 
1865.  Mr.  Abbott  then  returned  to  Penacook, 
and  engaged  in  mercantile  pursuits  until  1882, 
when  he  formed  a  copartnership  with  Mr.  J.  E. 
Symonds,  for  the  manufacture  of  furniture, 
making  a  specialty  of  tables,  desks,  etc.,  their 
plant  being  one  of  the  largest  of  the  kind  in 
New  England.  The  J.  E.  Symonds  Company 
has  recently  become  a  corporation,  with  G.  W. 
Abbott  as  President,  under  the  name  of  J.  E. 
Symonds  Table  Company. 

Besides  his  regular  business  Mr.  Abbott 
officiates  as  President  of  the  Penacook  Electric 
Light  Company  and  Director  of  New  Hamp- 
shire Fruit  Company,  the  Concord  Street 
Railway  Company,  the  Sullivan  County  Rail- 
road, and  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Con- 
cord. Li  politics  he  affiliates  with  the  Re- 
publican party.  In  1892  he  was  a  Presidential 
Pllector,  and  in  1895  and  i8g6  he  was  a  Rep- 
resentative to  the  State  legislature. 

Mr.  Abbott  was  first  married  on  August  15, 
1865,  to  Myra  Tucker,  of  Boston,  who  died 
after  giving  birth  to  one  child.  The  child 
died  also.  He  was  again  married  on  Decem- 
ber 14,  1869,  to  Mrs.  Addie  Morrill  Batchel- 
der,  of  Penacook.  By  this  alliance  there  is 
one  child,  Myra  M.  Abbott.  Mr.  Abbott  is  a 
Mason  and  a  comrade  of  the  Grand  Army. 
He  also  belongs  to  William  I.  Brown  Post, 
G.  A.  R.,  No.  31,  of  I'enacook,  N.H.  His 
Masonic  record  given  below,  dated  Concord, 
N.  H.,  July  I,  1897,  is  from  the  pen  of  the 
recorder,  John  F.  Webster:  George  Whitefield 
Abbott,   born  at   Webster   (West    Boscawen), 


N.H.,  March  13,  1837,  took  the  degrees  in 
Horace  Chase  Lodge,  Penacook  (Fisherville), 
N.H.— -E.  A.,  March  3,  1871,  F.  C,  April 
4,  1871,  M.  M.,  May  12,  1871;  Trinity  Chap- 
ter, Concord,  N.H. —  Mark,  I""ebruary  17, 
1880,  Past,  February  17,  1880,  M.  E.,  April 
20,  18S0,  R.  A.,  April  22,  1880;  Horace  Chase 
Council,  Concord,  N.H. —  Royal,  April  25, 
1892,  Select,  January  26,  1893,  Super  Ex., 
January  26,  1893;  Orders  of  Knighthood  in 
Mount  Horeb  Commandery,  Knights  Templar, 
Concord,  N.H. —  Red  Cross,  May  31,  1880, 
Temple,    June   7,    1880,    Malta,  June  7,    1S80. 


OHN  M.  FLETCHER,  a  prominent 
and  successful  dentist  of  the  city  of 
Concord,  N.H.,  was  born  in  Canter- 
bury, N.H.,  July  24,  1832.  He  is  the  son  of 
John  and  Nancy  (St.  Clair)  Fletcher. 

His  grandfather,  John  Fletcher,  Sr.,  was  a 
native  of  Dunstable,  Mass.,  born  January  25, 
1770.  He  removed  to  Loudon,  N.H.,  and 
there  spent  his  remaining  years  as  an  agricult- 
urist, dying  December  15,  1853.  He  was  fort- 
unate in  choosing  his  partner  for  life,  a  lady 
of  high  moral  worth  as  well  as  of  great  natural 
ability,  a  conscientious  Christian,  a  devoted 
mother,  and  a  loving  wife.  Her  maiden  name 
was  Betsey  Morrill;  and  she  was  born  October 
2,  1772,  in  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  and  died  June 
18,  1 85 1.  The  result  of  this  union  was  a 
family  of  fourteen  children,  consisting  of 
eight  sons  and  si.x  daughters.  Eleven  of  these 
he  lived  to  see  prosperous  and  happily  located 
in  business. 

John  Fletcher,  Jr.,  the  father  of  the  suliject 
of  our  sketch,  was  born  in  Loudon,  N.H., 
March  16,  1795,  and  chose  as  his  occupation 
for  a  livelihood  the  tilling  of  the  soil  and  the 
levelling  of  the  forest.  In  the  year  1822, 
March  26,  he  was  united  in  marriage  to   Miss 


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Nancy  St.  Clair,  who  was  born  October  12, 
1799,  the  youngest  daughter  of  Noah  St. 
Clair.  They  spent  four  years  in  London  and 
Concord,  respectively,  hut  (in.illy,  in  1S26, 
jnircliased  and  located  on  the  St.  Clair  home- 
stead. l''r(iin  linie  Id  t  ime  he  augmented  his 
original  purchase  by  buying  addit  idu.'il  land 
until  his  estate  covered  nearly  two  hundred 
acres.  He  was  a  man  of  high  character,  and 
universally  respected  and  beloved  by  the  com- 
muiiit)'  in  whose  midst  he  ])assed  a  long  and 
busy  life.  In  religious  matters  he  accepted 
the  tenets  held  by  the  Free  Will  Baptist  de- 
nomination, and  was  an  active  member  of  the 
same.  As  a  result  of  the  matrimonial  union 
there  were  four  children  born,  three  sons  and 
one  daughter. 

Noah  St.  Clair,  the  grandfather  of  Dr. 
Fletcher  on  the  maternal  side,  was  a  native  of 
Epping,  N.  II.,  born  February  20,  1755.  He 
married  Miss  Lavina  Gault,  of  Canterbury, 
N.H.,  who  was  born  April  27,  175S.  In  the 
year  1798  he  purchased  a  farm  in  Canterbury, 
N.  H.,  where  he  resided  until  his  decease  in 
1821,  March  15.  His  wife  survived  him,  liv- 
ing until  January  10,  182S.  They  were  the 
parents  of  ten  chihlren,  five  sons  and  five 
daughters,  namely:  Betsy  St.  Clair,  born  Jan- 
uary 3,  1782;  James  St.  Clair,  liorii  A]iri]  2, 
1784;  William  St.  Clair,  born  January  21, 
1786;  Sally  St.  Clair,  born  March  7,  1788; 
John  St.  Clair,  born  June  i,  1790;  Polly  St. 
Clair,  born  July  22,  1792;  Noah  St.  Clair, 
born  October  26,  1794;  Abigail  St.  Clair, 
born  March  10,  1797;  Nancy  St.  Clair,  born 
October  2,  1799;  Winthrop  St.  Clair,  born 
May  7,  1802.  Grandfather  and  Grandmother 
St.  Clair  were  members  of  the  Free  Will  Bap- 
tist Church  of  Canterbury,  N.H.,  he  being 
the  leader  of  the  choir.  Their  children  were 
many  of  them  musicians;  and  one,  William  St. 
Clair,  was  a  teacher  of  music.      They  were  a 


family  of  true  patriots;  and  the  father  and  two 
sons,  John  aufl  William,  quickly  responded 
when  the  cry  of  "To  arms"  came  in  181 2. 
Noali  St.  (Jlair  enlisted  as  a  drum  major,  aufl 
the  sons  shouldered  the  musket.  He  was 
severely  wounded,  and  both  sons  were  sacri- 
ficed. In  the  year  1814  he  returned  to  his 
home  in  Canterbury. 

John  M.  b'letchcr  received  his  education  in 
the  jniblic  school  of  the  adjoining  town  of 
Loudon.  At  the  close  (jf  his  school-days  wc 
find  him  possessed  of  a  natural  inclination  to 
become  a  dentist.  He  did  not  then,  however, 
have  the  means  to  proceed  in  the  study  of  his 
chosen  profession;  and,  August  i,  1850,  he 
entered  the  emi)loyment  of  L.  Downing  & 
-Sons,  coach  builders,  of  Concord,  with  whom 
he  remained  for  a  term  of  years.  He  also  had 
a  natural  taste  for  music,  which  he  had  culti- 
vated, and  during  his  residence  in  Concord  at 
that  time  was  engaged  for  several  years  as  a 
leading  tenor  at  the  North  Congregational 
Church.  These  were  busy  times  for  the  young 
man;  for  he  also  during  his  leisure  hours  de- 
voted himself  to  the  study  of  anatomy  and 
physiology,  besides  which  he  occasionally  gave 
his  attention  to  ornithology  and  ta.xidcrmy  in 
the  way  of  recreation. 

He  continued  in  the  carriage  business  until 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  soon  after 
which  he  entered  the  office  of  Hiram  Hill, 
D.  D.  S.,  of  Manchester,  N.H.,  where  he  re- 
mained for  a  time,  and  afterward  engaged  at  a 
salary  with  Chester  Heath,  D.D.S.,  of  the 
same  city.  During  his  studentship  he  was 
engaged  as  a  leading  tenor  at  the  Lowell 
Street  Universal ist  Church;  also  during  his 
leisure  hours  he  was  employed  as  a  taxidermist 
by  a  gentleman  by  the  name  of  Stark  in  West 
Manchester,  who  was  the  proprietor  of  a  zoo- 
logical garden,  and  by  whom  he  was  favored 
with    liberal    contributions    for    services    rcn- 


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dered,  a  large  collection  of  stuffed  birds  and 
animals  being  the  result.  But  the  burning  of 
so  much  midnight  gas  soon  began  to  tell  seri- 
ously upon  his  health,  and  he  was  obliged  to 
abandon  business  for  a  time.  Upon  leaving 
Manchester  he  spent  a  few  pleasant  weeks  with 
friends  in  East  Concord,  N.  H.  He  also  spent 
two  years  in  Loudon,  N.H.,  in  the  office  of 
Dr.  W.  S.  Collins,  a  celebrated  doctor  of 
medicine.  With  health  restored,  he  began  to 
search  for  a  place  to  locate  for  the  practice  of 
his  profession,  and  received  a  call  from  Brad- 
ford, N.H.,  where  he  located  happily.  While 
there  he  made  a  collection  of  some  two  hundred 
specimens  of  our  native  birds,  which  he 
mounted  diu-ing  his  leisure  moments.  In  this 
he  was  assisted  very  much  by  the  late  Dr. 
C.  M.  Fiske,  an  enthusiast  on  the  subject. 

The  happiest  days  of  Dr.  Fletcher's  life 
were  spent  during  his  six  years'  stay  in  Brad- 
ford. But  there  came  an  unavoidable  inter- 
ruption in  this  rural  felicity.  Informed  by 
the  United  States  mail  one  day  that  his  pres- 
ence at  the  old  homestead  was  very  desirable, 
he  soon  put  in  an  appearance  at  that  place; 
and  as  a  result  of  the  interview  he  returned  to 
]5radford,  closed  up  business,  and  removed  to 
Franklin,  N.H.,  where  he  could  be  in  closer 
communication  with  his  parents  as  long  as 
they  lived.  His  mother  died  May  24,  1875; 
his  father,  April  23,  1876.  In  the  mean- 
time. Dr.  Fletcher  having  acquired  the  pos- 
session of  real  estate  in  the  city  of  Concord, 
he  located  here  for  the  practice  of  his  pro- 
fession in  1879,  and  finally  purchased  his 
present  residence  at  the  corner  of  South  and 
Perley  Streets. 

On  July  3,  1854,  he  was  united  in  marriage 
with  Lucy  A.  Adams,  a  daughter  of  Zenas 
and  Lydia  (Baker)  Adams,  of  Pembroke,  N.II. 
Her  f-ather  was  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  1812. 
She   was  born  May  28,    1832,  and  was  a  grathi- 


ate  of  the  Pembroke  Academy.  On  Septem- 
ber 29,  1855,  a  daughter  was  born,  Lizzie  1\. 
Fletcher.  She  was  educated  in  the  public 
schools.  She  also  received  special  instruction 
in  music,  being  a  pupil  of  L.  \V.  Wheeler,  of 
Boston,  Mass.  During  her  musical  career  she 
gave  some  attention  to  teaching  both  vocal 
and  instrumental  music,  and  sang  at  several 
churches,  and  at  times  took  part  in  the  exer- 
cises at  concerts  and  conventions.  In  the 
winter  of  1882,  February  17,  the  Doctor's  wife 
was  stricken  with  apoplexy,  and  passed  away 
instantly,  leaving  the  domestic  administration 
to  the  daughter,  when  gradually  her  song  lost 
its  wonted  glee,  and  the  dark  rust  found  an 
abiding-place  within  her  piano.  The  pictures 
of  the  lost  one  still  hang  upon  the  wall  and 
rest  upon  the  mantel-piece,  pleasant  to  behold ; 
but  there  are  no  kind  and  affectionate  words 
escaping  those  lips,  as  of  yore,  or  laying  on  of 
those  soft  and  soothing  hands  when  pain  and 
anguish  wring  the  brow.  The  sunshine  of  the 
home  has  been  dimmed,  and  the  cloud  still 
lingers,  its  shadow  resting  on  the  vacant  chair; 
yet  there  are  kind  hearts  and  willing  hands 
beneath  the  parent  roof,  and  consequently  it  is 
a  home,  and  a  sweet  home,  to  those  that  dwell 
therein. 

Since  Dr.  Fletcher  became  a  resident  of  this 
city  he  has  obtained  letters  patent  on  several 
inventions,  on  which  he  has  realized  quite  lib- 
erally, one  of  them,  a  fountain  cuspidor,  being 
esteemed  by  competent  judges  the  most  per- 
fect fulfilment  of  its  especial  design  and  jnir- 
pose  ever  invented.  Wishing  to  place  his 
ornithological  collection  where  it  would  be 
the  best  appreciated  and  most  useful,  he  gave 
it  to  the  Concord  High  School,  which  it  now 
adorns. 

In  politics  Dr.  Fletcher  has  ever  been  a 
Republican.  His  first  Presidential  vote  was 
cast    for    John     C.     I'remont.       His    religious 


lilOOR  AI'IIICAI.    kl'.VII'AV 


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views  arc  eclectic.  On  his  arrival  in  Concord 
in  I'Y'bruary,  1879,  he  located  in  State  lilock, 
corner  of  North  Main  and  School  Streets, 
wlierc  we  sliaJl  take  our  leave  of  him. 


(^ONAlllAN  ARl'lV,  a  well-known  resi- 
dent and  a  retired  blacksmith  of  Salis- 
bury, was  born  January  28,  18 16,  on 
Cape  Cod,  Massachusetts,  in  the  town  of 
W'elllleet,  son  of  Solomon  and  I'atty  (Hopkins) 
Arey.  The  father,  also  a  native  of  VVellfleet, 
born  March  12,  1787,  lived  there  until  1830, 
work  i  111;  at  Iiis  trade,  that  of  car[)enter  and 
joiner.  In  1830  he  moved  to  Hoscaw^en, 
N.I  I.,  and  there  settled  on  a  farm,  which  he 
conducted  until  his  death  in  1846.  His 
wife,  who  was  horn  in  ICastham,  Mass.,  Feb- 
ruary 20,  17S9,  died  April  14,  1863.  They 
had  twelve  children,  of  whom  the  subject  of 
this  sketch  is  the  only  survivor.  They  were: 
I'riscilla  I?.,  Sarah,  Nathaniel  II. ,  Jonathan, 
.Solomon,  Nancy  W. ,  I'^lisha  II.,  Catherine 
\V.,  Isaiah  H.,  Mary  Ann,  Happa  W.,  and 
Martha  J. 

Jonathan  Arey  received  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  VVellfleet,  Mass.,  and  Bos- 
cawcn,  and  at  Pembroke  Academy.  He  re- 
mained at  home  until  seventeen  years  old, 
when  he  began  to  work  at  the  blacksmith's 
trade'with  William  Temple,  of  Boscawen,  in 
whose  employment  he  remained  for  three 
years.  After  this  he  worked  at  his  trade 
for  si.x  months  in  Franklin,  and  then  came 
to  Salisbury.  On  September  4,  1839,  Mr. 
Arey  married  Miss  Charlotte  H.  Smith,  of 
Salisbury,  daughter  of  Caleb  and  Mehitable 
(Eaton)  Smith.  She  died  March  9,  1865;  and 
in  the  following  year  Mr.  Arey  was  married  a 
second  time  to  Mrs.  Mary  S.  Pevare,  daughter 
of  Deacon  Amos  and  Hannah  (Sherburne) 
Fifield,    of    Danbury.       She    died    March     4, 


1890.  Mr.  Arey's  third  marriage  was  con- 
tracted with  Mrs.  Addic  J.  (White)  Davis,  of 
Wilmot.  .She  was  born  May  23,  1840,  daugh- 
ter of  I'Iben  and  Judith  (linicry)  White,  who 
owned  a  farm  in  Wilmot.  Iler  grandfather 
I'jiiery  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  he 
attained  the  age  of  ninety-nine  years.  Mr. 
Arey's  children,  all  by  his  fir.st  marriage, 
were:  Susan  P'lizabeth,  Lucy  Ann,  Henry, 
and  Charlotte  Augusta.  Susan  Elizabeth  is 
the  wife  of  Moses  Trussell,  a  merchant  of 
Davisville.  The  others  are  now  deceased. 
Georgia  H.  Davis,  Mrs.  Arey's  daughter  by 
her  first  marriage,  is  now  the  wife  of  Brinton 
Cate,  of  Concord,  a  painter  by  trade,  now  em- 
ployed as  a  fireman. 

Here  for  fifty  years  Mr.  Arey  carried  on  the 
smithy  that  stands  opposite  his  home,  working 
from  twelve  to  si.xteen  hours  daily.  Often  he 
worked  all  night,  shoeing  horses  for  teams 
employed  in  carrying  goods  from  Boston  to 
Vermont,  lie  owns  a  farm  of  about  nine 
acres,  together  w^th  an  orchard,  a  pasture,  and 
some  uncultivated  land.  He  has  always  done 
some  farming  and  gardening.  Since  he  took 
the  place  he  has  much  improved  it,  and  now 
raises  considerable  fruit.  Mr.  Arey  has  not 
been  sick  a  day  since  he  was  fourteen.  His 
good  health  is,  no  doul^t,  due  largely  to  the 
fact  that  he  has  been  always  a  temperate  man. 
He  is  well  known  and  liked  by  the  community 
for  miles  around.  He  has  been  Selectman  of 
the  town  for  five  years,  and  was  Chairman  two 
years  of  that  time.  In  politics  he  was  first  a 
Whig  and  then  a  Republican.  Later  he  voted 
the  Democratic  ticket.  Now  he  is  an  Inde- 
pendent, believing  in  voting  for  the  best  man 
every  time.  Mrs.  Arey  is  a  member  of  the 
Free  Baptist  Church  of  Concord,  N.  H. 

Among  a  number  of  interesting  relics  care- 
fully preserved  by  the  family  is  the  chair  of 
Grandfather  John  Hopkins,  wdio  was  a  Revolu- 


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tionary  soldier.  This  chair  has  been  in  the 
family  for  one  hundred  and  fifty  years.  There 
is  also  a  mirror  over  a  hundred  years  old,  and 
a  primitive  foot-stove;  while  Mrs.  Arey  has 
a  century-old  flat-iron,  which  was  formerly 
owned  by  her  granchnother. 


'RED  MOULTON,  a  leading  resident 
of  Plainfield  and  the  proprietor  of  a 
large  grocery  store  at  Lebanon,  was 
born  July  ii,  1836,  in  Plainfield,  son  of 
Stephen  R.  and  Sally  (Noyes)  Moulton.  The 
Moultons  have  had  representatives  in  Plain- 
field  for  four  generations,  men  who  have 
been  prominent  in  the  development  of  the 
town  and  closely  identified  with  all  the  im- 
portant events  in  its  history.  The  first  of  the 
name  to  settle  here  was  William,  grandfather 
of  Mr.  F"red  Moulton,  who  took  up  land,  and 
cleared  a  farm,  which  is  still  in  the  possession 
of  his  descendants.  Known  from  the  first  as  a 
man  of  absolute  integrity,  he  had  the  respect 
of  his  fellow-townsmen.  He  served  in  all  the 
important  town  offices  with  signal  credit.  He 
was  twice  married,  and  had  in  all  nine  chil- 
dren. The  children  of  his  second  marriage 
were:  William,  who  was  a  farmer  in  Cicero, 
N.Y.,  and  recently  died;  Emery,  now  a  cooper 
and  prosperous  farmer  of  Cicero,  N.Y.  ;  Mir- 
rick,  now  deceased,  who  was  a  wealthy  farmer 
of  the  same  place;  Samuel  C,  who  was  a  very 
prominent  citizen  of  Plainfield,  was  twice 
married,  had  three  children,  and  died  in  the 
West;  Jane,  who  became  Mrs.  William 
Wright,  of  New  York;  and  Sally,  now  the 
wife  of  Daniel  Noyes,  of  Plaistow,  this  State. 
Stephen  R.  Moulton,  who  was  born  May  8, 
1805,  became  very  prominent  in  the  affairs  of 
the  town,  serving  it  efficiently  in  various  pub- 
lic capacities.  In  early  life  he  was  a  teacher. 
He  owned    a    large    farm    in    East   Plainfield, 


comprising  the  land  of  three  estates.  Besides 
raising  cattle  and  carrying  on  general  farming, 
he  kept  a  general  merchandise  store  in  part- 
nership with  Mr.  Morgan.  He  held  a  high 
place  in  the  regard  of  his  fellow-townsmen. 
His  wife,  Sally,  was  born  May  28,  18 13. 
Besides  a  daughter  that  died  in  infancy,  their 
children  were:  Fred,  Darius  Noyes,  Joseph  S., 
and  Ella  M.  The  biography  of  Darius,  who 
is  one  of  the  most  influential  men  of  Plainfield 
to-day,  will  be  found  on  another  page  of  this 
volume.  Ella,  who  became  Mrs.  George 
Doty,  of  Meriden,  and  the  mother  of  Lena  M. 
and  George  F.  Doty,  Jr.,  died  May  30,  1890. 
Joseph  S.,  born  April  13,  1851,  after  graduat- 
ing at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  entered  Dart- 
mouth College  at  Hanover  and  later  Andover 
Theological  Seminary.  He  is  now  a  Unita- 
rian clerygman,  located  at  Stowe,  Mass. 

Fred  Moulton  was  sent  to  the  town  schools 
and  later  to  Kimball  Union  Academy,  which 
has  fitted  so  many  men  and  women  to  hold 
positions  of  responsibility  and  honor  in  life. 
After  finishing  school  he  went  to  Haverhill, 
Mass.,  and  engaged  in  the  grocery  business. 
He  had  been  there  four  years  when  he  returned 
to  Plainfield,  bought  a  farm,  and  settled  per- 
manently on  it.  He  has  extensively  engaged 
in  raising  poultry;  and  he  conducts  a  large 
store  at  Lebanon,  having  a  flourishing  trade 
with  the  surrounding  towns.  Mr.  Moulton 
has  taken  an  active  interest  in  town  affairs, 
and  has  served  the  community  in  the  capaci- 
ties of  Selectman,  legislative  Representative, 
and  others  of  minor  importance.  In  the  legis- 
lature he  was  on  the  Committee  on  Banks. 
He  was  also  a  member  of  the  Constitutional 
Convention  of  1876.  He  married  Arabcll 
Rowell,  of  Plainfield,  N.H.,  who  was  born 
December  22,  1836.  Their  son,  Elmer,  who 
was  born  February  23,  1861,  and  now  manages 
the  home  farm,  married  Emma  liaton,  and  has 


JiKKiRArilUJAl-    RI'AIIAV 


■iS? 


one  sciii,  l'"rc(l  A.,  wIid  is  tlic  lirsl  representa- 
tive of  the  lillil  j;enerali()H  (il  the  Muulton 
family  in  I'laintielci. 


-♦■»•■  I 


A 1' TAIN  JOHN  I..  Ivia.LI'.Y,  pro- 
prietor of  Maplewood  Farm,  Franklin, 
and  an  cx-mcmbcr  of  the  New 
Hampshire  legislature,  is  a  native  of  Gilnian- 
ton,  Helkiiap  County,  lie  was  born  Septem- 
ber 19,  1824,  his  parents  being  Daniel  and 
Sally  (Weeks)  Kelley,  the  former  a  native  of 
Gilmanton  and  the  latter  of  Gilford. 

Daniel  Kelley  carried  on  a  farm  in  his 
native  town  until  1866,  when  he  moved  to 
Franklin,  where  he  resided  for  the  rest  of  his 
life.  He  was  the  father  of  six  children,  as 
follows:  Betsey  M.,  born  June  3,  1S13,  who 
died  April  18,  1895;  Sara,  born  June  11, 
1815,  died  October  18,  1878;  Mary  Ann, 
born  April  11,  1S17;  ICllen  W.,  born  October 
28,  1821,  who  married  William  Bell,  and  died 
March  16,  1862;  John  L. ,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  and  Daniel  W.,  who  died  in  infancy. 
Mary  Ann  Kelley  has  been  twice  married,  and 
her  first  husband  was  John  S.  Durrell.  She 
married  for  her  second  husband  Challis  Sar- 
gent, of  Tilton,  and  is  now  residing  in  Lis- 
bon, N.  H. 

John  L.  Kelley  grew  to  manhood  and 
acquired  his  education  in  Gilmanton,  and 
since  leaving  school  has  been  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits.  The  farm  he  now  cultivates 
consists  of  three  hundred  acres,  and  is  one  of 
the  most  desirable  pieces  of  agricultural  jnop- 
erty  in  this  part  of  the  county.  Truck  farm- 
ing is  carried  on  cpiite  extensively,  as  well  as 
stock-raising;  but  Maplewood  F"arm  is  espe- 
cially noted  for  its  excellent  milk,  and  two 
wagons  arc  required  to  supply  the  regular  cus- 
tomers in  Franklin  Falls.  On  the  premises 
is  a  fine  greenhouse,  where  flowering    plants 


receive  their  share  of  attention.  In  addition 
to  all  this  the  proprietor  of  Maplewood  Farm 
has  been  interested  in  real  estate  business,  and 
has  erected  several  buildings  in  I'ranklin 
Falls  and  vicinity. 

On  October  24,  1847,  Caiitain  Kelley  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Susan  J.  Drew,  who 
was  born  in  Alton,  N.  II.,  September  5,  1823, 
daughter  of  Joseph  and  Leah  (Jones)  Drew. 
Mrs.  Kelley  is  the  mother  of  six  children, 
namely:  I'"mily  Bird,  born  November  9,  1850; 
Olin  J.,  born  December  4,  1852,  who  was 
fitted  for  college  at  'I'ilton;  Charles  Hazen, 
born  April  21,  1856;  Elmer  D.,  born  Novem- 
ber 7,  1861;  Nellie  B.,  born  September  2, 
1863;  and  John  Irving,  born  June  2,  1870. 
Emily  Bird  Kelley  was  married  November  28, 
1876,  to  the  Rev.  J.  W.  Walker,  a  Methodist 
preacher,  who  was  formerly  Presiding  Elder 
of  the  Iowa  Conference,  and  now  resides  in 
Rock  Rapids,  la.  Olin  J.  Kelley  is  now 
engaged  in  farming  with  his  father.  On  Jan- 
uary 29,  1879,  h^  married  Mary  l^lizabeth 
Walker,  who  was  born  i:i  lirampton,  Ont., 
August  17,  1857.  They  have  four  children  • — 
Herbert  Lester,  Irene  Susan,  Arthur  O.,  and 
Mary  Evelyn.  Charles  Hazen  Kelley  fitted 
for  college  at  Tilton,  graduated  from  the  Bos- 
ton University  Law  School,  and  is  now  a 
prominent  attorney  in  I'orest  City,  la.  He 
married  Florence  Clark,  of  Rockford,  111. 
Elmer  D.  Kelley,  who  is  a  graduate  of  the 
New  Hampshire  College,  is  now  residing  on 
the  homestead  in  Franklin,  giving  his  atten- 
tion largely  to  the  greenhouses.  He  has 
served  on  the  Board  of  Assessors,  and  is  now 
a  member  of  the  City  Council.  On  July  13, 
1886,  he  married  I-^nima  E.  Ingalls,  who  was 
born  in  Walden,  Vt.,  March  23,  1861,  daugh- 
ter of  Terley  and  Lovina  Ingalls.  Her 
mother,  now  a  widow,  makes  her  home  with 
them.      Mr.  and   Mrs.  Elmer  D.   Kelley  have 


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four  children:  Florence  W.  ;  Marion  A.; 
Louise;  and  an  infant  daughter,  of  whose  name 
we  have  not  been  advised.  Nellie  B.  Kelley 
married  Ziba  A.  Norris,  of  the  grocery  firm  of 
Norris  Brothers,  1677  Washingtc3n  Street, 
Boston.  John  Irving  Kelley  is  now  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  of  Franklin. 

Politically,  Captain  Kelley  is  a  Republi- 
can, and  for  many  years  was  active  in  public 
affairs.  He  has  served  in  various  town  offices, 
and  he  represented  the  district  in  the  legislat- 
ure in  1864  and  1865.  He  is  connected  with 
the  United  Order  of  the  Pilgrim  Fathers,  was 
one  of  the  organizers  of  the  grange,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 
He  was  formerly  interested  in  military  affairs, 
and  at  one  time  was  in  command  of  a  well- 
drilled  company. 


—•-♦••-•— 


jAPTAIN  ELEAZAR  L.  SARSONS, 
a  well-known  resident  of  Acworth 
and  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  was 
born  in  Lyme,  N.  H.,  August  9,  1836,  son  of 
Leon  and  Mora  Ella  (Prue)  Sarsons.  His 
father,  who  was  born  in  P'rance  in  the  year 
iSoo,  emigrated  to  Canada  in  1828,  and  in 
1834  moved  to  Sheffield,  Vt.  He  was  a  shoe- 
maker by  trade,  and  followed  this  handicraft 
in  connection  with  farming  for  some  time. 
Me  later  plied  his  calling  in  Lyme,  N.H.,  and 
other  places;  and  in  1871  he  came  to  Acworth, 
where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  mar- 
ried P'lora  Ella  Prue,  who  was  born  in  Canada 
in  1815.  They  became  the  parents  of  ten 
children,  as  follows:  Mary;  IClinore;  Eleazar 
L. ,  the  subject  ol  this  sketch;  h'lora,  who  was 
born  in  1834,  and  died  in  VVheelock,  Vt.,  in 
1841;  Adeline;  Marguerite;  William  H.  ; 
George  W.,  who  died  in  Pennsylvania,  Decem- 
ber 6,  1880;  Ella,  born  in  ]5arre,  Vt.,  in  April, 
1852;  and  Charles,  who  was  horn    in    Orange, 


V^t.,  in  i860,  and  died  in  1868.  Mary  Sar- 
sons became  the  wife  of  Henry  Towncs,  of 
Lake  Village,  N.  M.  Her  husband  died  July 
I,  iSgC;  and  she  is  now  residing  in  Nashua, 
N.H.  Elinore  married  George  W.  Newell,  of 
Nashua,  and  died  May  3,  i88g.  Adeline  mar- 
ried John  Williams.  Marguerite,  who  married 
John  Clark,  died  June  28,  1880.  William 
H.,  who  married  Clara  Barton,  died  in  Kan- 
sas, January  6,  1881.  Ella  is  the  widow  of 
Ora  C.  Smith,  late  of  Acworth,  N.PL,  who 
died  ]^"ebruary  i,  1897.  Leon  Sarsons  died 
June  17,  1888,  having  survived  his  wife,  who 
died  February  12,  1885,  a  little  more  than 
three  years. 

Eleazar  L.  Sarsons  in  his  boyhood  attended 
school  in  Barre,  Vt.  At  the  age  of  nineteen 
he  went  to  Oshkosh,  Wis.,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  the  lumber  business  a  short  time; 
and  upon  his  return  East  he  settled  in  Nashua. 
On  May  2,  1861,  he  joined  Company  E,  First 
Regiment,  New  Hampshire  Volunteer  In- 
fantry, under  Colonel  M.  W.  Tappin  and  Cap- 
tain A.  S.  Edgerly.  He  remained  with  his 
regiment  until  August  9  of  that  year,  when  he 
re-enlisted  in  the  Fourth  New  Hampshire 
Regiment,  and  on  September  20  was  assigned 
to  duty  in  Company  C,  under  Captain  Gilman 
E.  Sleeper.  He  served  from  the  outbreak 
until  the  close  of  the  war  for  the  L^nion,  in 
which  he  took  part  in  many  of  the  most  nota- 
ble and  decisive  battles.  Mr.  Sarsons  was 
made  a  Sergeant  on  September  25,  1861,  and 
was  appointed  P^irst  Sergeant,  May  i,  1863. 
On  May  20,  1864,  he  was  taken  prisoner,  and 
during  his  captivity  of  seven  months  was  con- 
fined in  Pctersbin'g,  Andcrsonvillc,  Charles- 
tun,  and  l"'iorence.  Continued  exposure 
brought  on  a  severe  illness,  which  he  was 
obliged  to  endure  without  metlical  aid;  and 
after  his  release  he  was  confined  to  the  hospi- 
tal at  Annapolis,  Md.,  with  an  attack  of  fever. 


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wliitii  resuUcil  in  ;i  severe  ileal'ness.  lie  was 
j;ivei)  a  riii'liui^li  ol  sixty  days  in  which  tn  re- 
cuperate; aiul  he  afterwanl  rejuined  his  regi- 
ment at  Raleigh,  N.C.  He  was  promoted  to 
the  rank  of  Kirst  Lieutenant,  Februnry  17, 
1865,  was  commissioned  Captain  Juno  2,  and 
mustered  out  as  sucii  in  Concord,  Septcmlocr 
2  of  the  same  year.  His  experience  while  in 
the  army  was  one  of  unusual  activity,  much  of 
the  time  being  spent  in  service  at  the  front; 
and  liis  war  record  is  a  most  honorable  one. 
In  1867  Captain  Sarsons  purchased  the  farm 
of  two  hundred  acres,  where  he  now  resides. 
His  property  is  well  improved.  He  carries 
on  general  farming  energetically,  is  interested 
in  breeding  horses,  and  raises  sheep  and 
cattle. 

On  November  3,  1857,  Captain  Sarsons 
married  for  his  first  wife  ICmeline  II.  Camp- 
bell, of  Nashua.  She  died  June  8,  1871, 
leaving  three  children,  namely:  7\delbert  E. , 
born  September  3,  1858;  Clarence  L.,  who 
was  born  Sei)tember  2,  1861,  and  died  May 
26,  1883;  and  Nellie  A.,  liorn  June  22,  1864. 
Adelbert  K.  married  Lillian  Mathews,  of 
Nashua,  and  is  now  residing  in  Newport, 
N.H.  Nellie  A.  is  the  wife  of  Frank  Clem- 
ent, of  Newport.  On  December  17,  1871, 
Captain  Sarsons  wedded  Ella  Z.  Metcalf. 
She  was  born  in  Newi^ort,  November  23,  1844, 
daughter  of  Joseph  P.  and  Lucy  (Gould)  Met- 
calf. Mrs.  Sarsons's  father  died  December  17, 
1869;  and  her  mother  died  in  April,  1896. 
By  this  second  marriage  of  Captain  Sarsons 
there  is  one  daughter,  Flora,  who  was  born 
October  19,  1872,  and  is  now  the  wife  of  Natt 
II.   Bcckwith,  of  Lempster.. 

Politically,  Captain  Sarsons  is  a  Rei>ubli- 
can.  He  has  served  as  a  Selectman  one  year, 
was  Tax  Collector  ten  years,  and  for  several 
years  past  has  acted  as  a  Justice  of  the  Peace 
and  Notary   Public.     Fraternally,    he   is  con- 


nected with  I'"oresl  Lo<lge,  No.  0<j,  I.  <).  (J.  I""., 
of  Marliiw;  Ccdd  Kiver  Grange,  No.  19, 
Patrons  of  Husbandry;  the  Prisoners-of-war 
Association  and  the  Veterans'  Association; 
and  is  a  comrade  of  Hancock  Post,  No.  9, 
G.  A.  R.,  of  Alstead,  N.H. 


(^TrUGUSTUS  BARNARD,  formerly  of 
^s^  Hfjpkinton,  was  one  of  the  brave  men 
/'"'°\^_,  who  fought  for  the  Union  in  the 
Civil  War.  Born  in  Haverhill,  Mass.,  he  was 
reared  and  educated  in  New  York  State. 
After  spending  a  part  of  his  early  life  in  Bos- 
ton, he  came  to  Hopkinton,  where  he  learned 
the  currier's  trade  of  Jonathan  Osgood.  He 
followed  this  trade  in  connection  with  tanning 
until  the  late  war  was  well  in  progress.  Then 
he  enlisted  as  a  private  in  the  Sixteenth  New 
Hampshire  Volunteer  Infantry  for  nine 
months.  With  his  regiment  he  served  his 
full  time,  the  most  of  which  was  spent  in 
Louisiana.  The  exposure  and  hardships  of 
the  camp  and  field  had  undermined  his  health 
to  such  an  extent  that  he  lived  but  three 
months  after  his  discharge.  He  died  Decem- 
ber 16,  1863,  at  the  age  of  thirty-one,  in  the 
house  on  Putney  Hill  now  occupied  by  his 
widow,  Mrs.  Julia  A.  Barnard. 

Mrs.  Julia  A.  Barnard  was  born  May  19, 
1823,  at  Contoocook,  this  county,  daughter 
of  Ichabod  and  Rebecca  (Hazelton)  Eaton. 
Both  her  parents  were  born  in  Haverhill, 
Mass.,  where  they  lived  until  after  their  mar- 
riage. Mr.  Eat'on  was  a  mason  by  trade.  In 
1822,  about  a  year  before  the  birth  of  Mrs. 
Barnard,  he  came  with  his  family  to  Hopkin- 
ton, locating  on  Putney  Hill,  in  a  house  which 
is  still  owned  by  the  Eaton  family.  Here  tiie 
parents  spent  their  remaining  days,  the  father 
dying  at  the  age  of  fourscore  years,  and  the 
mother   when    seventy-five  years    old.       They 


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had  eleven  children,  of  whom  Mrs.  Barnard, 
the  youngest,  is  the  only  survivor.  The 
others  were:  Susan,  who  married  Ephraim 
Hunt,  and  lived  eighty  years;  Matilda,  who 
became  the  wife  of  Thomas  Arnold,  of  Plais- 
tow,  N.  H.,  and  died  at  the  age  of  fifty;  Icha- 
bod,  who  spent  his  life  on  the  old  homestead, 
and  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-two  years,  leaving 
a  daughter,  Ellen  Louise  Eaton,  now  residing 
with  Mrs.  Barnard;  Nathaniel,  who  died  at 
Hillsborough,  N.H.,  aged  forty-five  years; 
Richard,  who  settled  on  Putney  Hill,  and  died 
at  the  age  of  fifty  years;  Mary,  who  was  the 
wife  of  Samuel  Wilson,  and  died  in  Nashua 
at  the  age  of  forty  years;  Clara,  who  died  in 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  at  the  age  of  fifty-three,  hav- 
ing first  married  Stilson  Hutchins  and  after 
his  death  Hiram  Somerby;  Elizabeth,  who 
died  in  childhood ;  and  Charles  and  Rebecca, 
who  died  in  infancy.  Julia  A.  Eaton  devel- 
oped into  young  womanhood  in  the  home  of 
her  parents.  When  sixteen  years  old,  ambi- 
tious of  doing  something  toward  supporting 
herself,  she  went  to  Lowell,  Mass.,  and  ob- 
tained employment  in  the  mills.  She  there 
met  and  married  Isaac  L.  Hall,  a  young 
machinist.  They  settled  in  Lowell,  remain- 
ing there  until  1844,  when  his  health  failed. 
Then  they  removed  to  Hopkinton,  and  bought 
the  house  in  which  Mrs.  Barnard  now  lives. 
Although  Mr.  Hall  never  recovered  his  health, 
his  life  was  prolonged  until  1851.  Two  chil- 
dren born  of  that  union  died  in  early  child- 
hood, leaving  the  young  widow  without  a 
family.  In  March,  1S53,  shJ  married  Augus- 
tus Barnard,  above  mentioned.  In  the  care 
of  her  little  farm  Mrs.  Barnard  has  the  assist- 
ance of  George  M.  Barnard,  a  brother  of  her 
late  husband. 

George  M.  Barnard  was  born  -September  30, 
1843,  in  Tompkins  County,  New  York,  son  of 
Thomas    K.    and     Hannah    (P'rost)    Barnard. 


Both  parents  were  natives  of  Massachusetts, 
born  respectively  in  Amesbury  and  Methuen. 
The  mother  died  when  he  was  nine  years  old, 
leaving  a  large  family,  of  which  his  brother 
Augustus  was  the  first-born,  and  he  was  next 
to  the  youngest.  His  father  had  passed  to  the 
silent  majority  some  years  before  that  time, 
and  his  widowed  mother  had  removed  with  her 
family  to  her  old  home  in  Amesbury.  After 
the  death  of  his  parents  he  came  to  Hopkinton 
to  live  in  the  family  of  his  brother  Augustus, 
continuing  until  the  breaking  out  of  the  late 
Rebellion.  In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  in 
Company  H,  Fourteenth  New  Hampshire 
Volunteer  Infantry,  commanded  by  Colonel 
Robert  Wilson,  of  Keene,  and  was  with  his 
regiment  in  many  of  the  important  battles  of 
the  South,  going  from  New  Orleans  to  Vir- 
ginia, where  he  served  in  Sheridan's  army, 
and  at  the  cessation  of  hostilities  was  in  Sa- 
vannah, Ga.  He  was  at  the  front  in  the  bat- 
tles at  Hopkins  Hill,  P"isher"s  Hill,  and  at 
Cedar  Creek,  carrying  a  musket  in  the  ranks. 
He  was  never  wounded  nor  detached  from 
duty,  and  spent  biit  one  month  in  the  hospital 
during  his  time  of  service,  which  fell  just  a 
little  short  of  three  years,  having  been  dis- 
charged July  8,  1865,  under  general  orders. 
His  health,  however,  was  undermined;  and  he 
came  back  to  Hopkinton  to  the  care  and  pro- 
tection of  Mrs.  Barnard,  whom  he  assists  by 
looking  after  her  farming  interests.  The 
government  gives  him  a  pension.  Mr.  Bar- 
nard has  never  married.  He  is  a  man  of  strong 
opinions,  and  in  politics  a  Republican. 


fs^OIIN  C.  PILLSBURY,  a  prominent 
resilient  of  Danbury,  was  born  here, 
January  18,  1833,  son  of  John  and 
Nancy  (Colby)  Pillsbury.  The  grandfather, 
Samuel  Pillsbury,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers 


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of  Salisbury  and  a  representative  of  the 
famous  I'illsbury  family  who  originally  came 
froui  Rowley,  Mass.  A  blacksmith  as  well  as 
a  farmer,  lie  followed  his  trade  in  Salisbury. 
He  lived  ne.irly  opjiosite  the  home  of  Daniel 
Webster,  and  the  two  young  men  grew  u\) 
togethei'.  In  his  later  years  he  came  to  Dan- 
bury,  where  he  sjjent  his  last  days,  dying  at 
the  age  of  fifty  years.  lie  was  a  soldier  of  the 
Continental  army  during  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  fought  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill. 
His  wife  was  a  Pingaree,  and  a  connection  of 
Governor  I'ingarce.  John  Pillsbury,  born  in 
.Salisbury,  N.ll.,  was  a  farmer.  He  took  up 
the  land  now  occupied  by  his  son,  and  built 
the  house  which  stands  upon  it.  He  spent  all 
his  days  upon  this  place  after  coming  to  Dan- 
bury,  with  the  e.xception  of  a  short  time  during 
which  he  worked  in  Cambridge,  Mass.  His 
death  occurred  Decemijcri/,  1868.  He  mar- 
ried Nancy  CoUj)',  of  h'lanklin,  N.ll.,  who 
died  October  6,  1877.  Their  ciiildren,  John 
C.  and  Mary  A.,  survi\eil  them.  i\Iary,  born 
July  17,  1 8;;9,  married  .Smith  J.  Roby,  and 
had  two  ciiildren,  one  of  whom  is  deceased. 
Her  other  chikl,  Cora  B. ,  is  now  the  wife  of 
John  Huntoon,  of  Danbury.  Mrs.  Roby  died 
June  26,   1877. 

After  receiving  his  education  in  the  Dan- 
bury  schools,  John  C.  Pillsbury  learned  the 
stone-cutter's  trade,  which  he  afterward  fol- 
lowed for  about  ten  years.  During  that  time 
he  worked  in  various  places  and  on  many  im- 
portant contracts,  notably  on  the  new  Vermont 
State  House.  He  also  worked  in  tlie  great 
quarries  of  Vinal  Haven,  Me.  Ui)on  return- 
ing to  Danbury,  he  bought  a  farm,  upon  which 
he  lived  until  his  father's  death.  When  that 
event  occurred,  not  wishing  the  old  homestead 
to  pass  out  of  the  family,  he  s(dd  his  own 
farm,  and  moved  to  his  father's  place,  where 
he    has   since  resided.      Mr.   I'illsbury  married 


Miss  Sarah  E.  Perrin,  a  daughter  of  (Jel  and 
Sabrinia  (Strong)  Perrin,  of  Royalton,  Vt. 
Of  their  si.x  children  two  daughters,  Nellie 
and  Mary  K.,  died  in  infancy.  The  others 
are:  George  0.;  Natt  W. ;  Mr.s.  James 
Virtue,  of  Concord,  Vt. ;  and  Mrs.  Fred  Lov- 
ering,  of  Concord,  N.ll.  Mr.  I'illsbury  has 
been  a  Free  Mason  and  a  stanch  Democrat. 
His  first  Presidential  vote  was  ca.st  in  iSs^for 
James  Buchanan. 


ON.  CHICS  ri'-.R  I'IKF,  a  prominent 
citizen     of     .Sullivan     County,     New 

-     V .-  Hampshire,  residing  in  Cornish,  his 

native  town,  was  born  July  30,  1829,  son  of 
Ebenezer  and  Judith  (Bryant)  Pike.  On  both 
his  father's  and  his  mother's  side  he  is  de- 
scended from  distinguished  ancestry,  and  from 
families  that  have  been  conspicuous,  not  only 
in  the  history  of  New  Hampshire,  i)ut  in  the 
history  of  the  nation.  His  grantlfathcr  Pike 
was  born  in  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  came  to 
Cornish  in  early  manhood,  the  first  of  the 
name  to  settle  here.  He  bought  a  farm  and  a 
mill  on  Blow-me-down  Brook,  and  devoted 
himself  to  farming  and  to  carrying  on  the 
mill.  He  married  Mary  Marcy,  of  Hartland, 
Vt. ;  and  they  had  three  children  ^Ebenezer, 
Chester  (first),  and  Pliny.  Chester,  first,  who 
never  married,  died  in  Northumberland  when 
about  thirty-five  years  of  age.  Pliny  Pike  was 
a  farmer  of  Cornish,  and  died  in  that  town  at 
the  age  of  seventy  years. 

Ebenezer,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  in  Cornish  in  17S8,  and  died 
in  1862.  After  completing  his  studies  at 
school,  he  purchased'  and  carried  on  one  of  the 
largest  stock-raising  farms  in  the  county,  rais- 
ing thoroughbred  horses  for  the  Boston 
market.  With  the  exception  of  Mr.  Wain- 
wright,  of  Vermont,  no  one  else  of  his  time 


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did  so  large  a  business  in  this  line.  When 
a  school-boy,  Mr.  Ebenezer  Pike  was  always 
alert  to  make  a  good  bargain.  He  traded 
horses  then  as  well  as  jack-knives  and  other 
boyish  knickknacks,  and  this  natural  business 
ability  was  the  foundation  of  his  success  in 
life.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig,  but  was  not 
ambitious  for  political  honors,  and  did  not 
meddle  in  public  affairs,  his  large  business 
interests  being  sufficient  to  absorb  his  entire 
time.  His  wife,  Judith,  daughter  of  Captain 
Sylvanus  and  Sarah  Chase  Bryant,  of  Cornish, 
bore    him  two  children  —  Chester  and  John  B. 

The  younger  son,  John  B.  Pike,  was  born  in 
February,  1830,  and  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Cornish,  in  Hartland,  Vt.,  at 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  at  Norwich 
University,  Vermont.  He  then  went  West, 
and  was  engaged  for  a  while  as  a  civil  engi- 
neer. Afterward  he  kept  a  hotel  in  Cincin- 
nati, Ohio,  and  later  in  Chelsea,  Vt.  In 
1863  he  was  appointed  Deputy  Provost  Mar- 
shal, and  after  the  war  he  was  for  many  years 
a  mail  route  agent  between  St.  Albans,  Vt., 
and  Boston.  He  ne.xt  went  into  the  insurance 
business,  in  which  he  has  since  continued. 
He  married  Louise  Parker,  of  Plainfield,  and 
is  the  father  of  two  children  — Chester  J.  and 
Luther  Henry  Pike.  Chester  J.  Pike  is  liv- 
ing in  Boston,  and  is  general  selling  agent  for 
a  large  rubber  company.  He  is  one  of  the 
chief  promoters  of  one  of  the  largest  combines 
in  New  Itngland,  and  was  a  short  time  ago 
written  about  as  one  of  the  five  young  men  of 
this  perioLJ  to  draw  the  largest  salaries  in 
New  England.  He  married  and  has  two  chil- 
dren. Luther  Henry  Pike  lives  in  Boston, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  well-known  rubber 
firm  of  Converse  &  Pike.      He  has  one  child. 

On  his  maternal  side  Mr.  Chester  I'ike  is 
descended  from  the  Chases  and  15ryants,  early 
settlers  of  Cornish.       Three    brothers  —  Sam- 


uel, Moses,  and  Caleb  Chase  —  came  from 
Newbury,  Mass.,  and  were  the  first  settlers  in 
the  township  of  Cornish.  They  landed  at  the 
mouth  of  Blow-me-down  Brook ;  and  there 
Moses,  great-grandfather  of  Mr.  Chester  Pike, 
built  the  first  house  ever  erected  in  the  town 
of  Cornish.  The  homestead  is  now  owned  by 
the  Hon.  Charles  C.  Beaman,  a  wealthy  New 
York  lawyer,  son-in-law  of  the  Hon.  William 
E.  Evarts  and  partner  in  the  firm  of  Evarts, 
Beaman  &  Choate.  Mr.  Beaman  makes  this 
his  summer  home;  and  he  has  expended  a  fort- 
une on  beautifying  the  estate,  in  which  he 
takes  great  pride  on  account  of  its  historic 
associations.  Caleb  Chase,  the  youngest  of 
the  three  brothers,  had  a  daughter,  who  be- 
came Mrs.  Sarah  Chase  Kimball.  It  was 
she  who  founded  the  famous  Kimball  Union 
Academy  which  has  fitted  so  many  New 
Hampshire  men  and  women  to  hold  notable 
positions  in  life.  Mrs.  Kimball  was  a  great- 
aunt  of  Mr.  Pike.  Other  distinguished  mem- 
bers of  this  family,  were:  General  Jonathan 
Chase,  Bishop  Philander  Chase,  anil  Chief 
Justice  Salmon  P.  Chase. 

Chester  Pike  received  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  Cornish  and  of  Hartland,  Vt.,  at 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  at  Plainfield; 
and  after  his  school  days  were  over  he  worked 
on  his  father's  farm  for  a  number  of  years. 
For  several  winters  he  taught  school,  and  at 
the  age  of  twenty-one  he  became  an  agricult- 
urist and  a  dealer  in  horses.  He  still  has 
some  very  valuable  stock  on  his  farm,  which 
occupies  one  of  the  best  sites  in  New  Eng- 
land, on  the  banks  of  the  Blow-me-down 
]5rook  and  adjoining  the  estate  of  the  Hon. 
Mr.  Beaman.  Beautiful  Blow-me-down  Brook 
has  its  source  in  the  cloud-curtained  hills  of 
New  Hampshire  and  its  outlet  in  the  stately 
Connecticut  River.  The  origin  of  its  name 
is    unknown.       The    estate,    comprising    some 


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thniisMiid  acres,  is  divcisilk'tl  by  rich  pasture 
iiiiil  meadow  lands  and  beautiful  groves,  and  in 
suniMier  and  aiitunm  with  liixuiiant  harvests. 
Mr.  I'ii^e  had  l^econie  the  owner  of  this  mag- 
nificent property  by  the  exercise  of  his  native 
lousiness  talents  and  l)y  courteous  and  lionor- 
ablc  dealing  in  all  transactions.  He  has  been 
largely  interested  in  wool,  and  was  a  member 
of  the  firm  of  Dudley  &  Pike,  having  a  market 
in  Hoston. 

Although  having  these  extensive  business 
interests,  he  has  found  time  to  devote  to  the 
general  affairs  of  his  native  town,  and  has 
brought  to  bear  upon  questions  of  public  wel- 
fare the  same  sagacity  and  keenness  of  intel- 
lect that  he  has  applied  to  his  personal  affairs. 

1 1  is  fellow-townsmen  have  appreciated  the 
value  of  his  sound  judgment  and  practical 
ability,  and  almost  every  office  of  trust  and  re- 
sponsibility in  the  gift  of  the  town  has  been 
tendered  him.  He  was  for  several  years 
Selectman;  in  1S59-62  he  was  County  Com- 
missioner for  .Sullivan  County;  in  1862-63  he 
was  sent  to  represent  the  town  in  the  legislat- 
ure, and  was  on  the  Committee  on  Manufact- 
ures the  first  year,  and  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  15anks  the  second;  in  1887  and  188S 
he  was  again  elected  to  the  House  of  Repre- 
sentatives, and  was  Chairman  of  the  Com- 
mittee on  Railroads.  He  was  appointed 
United  States  Provost  Marshal  in  1863,  to 
serve  during  the  most  trying  days  the  country 
has  ever  seen ;  and  the  able  and  successful 
manner  in  which  this  difficult  position  was 
filled  gained  for  Mr.  Pike  the  gratitude  of  all 
his  constituents.  The  Commissioner  was  the 
Hon.  F.  A.  Faulkner,  of  Keene;  and  the  Sur- 
geon, Professor  Dixi  Crosby,  of  Hanover. 
In  i866  Mr.  Pike  received  the  nt)mination  for 
Councillor  of  the  Fourth  District,  but  declined 
to  accept.  He  was  subsequently  appointed 
United  States  Collector  of   Internal  Revenue, 


and  held  this  appointment  until  the  districts 
were  con.solidate(l.  In  1883  and  1884  he  was 
a  member  of  the  New  Hamjishire  Senate, 
and  akso  in  1885  and  1886,  when  he  was 
President  of  the  Senate.  He  has  been  a 
Director  in  the  Clarcmont  National  Bank  for 
twenty-five  years,  and  has  been  a  member  and 
officer  of  the  Sullivan  County,  the  Connecti- 
cut River,  the  New  Ham|)shire  State,  and  the 
New  England  Agricultural  Societies. 

In  1862  Mr.  Pike  married  Amanda  l'., 
daughter  of  the  Hon.  Levi  Chamberlin  I""ay, 
of  Windsor,  Vt.  She  has  borne  him  four 
children,  only  one  of  whom,  Chester  Fay  Pike, 
is  living.  He  was  born  in  Cornish,  May  11, 
1869.  After  acquiring  his  education  he  went 
into  mercantile  business  with  his  uncle,  ICd- 
mund  S.  Fay,  in  Portsmouth,  N.H.,  where  he 
remained  for  two  years.  He  then  went  to 
Boston,  and  was  travelling  salesman  for  a 
rubber  company  for  two  years;  and  at  the  end 
of  that  time  he  was  with  the  firm  of  Converse 
&  Pike.  After  much  persuasion  on  the  part  of 
his  parents  he  was  induced  to  return  to  Cornish, 
where  he  has  resided  for  the  past  year. 

Mrs.  Pike  was  born  at  Reading,  Vt.,  in 
1833.  I^cr  father  was  much  interested  in 
military  affairs,  and  won  the  title  of  Major. 
She  is  a  direct  descendant  on  her  father's  side 
of  Governor  Lincoln,  of  Massachusetts,  and 
on  her  mother's  side  is  connected  with  the 
celebrated  Sherman  family,  which  numbers 
among  its  members  by  blood  or  marriage  Gen- 
eral Sherman,  Secretary  of  State  John  Sher- 
man, ex-Senator  PZvarts,  Senator  Hoar,  of 
Massachusetts,  and  the  late  Judge  Rockwood 
Hoar. 


I;NRY    II.    CROVVFLL,   a  prosperous 
lumber  merchant  of   Hopkinton,  was 
^^  V    ,  born  in  that  town,  July  9,  1S34,  son 
of   Albert  A.  arid    Lydia   (Kimball)   Crowell. 


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His  grandfather^  Joseph  Crowell,  came  from 
Bradford,  Mass.,  and  settled  on  Beach  Hill 
about  one  hundred  years  ago.  Albert  Crow- 
ell, who  was  born  on  the  aforesaid  hill,  about 
fifty  years  ago  settled  at  Ferrington's  Corner, 
on  the  farm  where  Eli  Boutwell  now  lives. 
He  ran  the  old  saw-mill  of  the  primitive  up 
and  down  style,  doing  a  custom  business;  and 
the  mill  industry  has  been  in  the  hands  of  the 
Crowell  family  there  ever  since.  He  died  at 
the  age  of  sixty-two.  His  wife,  also  a  native 
of  Hopkinton,  now,  at  the  age  of  eighty-two, 
lives  with  her  son.  Of  their  six  boys  Lewis 
E.  was  killed  in  the  Civil  War  by  a  shell  at 
Spottsylvania.  Three  of  the  others  were  in 
the  Burden  Sharpshooters.  Henry  H.  served 
two  years  and  nine  months.  He  was  in  all 
the  battles  of  the  regiment  from  the  second 
battle  of  Bull  Run.  Another  of  the  brothers, 
O.  W.  Crowell,  is  the  famous  evangelist 
singer,  now  travelling,  and  engaged  in  that 
work.  The  talent  for  vocal  music,  which  is 
not  wholly  confined  to  this  son,  was  an  inher- 
itance from  their  mother. 

Henry  H.  Crowell  remained  with  his  father 
until  he  was  twenty-one,  working  out  in  the 
summers.  In  1868  he  bought  his  present  mill 
near  Ferrington  Corners.  He  had  at  first  a 
grist-mill,  a  clapboard,  lath,  shingle,  and  up- 
right saw-mill.  In  1S69  a  great  freshet  car- 
ried the  grist-mill  and  all  its  belongings  down 
stream.  He  then  rebuilt,  and  put  in  new 
machinery.  His  neighbors  aided  him  in 
building  the  dam;  and  he  now  has  a  circular 
saw  for  lumber,  besides  a  shingle-mill.  The 
same  plant  has  been  worked  now  for  twenty- 
eight  years.  With  the  exception  of  three 
years  spent  in  the  army  Mr.  Crowell  has  been 
in  the  mill  business  for  forty-eight  years.  He 
often  effects  a  profitable  transaction  by  buying 
stumpage  and  clearing  off  the  lumber.  Ad- 
Joining   his   comfortable  residence    is   a    small 


farm.  He  is  quite  actively  identified  with 
social  organizations,  and  has  held  public 
office.  All  the  chairs  of  Colonel  Putnam 
Post,  No.  5,  G.  A.  R.,  have  been  occupied  by 
him;  and  he  attended  the  Boston  and  Portland 
National  Encampments  of  the  organization. 
He  was  a  charter  member  of  Union  Grange, 
No.  56,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  and  served  in 
nearly  all  the  chairs,  including  that  of  Master. 
In  1878,  1879,  and  1880  he  was  Collector  of 
Taxes;  and  he  has  been  Selectman  for  six 
years.  In  1876-77  he  was  a  Representative 
in  the  State  legislature,  and  was  active  in 
committee  work.  He  has  been  a  Justice  of 
the  Peace  for  thirty  years.  A  stanch  Repub- 
lican, he  is  interested  in  local  politics.  He 
cast  his  first  vote  for  Fremont,  and  he  has 
voted  that  ticket  ever  since.  Both  he  and  his 
family  belong  to  the  Congregational  church. 

Mr.  Crowell  was  married  in  1858  to  Lu- 
cinda  M.  Currier,  who  died  in  1874.  In 
1876  he  married  Melinda  J.  Burroughs,  of 
Bow,  N.H.  The  children  of  the  first  mar- 
riage were:  Lewis  Albert,  who  died  in  child- 
hood; Frank,  who  also  died  young;  Etta  M., 
who  became  the  wife  of  Charles  P.  Goodwin  ; 
and  George  H.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty- 
eight.  By  the  second  union  there  is  a  daugh- 
ter, Lilian  L.,  now  nineteen  years  old,  who  is 
a  music  teacher. 


B 


AVID  M.  CURRIER,  M.D.,  a  suc- 
cessful physician  of  Newport,  was 
born  in  Grafton,  Grafton  County, 
September  15,  1840,  son  of  David  and  Rhoda 
(Morse)  Currier.  The  grandfather,  David 
Currier,  presumably  came  from  .Salisbury, 
Mass.,  and  located  in  Canaan,  where  he  be- 
came the  owner  of  a  good  tract  of  land,  and 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-one  years.  He 
married     February     2,     1797,     Ruth     Stevens, 


DAVID    M.    CURRIER. 


BIOGRAI'IIKAI,    KI'A  IKW 


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will  I  (lied  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years. 
They  had  five  children:  ]3avid,  born  February 
<S,  i.s*03;  lulward,  born  June  12,  i<^05; 
Aaron,  born  September  10,  1X13;  Dorolliy, 
born  January  28,  1799;  and  Ilainiah,  born 
June  23,  i<Soo.  David,  the  father  of  Dr. 
Currier,  was  also  a  farmer.  His  active  life 
was  spent  in  Canaan  and  in  (jrafton.  At  a 
later  date  he  moved  to  the  farm,  where  he  died 
July  2,  1862.  His  death  resulted  from  in- 
juries from  the  fall  of  a  tree  upon  him  while 
at  work  in  the  woods.  He  married  Rhoda 
Mt)rse,  who  was  born  in  luifield  in  1S07,  and 
died  March  31,  1894.  He  was  a  Free  Will 
Haptist.  In  his  last  years  he  was  a  Repub- 
lican. His  children  were:  Rhoda  M.,  who 
died  when  two  years  old;  Amanda  M.  Hadley, 
who  died  .si.xty  years  of  age;  Ruth  S.  Leeds, 
who  lives  in  Orange,  N.  H.  ;  Mary  Y.  Dia- 
mond, also  a  resident  of  Orange;  David  M., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and  William  H. 
Currier,  who  is  a  travelling  salesman,  residing 
in  South  Braintree,  Mass. 

Having  received  his  early  education  in  the 
schools  of  Grafton  and  Sanbornton  Ikidge 
(now  Tilton),  N.H.,  David  M.  Currier  went 
into  the  McLean  Insane  Asylum,  formerly  in 
Somerville,  Mass.,  as  an  attendant.  Here  he 
began  the  study  of  medicine  under  the  super- 
intendent of  the  institution.  Dr.  John  E. 
Tyler.  He  was  afterward  a  pupil  of  Dr. 
Dixie  and  A.  15.  Crosbie  at  Hanover,  and  sub- 
sequently, having  entered  Dartmouth  Medical 
College,  graduated  therefrom  in  1S67.  His 
first  practice  was  in  association  with  Dr.  Fitz 
at  Sutton,  N.  II.  At  the  end  of  a  year  he 
settled  in  Sunapee,  N.  H.,  where  he  was  lo- 
cated till  1870,  when  he  went  to  Boston  to 
take  a  course  of  lectures  and  to  visit  the  hos- 
pitals. In  1885  he  took  a  post-graduate 
course  at  the  Post-graduate  Medical  College 
of  New  York.      When  he  left  Boston  in  1871, 


he  went  into  partnership  with  Dr.  Swctt  in 
Newport.  That  connection  ended  after  the 
lapse  of  a  year,  since  which  he  has  been  in 
active  practice  alone. 

On  November  29,  1868,  Dr.  Currier  mar- 
ried Jennie  B.  Colby,  daughter  of  Johnson 
Colby,  of  .Sutton.  She  died  September  29, 
1879,  leaving  no  children.  The  Doctor  con- 
tracted a  second  marriage  December  29,  1881, 
with  Annie  M.  Converse.  Her  father,  E.  C. 
Converse,  who  is  the  present  Postmaster  of 
Newport,  was  born  in  Lyme,  N.H.,  June  2, 
1827,  son  of  Theron  and  Miriam  Carpenter. 
His  grandfather,  Joel  Converse,  was  one  of  the 
early  settlers  of  Lyme,  a  farmer  and  a  good 
worker.  Joel  married  Flizabeth  Bixby,  who 
by  him  had  Theron,  who  was  also  a  farmer. 
Theron  spent  almost  his  entire  life  at  Lyme, 
was  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church, 
a  Whig  in  politics,  and  later  a  Republican. 
He  died  in  1861.  His  wife  died  in  the  pre- 
vious year.  He  was  the  father  of  five  children 
by  a  former  wife,  Mary  Porter  Converse; 
namely,  Aljiheus,  Mary,  Louisa,  Benjamin, 
and  an  infant  who  died  young.  Born  of  his 
second  marriage  were:  Theoron  B.,  K.  C, 
and  Miriam.  Miriam  became  the  wife  of 
P'rank  Smith,  of  Michigan.  Mr.  Converse 
was  brought  up  in  Lyme,  where  he  was  edu- 
cated and  where  he  became  a  clerk  in  a  general 
store.  He  came  to  Newport  in  1849,  and  in 
1859  he  engaged  in  the  drug  business  for  him- 
self. This  he  continued  unil  1893,  when  he 
sold  out  to  take  charge  of  the  post-office  of 
the  town.  In  1848  he  married  Amanda 
Tibbetts,  who  was  born  in  New  York  State. 
They  have  had  five  children:  Alzira,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  fourteen  years;  Hattie,  who  be- 
came the  wife  of  E.  B.  Temple,  and  died  at 
twenty-nine  years;  Annie  M.,  the  wife  of  Dr. 
Currier;  Sarah,  the  wife  of  David  Leach;  and 
Eleazar  C,  Jr.,  an  electrician  of  Boston.      The 


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father  is  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Lyme.  A  Democrat  in  politics,  he 
has  held  the  office  of  Town  Clerk  for  two 
years,  was  legislative  Representative  for  one 
year,  and  for  many  years  was  the  Moderator 
of  Newport.  He  is  connected  with  the 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  Sugar  River  Lodge,  No.  45,  and 
Mount  Coit  Lodge,  No.  2S6,  K.  of  H. 

Dr.  Currier  has  two  daughters,  namely : 
Helen  M.,  born  June  5,  1S91  ;  and  Josephine, 
born  June  23,  1893.  Both  he  and  Mrs.  Currier 
attend  the  Methodist  church.  Dr.  Currier 
votes  the  Independent  ticket.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  Board  of  Health,  and  he 
served  for  two  years  on  the  Water  Commission 
for  the  construction  of  the  present  water  sys- 
tem of  Newport.  He  was  on  the  Board  of 
Education  for  three  years,  and  has  held  the 
office  of  United  .States  E.xamining  Surgeon  for 
the  last  twenty-one  years.  He  is  well  known 
in  Masonic  and  other  secret  society  circles, 
being  a  member  of  Mount  Vernon  Lodge,  No. 
15,  of  Newport;  Past  High  Priest  of  the 
Chapter  of  tlie  Tabernacle,  No.  19,  Newport 
Lodge,  K.  of  P.,  No.  43,  of  which  he  is  a 
charter  member  and  first  Vice-Chancellor  of 
the  society  and  Past  Chancellor  Commander. 
He  was  admitted  to  the  Grand  Lodge, 
K.  of  P.,  in  1893,  and  in  1S94  was  elected 
Grand  Master  at  Arms.  Li  1895  he  was 
awarded  to  chair  of  Grand  Vice-Chancellor; 
and  in  October,  1S96,  he  was  elected  to  the 
office  of  Grand  Chancellor  of  the  .State  of  New 
ILampshire,  which  office  he  now  holds.  On 
March  7,  1897,  he  was  commissioned  Surgeon 
of  the  Second  Regiment,  Uniform  Rank, 
K.  of  P.,  of  the  Grand  Domain  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  is  also  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Medical  and  Centre  District  So- 
ciety, being  an  ex-President  of  the  last  named 
organization.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can   Public    Health    Association    and    of    the 


Medico-Legal  Society  of  New  York.  Dr. 
Currier  has  had  a  wide  and  extensive  practice, 
and  ranks  second  in  seniority  as  a  practising 
physician  of  Newport. 


/^^TeORGP:  WE.ST  FLANDERS,  who 
\J5  I  lives  on  a  small  farm  in  West  Con- 
cord, was  born  there,  November  9, 
1 83 1.  The  great-grandfather  was  an  exten- 
sive land-owner  at  Millville,  and  had  posses- 
sion of  the  water-power  privilege  of  that  sec- 
tion. His  residence  stood  on  the  site  now 
occupied  by  St.  Paul's  School.  At  the  close 
of  his  active  life  he  left  his  land  to  be  divided 
among  his  sons.  His  wife's  maiden  name 
was  P'owler.  The  grandfather,  Richard  Flan- 
ders, was  engaged  in  interests  connected  with 
a  mill.  Afterward  he  purchased  a  farm  in  the 
west  part  of  the  town,  and  became  a  farmer. 
At  first  he  had  no  barns  on  the  land,  and  he 
stacked  his  crops  in  the  open  air.  Later  he 
was  able  to  build  a  barn,  and  extend  his  prop- 
erty, which  his  sons  further  increased.  He 
was  ninety  years  old  when  he  died.  His  wife, 
Mary  Chandler  (West)  P^landers,  had  ten  chil- 
dren. A  brother  of  his  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

John  Flanders,  the  father  of  George,  worked 
at  the  shoemaker's  trade,  and  was  also  occu- 
pied to  some  extent  in  farming.  He  was 
especially  skilful  in  raising  fruit  and  grafting 
trees.  After  receiving  his  education  in  the 
public  schools  of  Concord,  he  began  life 
about  a  century  ago  upon  the  property  now 
in  possession  of  his  son  George.  Here  he 
built  the  old  homestead,  and  died  in  1856,  at 
the  age  of  seventy  years.  On  the  training 
days  of  the  old  militia  he  was  fife  major  of  a 
regiment.  His  sons  subsequently  played  the 
fife  on  similar  occasions.  He  married  Rachel 
Abbott,    a    daughter    of     Samuel    and     Mary 


LKMJkAl'lIlCAL    RKVIKW 


■,(,r 


(Slory)  Abbott;  and  they  had  nine  chilchcii  — ■ 
Louisa  A.,  John  W.,  William,  Mary  S., 
Uanicl,  Rachel  A.,  Sarah  A.,  George  V.,  and 
George  W.  Louisa  A.,  born  August  17, 
1812,  (lied  April  29,  1890.  She  was  a  house- 
keeper and  school  teacher,  anil  lived  at  the 
homestead.  John  VV.,  born  February  10, 
1S14,  died  July  11,  1S40.  He  was  a  printer, 
and  became  one  of  the  iirojjrietors  and  editors 
of  the  Nciv  Hainpsliire  Statcsvian,  published 
at  Concord,  N.LL,  by  E.  C.  Flanders.  Will- 
iam, born  December  4,  181  5,  died  February  7, 
1871.  lleli\-ed  in  Manchester,  N.IL,  was  a 
carpenter,  machinist,  and  pattern-maker,  was 
a  Representative  to  the  New  Llampshire  legis- 
lature, and  served  as  a  member  of  the  Council 
of  Manchester.  In  1840  he  married  Harriet 
Sturtevant,  of  Barton,  Vt.,  who  died  February 
4,  1 87 1.  They  had  four  children,  of  whom 
two  died  in  infancy.  Their  son,  George  W., 
who  was  born  February  9,  1S45,  and  died  in 
Somerville,  Mass.,  February  17,  1889,  married 
Mary  A.  Lane,  of  Suncook,  N.LL,  in  1870. 
luhvin  J.,  the  only  living  child  of  William 
and  Harriet  l""landers,  was  born  July  6,  1849. 
He  was  married  in  1887  at  Great  Falls, 
N.H.,  to  Mrs.  Anna  J.  Brown.  He  is  a  car- 
penter, and  lives  in  Lowell,  Mass.  Mary  S. 
Flanders,  born  March  21,  1818,  died  August 
29,  1889.  She  was  a  tailoress  and  house- 
keeper, and  lived  at  the  homestead.  Daniel, 
born  July  i,  1820,  who  died  March  2,  1895, 
was  a  carpenter,  machinist,  and  farmer,  and 
lived  in  Manchester  and  Concord.  He  was 
first  married  June  8,  1845,  to  Martha  Sturte- 
vant, of  Barton,  Vt.,  who  died  January  6, 
1868.  Their  only  child,  Charles  W.,  born 
August  23,  1847,  died  May  3,  1895.  On 
September  14,  1870,  Daniel  Flanders  married 
Mrs.  Emma  F.  Caldwell,  who  died  April  10, 
i88g.  Rachel  A.,  born  January  ig,  1823, 
died    February    19,   18S6.      She    was    a    seam- 


stress, housekeeper,  and  teacher,  and  lived  at 
the  homestead.  Sarah  A.,  born  September  4, 
1825,  married  April  25,  1850,  N.  J.  Willi.s, 
who  died  in  October,  1893.  Two  of  her  five 
children  died  in  childhood.  The  others  are: 
Anna  A.,  born  January  11,  1855;  Marietta  V., 
born  September  18,  1857;  and  FLmogenc  L., 
born  March  17,  i860,  who  died  April  15, 
1876.  Anna  and  Marietta  live  with  their 
mother  in  Cambridgeport,  Mass.  Mrs.  Willis 
is  a  well-known  speaker  at  the  Spirituali.st 
Temple,  Boston.  George  V.  Flanders,  born 
March  5,  1S29,  died  August  24,  1831. 
George  West  Flanders  received  his  education 
in  the  schools  of  Concord.  Since  the  death  of 
his  father  he  has  resided  on  the  old  home- 
stead. He  has  been  on  the  Board  of  Alder- 
men for  two  years,  and  in  the  early  si.xties  he 
was  a  member  of  the  City  Council  for  three 
years.  He  was  a  member  of  the  School  Com- 
mittee before  i860,  and  he  has  been  Ward 
Clerk  and  Moderator  for  several  terms.  His 
political  principles  are  Republican,  and  he 
cast  his  first  Presidential  vote  for  General 
Fremont    in    1856. 


M 


AVID  ARTHUR  BROWN,  Man- 
ager and  Treasurer  of  the  Concord 
A.xle  Company  of  I'enacook,  an  e.\- 
member  of  the  New  Hampshire  legislature, 
and  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  was  born  in 
Attlebpro,  Mass.,  May  14,  1839,  son  of  Henry 
H.  and  Mary  Ann  (Daggett)  Brown.  His 
parents  were  natives  of  Attleboro.  On  the 
father's  side  he  is  descended  from  an  Einglish- 
man  who  settled  in  Massachusetts  in  the  year 
1624.  His  great-grandfather  was  John  Brown, 
and  his  grandfather  was  David  Brown.  On 
the  mother's  side  his  genealogy  is  traced 
through  her  father,  Otis  Daggett,  of  the 
seventh   generation,  Joab  of  the  si.xth,  John  of 


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the  fifth,  Ebenezer  of  the  fourth,  John  of  the 
third,  and  Thomas  of  the  second,  to  the  first 
John,  of  Martha's  Vineyard,  who,  born  in 
England,  came  to  this  country  in  1630  with 
Governor  Wintiirop,  of  whom  lie  is  said  to 
have  been  a  relation. 

David  Arthur  Brown  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  of  Penacook  and  at  the  acad- 
emy in  New  London,  N.H.,  completing  his 
studies  at  the  age  of  nineteen.  At  intervals 
in  the  period  of  his  school  life  he  worked  with 
his  father  in  the  cotton-mill  at  Penacook. 
Later  he  entered  the  repair  shops,  where  he 
remained  until  the  outbreak  of  the  Civil 
War.  In  August,  1S61,  being  a  proficient 
band  musician,  he  enlisted  as  a  leader  of  the 
band  connected  with  the  Third  Regiment,  New 
Hampshire  Volunteers.  After  leaving  this 
State,  the  regiment  was  quartered  for  a  time 
on  Long  Island,  New  York.  Then  it  was 
ordered  to  Washington,  D.C.,  and  later  to 
Annapolis,  Md.  From  Annapolis  it  was  sent 
by  sea  to  Port  Royal,  S.C.,  where  it  was  at- 
tached to  the  Tenth  Army  Corps,  Department 
of  the  South,  and  served  at  different  times 
under  Generals  Sherman,  Gilmore,  and  Hunter. 
Mr.  Brown  was  present  at  several  important 
battles  and  skirmishes,  and  on  several  occa- 
sions he  voluntarily  laid  aside  his  musical 
instruments  to  shoulder  a  musket.  Good  ser- 
vice was  also  rendered  by  him  in  removing  the 
wounded  from  the  field  and  caring  for  them  in 
the  hospital.  He  was  honorably  discharged 
at  Port  Royal,  August  31,  i(S62.  Upon  his 
return  from  the  army  he  fitted  up  a  repair 
sliop  for  the  Contoocook  mill,  and  conducted 
it  for  two  years.  In  1864  he  formed  a  part- 
nership with  A.  B.  Winn,  under  the  firm 
name  of  A.  B.  Winn  &  Co.,  for  the  purpose 
of  engaging  in  the  manufacturing  of  wagon 
axles  and  machinery.  The  firm  name  was 
changed   to   D.   Arthur   Brown    &  Co.    in   the 


following  year;  and  under  that  style  business 
was  carried  on  until  i8<So,  when  the  enterprise 
was  incorporated  as  the  Concord  A.xle  Com- 
pany. Since  the  formation  of  the  firm  Mr. 
Brown  has  been  its  Manager,  and  he  is  the 
Treasurer  and  a  Director  of  the  present  cor- 
poration. .Some  time  after  his  discharge  from 
the  Federal  service  Mr.  Brown  reorganized  the 
Fisherville  Band,  of  which  he  had  formerly 
been  the  leader,  and  as  Brown's  Cornet  Band 
it  became  one  of  the  best  organizations  of  its 
kind  in  the  State.  It  furnished  music  on  New 
Hampshire  Day,  at  the  Centennial  E.xposition 
of  1876  in  Philadelphia;  and  it  accompanied 
the  New  Hampshire  legislature  upon  their 
visit  to  the  Bennington  Centennial  held  in 
1877.  He  had  been  identified  with  this 
organization  twenty-one  years  in  all,  when  in 
1S78,  on  account  of  business  cares,  he  retired 
from  its  leadership,  and  it  was  disbanded. 

On  December  23,  1865,  Mr.  Brown  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Susan  M.  P'ollansbee, 
a  native  of  Grafton.  His  only  child  is  Henry 
A.  Brown.  In  politics  he  is  an  active  sup- 
porter of  the  Republican  party,  and  he  was  a 
member  of  the  New  Hampshire  House  of  Rep- 
resentatives in  1873.  Well  advanced  in 
Masonry,  he  is  a  member  of  Horace  Chase 
Lodge,  No.  72;  of  Trinity  Chapter,  No.  2; 
and  of  Mount  Horeb  Commandery,  of  which 
he  is  Chief  Bugler.  He  is  at  the  present  time 
serving  as  Quartermaster  of  W.  I.  Brown 
Post,  No.  31,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Penacook.  He 
has  been  several  times  elected  Commander  of 
the  post,  but  declined  to  serve,  as  he  believed 
his  deafness  would  not  admit  of  his  properly 
filling  the  position.  He  served  as  an  Aide- 
de-camp  upon  the  staff  of  Commander-in-chief 
Rea  in  1895,  was  Assistant  Inspector  General 
upon  the  national  staff  under  General  Walker 
in  1896,  and  an  Aide-de-camp  on  the  staff  of 
Commander-in-chief   Clarkson    in    1897.      He 


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is  also  connected  with  the  Third  Kcgimcnt, 
Veteran  Association,  of  Weirs,  N.  II.,  and  has 
acted  as  its  Secretary  and  TreTisiirer  for  tlie 
past  ten  years.  Mr.  I^rown  is  a  menibcr  of 
the  First  Haptist  Church,  and  has  for  twelve 
years  been  ofTiciaily  connected  with  that 
society  as  its  clerk. 


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lI'l.ANl)  J.  (;kAYi:.S,  MA).,  was  a 
progressive  physician  of  Ciaremont, 
who  by  the  introtluction  of  more 
advanced  ideas  in  the  treatment  of  disease 
aiiled  consideralily  in  carrying  the  healing  art 
to  its  present  high  standard  of  excellence.  It 
is  a  well-known  fact  that  the  greatest  amount 
of  good  in  the  way  of  scientific  development 
has  been  accomijlished  by  self-made  men,  and 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  belonged  to  that 
worthy  tyi)e  of  American  citizenship. 

Leland  J.  Graves  was  born  in  Berkshire, 
Franklin  County,  Vt.,  May  24,  1812,  son  of 
David  J.  and  Mary  (Leland)  Graves.  The 
founder  of  the  family  came  from  England, 
where  its  printed  genealogical  record  covers  a 
period  of  eight  hundred  years.  The  original 
form  of  the  name  was  Greaves.  Thomas 
Greaves,  who  ranked  as  a  Rear  Admiral  in  the 
Royal  Navy,  settled  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  in 
1636;  and  his  family  was  prominent  in  early 
Colonial  affairs.  His  son  was  one  of  the  first 
physicians  graduated  from  Harvard  College; 
and  a  grandson,  who  also  graduated  from  that 
institution,  became  a  Judge.  Dr.  Graves's 
great-grandfather  was  Peter  Greaves.  His 
grandfather,  Luther  Greaves,  who  resided  in 
Leominster,  Mass.,  was  born  April  20,  1749. 
Luther  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War  as  a 
minute-man  in  Sergeant  Samuel  Sawyer's 
company,  and  was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  com- 
pany of  Captain  Ephraim  Harris  from  May, 
1778,  to  July  31,  1779.     He  died  in  Leomin- 


ster in  1790.  lie  married  l'h(t.be  Jewett,  of 
that  town,  and  had  a  family  of  ten  children. 
His  widow  married  Colonel  John  Hoynton, 
and  moved  to  Weathersfield,  Vt.  David  J. 
Graves,  who  was  born  in  Leominster,  October 
2,  1785,  accompanied  his  mother  and  step- 
faliier  to  Vermont,  where  he  was  brought  u|) 
as  a  farmer.  The  latter  part  of  his  life  was 
sjient  in  Wisconsin.  His  wife,  Mary,  whom 
he  married  in  Weathersfield,  became  the 
mother  of  four  children;  namely,  Scrcno,  Le- 
land J.,  Calvin  Jewett,  and   I.  Franklin. 

As  soon  as  he  was  able  to  make  himself 
useful,  Leland  J.  Graves  began  to  assist  u|)on 
farms  in  his  neighborhood.  He  did  not  attend 
school  until  he  was  fifteen  years  old.  An  am- 
bition to  advance  developed  with  his  mental 
faculties;  and  in  April,  1829,  he  bound  him- 
self to  his  uncle,  Cyrus  Hoynton,  with  the 
understanding  that  he  was  to  have  three 
months'  schooling  each  year,  and  that  his 
wages  were  to  be  given  to  his  father.  That  he 
made  good  use  of  these  limited  educational 
facilities  is  attested  by  the  fact  that,  when  he 
reached  his  majority,  he  was  competent  to 
teach  school.  He  taught  in  the  winter,  and 
worked  at  farming  in  the  summer,  saving  his 
earnings,  and  at  intervals  attending  Chester, 
Cavendish,  and  Ludlow  Academies.  lie  was 
about  to  enter  college  when  he  was  attacked 
by  a  severe  illness,  which,  in  spite  of  constant 
medical  aid,  continued  for  four  years.  The 
suffering  he  endured  at  this  time  caused  him 
to  change  his  plans  for  the  future.  Excessive 
doses  of  calomel,  prescribed  by  the  physicians 
to  break  up  his  stubborn  fever,  produced  such 
injurious  results  upon  his  system  that  he  de- 
cided to  study  medicine,  with  a  view  of  ascer- 
taining if  less  dangerous  and  more  effective 
modes  of  treatment  could  not  be  devised. 
Upon  his  recovery  he  entered  upon  a  course 
of  preliminary  medical    instruction  under  the 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIFAV 


guidance  of  Drs.  Crosby,  Peaslee,  and  Hub- 
bard. He  attended  lectures  at  Dartmouth 
College,  and  subsequently  received  his  degree 
on  his  thirtieth  birthday.  Shortly  after  he 
entered  upon  his  profession  in  Langdon,  N.  H. 
When  firmly  established,  Dr.  Graves  began  to 
depart  from  the  usual  course  of  treatment  rec- 
ognized in  those  days.  In  the  treatment  of 
fevers  he  substituted  fresh  air  and  water  for 
mercurial  preparations.  By  so  doing  he 
aroused  the  indignation  of  the  medical  frater- 
nity to  such  a  pitch  that  at  one  time  he  was 
declared  an  impostor  and  threatened  with  vio- 
lence. He  fearlessly  adhered  to  his  theory, 
however;  and,  when  it  became  known  that  his 
patients  rallied  more  quickly  under  the  new 
treatment,  the  wrath  of  his  brother  physicians 
was  turned  to  jealousy.  The  introduction  of 
his  mild  remedies  ultimately  displaced  the 
harsh  treatment  formerly  used,  and  in  this 
locality  he  may  be  said  to  have  been  mainly 
instrumental  in  securing  the  much  needed 
change.  He  acquired  a  large  practice,  his 
regular  circuit  including  the  towns  of  Lang- 
don, Acworth,  Walpole,  and  Charlestown,  and 
other  places ;  and  for  a  quarter  of  a  century  he 
devoted  himself  to  his  professional  duties. 
In  icS68  he  decided  to  rest  from  his  labors, 
and  with  a  view  of  permanently  retiring  he 
moved  to  CJaremont.  Popular  pressure,  how- 
ever, was  such  as  to  make  it  impossible  for 
him  to  carry  out  his  resolution  at  that  time; 
and  he  continued  in  practice  here  for  some 
years  afterwartl.  lie  was  especially  noted  for 
his  charitable  and  patriotic  disposition.  The 
poor  and  needy  were  never  turned  away,  and 
during  the  war  of  the  Rebellion  he  steadfastly 
refused  to  accept  ]iay  for  treating  soldiers  or 
their  families.  He  was  a  close  student  of 
botany,  geology,  and  a.stronomy,  and  was  fa- 
miliar witli  the  terrestrial  formation  and  vege- 
tation  of  the   United   States  from  tlie  State  of 


Maine  to  the  Rocky  Mountains.  With  the 
practical  value  of  plants  he  was  thoroughly 
conversant.  A  large  collection  of  minerals, 
which  he  had  spent  years  in  collecting,  was 
recently  presented  to  Durham  College  by  his 
daughters.  In  politics  he  was  originally  a 
Whig,  and  he  became  an  ardent  Republican  at 
the  formation  of  that  party.  He  was  Super- 
intendent of  Schools  in  Langdon  for  fourteen 
years,  and  he  was  a  member  of  the  legislature 
during  the  years  1867  and  1868.  For  fifty 
years  he  was  a  leading  member  of  the  Baptist 
church  in  Springfield,  Vt.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  New  Hampshire  State  and  Connecticut 
River  Medical  Associations.  In  Masonry  he 
had  advanced  to  the  Commandery,  was  at  one 
time  Eminent  Commander,  and  he  was  the 
organizer  of  the  commandery  in  Claremont. 
He  died  February  22,  1891,  at  his  home  in 
Claremont,  nearly  seventy-nine  years  of  age. 

On  May  24,  1843,  Dr.  Graves  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Caroline  E.  Strow,  daughter  of 
Reuben  and  Elizabeth  (McEwan)  Strow,  of 
Weathersfield,  Vt.  Previous  to  her  marriage 
she  taught  in  the  Unity  Scientific  and  Mili- 
tary School.  She  was  a  woman  of  superior 
mental  endowments  and  noble  character.  She 
died  August  29,  18S5,  leaving  three  daughters 
—  Mary  E.,  Harriet  M.,  and  Agnes  J.  Mary 
E.,  who  graduated  from  the  New  London 
Academy  in  1864,  and  has  since  been  engaged 
in  educational  work,  was  for  a  time  principal 
of  the  Arcadia  Female  Seminary,  Wolfvillc, 
N..S.  She  is  an  accomplished  German 
scholar,  a  devoted  art  student,  and  is  now 
upon  her  fifth  visit  to  Germany.  Harriet  M. , 
who  married  James  M.  Coburn,  died  in  Kansas 
City,  Mo.,  June  21,  1886.  She  left  two  chil- 
dren: Mary  Agnes,  who  is  studying  music  in 
Berlin;  and  Grace  Eleanor,  who  is  attending 
Smith  College.  Agnes  J.  Graves  was  married 
on   October    15,    1879,    to    Pascal    P.    Coburn. 


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Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cohurn  occupy  the  ])r.  Graves 
homestead.  She  has  two  dauj^htcrs --  ICliza- 
bcth  Ames  and  Harriet  Graves. 


RANK  J!.  KI':Ni\IA',  a  |irominent 
f. inner  ol  Ijiudon  and  a  son  of  ]5radlcy 
II.  and  Nancy  (Younj;;)  Kcnney,  was 
horn  in  Loudon,  Ucceml^er  19,  1854.  His 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  New  llamiishire, 
and  a  cooper  l)y  trade,  settled  in  London  after 
his  niarriaj^e,  was  tiiereafter  occupictl  in  farm- 
inj;,  and  died  May  24,  i8cS2,  on  the  farm  where 
the  sul^ject  of  tliis  sl<ctcli  now  lives.  'I"he 
first  of  tiie  father's  two  marriaf^es  was  con- 
tracted witli  Miss  Lease,  who  jjore  him  four 
children.  These  were:  Mary  Ann,  who  niar- 
ricil  Joseph  A.  Foster,  and  lives  in  Manches- 
ter, N.H.  ;  Clarissa,  now  deceased;  Caroline, 
who  is  the  wife  of  Joseph  Hutchinson,  and 
lives  in  Concord,  N.  H.;  ami  Charles  L.,  who 
married  Myra  Knowles,  of  I'enacook,  and  lives 
near  l""rank  ]?.  Kenney  in  Loudon.  l^y  the 
secontl  marriage,  wdiich  was  made  with  Nancy 
D.  Young,  of  Gilmanton,  N.IL,  there  were 
three  children,  namely:  Frank  M.;  and  Fallen 
Frances  and  Ella  Victoria,  twins.  Fallen 
Frances  is  now  deceased.  Fllla  is  the  wife  of 
True  M.  Hill,  and  lives  near  her  brother. 

P'rank  B.  Kenney  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  Loudon  and  in  the  Til- 
ton  Seminary.  He  spent  his  youth  on  the 
home  farm,  which  he  now  owns.  On  the 
estate,  containing  at  the  present  time  about 
four  hundred  acres,  located  in  Canterbury  and 
Gilmanton,  he  carries  on  general  farming. 
He  is  a  Republican  in  politics,  and  he  has 
well  served  the  community  in  the  capacity  of 
Selectman.  On  March  4,  1882,  he  was  mar- 
ried to  N.  M-  Ladd,  who  was  born  November 
20,  1861,  daughter  of  John  M.  and  Kate  H. 
Ladd.      Mr.  and    Mrs.   Kenney    have    had    five 


children,  of  whtuii  Harry  L.  and  Clinton  J. 
are  deceased.  The  otiiers  are:  Katie  I'" ranees, 
Helen  N.,  and  Joe  Frank  —  all  still  beneath 
the  parental  roof-tree.  I5oth  parents  arc  mem- 
bers of  the  Free  Will  Haptist  Church  of  Lou- 
don, and  take  an  earnest  interest  in  all  church 
work. 


fcTrOSI'-'''!  WAKRKN  HAM,  a  well- 
known  farmer  of  Canterbury,  N.  H., 
was  briin  in  this  town,  June  18,  1820, 
son  of  Joseph  and  Susan  (Sargent)  Ham.  His 
grandfather,  Joseph  Ham,  was  born  in  JVirts- 
uKJuth,  but  came  to  Canterbury  with  three 
brothers  in  1783.  He  settled  (m  a  farm  near 
where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  now  lives,  and 
spent  the  rest  of  his  life  here. 

His  son  Joseph,  a  man  of  force  and  high  in- 
tegrity, was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  although  he 
devoted  himself  to  the  pursuit  of  agriculture. 
Soon  after  his  marriage  he  came  into  posses- 
sion of  the  home  farm  where  .Mr.  Ham  is  now 
living;  and  he  died  here,  after  a  long  and 
useful  life,  at  the  age  of  ninety-three  years, 
]'"ebruary  24,  1882.  His  wife,  Susan  Sar- 
gent, of  Canterbury,  a  gentle  and  refined 
woman  of  good  education,  died  December  6, 
1S75.  They  had  five  children.  The  eldest, 
Betsey  Page,  born  November  11,  1815,  mar- 
ried Charles  C.  ]?urnham,  and  died  February 
S,  1892.  Thomas,  the  eldest  son,  born  Feb- 
ruary 23,  1817,  married  Mary  Flizabeth 
.Smith,  and  is  living  in  Lakeport,  N.IL, 
where  for  many  years  he  has  been  President  of 
the  Lakeport  Savings  Bank.  Joseph  Warren, 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  third  child 
and  second  son  born  to  his  parents.  Charles 
Henry,  born  January  22,  1831,  married  to 
Emeline  A.  Hines,  lives  in  New  York  City, 
where  he  serves  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
United  States  General  Appraisers,  a  court  of 
appeals  for  customs  cases   in  all   the  ports  of 


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the  country.  His  chief  title  to  distinction, 
however,  is  his  connection  with  education,  on 
which  subject  he  lectures  and  writes  in  the 
intervals  of  official  engagements,  his  most  im- 
portant work  being  a  book  entitled  "Manual 
Training,"  published  by  the  Harpers  in  iS86, 
a  third  edition  of  which  is  now  in  press. 
The  youngest  of  the  family  is  Maria  Gerrish, 
whose  education  was  begun  in  one  of  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  her  native  town,  and  completed 
in  the  Tilton  Academy.  She  was  a  brilliant 
girl,  and  is  an  extraordinarily  clever  woman; 
but  she  never  has  married,  and  lives  still,  in 
the  prime  of  life,  with  her  brother,  Joseph 
Warren,  at  the  old  homestead. 

Joseph  Warren  Ham  received  a  good  com- 
mon-school education  in  Canterbury,  which 
was  enlarged  by  a  reflective  temperament  and 
studious  habits.  He  spent  his  early  life  upon 
the  farm,  and  then  went  to  Lawrence,  Mass., 
where  he  engaged  in  civil  engineering  for  ten 
years.  At  the  end  of  this  time  he  returned  to 
Canterbury,  and  settled  on  the  homestead  farm 
in  April,  i86i.  September  i6,  1864,  he  en- 
listed in  Company  D,  Eighteenth  New  Hamp- 
shire Infantry,  under  Colonel  Livermore  and 
Captain  Greenough.  He  was  in  the  engage- 
ments at  Port  Stedman  and  in  three  engage- 
ments at  Petersburg,  Va.  He  was  discharged 
June  17,  1865,  when  he  returned  to  Canter- 
bury and  re-engaged  in  farming,  which  he  still 
follows.  His  farm  at  present  consists  of  one 
hundred  and  forty  acres  of  good  land ;  and  the 
buildings,  which  were  old,  have  been  com- 
pletely restored.  Owing  to  ill  health  and 
advancing  age  he  has  not  been  able  to  work 
for  several  years;  but  he  employs  labor,  and 
superintends  the  men  in  his  service. 

He  has  held  the  office  of  Postmaster  in  Up- 
lands for  a  number  of  years.  In  politics  Mr. 
Ham  is  a  Republican.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
G.  A.  R.,    Laconia  Post,   No.   2i7,  ^t   Laconia. 


He  was  married  on  November  29,  1849,  to 
Mary  Jane  Barker,  the  daughter  of  Gardner  T. 
and  Martha  Barker,  of  Canterbury.  They  had 
one  child  —  Belle  Maria,  born  September  26, 
1S58,  who  died  July  i,  1S63.  Mrs.  Mary  J. 
V>.  Ham  died  August  i,   1881. 


LVAH  B.  CHELLIS,  a  leading  farmer 
of  Plainfield  and  the  senior  partner 
in  the  well-known  firm,  Chellis  & 
Stickney,  was  born  here,  January  27,  1841,  son, 
of  John  Pettengill  and  Lucinda  (Bean)  Ch'el- 
lis.  The  first  representative  of  the  family  in 
this  country  came  from  Wales  in  1636.  His 
son  John,  born  in  Kingston,  N.  H.,  was  the 
great-great-grandfather  of  Alvah  B.  Chellis. 
John's  son  Thomas,  born  in  Kingston  about 
the  year  1750,  was  in  the  Revolution  together 
with  all  his  brothers,  and  fought  at  Bunker 
Hill. 

The  grandfather,  Thomas  Chellis,  Jr.,  who 
was  born  at  Salisbury,  this  State,  March  24, 
1785,  died  February  19,  1849.  He  and  his 
father  were  the  first  of  the  family  to  settle  in 
Plainfield.  He  was  a  farmer  on  an  extensive 
scale,  and  a  drover  of  cattle  and  dealer  in 
horses.  He  was  very  wealthy,  and  very  active 
in  town  affairs.  He  was  in  the  legislature, 
was  Selectman  for  many  years,  and  he  served 
in  various  other  important  ofifices.  In  relig- 
ious belief  he  was  a  Congregationalist  and  a 
liberal  supporter  of  the  Congregational  church. 
His  wife,  in  maitlenhood  Abigail  Morgan, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Miriam  (Pettengill) 
Morgan,  bore  him  nine  children  —  Abigail, 
John  P.,  Enoch  F.,  Betsey  M.,  Miriam,  Otis 
H.,  Mary  !•;. ,  Sarah,  and  Andrew  J.  Abi- 
gail, born  April  30,  18 10,  married  Isaac  Saw- 
yer, of  Salisbury,  N.  II.,  a  breeder  of  Merino 
sheep  on  an  extensive  scale.  Enoch  !•'. ,  born 
August  8,   181  5,  who  was   a   prosperous  farmer 


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of  Cornish,  N.I  I.,  marricil  Mrs.  Sarah  Chase, 
and  had  one  daughter,  Marian  V.  15etsey, 
born  November  9,  18 17,  died  August  6,  1834. 
Miriam,  born  June  26,  18 19,  who  died  August 
19,  1880,  was  unmarried.  Otis  II.,  who,  born 
May  15,  1821,  died  June  30,  1894,  was  a 
farmer,  carpenter,  and  merchant,  and  was  for 
a  short  time  in  the  fruit  business  in  New  Jer- 
sey. He  successively  married  Martha  P. 
Kinsiuan  and  Hetsey  M.  .Sargent.  The  latter 
bore  him  four  children  —  Martha  M.,  I'Vank 
O. ,  Eloise,  and  Kate  M.  His  sister,  Mary 
I'].,  born  August  23,  1823,  died  April  19, 
1884,  unmarried.  Sarah,  born  June  22,  1825, 
died  August  17,  1837.  Andrew  J.,  born  Sep- 
tember 13,  1828,  who  was  a  very  prosperous 
and  prominent  resident  of  Plainfield,  died 
October  15,  1878. 

John  P.  Chellis,  father  of  Alvah  15.,  was 
born  December  26,  1812.  After  finishing  his 
education  at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  he 
taught  school  for  about  twelve  winters.  There- 
after, throughout  the  remainder  of  his  life, 
he  was  engaged  in  farming,  giving  special 
attention  to  sheep-raising,  and  acquiring  a 
handsome  fortune.  He  was  active  as  a  citi- 
zen, and  was  chosen  to  fill  the  offices  of 
Selectman,  Town  Treasurer,  and  Town  Clerk. 
He  was  also  State  Senator  for  a  time,  and 
was  High  Sheriff  of  Sullivan  County  for 
nearly  ten  years.  His  wife,  Lucinda,  a 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Betsey  (Smith)  Bean, 
was  born  August  31,  1S16.  Their  children 
were:  Alvah  B.  and  Mary  L.  Chellis.  Mary, 
who  was  born  January  29,  1846,  graduated 
from  Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  then 
taught  school  for  some  years,  principally  in 
Lebanon  and  Newport,  being  very  success- 
ful, and  considered  a  fine  discii)linarian. 
Both  the  parents  died   in    188S. 

Alvah  B.  Chellis  also  taught  school  for 
many  years,    and,  like  his  father  and    sister, 


was  a  skilful  and  successful  instructor.  Be- 
sides teaching  he  .served  in  the  capacity  of 
clerk  for  the  Provost  Marshal  at  West  Leba- 
non in  1863  and  1864.  His  home  has  always 
been  here,  on  the  farm  formerly  owned  by  his 
father,  and  of  which  he  has  had  the  manage- 
ment during  the  greater  part  of  his  life.  He 
carries  on  general  farming,  and  formerly  raised 
large  numbers  of  sheep.  The  store  at  Meriden, 
conducted  by  Chellis  &  .Stickney,  is  very 
prosperous,  and  has  a  growing  business.  The 
post-office  has  been  located  there  since  the 
present  firm  started  in  business.  Mr.  Chellis 
has  taken  an  active  part  in  all  questions  of  im- 
portance that  have  come  before  the  town,  both 
in  his  private  capacity  and  that  of  .Selectman. 
He  has  taken  much  interest  in  the  public 
schools,  and  has  repeatedly  served  on  the 
School  Board.  In  Masonry  Mr.  Chellis  is 
Sir  Knight,  having  membership  in  Franklin 
Lodge  of  Lebanon,  and  in  Sullivan  Com- 
mandery  of  Claremont.  In  these  bodies  he 
is  very  popular,  and  has  held  all  the  offices. 
His  religious  views  agree  with  the  creed 
of  the  Congregational  church,  and  he  is  a 
generous  supporter  of  the  church  society. 
He  is  fond  of  music,  and  has  a  fine  voice; 
but  he  sings  only  for  the  pleasure  of  his 
family  and   immediate  friends. 

On  October  13,  1870,  Mr.  Chellis  married 
Harriet  L.  Rossiter,  of  Windsor,  Vt. ,  daugh- 
ter of  Chittenden  and  Charlotte  (Converse) 
Rossiter.  Mr.  Rossiter  was  born  in  Clare- 
mont, March  22,  1817,  and  died  May  8,  1892. 
Mrs.  Rossiter,  who  is  a  daughter  of  a  clergy- 
man, and  was  born  December  27,  1817,  is 
still  living  at  Windsor,  Vt.,  in  the  home 
which  has  been  hers  for  over  fifty  years. 
She  is  in  good  health,  and  her  mental  faculties 
arc  undimmed.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chellis  have 
been  the  parents  of  two  sons  —  James  Bean 
and  Converse   Alvah.     James,   born   May    16, 


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1879,  died  April  20,  1S91.  Converse,  born  at 
Plainfiekl,  Marcii  22,  1884,  is  attending 
school.  As  he  has  manifested  a  marked  talent 
for  music,  he  will  probably  pursue  a  course  of 
musical  traininsr. 


irXANIEL    13 

I ]     farmer  o 

,■ — *-_V      County, 


^ANIEL  B.  SANBORN,  a  successful 
of  East  Concord,  Merrimack 
ity,  was  born  in  Webster, 
N.H.,  April  12,  1840,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sally 
(Batchelder)  Sanborn. 

Mr.  Sanborn's  grandfather,  Tristam  San- 
born, came  to  Webster  with  his  wife  and  her 
parents,  and  took  up  land  on  what  is  now 
known  as  Sanborn  and  Clough's  Hill.  He 
lived  to  be  quite  an  old  man,  and  remained  in 
this  place  until  his  death.  He  had  a  large 
family  of  children,  of  whom  Daniel,  father  of 
the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  the  youngest 
but  one.  Daniel  Sanborn  moved  to  Canter- 
bury when  his  son  Daniel  B.  was  but  an 
infant.  He  bought  a  farm  there,  but  later 
came  to  East  Concord,  and  spent  his  last  days 
here,  dying  at  the  age  of  seventy-two  years. 
During  his  early  life  he  worked  for  a  time  as 
a  stone  cutter,  but  subsequently  devoted  him- 
self to  farming.  While  living  in  Canterbury 
he  served  as  Selectman.  His  wife,  Sally 
Batchelder  Sanborn,  was  a  daughter  of  Samuel 
l^atchelder,  of  Northwood,  N.  H.  Their 
family  consisted  of  four  children,  including 
the  sui)ject  of  this  sketcii :  Ann  is  the  wife  of 
Charles  L.  Brown,  and  resides  in  Concord; 
Frank,  the  youngest  son,  married  Hattie 
J51anchard,  and  has  two  sons;  Mary  Etta  is 
unmarried. 

Daniel  B.  Sanborn,  the  eldest  child  of  his 
parents,  received  his  education  in  the  district 
schools  of  CanterJKiry  and  in  the  Concord 
High  School.  He  came  to  this  town  in  1876, 
and   now  owns   one   hundred   and    twenty  acres 


of  tilla'ge  land.  Besides  his  farming  interests 
he  does  a  fair  business  in  lumber.  He  may 
be  called  a  self-made  man,  as  his  success  is 
the  result  of  his  own  enterprise  and  intelli- 
gence. He  married  Miss  Emmeline  P. 
Clough,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Sophronia 
(Chase)  Clough.  Mrs.  Sanborn  is  the  mother 
of  five  children  —  Walter  C,  Sadie  ¥.,  Harry 
B.,  Maud  E.,  and  Daniel  W. 

Mr.  Sanborn  is  a  Democrat,  politically. 
He  has  served  two  years  as  Selectman,  and 
was  elected  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
State  legislature,  to  serve  during  1897  and 
1898.  His  first  Presidential  vote  was  cast  for 
General  McClellan  in  1864. 


DWARD  S.  BARRETT,  a  prosperous 
farmer  of  West  Concord,  was  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1S24,  at  Ashburnham, 
Mass.,  the  son  of  Benjamin  and  Nancy  (Stone) 
]-!arrett.  The  paternal  grandfather,  also  named 
Benjamin,  who  was  a  native  of  Ashby,  Mass., 
followed  the  occupation  of  farmer,  spent  the 
latter  part  of  his  life  in  New  York  State,  and 
ended  his  days  in  Aurelius,  N.Y. 

Benjamin  Barrett,  who  was  also  born  in 
Ashby,  after  having  learned  shoemaking, 
worked  at  that  trade  for  a  number  of  years. 
He  then  followed  farming  in  Ashburnham  for 
a  time.  Subsequently  he  removed  to  Fitch- 
burg,  Mass.,  and  later  to  Newport,  N.H., 
where  he  ended  his  days  at  the  age  of  fifty-one 
years.  He  and  his  wife  reared  the  follow- 
ing children:  Oliver  S.,  born  December.  19, 
1809,  who  died  March  18,  18 10;  Nancy  S. 
born  December  14,  18 10,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 17,  1828;  Joseph,  born  January  13, 
1813,  who  died  June  17,  1897;  Mary,  born 
August  24,  1815,  who  died  NovemI)er  8,  1816; 
Lucy,  born  Jime  2S,  1819,  who  married  Martin 
Johnson,  now  of  Lunenburg,  Mass.;    P'lihraim, 


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l)orn  Auf^ust  24,  1821,  who  diud  November  20, 
1821;  Hcnjamin,  l)orn  October  24,  1822,  who 
(lied  April  24,  1823;  ICdward  S.,  born  Feb- 
ruary 17,  1824;  Julia  M.,  born  March  18, 
1826,  who  died  l'~ebruary  3,  i88g;  Caroline, 
born  l'"el)ruary  15,  1S28,  who  married  I'-rancis 
A.  White,  and  now  lives  in  lirooklinc,  Mass. 

lulward  S.  Barrett  was  educated  at  the  dis- 
trict schools  of  Fitchburg,  Mass.,  and  New- 
port, N.II.  lie  began  to  earn  his  living  in 
a  grist-mill  at  Newport,  where  he  worked  for 
six  years.  He  then  removed  to  Lempster, 
N.II.,  and  during  the  most  of  his  stay  in  that 
town  was  employed  in  farm  work.  In  1873  he 
removed  to  West  Concord,  and  there  purchased 
a  fine  farm  of  one  hundred  and  twenty  acres, 
known  as  tiie  old  Washington  Dow  place, 
which  has  been  his  residence  since.  June  13, 
i860,  he  married  Mary  Bingham,  of  Lemps- 
ter, N.II.,  a  daughter  of  Walter  Bingham. 
They  have  no  children.  At  one  period  in 
his  life  Mr.  Barrett  went  West  as  far  as  the 
State  of  Iowa  with  the  intention  of  settling 
out  there;  but,  as  the  climate  did  not  agree 
with  his  health,  he  returned  to  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

In  polities  he  is  both  a  Republican  and  a 
Prohibitionist.  He  cast  his  first  Presidential 
ballot  for  General  Zachary  Taylor  in  1848. 
In  religion  he  is  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional, Church  of  West  Concord,  and  has 
been  one  of  the  Deacons  of  that  society  for 
fifteen  years.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the 
Mount  Vernon  Lodge  of  Free  Masons  in 
Newport.  Mr.  Barrett  is  highly  regarded 
by  the  community. 


ILLIAM      CUTLl'.R       TRUIC,      for 
many  years  one  of  the  most  success- 
ful farmers  of  Plainfiekl,  was   born 
May    9,    1834,    son    of     Major    Reuben    and 


Hannah  (Duncan)  True.  The  first  represent- 
atives of  the  True  family  in  America  came 
from  ICngland,  settling  in  Salisbury,  Ma.ss., 
going  thence  to  .Salisbury,  N.IL,  and  from 
there  coming  to  Plainfieid.  They  were  robust 
and  self-reliant,  and  bore  unflinchingly  the 
sacrifices  and  hardships  of  the  early  days. 
Benjamin  True,  the  grandfather  of  William 
C,  was  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Salisbury. 
His  first  marriage  was  contracted  with  a  .San- 
ijorn,  whose  children  were:  Reuben,  Osgood, 
Hannah,  Sarah,  Judith,  Abigail,  and  a  daugh- 
ter who  became  Mrs.  Severance,  of  Andover. 
The  second  time  he  married  widow  Roberts, 
who  bore  him  three  children  —  Lydia,  Eunice, 
and  Benjamin  Kimball.  Osgood  True  mar- 
ried Betsey  Morgan,  of  Plainfiekl.  He  was  a 
successful  farmer,  and  had  a  family  of  si.x 
children.  Hannah  married  Moses  I-laton,  and 
became  the  mother  of  a  large  family.  Sarah 
became  Mrs.  James  Severance,  of  Salisbury. 
Judith  married  Stephen  Pingrce;  and  one  of 
her  sons  was  Samuel  li.  Pingree,  who  became 
Governor  of  Vermont,  and  is  still  residing  at 
Hartford  in  that  State.  Abigail  married  a 
Putney,  and  lived  at  Hopkinton,  N.H. 

Major  Reuben  True,  born  at  Plainfiekl,  be- 
came a  very  enterprising  and  prosperous 
farmer.  He  was  a  man  of  rare  business 
ability,  and  was  prominently  identified  with 
the  business  and  political  interests  of  the 
town.  He  served  the  public  in  nearly  all  the 
town  ofifices,  was  Selectman  many  times,  and 
was  sent  as  Representative  to  the  legislature. 
He  was  a  leading  member  in  the  Baptist 
church  and  a  generous  supporter  of  its  inter- 
ests. The  first  of  his  two  marriages  was  made 
with  Mary  Cutler,  and  the  second  with  Han- 
nah Duncan.  The  children  of  his  first  wife 
were:  Bradley,  Mary,  Eunice,  and  Reuben; 
and  those  of  his  second  were:  William  C, 
George   Sidney    and    Susan    E.     (twins),    and 


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Benjamin  O.  Bradley  True  married  Sarah 
Smith,  and  is  at  present  living  at  Lebanon,  a 
wealthy  farmer.  He  has  two  sons  —  Reuben 
and  Frank  William.  Mary,  a  woman  of  great 
refinement  antl  culture,  remained  a  spinster, 
and  died  at  the  age  of  thirty-nine  years. 
Eunice  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-nine,  and 
Reuben  at  the  age  of  thirty-three.  George 
Sidney  graduated  from  Dartmouth  College, 
and  was  preparing  to  go  into  business  with 
the  Hon.  Charles  A.  Pillsbury,  since  so  well 
known  in  connection  with  his  famous  brand  of 
flour,  when  he  died,  being  then  only  twenty- 
five  years  of  age.  He  was  a  young  man  of 
fine  attainments  and  of  great  promise.  Susan 
married  the  Rev.  Lucian  H.  Frary,  a  Congre- 
gational minister  of  Middleton,  Mass.,  and 
died  December  14,  1872.  Benjamin  O.  was 
etlucated  at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  at  Dart- 
mouth College,  and  at  Rochester  Theological 
Seminary.  He  is  now  Professor  of  Church 
History  in  the  Theological  Seminary  at 
Rochester,  N.  Y.  His  wife,  Pamelia  Smiley 
True,  is  a  daughter  of  Dr.  James  R.  Smiley, 
of  Sutton,  N.H.  Their  three  children  are: 
Harold,  Helen,  and  Ruth. 

William  Cutler  True  received  his  education 
in  the  town  schools  and  at  Kimball  Union 
Academy.  After  his  marriage,  when  he  was 
twenty-five  years  of  age,  he  took  up  his  resi- 
dence on  the  estate  that  had  been  his  wife's 
home.  Here  he  remained  up  to  the  time  of 
his  death,  carrying  on  most  successfully  one 
of  the  largest  farms  in  this  part  of  the  coun- 
try, and  extensively  engaged  in  raising  cattle 
and  sheep.  The  numerous  farm  buildings 
were  always  kept  in  the  best  possible  condi- 
tion, and  sup|ilied  with  all  the  latest  improve- 
ments. Mr.  True  was  a  retiring  man,  unpre- 
tentious, never  caring  for  display  of  any  kind. 
He  was  Selectman  for  a  number  of  years,  was 
Representative  to  the    legislature   for    several 


terms,  and  served  acceptably  in  other  public 
capacities.  For  many  years  he  was  a  member 
of  the  Baptist  church  and  one  of  its  most 
liberal  supporters.  He  was  fraternally  asso- 
ciated with  Masonic  bodies,  and  was  very 
popular  and  influential  in  the  organization. 
He  was  anticipating  with  great  pleasure  the 
trip  to  Boston  on  the  occasion  of  the  last 
Masonic  parade  and  gathering  of  the  Knights 
Templars,  and  expected  to  take  part  in  some 
of  the  exercises.  His  death  occurred  on  Sep- 
tember 24,  1895. 

Mr.  True  married  Mary  Morgan,  who  was 
born  October  28,  1838,  daughter  of  George 
W.  and  Mary  Stevens  Morgan,  of  Plainfield. 
Mr.  Morgan  was  born  December  7,  181 1,  and 
died  February  i,  1857.  He  was  a  well-to-do 
farmer  and  one  of  the  leading  men  of  his 
time.  Mrs.  Morgan,  born  August  3,  181 3, 
and  now  nearly  eighty-four  years  old,  enjoys 
excellent  health. 


RANK  WILLARD  GRAFTON,  M.D., 

a  successful  medical  practitioner  of 
Concord,  was  born  in  Gilford,  N. H., 
in  1869,  son  of  James  and  Mary  Jane  (Col- 
lins) Grafton.  The  earliest  known  progenitor 
of  this  family,  also  named  James,  emigrated 
from  Scotland  to  America,  locating  in  Gush- 
ing, Me.,  where  he  cleared  a  tract  of  land, 
and  was  afterward  engaged  in  farming.  He 
married,  and  had  a  large  family,  of  whom 
Joseph,  the  eldest  child,  was  the  great-grand- 
father of  Frank  VVillard. 

Joseph  Grafton,  born  in  Gushing,  who  was 
also  engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  passing 
his  entire  life  on  the  farm,  married,  and  reared 
a  large  family.  His  son,  James  Grafton, 
attcndetl  the  common  schools  of  his  native 
town  until  he  was  seventeen  years  of  age. 
Then  he  engaged    in   seafaring,  which    he   had 


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379 


("ollowcd  for  twenty  years  when  he  lost  his 
life  in  a  shipwreclv.  lie  married  Margaret 
Davis,  and  thL'y  had  a  larj,^e  family. 

James  Grafton,  Jr.,  the  father  of  l'"ranl< 
Willanl,  after  aec|iiiiMny  his  ediieation  in  the 
puhlie  sehools  of  dishing,  went  to  sea,  con- 
tinuing to  make  voyages  for  fi\'e  years  lliere- 
aftci-.  lie  then  came  to  Laconia,  N.H.,  and 
worked  at  hrickmaking  for  a  year.  In  iiS62 
he  enlisted  in  \hc  Third  New  Hampshire 
Heavy  Artillery,  and  subsequently  served  two 
and  one-half  years  in  the  Civil  War.  After 
receiving  his  discharge  he  returned  to  How, 
where  he  has  since  been  engaged  in  faiming. 
lie  married  Mary  Jane  Collins;  and  they  had 
two  children,  of  whom  I'rank  W.  is  the  only 
survivor.  His  maternal  gi-aiid|iarents  were 
James  and  l^lmirah  Collins,  of  (loffstown, 
Hillsborough  County. 

After  attending  the  [jublic  schools  and  re- 
ceiving private  instruction,  l''rank  W.  Grafton 
took  a  course  of  study  at  the  Hryant  &  Strat- 
ton  Business  College  in  Manchester,  N.  H. 
For  the  two  following  years  he  taught  school 
in  I!i)w.  Then  he  took  a  further  cfiurse  of 
instruction  in  a  Concord  academy.  In  1893 
he  entered  the  medical  department  of  Dart- 
mouth College,  from  which  institution  he  was 
gratluated  in  iSy5.  Until  May,  I  Sijf),  he 
remained  as  house  officer  in  tlie  hospital, 
when  he  returned  home  to  Bow.  In  Novem- 
ber, i8g6,  he  began  practice  in  Concord, 
N.  H.,  in  association  with  the  late  Dr.  E.  II. 
I'^oster.  Since  the  death  of  the  latter  he  has 
followed  his  profession  alone. 

On  December  19,  1896,  he  was  marrietl  to 
I'ldith  Mathilde  MacDowell,  daughter  of  KA- 
ward  MacDowell,  of  Champlain,  N.  Y.  Mrs. 
Grafton  is  an  Episcopalian  in  religious  belief. 
In  politics  Dr.  Grafton  affiliates  with  the  Re- 
|)ublican  jiarty.  He  has  the  ilistinction  of 
having  been  the  first   Republican  Town  Clerk 


of  Bow,  and  is  otherwise  jM-ominent  in  t(jwn 
affairs.  He  is  identified  with  Grange  No. 
189,  of  Bow,  of  which  he  has  been  an  officer; 
and  with  tile  Good  Samaritan  Lodge,  No.  75, 
I.  O.  O.  1".,  of  Hanover,  N.H.  He  is  al.so  a 
member  of  the  United  Order  of  I'ilgrini 
I'athers  and  of  the  Knights  of  the  Ancient 
I'.ssenic  Order. 


>j^AMU1';L  C.  CARTIIR,  a  farmer  of 
Z^\  Loudon  township,  was  born  here 
October  19,  1840,  son  of  Clark  and 
Lunice  (h^lliott)  Carter.  His  grandfather, 
Samuel  Carter,  who  was  born  in  Loudon,  mar- 
ried Rachel  h'rench,  also  of  this  township. 
The  father,  born  January  18,  181 2,  and  a 
farmer  by  occupation,  married  liunice  I-Illiott. 
She  was  born  October  11,  1817,  daughter  of 
.Samuel  IClliott,  a  farmer  and  shoemaker  of 
Loudon.  Clark  Carter  died  June  22,  1880. 
His  widow  now  resides  with  their  son  Wyman 
on  the  homestead.  Their  other  children  were: 
Samuel  C,  the  first-born;  Clara  Ann,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  two  and  one-half  years;  and 
Clara,  born  in  October,  i860,  who  married  A. 
Jenkins,  a  farmer  ami  a  butcher  of  Barn- 
.stead,  N.H. 

Samuel  C.  Carter  was  about  thirty  years  old 
when  he  took  charge  of  the  old  farm.  On 
September  29,  1891,  he  married  Ann  Augusta 
French,  of  Loudon,  who  was  born  May  2, 
1 84 1.  The  grandparents  of  Mrs.  Carter  were 
Joshua  and  Sally  (Sargent)  French.  Joshua 
F'rench  died  in  1842.  His  son,  Daniel  S. 
French,  a  farmer  and  a  cooper  by  trade,  was 
twice  married,  first  on  September  12,  1833,  '" 
Ann  Neal,  of  Loudon.  She  died  November 
'9.  'S39,  at  the  age  of  twenty-eight,  leaving 
two  children,  namely:  Vienna  Jane,  born  June 
21,  1834,  who  died  October  27,  1854;  and 
Juliette,  born  December  19,  1835,  who  mar- 
ried Benjamin  F.  Maxfield,  and  now  resides  in 


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Loudon.  The  second  marriage  of  Mr.  French 
was  contracted  July  19,  1S40,  with  Mrs.  Mary 
Haynes,  the  widow  of  Calvin  Haynes,  whom 
she  married  April  27,  1837.  She  was  born  in 
Concord,  May  11,  1808,  daughter  of  Samuel 
Haynes,  of  Greenland,  N.H.,  and  his  wife, 
Hannah  (Bachelder)  Haynes,  of  Loudon. 
Mrs.  Carter  is  the  only  child  of  Mr.  French's 
second  wife. 

After  marriage  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Carter  occu- 
pied the  Stevens  farm  for  about  two  years,  and 
carried  on  the  store  and  post-office.  In  1894 
they  removed  to  their  present  home,  known  as 
the  David  French  farm,  which  contains  about 
ninety  acres  of  land.  Mr.  Carter  devotes  his 
entire  attention  to  general  farming.  He  is 
a  Democrat  in  politics.  Mrs.  Carter  is  a 
member  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church  at 
the  Centre,  and  takes  an  active  interest  in 
church  work. 

-I^TON.    JOHN    C.    LINEHAN.  — "A 
j-^-j       hundred  years  after  the  Puritans   and 

-L^  V,^ .  Pilgrims  made  a  settlement  on   the 

coast  of  New  England  there  came  to  this 
country  a  multitude  of  emigrants,  mostly  from 
the  north  of  Ireland,  who  soon  became  ab- 
sorbed into  the  ranks  of  the  first  settlers,  and 
became  the  very  best  of  citizens.  In  the  con- 
test for  independence  they  rendered  the  most 
efficient  services  to  the  colonies,  as  they  had 
previously  done  in  protecting  the  frontiers 
from  the  inroads  of  the  Indians.  After 
another  century,  our  doors  having  been  opened 
wide  for  the  reception  of  people  from  every 
country,  there  came  to  these  shores  a  tide  of 
emigration  from  Central  and  Southern  Ireland, 
which  seemed  at  one  time  as  if  it  would  tic- 
populate  the  ICmerald  Isle.  In  numbers  like 
the  countless  hosts  of  the  Goths  and  Vandals 
who  overran  the  Roman  lunpire,  but  pacific  in 
their    intentions,     they    sought     in    America 


homes  for  themselves  and  their  children, 
where,  under  the  flag  and  protection  of  the 
young  republic,  they  could  enjoy  that  liberty 
which  had  been  denied  them  in  their  old 
home,  and  secure  those  advantages  which 
thrift  and  industry  offered   in  the  New  World. 

"When  the  country  of  their  adoption  was  in 
danger  from  organized  rebellion,  none  hastened 
to  its  defence  with  more  zeal  and  courage  than 
these  newly  made  citizens.  In  the  baptism  of 
blood  that  followed,  the  heterogeneous  mass 
was  welded  into  one  great  people." 

One  of  these  later  emigrants  was  John  Cor- 
nelius Linehan,  the  well-known  Insurance 
Commissioner  of  New  Hampshire,  who  was 
born  in  Macroom,  Cork  County,  Ireland,  on 
February  9,  1840,  son  of  John  and  Margaret 
(Foley)  Linehan.  His  paternal  ancestors  for 
four  generations  had  been  engaged  in  the  mill- 
ing and  grain  business.  He  came  to  this 
country  with  his  mother,  a  brother,  and  two 
sisters,  in  October,  1842,  his  father  having 
come  two  years  previously.  Locating  with 
the  family  in  Danbury,  N.  H.,  he  there  at- 
tended the  public  schools,  and  subsequently 
continued  his  studies  at  home  under  the  direc- 
tion of  his  father,  who  was  a  man  of  superior 
education.  In  May,  1852,  he  removed  to  I'en- 
acook,  then  known  as  Fisherville,  finding 
employment  in  the  spinning-room  of  H.  H.  & 
J.  S.  Brown's  cotton-mill.  He  left  that 
place  in  February,  1857,  and  entered  Rolfe 
Brothers'  sash,  blind,  and  bo.x  factory,  where 
he  became  foreman  of  the  box  department. 
August  16,  1861,  he  gave  up  his  position,  and 
enlistetl  as  a  member  of  the  band  attached  to 
the  Third  New  Hampshire  Volunteer  Infantry, 
serving  therein  until  he  received  his  dis- 
charge. Mr.  Linehan  then  enteretl  the 
employ  of  Barron,  Dodge  &  Co.,  flour  manu- 
facturers of  Penacook,  laboring  a  year  as  fore- 
man   of    the    jiacking    department.      Later    he 


JOHN     C.    LINEMAN. 


lilOCRAI'IIICAl,    KKVIKVV 


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wdtkcil  fur  llic  Caltlwell  &  Amsdcii  fiiiniture 
c()iii[)aiiy  as  shi|jpin<;  clerk,  rciiuuiiiiij^  with 
tliciii  until  April,  1866.  He  then  went  into 
business  in  company  with  Henry  I'".  Hruwn, 
unck'r  the  firm  name  ol'  Hrciwn  &  I.inehan, 
whieii  partnership  lasted  until  1869.  Mr. 
l.inclian  subsequently  continued  the  business 
ahme  fur  twenty-two  years.  September  27, 
iSc)o,  he  was  api)ointed  by  Governor  I).  II. 
Gootlell  Insurance  Commissioner  of  Now 
Hampshire  for  three  years;  in  September, 
iS()3,  lie  was  reappointed  by  Governor  John 
J{.  Smith;  and  in  October,  1896,  was  reap- 
pointctl  by  Governor  Charles  A.  15usiel. 

In  politics  Mr.  Linehan  afliliates  with  the 
Republican  party.  He  has  been  officially 
prominent,  serving  as  a  member  of  the  Com- 
mon Council  of  Concord  in  1872  and  1873, 
member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  in  1S77 
and  1878,  and  in  Governor  Charles  H.  Saw- 
yer's Council  in  1887  and  18S8.  He  became 
a  Trustee  of  the  State  Industrial  School  in 
1S84,  was  for  three  years  Secretary  of  the 
Hoard,  and  is  at  the  present  time  its  Presi- 
dent. l'"rom  1885  to  1895  he  was  one  of  the 
Directors  of  the  Gettysburg  Battlefield  Memo- 
rial Association.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Historical  Society  and  of  the 
Charitable  Irish  Society  of  Boston,  and  Treas- 
urer-general of  the  American-Irish  Historical 
Society.  In  June,  1887,  he  received  the 
degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  recognition  of  his  literary  labors.  In 
religion  he  belongs  to  the  old  faith  of  his 
fatherland.  One  of  his  brothers,  the  Rev. 
r.  r.  i,inehan,  is  p.istor  of  the  Catholic 
(Irish^  liarish  of  Hiddelord,  Me. 

On  January  2,  1864,  Mr.  Linehan  married 
Miss  Mary  E.  Pendergast,  of  Penacook.  They 
have  four  children:  Margaret  A.,  a  Sister  of 
Mercy  at  Portland,  Me.:  John  J.,  of  Spring- 
field,   Mass.  ;     Timotliy    P.,    of    Newburyport, 


Mass.;  and  Henry  !•".  Mr.  l.iiielian  is  a 
member  of  \V.  I.  Br<jvvn  Post,  No.  31, 
G.  A.  Jv.,  of  Penacook,  having  officiated  as  its 
I'irst  Commander;  he  has  twice  served  as  del- 
egate to  the  National  luicampment  from  New 
Hampshire,  in  1S78  and  1879;  was  a  member 
of  the  National  Council  of  Administration  in 
1880  and  1 881;  Department  Commander  of 
New  Hampshire  G.  A.  R.  in  1883  and  1884; 
President  of  the  New  Hampshire  Veteran  As- 
sociation in  1885  and  1S86;  served  on  the 
National  Pension  Committee,  G.  A.  R.,  from 
1884  to  1888;  and  was  unanimously  chosen 
Vice-Commander-in-chief  at  St.  Louis  in 
1887.  Me  resides  in  Penacook,  a  suburb  of 
Concord. 


IR.'\M  N.  HAYWARD,  Librarian  of 
the   Silsby    I-'rec    Public    Library   at 

'^  *  Ac  worth,    N.H.,  was   born   in    this 

town,  April  6,  1837.  His  parents,  Josejjh 
and  Patty  G.  (.Slader)  Hayward,  were  also 
natives  of  Acworth. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  Jacob  Hayward, 
was  born  in  Bridgewater,  Mass.  From  Mitch- 
ell's history  of  that  early  settled  town  in 
Plymouth  County  we  learn  that  he  was  the 
third  in  direct  line  to  bear  the  name  of  the 
Hebrew  patriarch,  and  that  he  was  the  sixth 
in  descent  frt)ni  Thomas  Hayward,  the  immi- 
grant progenitor,  who  was  one  of  the  original 
proprietors  of  Bridgewater.  Nathaniel  Hay- 
ward, son  of  Thomas,  was  the  father  of  Benja- 
min, whose  son.  Deacon  Jacob,  born  in  1712, 
had  a  son  Jacob,  born  in  1738.  This  second 
Jacob  Hayward  married  Joanna  Snell,  and,  as 
the  old  record  has  it,  "removed  from  town." 
The  Acworth  historian  notes  his  coming  to 
Acworth  about  1788. 

Jacob  Hayward,  third,  who  was  by  occupa- 
tion a  farmer,  probably  came  here  with  his 
parents  when  a  young  man.      He  died  July  5, 


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1836,  survived  by  his  wife,  formerly  Esther 
Finlay,  of  Londonderry,  N.  H.,  who  died  Jan- 
uary 25,  1862.  This  couple  had  thirteen  chil- 
dren: 15etsey,  Laura,  Sally,  Patty,  Hiram, 
Polly,  Harvey,  Susan,  Emeline,  Joseph, 
Louisa,  Nancy,  and  Fanny. 

Joseph  Hayward,  Hiram  N.  Hayward's 
father,  was  born  March  16,  18 10.  A  lifelong 
resident  of  Acvvorth,  he  followed  the  pursuit 
of  agriculture  up  to  the  time  of  his  death, 
which  took  place  June  11,  1888.  His  wife, 
who  was  born  May  2,  181  5,  was  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  and  Philharma  (Grout)  Slader.  Mr. 
Slader  also  was  a  farmer.  He  died  in  1865, 
having  been  three  times  married.  Mrs.  Hay- 
ward  had  two  sisters  —  Betsey  and  Philharma. 
She  died  January  31,  1889.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Joseph  Hayward  were  the  parents  of  eight 
children,  Hiram  N.  being  the  eldest.  The 
second  child,  Martha  A.,  was  born  March  18, 
1839,  and  died  December  25,  1855;  the  third, 
Laura  A.,  was  born  October  28,  1841,  and 
died  May  18,  i860;  the  fourth,  Sylvanus  A., 
born  February  10,  1844,  is  a  successful  and 
popular  teacher,  living  in  West  Harwich, 
Mass.  He  was  married  January  11,  1874,  to 
Miss  Alice  Smith,  and  has  two  children: 
Warren  L. ,  born  August  20,  1879;  'i"*^'  Annie 
Louise,  born  October  27,  1S83.  The  fifth 
child,  Charles  Jacob  Hayward,  born  Septem- 
ber 10,  1846,  was  founder,  president,  and 
principal  of  Hayward  Commercial  College  at 
St.  Louis,  Mo.,  which  was  established  in 
1876.  He  died  in  December,  1893.  On  July 
14,  1875,  he  was  married  to  Alice  C.  Whit- 
ney, who  now  resides  in  Boston.  The  si.xth 
child,  Leavitt  F.,  who  was  born  September 
13,  1850,  succeeded  his  brother  as  president 
and  principal  of  Hayward  College.  He  mar- 
ried Miss  Margaret  Mooncy.  The  seventh 
child  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Joseph  Hayward,  Lizzie 
lilsther,  born  August   30,   1853,  died    I'ebruary 


7,  1889.  She  was  the  wife  of  S.  L.  Holden, 
of  Charlestown,  N.IL,  who  is  now  in  Wiscon- 
sin. The  youngest  child.  Angle  M.,  born 
January  5,  1867,  is  the  wife  of  Abner  G.  Liv- 
ingston, a  farmer  of  Acworth. 

Hiram  N.  Hayward  acquired  his  education 
in  the  common  schools  of  Acworth.  He  left 
home  when  he  attained  his  majority,  and 
worked  at  farming  for  some  time;  and  he  sub- 
sequently purchased  his  father's  farm.  In 
1882  he  moved  to  his  present  homestead, 
where  he  carries  on  agricultural  pursuits.  He 
has  always  taken  an  interest  in  educational 
matters,  and  given  his  aid  to  every  worthy 
project  calculated  to  advance  the  higher  inter- 
ests of  the  community.  In  1S92  he  was  ap- 
pointed Librarian  of  the  Silsby  Library,  of 
which  he  is  also  Treasurer  and  Trustee;  and 
no  more  efficient  or  popular  ofificial  could  be 
found.  The  Silsby  Library  was  the  gift  of 
Ithiel  Homer  Silsby,  of  Acworth,  who  was 
proprietor  of  the  old  Winthrop  House  in  Bos- 
ton, that  was  burned  in  1866.  The  library  is 
a  beautiful  structure  of  brick  and  marble;  and 
the  interior  furnishings  include  twenty-eight 
life-size  portraits  of  old  leading  citizens  of 
Acworth,  and  a  rare  collection  of  stuffed 
birds.  The  library  was  dedicated  in  August, 
1892. 

Mr.  Hayward  was  married  October  16,  1862, 
to  Ann  S.,  daughter  of  Chapin  Kidder  and 
Pamelia  (Graham)  Brooks.  She  was  born  in 
Lunenburg,  Vt.,  December  5,  1835.  Mr. 
Brooks  was  born  in  Alstead,  N.H.,  December 
18,  1804.  He  was  a  farmer,  shoemaker,  mer- 
chant, and  general  manager  of  a  shoe  factory, 
and  was  what  is  called  a  forehanded  man, 
being  possessed  of  means  beyond  his  immedi- 
ate needs.  He  removed  to  Acworth  in  1844, 
and  died  here,  December  3,  1881.  His  wife, 
who  was  born  in  Rutland,  Mass.,  March  15, 
1 8 14,    died     November    28,     1858.      Mr.    and 


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Mrs.  Hrixjks  liad  five  children  :  Ann  S.  (Mrs. 
llayw.inl);  Jane,  wife  of  I'reeman  1''.  llay- 
ward;  William;  John  G.  ;  and  Henry  A. 
William  IJrooks  is  a  member  of  the  firm  of 
I'rontiss,  Brooks  &  Co.,  of  Holyokc,  Mass., 
wholesale  dealers  in  grain,  Iiay,  and  i)rodiicc. 
lie  married  Miss  Nettie  K.  Keycs,  of  Lcmp- 
stcr,  N.  II.  John  G.  is  a  lecturer  at  Harvard 
College.  He  married  Mrs.  Helen  Washburn, 
widow  of  I'rancis  Washburn  and  daughter  of 
Amos  Lawrence.  Henry  A.  Brooks,  who  was 
a  surveyor,  went  West  in  1870,  and  has 
not  since  been  heard  from.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Hayward  have  no  children.  Mr.  Hayward  is 
an  active  and  popular  Republican.  He  has 
been  Selectman  ten  years,  Town  Clerk  four 
years,  Town  Treasurer  two  years,  and  is  now 
a  member  of  the  School  Board;  and  he  was 
County  Commissioner  from  1887  to  1893,  and 
in  the  legislature  in  1880  and  1881.  He  is 
an  active  member  of  the  Congregational 
church,    to  which   his   wife  also   belongs. 


-J^I'ON.  r':ZRA  SCOLLAY  STEARNS, 
Secretary  of  the  State  of  New  Hamp- 
shire since  1891,  came  to  that  office 
superabundantly  qualified  to  meet  its  most 
exacting  requirements.  He  was  born  in 
Rindge,  N.  H.,  September  i,  1838,  son  of 
Samuel, and  Mary  Fitch  (Moore)  Stearns,  his 
father  being  a  native  of  ]5rattleboro,  Vt.,  and 
his  mother  of  Sharon,  N.H.  Through  his 
mother  he  is  connected  with  the  F"itch  family, 
several  members  of  whicli  were  men  of  distinc- 
tion during  the  Colonial  period.  The  family 
was  of  Scotch-Irish  origin;  and  the  city  of 
I-'itchburg,  Mass.,  was  named  in  honor  of  John 
I'^itch,  a  descendant  in  the  fourth  generation 
of  the  original  American  ancestor.  The 
Stearns  family  is  of  English  origin.  Daniel 
Stearns,  grandfather  of  Ezra  S.,  at  first  a  resi- 


dent of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  moved  subsequently 
to  Vermont.  He  served  in  Colonel  Nixon's 
regiment  from  1777  until  the  close  of  the 
Revolutionary  War. 

lizra  Scollay  Stearns  acquired  the  rudiments 
of  his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
Rindge.  He  then  followed  an  advanced 
course  of  study  at  the  Chester  Institute  at 
Chester,  N.J.,  where  he  remained  as  a  teacher 
for  some  time  after  his  graduation.  He  sub- 
sequently became  connected  with  publishing 
houses  in  Boston,  New  York,  and  Philadel- 
phia; and  at  one  time  he  was  manager  and 
editor  of  a  newspaper  in  Fitchburg,  Mass. 
After  his  return  to  his  native  State  he  became 
prominently  identified  with  political  affairs, 
and  by  his  energy  and  ability  advanced  mate- 
rially the  interests  of  the  Republican  party 
there,  his  services  doing  much  to  perfect  and 
strengthen  the  State  organization.  In  1864 
he  was  elected  to  the  New  Hampshire  House 
of  Representatives,  and  was  re-elected  in 
1865,  1 866,  1867,  and  1870.  In  1887  and 
1889  he  was  a  member  of  the  Senate.  His 
work  in  both  houses  was  characterized  by  the 
same  energy  and  ability  which  had  hitherto 
marked  his  career,  and  his. committee  assign- 
ments were  important  and  laborious.  He  was 
quick  to  discern  the  merits  or  demerits  of  a 
measure;  and  as  a  debater  his  ready  flow  of 
language  could,  when  necessary,  be  tinged 
with  such  biting  satire  as  to  penetrate  and  re- 
lentlessly, expose  every  weak  point  in  the  most 
plausible  arguments  of  his  opponents.  In 
1891  Mt.  Stearns  was  again  a  prominent  figure 
among  the  members  of  the  Lower  House,  and 
was  chosen  by  his  colleagues  to  fill  the  respon- 
sible position  of  Secretary  of  the  State,  to 
which  also  he  was  re-elected  in  1893  and  1895. 
Entering  upon  his  duties  at  a  time  when  the 
department  was  unusually  crowded  with  busi- 
ness, the  act  establishing  the  Australian  sys- 


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tern  of  voting  having  recently  become  a  law, 
the  important  task  of  introducing  the  measure 
and  placing  it  in  working  order  devolved  upon 
him;  and  the  success  attending  the  first  elec- 
tion under  its  provisions,  which  passed  off 
without  a  single  error,  was  due  primarily  to 
his  systematic  and  business-like  methods. 

For  more  tlian  twenty  years  Mr.  Stearns  has 
acted  as  Moderator  of  Rindgc,  and  it  is  safe  to 
say  that  no  town  in  New  Hampshire  can  boast 
of  a  more  capable  presiding  officer  at  public 
meetings.  As  a  writer  he  has  acquired  more 
than  a  local  celebrity,  being  the  author  of  a 
History  of  Rindge,  published  in  1S76,  and 
a  History  of  Ashburnham,  Mass.,  published 
in  1877,  both  of  which  are  valuable  for  their 
historical  accuracy  and  literary  merit.  He 
has  also  contributed  historical  sketches  and 
other  interesting  matter  to  current  publica- 
tions. Mr.  Stearns  is  a  member  of  the  Fitch- 
burg  Historical  Society,  the  New  Hampshire, 
the  Minnesota,  and  the  Wisconsin  Historical 
Societies,  the  New  England  Historical  Gene- 
alogical Society,  and  the  American  Antiqua- 
rian Association.  He  is  a  close  student  of 
literature;  and  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts, 
which  was  conferred  upon  him  by  Dartmouth 
College  in  1887,  is  a  merited  tribute  to  his 
scholarly  ability. 


IRVING  ALLISON  WATSON,  M.D.,  of 
Concord,  born  at  Salisbury,  this  State, 
Sejitembcr  6,  1S49,  is  a  son  of  Porter 
Baldwin,  born  at  Corinth,  Vt.,  July  13,  1825, 
and  Luvia  K.  (Ladd)  Watson;  grandson  of 
Ithamar  Watson,  born  at  Weare,  N.H.,  Sep- 
tember 17,  1784;  and  great-grandson  of  Caleb 
Watson,  born^at  Hampstead,  N.H.,  December 
6,  1760,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Revolution. 
Having  received  his  preliminary  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  New  Hamj)shire  and  at 


the  Newbury  (Vt.)  Seminary  and  Collegiate 
Institute,  he  commenced  the  study  of  medi- 
cine in  1868  with  Dr.  Cochrane,  of  Newbury, 
Vt.,  and  continued  it  successively  with  his 
uncle.  Dr.  H.  L.  Watson,  and  Dr.  A.  B. 
Crosby,  of  New  York.  Then  he  attended  lect- 
ures at  Dartmouth  Medical  College  and  at 
the  medical  department  of  the  University  of 
Vermont,  graduating  a  Doctor  of  Medicine 
from  the  latter  institution  in  1871.  After- 
ward, in  1885,  Dartmouth  College  conferred  on 
him  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts. 

Immediately  after  graduating  in  medicine. 
Dr.  Watson  commenced  practice  at  Groveton 
(Northumberland),  N.H.,  where  he  remained 
ten  years.  In  that  period  he  was  Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  for  some  years,  in  1879  and 
1 88 1  he  was  in  the  State  legislature,  and  he 
was  surgeon  to  the  Grand  Trunk  Railway.  In 
the  legislature  he  was  largely  instrumental  in 
securing  the  passage  of  the  act  creating  the 
State  Board  of  Health.  Of  this  body  he  was 
appointed  a  member;  and  at  its  organization  in 
September,  1S81,  he  was  elected  its  Secretary 
and  executive  officer.  In  October  of  that  year 
he  removed  to  Concord,  where  he  has  since 
resided,  still  holding  the  ofifice  of  Secretary 
and  executive  officer  of  the  State  Board  of 
Health.  In  1889,  when  this  Board  was  also 
created  a  Board  of  Lunacy,  the  executive  work 
of  the  latter  devolved  upon  Dr.  Watson.  He 
is  Registrar  of  the  vital  statistics  of  the  State; 
President  of  the  State  Board  of  the  Cattle 
Commissioneis  since  its  organization  in  i8(ji  ; 
has  been  Secretary  of  the  American  Public 
Health  Association  since  1883;  was  Vice- 
President  of  the  International  Conference  of 
the  State  and  Provincial  Boartls  of  Health  in 
1894;  is  a  permanent  member  of  the  Ameri- 
can Medical  Association  ;  honorary  member  of 
the  Academia  Nacional  de  Medicina  de  Me.v- 
ico;    was  Assistant   Secretary  General   of  the 


'.lOCKAI'MIC  \l,    REVIEW 


3S7 


First  ran-Amcrican  Mc:lica]  Congress;  mem- 
ber of  the  Societe  I'ranc^aise  d'llygi^-ne  of 
Paris;  of  the  Medico-Legal  Society  of  New 
York;  of  tiie  New  Hampshire  Medical  So- 
ciety; of  tiie  Centre  District  (N.II.)  Medical 
Society;  of  the  New  Hampshire  Historical 
Society;  and  he  is  a  registered  pharmacist  in 
the  State  of  New  Hampshire.  December  12, 
18S4,  he  was  appointed  Surgeon,  with  rank  of 
Major,  of  the  Third  Regiment,  New  Hamp- 
shire National  Guard;  and  on  May  20,  1889, 
he  was  promoted  to  the  jiost  of  Medical  Direc- 
tor, with  the  rank  of  Lieutenant  Colonel,  of 
the  I-"irst  brigade,  New  Hampshire  National 
Guard,  which  commission  he  resigned  in 
(894. 

Dr.  Watson  has  compiled  and  edited  the 
New  IIam])shire  Registration  Rcjiorts  since 
the  year  1881 ;  the  reports  of  the  State  Board 
of  Health  of  New  Hampshire,  fourteen  vol- 
umes; and  the  reports  of  the  Commissioners 
of  Lunacy  of  New  Hampshire,  six  volumes. 
He  is  the  author  of  numerous  papers  and  arti- 
cles, published  in  these  reports  and  in  various 
sanitary  and  medical  journals  of  the  country, 
including:  "Danger  in  the  Use  of  Chloral 
Hydrate,"  Philadclpliia  Medical  and  Surgical 
Reporter,  1872;  "An  l^pidemic  of  Diphthe- 
ria," Transactions  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Medical  Society,  1879;  "Sanitary  Sugges- 
tions," Ibid.,  1882;  "Water  Pollution  — 
Wells,"  Ibid.,  1883;  "The  Extent  and  Distri- 
Inition  of  Consumption  in  New  Hampshire," 
Ibid.,  1887;  "Medicine  in  Mexico,"  Ibid., 
1892;  "Address  to  the  Graduating  Class  of 
Dartmouth  Medical  College,"  1885:  "Com- 
mon Law  Citations  relating  to  Nuisances," 
Report  of  the  State  Board  of  Health  of  New 
Hampshire,  1882;  "Milk  from  a  Sanitary 
Standpoint,"  Ibid.,  1887;  "Sanitary  Survey 
of  School-houses," //'/(('. ,  1SS7;  "Our  School- 
houses,"  Ibid.,    1 888;    "Historical   and  Other 


Facts  regarding  Vaccination,"  Ibid.,  1891  ; 
"  I'riere's  Inoculations  and  the  Yellow  Fever 
Commission,"  The  Sanitarian,  April,  1886; 
"Tuberculosis:  Its  Prevalence,  Communica- 
bility,  and  Prevention,"  read  at  the  meeting 
of  the  State  Board  of  Agriculture,  The  Weirs, 
N.H.,  August  16,  1894,  and  published  in  the 
Transactions  of  the  New  Hampshire  State 
Grange,  1894.  He  edited  and  published  the 
Sanitary  I'olnntccr,  a  monthly  journal  in  the 
interests  of  healthful  homes  and  communities, 
one  year,  1889,  Concord,  N.IL,  Republican 
Press  Association;  and  he  was  the  editor  and 
compiler  of  "Physicians  and  Surgeons  of 
America,"  eight  hundred  and  fifty  pages,  illus- 
trated,  1896. 

In  1891-92  Dr.  Watson  travelled  exten- 
sively in  Mexico  and  Central  America.  He 
is  a  Mason  and  a  Knight  Templar.  In  1872 
he  married  Miss  Lena  A.,  daughter  of  Gilman 
Farr,  of  Littleton,  N.H.,  and  has  one  child, 
Bertha  M.  Watson. 


KRANK  T.  VAUGHAN,  one  of  the 
younger  lawyers  of  Newport,  was  born 
May  4,  1864,  in  Woodstock,  Vt.,  son 
of  lulwin  and  I'llizabcth  L.  (Tenney)  Vaughan. 
The  father,  who  graduated  at  the  Albany  Law 
School,  New  York,  followed  the  legal  profes- 
sion, and  at  the  time  of  his  death  was  Judge 
of  Probate.  Edwin  Vaughan  commenced  his 
law  practice  in  New  York  City;  but  in  1859 
he  removed  to  Claremont,  N.IL,  and  entered 
into  partnership  with  Colonel  Alexander 
Gardner.  In  1861  he  enlisted  in  the  New 
Hampshire  Battalion  of  the  First  Rhode 
Island  Volunteer  Cavalry,  and  was  afterward 
transferred  to  the  First  New  Hampshire 
Cavalry,  with  the  rank  of  Captain.  He  re- 
mained in  the  service  throughout  the  late 
war,  acting  at  one  time  as  Provost  Marshal. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


After  he  was  honorably  discharged  from  the 
army,  he  again  located  in  Claremont,  and  was 
thereafter  engaged  in  his  profession  until 
1869.  In  that  year  he  was  appointed  United 
States  Consul  to  Canada,  a  post  which  he 
efficiently  filled  for  twelve  years.  Upon  his 
return  to  Claremont  he  was  made  Judge  of 
Probate,  and  he  afterward  served  as  Repre- 
sentative to  the  State  legislature.  He  was 
largely  interested  in  educational  matters,  was 
liberal  in  religion,  and  he  was  a  member  in 
good  standing  of  the  A.  F.  &  A.  M.  He 
died  December  18,  1890.  He  and  his  wife 
had  three  children.  One  died  in  infancy; 
and  Charles  Edwin  died  at  the  age  of  twelve 
years,  from  the  injuries  resulting  from  tlie 
kick  of  a  horse.      The  mother  still  survives. 

Frank  T.  Vaughan  spent  twelve  years  of  his 
early  life  with  his  father  in  Canada,  where  he 
received  his  early  education.  After  graduat- 
ing from  the  St.  Johnsbury  Academy  in  1882, 
he  immediately  entered  Dartmouth  College, 
from  which  he  duly  graduated  in  the  class  of 
1886.  The  next  two  years  were  spent  in  civil 
engineering  on  the  Burlington  &  Missouri 
River  Railroad  in  Nebraska.  Returning  East 
in  18S8,  on  account  of  his  father's  feeble 
health,  he  began  to  read  law  in  the  ofifice  of 
the  Hon.  Ira  Colby.  He  was  subsequently 
admitted  to  the  New  Hampshire  bar  in 
March,  1892.  In  the  preceding  year  he  had 
received  the  degree  of  Master  of  Arts  from 
Dartmouth  College.  He  took  a  trip  to  the 
World's  Fair  in  June,  1893.  I'Vom  Chicago 
he  went  to  Junction  City,  Kan.,  and  was  there 
engaged  in  the  practice  of  law  and  in  a  real 
estate  and  insurance  ijusiness  for  a  short  time. 
He  came  back  to  New  Hampshire  in  1894; 
and  in  October  of  the  same  year  he  removed 
to  Newport,  where  he  has  since  resided. 

In    1892,    June    i,    Mr.    Vaughan     married 
Lottie     B.     Williamson,     of     Hartford,     Vt., 


daughter  of  B.  Williamson.  She  was  edu- 
cated at  Randolph  Normal  School,  and  after- 
ward taught  school  very  successfully  in  South 
Berwick,  Me.,  and  in  Claremont.  She  is  now 
the  mother  of  two  children,  namely:  Mabel 
E.,  born  November  27,  1893;  and  Edwin  C, 
born  March  16,  iSg6.  Mr.  Vaughan  is  a 
Congregationalist  and  a  chorister  of  the  local 
society.  In  ]5olitics  he  is  a  Re]niblican.  Be- 
sides attending  to  his  legal  practice,  he  serves 
in  the  capacity  of  Justice  of  the  Peace,  Notary 
Public,  and  Coroner.  He  is  a  member  of  K. 
of  P.,  No.  43,  of  Newport,  No.  10,  Currier 
Company,  Uniform    Rank,    K.    of   P. 


f^^pEORGK  E.  DAVIS,  a  prominent 
\pl  farmer  of  Northfield  and  a  native  of 
Acworth,  N.H.,  was  born  April  30, 
1839,  son  of  Oliver  and  Harriett  Elizabeth 
(Moore)  Davis.  The  father,  a  native  of  Ac- 
worth,  removed  to  Surry,  and  later  to  Lemp- 
ster,  which  was  the  home  of  his  wife.  In 
Lempster  he  was  engaged  in  farming  until  his 
death  in  1881.  His  wife,  Elizabeth,  died  at 
Manchester  in  18S5.  Henry  J.  Davis,  the 
first-born  of  their  nine  children,  was  a  surgeon 
in  the  army,  and  died  at  l^altimore.  George 
E.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  their  second 
son.  His  brother,  Jefferson,  was  a  clergyman 
of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church,  and 
preached  in  Franklin,  where  he  died  in  July 
of  1896.  Charles  B.,  the  fourth  son.  who 
served  in  the  Civil  War,  and  received  injuries 
while  so  doing,  now  resides  in  Franklin,  and 
is  married  to  Katie  Blackburne.  Lucy,  the 
first  daughter,  died  when  young.  William  is 
now  deceased.  Frank  Barnard,  who  is  a 
farmer  and  lives  in  Lempster,  successively 
married  Rose  Libby  and  her  sister,  Mrs. 
Hattie  (Libby)  Page.  Abbie  also  died  when 
young.      Lizzie  Davis,  the  youngest  child,  was 


in(;kAi'ill(\l.    Ki:viEVV 


389 


first  married  to  Charles  Tandy,  and  had  one 
child,  (liiy.  After  Mr.  Tandy's  death  she 
married  lUniamiii  Kiml)all,  and  now  lives 
near  I'"ranklin. 

Al  the  ai;e  of  nine  years  George  !•'.  Davis 
went  to  the  home  of  an  nncle  in  Acworth, 
N.ll.,  where  he  suhsecjiiently  spent  two  years 
wfjikint;"  for  his  hoard.  At  the  end  of  that 
time  he  went  to  Lem|ister,  worked  in  a  store 
for  two  years  and  on  diffi'n'iit  farms  for 
seven  morilhs,  attendinn'  the  district  scliools 
in  the  winter.  Going  to  Unity  then,  he  en- 
gaged in  farm  work  there  for  some  time.  At 
the  age  of  twenty-one  years  he  went  to  live 
with  I'",zra  J.  Glidden,  of  Unity,  where  he  re- 
mained ten  years.  He  tiien  came  to  North- 
field.  On  March  5,  1868,  Mr.  Davis  was 
married  to  Miss  Hester  .Simons,  a  seminary 
graduate,  and  a  d.iughter  of  Joseph  .Simons, 
of  NorthfieUI,  who  is  now  deceased.  She  died 
in  June,  1884;  and  in  the  year  18S6  Mr.  Davis 
married  Mrs.  ICtta  Mary  Davis,  the  widow  of 
his  brother  William,  and  a  daughter  of  Sum- 
ner and  I'^mily  (Booth)  Eaton,  both  of  Demp- 
ster. Mrs.  Eaton  is  deceased.  Mr.  j'iaton 
resides  in  I.empstcr  with  his  son-in-law.  ]]y 
her  marriage  with  William  Davis,  Mrs.  I'^tta 
Davis  had  four  children,  of  whom  the  only 
survivor  is  Dillian  r^thel,  born  October  11, 
1877,  who  lives  with  her  mother,  and  is  a 
teacher.  By  George  Davis  she  has  a  daugh- 
ter, Nina  G.,  who  lives  with   her  parents. 

After  his  first  marriage  Mr.  Davis  settled 
on  the  farm  where  he  now  lives,  and  which 
was  known  as  the  Joseph  Kimball  place.  He 
has  greatly  improved  the  estate,  and  it  is  now 
named  very  appropriately  Mountain  View 
Farm.  For  five  years  Mr.  Davis  managed  a 
milk  route  to  Tilton,  and  he  has  also  sent 
milk  to  Boston.  On  his  farm  of  eighty  acres 
he  keeps  about  ten  cows,  and  does  considerable 
dairy   business,    besides    carrying    on    general 


farming.  He  has  always  been  a  hard  worker 
and  a  conscientious  citizen.  Originally,  he 
was  a  Democrat;  l)ut  he  would  not  vote  for 
Horace  Greeley,  and  thereafter  he  voted  the 
Republican  ticket.  Mr.  Davis  is  a  Mason  in 
Doric  Lodge,  No.  78,  at  Tilton,  and  is  a 
member  of  the  society  of  I'ilgrim  I-'athers. 
Both  he  and  his  wife  are  members  of  the 
Methodist  ICpiscopal  church  at  Tilton,  and 
are  actively  interested  in  church  work. 


^UTHICR  L.  MASON,  a  prominent 
farmer  and  dairyman  of  Hill,  Merri- 
mack County,  N.H.,  was  born  in 
this  town,  on  the  place  where  he  now  resides, 
July  28,  1850,  son  of  Milton  and  Judith  J. 
(Young)  Mason.  His  great-grandfather,  Jo- 
siah,  who  was  born  in  Rowley,  Mass.,  came  to 
Hill  from  Salisbury  at  an  early  date,  when 
this  section  was  still  a  wilderness.  He,  Jo- 
siah,  was  accompanied  by  his  two  sons:  I^ben- 
ezcr,  grandfather  of  Luther  L.  ;  and  Josiah, 
second.  .Selecting  this  location,  together 
they  built  a  log  cabin  on  a  part  of  the  farm 
now  used  as  a  pasture.  I-ater,  after  some  land 
had  been  cleared,  and  when  crops  were  grow- 
ing plentifully,  they  built  a  board  house  on 
the  site  of  the  residence  now  occupied  by 
George  H.  Cilley  and  Ebenezer  Mason,  who 
is  the  brother  of  Milton  and  the  oldest  surviv- 
ing descendant  of  the  original  Josiah.  Eben- 
ezer Mason,  son  of  Josiah,  first,  died  in  the 
house  he  had  built  in  1S47.  His  wife,  Sarah 
(I^'ifield)  Mason,  was  a  daughter  of  Obadiah 
h'ifield,  who,  with  the  first  Josiah  Mason,  was 
a  Revolutionary  soldier.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  six  children  —  Lucia,  Milton,  Laura, 
Ebenezer,  Luther,  and  Shure.  The  only  sur- 
viving member  of  that  generation  is  Ebenezer, 
who  lives  on  the  old  homestead,  as  mentioned 
above. 


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BIOGRAI'HICAL    REVIEW 


Milton  Mason,  now  deceased,  studied  in  the 
district  schools,  and  soon  after  went  to 
Waltham,  Mass.,  where  he  lived  about  fifteen 
years.  Returning  at  the  end  of  that  time  to 
his  native  town,  he  married  Judith  J.  Young, 
and  bought  a  farm  adjoining  the  Mason  farm. 
Here  he  built  a  fine  collection  of  farm  build- 
ings, and  spent  his  last  days.  He  died  at  the 
age  of  sevent3'-seven  years,  respected  by  all 
who  knew  him.  He  had  held  all  the  town 
offices.  His  wife  died  in  her  si.xty-second 
year.  Of  their  seven  children  two  are  de- 
ceased. Eliza,  the  wife  of  the  Rev.  W.  S. 
Morrill,  lives  in  Wilmot;  Frank,  who  mar- 
ried Victoria  Tyrrell,  lives  in  Franklin; 
Sarah,  now  Mrs.  Horace  J.  Campbell,  resides 
at  Hill;  and  Emma  J.  is  unmarried,  and  lives 
with  her  brother. 

Luther  L.  Mason,  the  fourth  surviving  child 
of  Milton,  was  educated  in  the  public  schools. 
He  has  followed  the  occupation  of  a  farmer. 
After  attaining  his  majority  he  went  to  Iowa, 
where  he  remained  for  about  a  year.  Coming 
East  again,  he  worked  for  a  short  time  in 
Manchester.  Then  he  settled  on  the  farm 
where  he  now  resides.  While  carrying  on 
general  farming,  he  makes  a  specialty  of 
dairying,  keeping  a  large  number  of  cows, 
and  producing  on  the  average  about  one 
huinlred  and  forty  pounds  of  butter  per 
week. 

On  March  15,  i<S77,  Mr.  Mason  married 
Mrs.  Martha  S.  Mason,  of  this  town,  a  daugh- 
ter of  Stephen  Nelson,  and  the  widow  of 
George  C.  Mason.  ]5y  her  first  husband  she 
is  the  mother  of  Harry  R.  Mason,  now  living 
in  Dorchester,  Mass.;  and  by  her  present  hus- 
band, of  Lillian  15.  and  ]?cllc.  Luther  L. 
Mason  served  on  the  School  Board  and  the 
Hoard  of  Selectmen  of  Hill  for  four  years 
each.  He  is  Master  of  the  grange,  while  his 
whole  family  are  active   and    interested    mem- 


bers. All  are  likewise  members  of  the  Chris- 
tian Church  of  Hill  Centre.  In  politics  Mr. 
Mason  was  formerly  a  Republican,  and  he  cast 
his  first  Presidential  vote  for  General  Grant  in 
1872.  Of  late  years,  however,  he  has  felt  it 
his  duty  to  vote  the  Prohibition  ticket. 


'sjYOHN  W.  J  EFTS,  a  machinist  by  trade, 
but  who  for  the  past  nine  years  has 
been  successfully  engaged  in  farming 
in  the  town  of  Langdon,  was  born  here,  De- 
cember 4,  1859,  son  of  Alphonso  M.  and  Al- 
mira  (Clough)  Jefts.  The  genealogy  of  the 
Jefts  family  is  traced  to  luigland,  from  which 
country,  on  some  date  between  1620  and  1638, 
the  American  progenitor  emigrated  to  Massa- 
chusetts, and  settled  in  Billerica.  His  imme- 
diate descendants  continued  to  reside  in  that 
State  for  some  years.  Jonathan,  the  great- 
grandfather of  John  W.  Jefts,  was  the  first  of 
the  name  to  come  to  New  Hampshire.  He 
settled  in  the  town  of  Mason,  where  he  after- 
ward died.  Hosley  Jefts,  the  grandfather,  was 
born  in  Mason.  In  early  manhood  he  settled 
in  Langdon,  and  afterward  became  a  prosper- 
ous farmer  and  an  influential  citizen.  He 
married  Abigail  Green,  and  they  became  the 
parents  of  seven  children;  namely,  Harriet, 
Indiana,  Caroline,  Rockazna,  Albert,  Alphonso 
M.,  and  Eli. 

Alphonso  M.  Jefts,  born  in  Antrim,  N.II., 
in  March,  181  5,  was  over  seventy-six  years  of 
age  when  he  died,  June  18,  i8gi.  He  fol- 
lowed the  occupation  of  a  farmer,  first  in  Put- 
ney, Vt.,  which  was  his  home  for  a  number  of 
years.  Later  he  moved  to  Langdon,  wliere  he 
resided  for  forty  years,  and  acquired  a  goodly 
property.  He  served  his  town  as  Road  Sur- 
veyor for  a  score  of  years.  Almira,  his  wife, 
who  was  born    in    Westmoreland,    N.IL,    De- 


lilOOR  AI'IIICM, 


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comber  25,  1815,  was  a  (laii<,'hter  of  John 
Clouj^h,  of  Stamford,  Vt.  Slic  Iiorc  him  nine 
children,  namely:  Mason,  now  deceased,  who 
was  a  successful  farmer  of  Alstead,  N.  11.,  and 
married  Clarista  Clark;  Mari.a,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Benjamin  Wales,  a  broker  in  Taunton, 
Mass.,  and  has  two  children;  Ahi;.;ail  and 
Harriet,  who  died  young;  May  P.,  a  graduate 
of  Mount  Holyoke  College,  who  is  now  prin- 
ci|>al  of  the  Worcester  High  School,  in  which 
city  she  has  taught  for  fifteen  years,  making  a 
specialty  of  languages;  Mara  A.,  who  is  the 
widow  of  Lester  Spragiic,  formerly  a  hardware 
merchant  of  Hartford,  has  one  child,  May  A., 
now  the  wife  of  Chrumccy  Brainard,  of  Putne)', 
Vt. ;  J''rcd  F.,  now  a  paper  manufacturer  in 
Carthage,  N.Y. ,  who  married  Carrie  Adams, 
of  koikingham,  Vt.,  and  has  one  child,  Clyde 
A.;  Charles  A.,  born  January  27,  1853,  in 
I'Litney,  who  graduated  from  I""ort  Edward  Col- 
lege, New  York,  in  the  class  of  1874,  and  now 
carries  on  the  old  homestead,  besides  doing  a 
brokerage  business;  anil  John  W.,  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.  Mrs.  Sprague  lives  with 
Charles  in  Langdon. 

John  W.  Jefts  attendeil  the  schools  of  I-ang- 
don,  Marlow  Academy  of  Marlow,  N.H., 
Cushing  Academy,  Ashburnham,  Mass.,  and 
Amherst  College,  intending  to  fit  himself  for 
the  ministry.  Finding  that  his  views  were 
not  in  accord  with  the  profession  he  had 
chosen,  and  that  he  could  not  conscientiously 
cai-ry  out  its  requirements,  he  went  to  Gard- 
ner, Mass.,  and  learned  the  trade  of  machinist, 
in  which  he  became  an  expert  workman. 
This  failing  health  subsequently  compelled 
him  to  abandon;  and  nine  years  ago  he  pur- 
chased his  present  farm  in  Langdon,  and  he 
has  since  devoted  his  attention  to  agriculture. 
He  is  a  member  of  the  United  Order  of  Work- 
men. In  religion  he  is  an  Episcopalian.  i\Ir. 
Jefts   married    Miss   Harriet    E.    Simpson,   of 


Langdon  who  on  her  father's  hide   is  a  cousin 
of  the  late  General  U.  S.  Grant. 


URTLS  WHrnC.  a  retired  carpenter 
of  Cf)ncord,  was  Ijorn  at  IJow,  N.IL, 
April  4,  1861,  .son  of  Daniel  White, 
of  that  place.  The  grandfather,  Lsaac  White, 
who  was  an  early  settler  of  Jk)w,  went  there 
from  Pembroke,  and  converted  a  grant  of  land 
into  a  good  farm  home  for  himself  and  his 
family.  Daniel,  the  youngest  .son,  was  a 
blacksmith  and  stone  worker.  He  purchased 
a  farm  opposite  his  father's,  and  there  carried 
on  stone  work  as  well  as  some  farming.  His 
death  occurred  March  16,  1825,  after  a  linger- 
ing and  painful  illness,  in  the  course  of  which 
he  was  obliged  to  undergo  several  and  painful 
.surgical  bperations.  He  married  Mary  Carter, 
daughter  of  Moses  Carter,  of  the  old  Concord 
family  of  that  name.  They  had  three  children 
besides  Curtis.  William,  the  eldest,  died  in 
October,  1826.  Their  daughter,  Mary  Ann, 
is  also  deceased;  and  the  second  son,  Daniel 
C,  is  a  practising  dentist  in  Alton,  111. 

Curtis  White,  who  was  the  secrmd-born  of 
his  parents'  children,  followed  various  lines 
of  bu.siness  throughout  his  active  period. 
After  leaving  the  district  school,  he  worked  at 
farming  for  a  time.  He  also  did  some  black- 
smithing  and  carpentry,  and  for  a  while  he 
was  employed  in  a  saw  and  grist  mill.  For 
many  years  Mr.  White  was  a  carpenter  in  Con- 
cord, and  for  about  ten  years  he  was  engaged 
in  carriage-building  in  this  city.  In  the 
spring  of  1891  he  retired  from  business,  and 
took  a  tri]5  to  California,  where  he  remained 
until  March  of  the  following  year.  Mr. 
White  has  always  been  considered  a  good 
financier. 

Mr.  White  was  united  in  matrimony  with 
Hannah     Buntin,     a    daughter    of     Benjamin 


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]5untin,  of  Bow.  She  died  June  i6,  1888. 
His  only  child,  Anna,  now  the  wife  of  Josiah 
E.  Fernald,  the  Cashier  of  the  National  State 
Capital  Bank,  has  four  children  —  Edith, 
Mary,  Ruth,  and  Josiah.  Mr.  White  served 
on  the  Concord  Board  of  Assessors  for  twenty- 
si.\'  years  in  succession.  He  was  Selectman  of 
his  ward  for  twelve  years.  Common  Councillor 
for  one  year,  and  Alderman  for  two  years.  A 
prominent  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias, 
he  is  I^ast  Grand  Chancellor;  and  he  has  been 
Grand  Master  of  E.xchequer  of  that  organiza- 
tion for  the  last  fourteen  years.  He  is  also 
Past  Grand  of  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows,  and  Chief  Patriarch  of  the  encamp- 
ment, and  is  a  member  of  both  grand  bodies. 
Mr.  White  is  a  member  of  the  First  Baptist 
Church  of  Concord  and  a  well-known  Repub- 
lican voter. 


iHARLES  H.  COURSER,  a  retired 
business  man  of  Henniker,  was  born 
in  Boscawen,  now  Webster,  N.H., 
May  19,  1827,  son  of  John  and  Keziah  (Shep- 
ard)  Courser.  The  first  ancestors  of  the 
family  were  English.  His  grandfather,  John 
Courser,  was  a  resident  of  Merrimack  County. 
The  father  passed  the  greater  part  of  his  life 
in  Boscawen,  and  died  there  at  the  age  of 
ninety-two  years.  The  mother,  who  was  a 
daughter  of  John  Shepard,  a  native  of  Derry, 
N.  II.,  lived  to  be  eighty-two.  Of  her  chil- 
dren the  only  survivor  is  Charles  H. 

Charles  H.  Courser  passed  his  boyhood  in 
attending  school  and  assisting  upon  the  farm. 
When  about  seventeen  years  old  he  was  appren- 
ticed to  the  trade  of  carijcntcr  and  millwright. 
After  serving  for  three  years  he  was  employed 
as  a  journeyman  carpenter  and  millwright  in 
Boscawen.  In  1853  he  came  to  Henniker, 
and,   securing    the    site    of    an    old    privilege. 


erected  a  saw  and  grist  mill,  and  con- 
ducted them  for  fourteen  years.  He  then  sold 
them,  and  erected  in  Newport,  N.H.,  another 
mill,  which  he  sold  before  it  was  completed. 
Soon  after,  in  Pittsfield,  N.H.,  he  bought  a 
mill  which  he  rebuilt  and  operated  for  nine 
years,  but  still  resided  in  Henniker.  When 
his  former  mill  in  this  town  was  subsequently 
offered  for  sale,  he  and  his  son,  P'itz  II. 
Courser,  bought  the  property,  built  a  saw-mill 
upon  the  opposite  side  of  the  river,  on  the  site 
of  the  present  shoe  factory,  and  were  thereafter 
engaged  in  custom  grinding  and  the  manufact- 
ure of  short  lumber  until  the  retirement  of 
the  father  some  six  years  ago.  His  original 
mill  was  destroyed  by  fire  about  a  year  ago, 
and  a  flouring-mill  has  since  been  erected 
there.  He  invested  in  timber  lands  quite 
extensively,  and  has  some  valuable  tracts  at 
the  present  time.  He  was  also  engaged  in 
building.  He  owns  and  occupies  the  Robert 
M.  Wallace  estate  of  thirty  acres,  located  at 
the  west  end  of  the  village.  Since  he  acquired 
the  property  he  has  rebuilt  the  residence. 

On  November  9,  1848,  Mr.  Courser  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mary  Jane  Blanchard, 
who  was  born  in  Boscawen,  daugliter  of  Amos 
and  Susan  Blanchard.  His  family  consists  of 
six  children — Fitz  II.,  Evander  A.,  Helen 
Frances,  Almon  E.,  Charles  Edgar,  and 
Grace.  F"itz  H.,  who  is  in  the  livery  busi- 
ness in  Henniker,  is  married  and  has  two  chil- 
dren—  Harry  and  Arthur;  Evander  A.  is  in 
the  express  business  in  Concord,  is  married, 
and  has  one  daughter,  Rachel ;  Helen  Frances 
married  Joseph  M.  Hollowood,  who  was  for 
thirteen  years  Postmaster  of  Brockton,  Mass.; 
Almon  E.,  who  is  in  the  employ  of  the  Boston 
&  Maine  Railroad  and  resides  at  home,  wedded 
Minnie  Brown;  Charles  Edgar,  a  fireman  of 
the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad,  and  a  resident 
of    Henniker,    married     Emily    I'ritchard,    of 


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Hillsborough,  N.II.,  and  has  one  daughter, 
Linda  May.  I'olitically,  Mr.  Courser  is  a 
Kipniilican.  He  has  been  ijuite  active  in 
local  affairs,  and  he  served  vvilli  ability  as 
Road  Ajrent. 


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/  3)  ICORGK  WALLINGKORD,  a  pros- 
\  fST  pcrous  business  man  of  Clareniont  in 
the  last  generation,  was  born  in  Dub- 
lin, N.II.,  July  17,  1808,  son  of  l^benezer  and 
Mary  (Ilildreth)  Wallingford.  The  first  an- 
cestor, Nicholas  Wallingford,  settled  in  15rad- 
ford,  Mass.,  in  1672.  David  Wallingford,  of 
the  third  generation  descended  from  Nicholas, 
was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
]5orn  September  25,  1744,  he  went  to  the  war 
from  Hollis,  N.IL,  was  a  minute-man,  served 
in  four  comjianies  luider  Captains  Dow,  Towns, 
I'^merson,  and  Goss,  and  took  part  in  the 
battles  of  Bunker  Hill  and  Bennington.  His 
son  ICbenezer,  who  was  born  October  5,  1780, 
came  to  Claremont  about  seventy  years  ago. 
By  his  wife,  Mary,  who  was  born  in  Dublin, 
Ebenezer  became  the  father  of  eight  children, 
as  follows:  l<!lvira,  born  August  24,  1804,  who 
died  October  5,  i<S84;  Mary,  born  August  10, 
1806,  who  died  March  i,  1870;  George,  bt)rn 
July  17,  1808,  who  died  July  18,  1863;  Sarah, 
born  May  27,  1810,  who  died  March  10,  1S94; 
Philander,  born  June  6,  181 2,  who  became  a 
Methodist  minister,  and  died  August  6,  1887; 
Elizabeth,  born  September  8,  1S14,  who  died 
May  5,  1836;  Frances,  born  September  23, 
1816,  who  died  August  14,  1848;  and  Catha- 
rine, born  February  i,   18 19. 

At  the  age  of  nineteen  years  George  Wall- 
ingford came  to  Claremont,  and  there  resided 
throughout  the  rest  of  his  life.  While  he  was 
a  machinist  by  trade,  he  found  it  to  his  inter- 
est to  engage  in  carriage  ironing.  Later  in 
life  he  went  into  the  grocery  business,  which 
he  afterward  followed    successfully  for  many 


years.  His  death  took  place  July  18,  1863. 
He  married  Helen  I'.  Hitchcock,  whose  chil- 
dren by  him  were:  Henry,  born  Aijrii  12, 
1839;  ''"i^l  Stella  J,,  born  September  22,  1843. 
Mrs.  Wallingford,  who  survives  her  husband, 
is  a  member  of  an  old  and  interesting  family 
of  Claremont.  Her  grandfather,  Ichabod 
Hitchcock,  the  first  of  the  name  in  this  town, 
came  here  about  the  year  1770.  Ichabod 
cleared  some  land  situated  a  mile  north  of  the 
village,  built  on  it  a  house  —  for  he  was  a 
carpenter  by  trade  —  and  returned  to  New 
Haven,  Conn.,  for  his  family.  With  them 
came  a  little  party  of  adventurous  spirits 
under  his  leadership,  finding  their  way  by 
marked  trees  to  the  little  spot  in  the  wilder- 
ness which  he  had  chosen.  On  the  journey, 
which  lasted  fourteen  days,  the  furniture  was 
carried  in  o.x  carts.  The  women  rode  on  horse- 
back, Ichabod's  wife  carrying  a  baby  in  her 
arms;  and  the  men  travelled  on  foot.  Ichabod 
helped  in  the  erection  of  Union  Church;  and 
he  was  the  master  builder  of  the  town  hall, 
which  he  afterward  took  apart,  and  removed  to 
the  village.  During  the  Revolution  he  was 
officially  serving  the  town  in  the  ca[)acity 
of  Sheriff  and  in  other  offices.  At  that  time, 
having  been  misrepresented  to  the  authorities 
as  a  Tory,  he  was  arrested,  tried,  and  honora- 
bly acquitted.  He  married  Rebecca  Pardee, 
who  was  born  March  2,  1754,  and  whose 
grandparents  came  from  France.  Rebecca  had 
three  sisters,  one  of  whom  married  Benjamin 
Tyler,  another  married  Asa  Jones,  and  the 
third  became  the  wife  of  Kbenezer  Sperry. 
Her  children  by  Ichabod  Hitchcock  were: 
Samuel,  born  September  30,  1774,  who  died 
July  25,  1777;  Hannah,  born  April  5,  1776, 
who  died  August  3,  1777;  Hannah  (second), 
born  June  10,  1778,  who  died  February  3, 
1812;  Samuel,  born  June  2,  17S0,  who  died 
November  4,  1857;   Lyman,  born  February  21, 


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1782,  who  died  February  17,  1787:  Ransom 
A.,  bf)rn  May  15,  1784,  who  died  August  19, 
1795;  Amos,  born  November  2,  1786,  who 
died  August  9,  1873;  Reubah,  born  Novem- 
ber 2,  178S,  who  died  July  5,  179S;  Esther, 
born  October  11,  1791,  vvho  died  September 
22,  1793;  Reubah  (second),  born  May  2, 
1795;  who  died  September  25,  1799;  and 
Esther,  born  June  25,  1798,  who  died  July 
18,   1798. 

Amos  Hitchcock  married  Philenia  Felt, 
who,  born  May  3,  1790,  died  December  20, 
1872.  She  was  a  daughter  of  Eliphalet  Felt, 
who  was  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  and  Lona 
(Witherel)  Felt.  Her  brothers  and  sisters 
were:  Charles,  John,  James,  Eunice,  Warren, 
Obadiah,  Eleutheria,  and  Wells.  She  was 
the  mother  of  Henry  A.  Hitchcock,  born  in 
Claremont,  September  11,  18 15,  who  was  a 
prominent  citizen  of  Walpole,  Selectman  of 
Walpole,  represented  the  town  in  the  legislat- 
ure for  some  time,  and  was  State  Senator  for 
the  Tenth  District  in  1872  and  1873;  of 
Helen  P.,  born  January  16,  1817,  who  married 
George  Wallingford;  of  Mortimer,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  five;  of  Alexander  Vietts,  born 
November  4,  1821,  who  for  several  years  was 
the  Registrar  of  Deeds  for  Sullivan  County, 
and  for  one  year  the  Representative  of  New- 
port in  the  legislature;  and  of  Lona  Rebecca, 
who  was  the  youngest.  The  last  four  children 
were  born  in  Rockingham,  Vt. 


P.RAHAM  GATh.S  JONES,  a  well- 
known  gentleman  of  Concord,  N.H., 
formerly  engaged  in  the  printing 
business,  but  now  retired  from  active  business 
affairs,  was  born  in  the  town  of  Bow,  five 
miles  south  of  this  city,  October  21,  1827,  son 
of  Philip  and  Sarah  M.  (Gates)  Jones.  His 
paternal  ancestors  for  many  years  were  resi- 


dents of  Merrimack  County,  while  the  mater- 
nal progenitors  came  from  Massachusetts. 

Philip  Jones,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  the  son  of  Joseph  Jones,  and  was 
a  merchant  in  Hookset.  He  died  on  January 
26,  1836.  His  wife,  Sarah  M.  Gates,  was  a 
daughter  of  the  Rev.  Abraham  Gates,  a 
clergyman,  who  came  to  New  Hampshire  from 
Massachusetts,  and  after  staying  a  short  time 
in  Claremont  settled  at  Bow,  where  he  bought 
a  farm,  the  same  on  which  his  grandson  and 
namesake  was  born. 

Abraham  G.  Jones  was  left  fatherless  at  the 
early  age  of  eight  years.  In  1839  he  came  to 
Concord,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools, 
and  subsequently  the  academy,  from  which  he 
was  graduated  in  1844.  He  soon  entered  the 
service  of  Isaac  Hill  &  Sons,  editors  and  pub- 
lishers of  Hill's  Neiv  Hauipshire  Patriot,  re- 
maining in  their  employ  about  two  years. 
Thence  onward  until  1854  he  was  a  journey- 
man printer  in  various  offices.  In  that  year 
he  formed  a  partnership  with  P.  B.  Cogswell 
in  the  printing  business.  I'our  years  later 
he  sold  out  to  Mr.  Cogswell,  who,  in  1893, 
became  Mayor  of  the  city.  Mr.  Jones,  in 
1S59,  went  into  partnership  with  I'ogg  &  Mad- 
ley,  editors  and  jjublishers  of  the  Indcpciuient 
Democrat,  the  association  continuing  for  eight 
years.  From  1867  to  1870  he  was  in  business 
alone;  since  that  time  he  has  lived  retired 
from  the  arena  of  typographic  and  journalistic 
activity. 

In  politics,  Mr.  Jones  affiliates  with  the  Re- 
puijlican  party.  Officially,  he  has  served  as 
Councilman,  Alderman,  and  Road  Commis- 
sioner; anil  in  1870  and  1871  was  Mayor  of 
Concord.  During  his  administration  there 
was  a  severe  contest  over  the  question  of  the 
introduction  of  water  into  the  city,  which  was 
finally  brought  about  by  his  persistent  efforts. 

On  June    10,   1856,  Mr.    Jones   was   married 


ABRAHAM     G.    JONES. 


KUKJKAI'HICAI,    Kl';V'li;\V 


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to  Helen  A.  Ivliiiiiiiils,  i)i  Maiuliestci",  N.ll. 
'I'licy  Iku'c  Iwd  children:  Aiin:i  I'].,  wile  of 
\V.  II.  Dtiianl,  of  Coneord ;  anil  Isabel  G., 
who  is  at  home. 


(^ICRKMIAH  A.  CLOUGII,  Representa- 
tive of  Loudon  in  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  was  born  in  this  town,  No- 
vember 22,  1846,  son  of  Abncr  and  Sarah 
(Ha/.elton)  Clough.  Abncr  Clough,  the 
paternal  grandfather,  who  was  a  native  of  Can- 
teii)ury,  removed  to  Loudon,  and  settled  on  a 
farm  near  his  grandson,  residing  here  for  the 
remainder  of  his  life.  Abner  Clough,  second, 
hither  of  Jeremiah,  was  brought  up  to  farming, 
which  occupation  he  followed  through  life. 
He  settled  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  and  cultivated  it  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  1890.  He  and  his 
wife,  Sarah,  had  three  children:  Lucy,  who 
died  when  about  twenty-one  years  old;  Abial 
H.,  who  married  Abbie  Ladd,  and  died  in 
1893,  his  widow  being  now  a  resident  of  Lou- 
don; and  Jeremiah  A.  The  mother  now 
nudvcs  her  home  with  her  son  Jeremiah.  She 
is  a  member  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 
Jeremiah  A.  Clough  was  educated  in  the 
common  schools  and  at  Pittsfield  Academy. 
Remaining  with  his  parents,  he  devoted  him- 
self to  agriculture,  and  has  been  very  success- 
ful in  his  chosen  occupation.  His  farm 
consists  of  about  four  hundred  acres,  most  of 
which  is  under  cultivation.;  and  it  has  been 
much  improved  since  coming  into  his  posses- 
sion. Mr.  Clough  carries  on  general  farming 
and  stock-raising,  keeping  about  forty  to  fifty 
head  of  cattle.  Recognized  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen  as  a  well-informed,  enterprising, 
and  capable  citizen,  he  was  chosen  by  them  as 
Selectman,  in  which  office  he  served  three 
years;     County    Commissioner,    in    which    he 


served  four  years;  and  Town  'I'rcasurcr,  in 
whicli  he  served  two  years.  As  above  stated, 
he  is  now  (1897)  Representative  from  his  town 
to  the  legislature.  He  is  a  Democrat  politi- 
cally, and  has  faithfully  served  the  public  in- 
terests in  whatever  office  he  has  held.  He  is 
a  member  of  the  grange,  and  has  a  large 
acquaintance  throughout  Merrimack  County. 

In  1876  Mr.  Clough  married  Miss  Nellie 
I'everly,  of  Canterbury,  N.H.,  daughter  of 
George  I'everly,  a  present  resident  of  Loudon. 
They  have  no  children. 


C^RACIC  CHILDS,  a  pioneer  railroad 
bridge  builder  in  New  England,  is  a 
prominent  resident  of  Henniker, 
Merrimack  County,  N.  H.  He  was  born  in 
this  town,  August  10,  1807,  son  of  Solomon, 
Jr.,  and  Mary  (Long)  Childs.  He  is  a  lineal 
tiescendant  of  William  Childs  or  Child,  a 
brother  of  Ephraim  Child,  who  emigrated  from 
luigland,  and  settled  in  Watertown,  Mass.,  in 
1630.  The  family,  which  was  a  notable  one 
in  ICngland,  sustained  the  dignity  of  a  coat  of 
arms.  William  Child  was  made  a  freeman 
at  Watertown  in  1634,  and  became  a  land- 
owner there.  His  son  John  was  conspicuous 
in  the  public  affairs  of  Watertown.  He  died 
at  the  age  of  forty  years.  The  third  in  this 
line  was  John  Childs,  Jr.,  son  of  John  and 
Mary  (Warren)  Child;  and  the  fourth,  his 
son  Jonathan,  born  in  Watertown  in  1696, 
who  settleil  in  Grafton,  ALass. ,  where  he  died 
in  1787,  in  the  ninety-second  year  of  his  age. 
From  the  "Genealogy  of  the  Child,  Childs, 
and  Childe  Families,"  by  Elias  Child,  pub- 
lished in  1 88 1,  chapter  viii.,  relating  to  the 
Watertown  branch,  we  learn  that  Jonathan 
Child  married  in  1729  Abigail  Parker,  and 
had  eight  children,  the  eldest,  Josiah,  born  in 
1730,    the  youngest,    Joseph,    born    in    1753. 


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The  fifth  was  a  daughter,  Ruth,  born  in  1740, 
and  the  sixth,  Solomon,  born  January  31, 
1744.  The  same  record  of  Jonathan  Child's 
family  is  in  the  History  of  Grafton,  Mass., 
except  that  the  year  of  the  birth  of  Solomon  is 
there  given  as  1743.  The  History  of  Hen- 
niker  names  Solomon  as  the  "son  of  Josiah 
and  Ruth  Childs."  If  the  foregoing  record 
be  correct,  he  was  younger  brother  of  Josiah, 
and  Ruth  was  a  sister.  Josiah,  son  of  Jona- 
than, it  may  be  mentioned,  married  Elizabeth 
Ball  in  1755,  anil  in  1760  settled  in  Upton, 
Mass. 

Solomon  Childs,  grandfather  of  Horace,  was 
born  in  Grafton,  January  3,  1743.  He 
wedded  Martha,  daughter  of  Elijah  Rice,  of 
Westboro,  Mass.,  on  April  16,  1767,  and 
shortly  afterward  settled  in  Ilenniker,  where 
he  cleared  and  improved  the  farm  that  is  now 
occupied  by  his  grandson,  Carlos  Childs. 
He  lived  to  see  the  town  become  a  prosperous 
farming  community;  and  his  death  occurred 
February  27,   ICS27. 

His  son  Solomon,  father  of  Horace  Childs, 
was  born  in  Ilenniker  in  1781.  He  attained 
considerable  prominence  as  a  builder  in  liis 
day,  being  employed  for  some  five  years  in 
erecting  the  factories  in  Dover,  N.  H.  ;  and  he 
was  highly  respected  as  a  genial,  courteous, 
and  eminently  worthy  citizen.  He  was  ex- 
ceedingly vigorous  throughout  his  active 
period;  and  when  over  eighty  years  of  age  he 
walked  from  Manchester  to  Ilenniker,  a  dis- 
tance of  twenty-seven  miles.  Solomon  Childs, 
second,  died  October  19,  1865.  His  first  wife, 
Mary  Long,  whom  he  married  September  21, 
1806,  was  a  native  of  1  l(i|)kint()n,  N.I  I.  She 
died  in  1823.  His  secontl  wife,  Lucinda, 
daughter  of  William  and  Mary  (Heaton) 
Childs,  died  January  20,  1852.  His  first  wife 
was  the  mother  of  eleven  chiUlren  ;  and  Horace, 
tile    subject    of    this     sketch,     is     the     eldest. 


Enoch,  who  was  graduated  at  Yale  University, 
went  to  Montgomery,  Ala.,  where  he  estab- 
lished an  academy,  which  he  conducted  for  six 
years,  and  then  returned  North.  He  was  for 
some  time  in  the  government  service  in  Wash- 
ington, after  which  he  was  interested  in  rail- 
way construction  in  New  Hampshire.  He 
died  in  Ilenniker  in  1880.  Mary  Long 
Childs,  a  sister  of  Horace,  became  a  school 
teacher,  and  later  married  Asa  Whitney,  of 
Henniker.  Her  last  years  were  spent  with 
her  daughter,  Sarah  M.,  wife  of  Eugene 
Brooks,  of  Cambridgeport,  Mass.,  where  she 
died  June  i,   1896. 

Horace  Childs  remained  at  home,  and  as- 
sisted in  carrying  on  the  farm  until  he  was 
sixteen  years  old.  He  then  accompanied  his 
father  to  Great  Falls,  N.  H.,  where  he  worked 
upon  the  factories;  and  later  he  was  similarly 
employed  in  Dover.  While  working  in  the 
latter  place  his  father  decided  to  send  him 
home  to  attend  school,  and  fitting  him  out 
with  clothing  gave  him  a  dollar  to  pay  his 
stage  fare.  Young  Horace,  however,  decided 
to  walk,  and  seems  to  have  kept  on  travelling 
afoot  until  he  reachetl  Ilopkinton.  He  con- 
tinued to  follow  the  carpenter's  trade;  and 
after  reaching  his  majority  he  found  employ- 
ment in  various  places.  While  working  in 
Claremont,  N.IL,  he  was  stricken  with 
typhoid  fever,  making  it  necessary  f(n"  his 
sister  Mary  to  leave  her  school  in  Ilopkin- 
ton, in  order  to  care  for  him  during  his  ill- 
ness. After  his  recovery  he  was  persuaded  by 
her  and  his  brother  Enoch  to  attend  Hopkin- 
ton  Academy,  and  he  paid  the  expenses  of  his 
three  years'  C(jurse  by  devoting  his  leisure 
time  to  following  his  trade. 

It  was  while  thus  engaged  that  he  first  be- 
came associated  with  his  cousin,  Colonel 
Stephen  Long,  of  the  United  States  Army. 
The  Colonel  had   brought    liis    family  to    llop- 


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vn 


kinldii,  .111(1  1  liirai'c  ( 'liilds  Idiiiul  an  (i|)|ii)iUi- 
iiity  to  board  witli  his  cousin,  payinj;  his  way 
iiy  uiakinj;  some  repairs  upon  the  house.  Colo- 
nel l.on^^  had  aequired  a  jiatent  for  a  new 
l>lan  of  constructing  bridges,  and,  having  con- 
fitlence  in  his  young  kinsman's  ability,  desired 
him  to  take  charge  of  one  of  his  contracts. 
Mr.  Childs  accepted  the  proposition,  and  con- 
structed his  first  bridge  in  Haverhill,  lie 
next  took  the  contract  to  build  some  bridges 
for  the  New  Haven  &  Hartford  Railway  Com- 
p;my,  paying  Colonel  Long  a  royalty  upon  his 
patents;  anel  in  these  operations  he  made  con- 
siderable profit.  At  this  time  a  party  in 
Springfield,  Mass.,  patented  improved  plans; 
anil  in  order  to  compete  Mr.  Chi  Ids  was 
obliged  to  tiesign  one  still  better,  which  he 
succeeded  in  doing.  For  several  years  he 
was  busily  engaged  in  building  bridges  for 
railway  companies  in  New  l-lngland,  and  also 
for  the  lirie  Road  in  New  York  State,  fie 
realized  substantial  iirofits;  and  upon  one  oc- 
casion, by  a  sutldeii  fall  in  the  price  (it  iron, 
he  made  ten  thousand  dollars  outside  of  his 
contract.  He  constructed  a  railroad  bridge  at 
Manchester,  N.H.,  taking  stock  in  the  road 
as  part  pavmciit,  but  had  the  misfortune  to 
fracture  his  leg  while  filling  the  contract. 
This  accident  so  interfered  with  his  work  that 
he  decided  to  refrain  from  taking  large  con- 
tracts in  the  future,  and  from  that  time  until 
his  retirement  he  devoted  his  attention  to  work 
nearer  home.  His  last  operation  was  the 
construction  of  the  britlge  over  the  Contoocook 
River  at  Ilenniker;  and,  having  here  closed 
his  unusually  active  career  as  a  bridge 
builder,  he  settled  in  Henniker,  where  he  has 
since  resided.  He  has  taken  an  active  inter- 
est in  educational  matters,  having  assisted 
many  deserving  young  men  in  securing  the  ad- 
vantages of  higher  learning.  In  1836  he  was 
chosen  by  his  fellow-townsmen  to  arrange   for 


the  establishment  of  an  academy;  and,  as  the 
site  cho.sen  by  him  was  accepted,  he  took  the 
contract  to  erect  the  building,  and  was  f)ne  of 
the  incorporators. 

In  1831  he  united  with  the  Congregational 
church,  of  which  he  has  since  remained  a 
member,  and  for  upward  of  forty  years  has 
served  as  Deacon.  He  has  not  only  contrib- 
uted generously  toward  its  support,  but,  in 
company  with  I'ayette  Conner,  he  stood  the 
entire  e.\i)ense  of  rei)airing  the  building,  and 
made  up  a  deficiency  in  paying  for  an  organ. 
Early  in  the  fifties,  while  journeying  from 
Boston  to  Concord  upon  a  train  which  was 
also  conveying  President-elect  I-'ranklin  Pierce 
and  family,  an  accident  occurred  near  An- 
dover,  Mass.,  in  which  a  little  son  of  Mr. 
Pierce  was  killed,  and  Mr.  Childs  was  picked 
up  for  dead.  He  was  spared,  however,  and 
permitted  to  continue  the  good  work  in  the 
way  of  charity  ami  benevolence  which  has 
characterized  his  whole  life.  He  has  been  ac- 
tively i(lentifie(l  with  religious  matters  in  this 
section  for  consiilerably  UKjre  than  half  a 
century,  and  is  a  life  member  of  the  American 
Board  of  Foreign  Missions.  In  politics  he  is 
a  Republican. 

On  January  11,  1^37,  Mr.  Childs  was 
joined  in  marriage  with  Matilda  R.  Taylor, 
daughter  of  John  and  Sally  (Jones)  Taylor,  of 
Lempster.  She  is  a  descendant  of  William 
Taylor,  who  came  to  America  in  1642;  and 
her  ancestral  line  continues,  it  is  said,  through 
William  (second),  Abraham,  Deacon  Samuel, 
to  her  father's  father.  The  Taylor  family 
have  been  somewhat  noted  for  longevity.  Mrs. 
Childs's  father  died  at  ninety-two,  and  an 
uncle  at  ninety-si.\.  The  Rev.  Oliver  Swain 
Taylor,  who  died  in  Auburn,  N.Y. ,  in  Febru- 
ary, 1885,  aged  one  hundred  years  and  four 
months,  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College 
in  1809,  with  the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 


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cine.  In  November,  1815,  he  was  appointed 
to  accompany  missionaries  to  Ceylon,  but  did 
not  go.  He  was  ordained  a  minister  at  the 
age  of  sixty-three  years.  Mrs,  Cbilds  was 
carefully  educated,  being  a  pupil  in  her  girl- 
hood at  the  academy  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  then  a 
flourishing  institution  of  learning  under  the 
charge  of  Miss  Grant ;  and  for  ten  years  she 
was  engaged  in  teaching. 


OSEPH  WILKINS,  a  resident  of  Pem- 
broke and  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War, 
was  born  May  24,  1844,  son  of  Jere- 
miah Hall  and  Mary  (Thompson)  Wilkins. 
He  is  not  only  a  representative  of  an  old  New 
Hampshire  family,  but  a  lineal  descendant 
of  ancestors  who  were  first  settlers  in  this 
country.  Bray  Wilkins,  who  came  from 
Wales,  Brecknock  County,  was  a  descendant 
of  Lord  John  Wilkins,  who  belonged  to  a 
family  that  traced  their  lineage  back  to  logo 
and  had  borne  many  honorable  titles.  Lord 
John  was  a  connection  of  the  Bishop  Wilkins 
who  married  the  sister  of  the  Protector,  Oliver 
Cromwell.  Bray,  at  the  age  of  twenty,  is 
supposed  to  have  come  to  this  country  in  the 
same  ship  with  Endicott,  about  1630,  and  to 
have  first  settled  in  Dorchester,  Mass.  Before 
1659  he  bought  from  Governor  Richard  Bell- 
ingham  seven  hundred  acres  of  land  called 
Wills  Hill,  which  in  1661  was  within  Salem's 
si.x-niile  limit.  He  died  in  1702,  a  patri- 
archal land-owner,  amidst  the  farms  and  homes 
of  his  sons  and  daughters. 

The  portion  of  Bray's  son,  John  Wilkins, 
was  situated  in  Danvers,  Mass.  John,  son  of 
John,  who  was  born  about  1689,  went  with  his 
wife,  Mary  (loodale  Wilkins,  and  two  sons  to 
Marlboro,  Mass.,  in  1740.  His  eldest  son, 
Josiah  Wilkins,  married  Lois  lUish,  whose 
grandparents    settled     in    MarlboiD    in     1690. 


Of  Josiah's  five  sons,  the  third,  Jonathan,  born 
'"  17SS)  graduated  at  Harvard  College, 
studied  theology,  and  was  called  to  ]jreach  at 
the  old  -South  Parish,  Concord,  N.H.,  in 
1789.  He  married  Sarah  Hall,  whose  grand- 
father. Deacon  Joseph  Hall,  was  one  of  Con- 
cord's first  settlers.  Deacon  Hall  was  granted 
eleven  lots  in  the  lower  range  in  1725,  built 
his  house,  which  was  used  as  the  garrison  for 
many  years.  He  is  recorded  as  owning  the 
second  chaise  and  clock  in  Concord.  The 
house  was  inherited  by  his  grand-daughter, 
Sarah  Hall,  who  occupied  it  during  her  life- 
time. She  had  thirteen  children,  who  all 
grew  up  and  married. 

Jeremiah  Hall  Wilkins  at  the  early  age  of 
eighteen  left  his  home  and  settled  in  Pem- 
broke, where  he  was  engaged  in  the  grocery  and 
dry-goods  trade  for  forty  years.  Being  an 
able  and  successful  merchant,  he  acquired  con- 
siderable property.  As  a  leading  resident  he 
was  long  "identified  with  local  public  affairs, 
and  in  1820  he  represented  his  town  in  the 
legislature.  In  politics  he  was  a  Reiniblican, 
and  for  many  years  he  acted  as  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace.  He  was  very  proud  of  his  grand- 
mother, Esther  Whittemore  Hall,  whose  an- 
cestor settled  in  Charlestown  in  1642;  also 
of  Deborah  Abbot  Hall,  whose  grandfather, 
George  Abbot,  of  Andover,  was  an  ancestor 
of  his.  Mary  Thompson  Wilkins  was  a  lineal 
descendant  of  the  Poore  and  Noyes  families  of 
Old  Newbury,  Mass.,  who  settled  there  before 
1650.  She  became  the  mother  of  fourteen 
children,  of  whom  five  are  now  living.  Of 
these  Mary  I£.  Wilkins  married  Dr.  John 
Sullivan,  a  great-great-grandson  of  General 
Sullivan  of  Revolutionary  fame;  and  Harriet 
married  Dr.  Frederick  E.  Potter,  who  for  four- 
teen years  was  a  surgeon  in  the  United  States 
Navy,  and  is  now  a  successful  physician  in 
Portsmouth,  N.  H.      The  rest  are  :  Francis,  who 


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resides  in  liostnii ;   llcnry,  who  served   in  tiie 
Civil  War;  and  tlie  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Josejjh  Wilkins  was  educated  in  the  common 
sciiools  and  at  the  I'emlnuke  Academy.  lie 
started  in  life  as  a  clerk  in  a  store  in  Concord, 
tiien  went  to  .Sycamore,  III.,  where  he  resided 
for  a  year.  At  the  expiration  of  that  time  he 
enlisted  in  Company  1',  One  Hundred  and 
Thirty-second  Regiment,  Illinois  Volunteer 
Infantry,  for  service  in  the  Civil  War.  He 
served  for  five  months  in  Kentucky  and  'l"en- 
nes.see,  where  his  regiment  was  engaged  in  a 
campaign  against  the  Confederate  guerillas. 
After  his  disciiarge  from  the  army  he  went  to 
New  York  City,  where  he  learned  photography. 
I'loni  there  he  went  to  Hyde  Park,  Mass., 
whcie  he  conducted  a  studio  for  a  time. 
Then  for  a  year  he  carried  on  the  same  busi- 
ness in  Nashua,  N.  H.  In  iX/,,  he  returned 
to  Pembroke,  and  some  time  later  he  en<rafred 
in  a  mercantile  business  which  he  has  since 
carrieil  on  in  cunnection  with  iiliotography. 
lie  takes  a  laige  number  of  views  annually, 
which  find  a  ready  sale;  and  his  efforts  have 
been  attended  with  excellent  financial  results. 
He  is  also  interested  in  real  estate  to  some 
extent.  He  owns  some  valuable  property  in 
the  South,  and  is  regarded  as  one  of  the  most 
prosperous  residents  of  Pembroke  at  the  [jres- 
ont  time.  The  family  in  all  its  branches  have 
been  connected  with  the  Congregational 
church.  Mr.  Wilkins  is  a  comrade  of  Post 
Lewis  15ell,  No.  3,  (].  A.  K.,  of  Manchester, 
and  in  politics  is  a  Republican. 

On    June    23,     1897,     he    married     Lora    J. 
Emery,   of  Suncook,    N.  II. 


ALTER     SCOTT    DAVIS,    a    mill- 
owner,  manufacturer,  and    inventor, 
a  successful    business  man    of    IIo]i- 
kinton,  Merrimack  County,  NTi.,  was  born  in 


the  adjacent  town  of  Warner,  July  29,  1834,  a 
.son  of  Nathaniel  A.  and  Mary  (Cloiigh)  Davi.s, 
His  paternal  ancestry  he  traces  as  f(il!ows: 
Captain  l-'rancis  Davis,  called  "the  pioneer," 
was  born  in  Amesbury,  M:i,ss. ,  October  26, 
1723.  He  was  the  son  of  Francis,  second, 
and  Joanna  Davis,  the  former  the  son  of 
Francis,  first,  who,  it  is  saiti,  was  the  anu  of 
Philip,  the  immigrant  [irogcnitor.  I'hilip 
Davis,  when  twelve  years  old,  left  Southamp- 
ton, ICngland,  April  24,  1638,  in  the  ship 
"Confidence"  of  London,  bound  for  New  Eng- 
land. He  was  servant  to  John  IJinson,  hus- 
bandman, of  Caversham,  O.xfordshire  (or,  as 
Savage  thought,  of  William  lllslcy).  Little 
else  is  known  about  Philip  Davis,  or  Davics, 
as  the  name  is  spelled  in  the  passenger  list 
printed  in  the  New  England  Historical  and 
Genealogical  Register,  v(d.  ii.  I'rancis 
Davis,  said  to  have  been  his  son,  tfiok  the  oath 
of  allegiance  and  fidelity  at  Amesbury,  De- 
cember 20,   1677. 

Cajjtaiu  P'rancis  Davis,  the  pioneer,  mar- 
ried Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Jonathan  and  Sarah 
Ferrin,  and  had  ten  children  —  Gertrude, 
Zebulon,  Jeremiah,  Wells,  Ichabod,  F"rancis, 
IClizabeth,  Aquila,  Paine,  and  Nathan.  He 
located  in  what  is  known  as  Davisville  in  the 
town  of  Warner  among  the  earliest  settlers, 
and  may  be  said  to  have  been  the  foremost 
man  in  the  tovv.n  till  his  death.  I^rom  176S  to 
1785  his  name  was  associated  with  every  event 
of  Warner's  history,  the  church  matters,  and 
all  business  and  landed  interests.  His  ccm- 
mission  as  Captain  of  militia,  dated  1773,  was 
signed  by  John  Wentworth,  Governor.  Cap- 
tain Davis  had  three  sons  in  the  Revolution, 
two  of  them  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  He 
was  Chairman  of  the  Committee  of  Safety  in 
1775,  and  was  one  of  the  committee  which 
secured  the  incorporation  of  the  town;  and  he 
assisted  in  the  division  of   lots.      Harriman's 


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History  of  Warner  says:  "In  this  first  legis- 
lative body  chosen  by  the  people  Francis 
Davis  appears  as  the  accredited  representative 
of  the  town  of  Warner.  It  is  a  distinction 
and  honor  to  be  remembered  with  pride  by  his 
numerous  descendants."  Captain  Davis  was 
then  fifty-three  years  old.  The  legislature 
had  many  able  men  in  it,  John  Langdon  being 
Speaker,  and  Meshech  Weare,  President  of  the 
Council.  In  17S1  he  was  delegate  to  the 
Constitutional  Convention  which  framed  the 
Constitution  which,  with  slight  amendments, 
was  in  force  till  1878.  He  was  chosen  Rep- 
resentative in  1784,  serving  in  two  sessions, 
at  Concord  and  at  Portsmouth.  His  death 
occurred  on  his  way  home  from  the  latter 
place.  His  horse  plunged  into  Beaver  Brook 
at  Derry,  where  the  bridge  had  been  carried 
away;  and  he  was  drowned.  Just  one  hundred 
years  after  his  death  a  monument  was  erected 
to  his  memory  at  Davisville,  bearing  this  in- 
scription: "Captain  Francis  Davis,  the  pio- 
neer, and  Warner's  first  representative.  Born 
October  26,  1723,  died  November  26,  1784." 
This  monument  was  put  up  by  some  of  his 
great-grandchildren,  principally  by  Walter 
Scott  Davis  and  his  uncle,  Charles  Davis. 

Captain  Francis  had  five  sons,  among  whom 
was  Aquila,  born  in  Amesbury,  June  27, 
1760.  He  came  to  Warner  with  his  father, 
and  later  on  enlisted  in  the  Revolutionary 
army.  He  saw  much  hard  service,  and  was 
present  at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne.  From 
1799  to  1807  he  commanded  the  Thirtieth 
Regiment,  and  he  was  Brigadier  General  of 
the  Fourth  Brigade  from  1807  to  1809.  In 
1812  he  raised  the  first  regiment  in  New 
IIam|)shire,  and  was  chosen  its  Colonel. 
After  the  war  he  resided  at  the  okl  homestead, 
and  he  served  as  Representative  from  Warner. 
His  death  occurred  at  Sharon,  Me.,  February 
-7>   '835,  while  he  was  there  on  landed   inter- 


ests. He  was  buried  at  Davisville  with  Ma- 
sonic honors.  His  wife  was  Abigail,  daughter 
of  Theodore  and  Abigail  (Watts)  Stearns,  the 
latter  a  cousin  of  Dr.  Isaac  Watts.  The  Gen- 
eral's children  were:  Paine,  Sarah  A.,  Abigail 
W.,  Theodore  S.,  Nathaniel  A.,  Persis  H., 
Nathan,  Charles,  Aquila,  and  James. 

Nathaniel  A.  Davis  learned  the  silver- 
smith's trade,  and,  being  of  a  roving  disposi- 
tion, journeyed  extensively  in  the  United 
States,  working  in  all  the  principal  cities.  In 
1824,  after  much  time  spent  in  the  South 
especially,  he  returned  to  his  native  place  and 
engaged  in  lumbering.  At  his  father's  death 
the  mill  property  was  divided  among  the  sons, 
the  saw-mill  coming  to  Nathaniel  and  James. 
The  water-power  at  Davisville  is  a  remarkable 
one,  and  for  one  hundred  and  thirty  years  has 
been  held  by  this  family.  Among  the  early 
industries  here  were  the  saw-mill  built  by 
Captain  Francis  Davis  in  1763,  a  grist-mill  in 
1768,  a  clothing-mill  built  by  Moses  Carleton 
in  1796  and  destroyed  by  the  August  freshet 
of  1826.  At  that  time  the  iron  foundry, 
bridge,  blacksmith  shop,  and  lower  dam  were 
all  carried  away.  A  lead  grinding-mill,  a 
plaster-mill,  a  brickyard,  and  tannery,  were 
also  near  by.  Nathaniel  A.  Davis  was  of  a 
judicial  turn  of  mind,  and  becam.e  great 
authority  on  legal  questions.  He  made  a 
practical  study  of  the  State  laws,  and  was  ad- 
ministrator of  many  estates,  and  also  Justice 
of  the  Peace.  His  residence  in  the  South 
and  observance  of  the  evils  of  slavery  led  him 
to  become  a  strong  Free  Soiler.  Lincoln's 
proclamation  of  1863  he  felt  was  the  essence 
of  justice.  In  1S43  h*^  removed  to  the  old 
home  of  his  ancestors;  and  he  died  there, 
October  24,  1S66,  from  the  effects  of  a  fall. 
His  children  were:  Stephen  C,  Lucretia  A., 
Walter  Scott,  Gilman,  Lucretia  (second), 
Mary  E.,  Stillman  C. ,  and  Henry  C. 


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Walter  Scott  Davis  was  as  a  l;oy  full  of  life 
and  very  ingenious,  the  latter  quality  often 
being  a  source  of  annoyance  to  other  ])eoplc, 
owing  to  his  hoyisli  love  of  pulling  things  to 
pieces  and  making  something  new.  This, 
however,  was  the  ]iowcr  that  brought  him  suc- 
cess in  later  life.  He  was  educated  at  Con- 
toocook  High  .Scliool  and  at  Clilmanton,  Thct- 
fnrd,  Washington,  and  New  London  Acade- 
mics. While  studying  he  worked  summers, 
and  also  taught  school  a  short  time.  He  was 
a  great  lover  of  mathematics,  but  was  im])a- 
tient  of  rules  and  routine  methods.  In  1854- 
55  he  became  partner  with  Samuel  H.  Dow  in 
the  lumber  business,  continuing  thus  ten 
years.  He  invested  in  a  Lowell  tannery,  but 
business  depression  and  a  law-suit  combined 
to  nearly  ruin  him  in  i860.  In  1865  he  be- 
came partner  with  Faine  Davis;  and  in  1866 
they  built  a  large  circular  saw-mill,  which  was 
burned  in  1869,  but  at  once  rebuilt.  In  1872 
this  firm  dissolved;  and  Walter  Scott  kept  the 
mill,  and  Paine  the  farm  which  was  a  part  of 
the  firm  property.  In  1871  a  new  partner, 
George  W.  Dow,  of  Bristol,  joined  Mr.  Davis; 
and  they  bought  the  ruins  of  a  burned  paper- 
mill,  and  built  a  straw  board  mill  of  twenty- 
five  hundred  pounds'  capacity  daily.  Later  it 
was  changed  from  a  sun  drying  to  a  steam  dry 
mill.  Ill  1873  Henry  C.  Davis  and  Leston 
Rollins  were  admitted  into  the  firm,  and  the 
mill  machinery  improved,  and  its  capacity 
doubled.  In  1875  Walter  Scott  Davis  became 
sole  partner,  and  then  took  his  brother  Henry 
as  partner,  the  firm  becoming  Davis  Brothers. 
The  mill  capacity  was  now  si.x  tons  daily,  and 
all  the  rehuiltling  had  not  stopped  the  works 
at  any  time.  The  lumber  business  increased 
proportionately,  and  the  result  has  been  suc- 
cess and  wealth  for  the  firm.  Mr.  Davis  is  so 
gifted  in  inventive  powers  that  all  the  plans 
in  use   in    the  mills   are   his;    and,  as   one    in- 


stance, he  has  patented  a  most  useful  gate 
arrangement  for  the  turbine  water-wheel,  and 
also  a  machine  for  making  paper  boxes. 

He  has  held  many  offices  of  trust  in  Warner, 
has  been  Representative,  was  in  1884  elected 
State  Senator,  and  in  i8g6  was  chosen  Coun- 
cillor for  the  I'"ourth  District.  He  is  an 
acliveand  iiillucntial  member  of  many  Masonic 
bodies.  He  belongs  to  the  Swedenborgian 
church,  is  a  practical  Christian,  a  whole- 
souled,  large-hearted  man,  and  an  honored  cit- 
izen.     In  [)olitics  he  is  a  stanch    Republican. 

Mr.  Davis  was  married  May  3,  1857,  to 
Dollie  Jones,  daughter  of  Daniel  Jones.  They 
have  had  six  children,  and  also  the  most  try- 
ing sorrow  of  having  lost  four  of  these  by 
scarlet  fever.  The  children  were  named  as 
follows:  W.  S.  Bertine,  Horace  J.,  Chassie 
IL,  Nattie  A.,  Mamie  A.,  and  Charles. 
Horace  and  Mamie  are  those  now  living. 


I^TENRY    TUBBS,    a   successful    dentist 
f^l       practising   in   Newport,  was   born    in 

iy'  \ ^   Peterboro,      N.H.,     February     24, 

I  S3 1,  son  of  Joseph  and  Azuba  (Monroe) 
Tubbs.  The  family  is  traced  back  to  one 
William  Tubbs,  who  came  to  the  Plymouth 
Colony  from  London,  England,  in  1635.  The 
paternal  grandfather  of  Dr.  Tubbs  was  Captain 
Joseph  Tubbs,  of  Marlow,  N.  H.,  an  early 
settler,  a  successful  farmer,  a  good  citizen, 
and  a  Captain  in  the  old  State  militia.  He 
died  at  the  age  of  eighty  years. 

Joseph  Tubbs,  son  of  Captain  Tubbs,  in 
company  with  Thomas  Baker  owned  the  Eagle 
Mills  at  Peterboro,  N.H.,  where  he  manufact- 
ured cotton  goods,  ginghams,  etc.,  from  the 
rough  cotton.  Successful  at  first,  the  firm 
met  with  disasters  from  various  causes;  and 
the  business  was  wound  up  after  several  years 
of  existence.      Joseph  Tubbs   then    turned    his 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    KEVIEW 


attention  to  agriculture,  in  whicli  lie  continued 
occupied  until  he  died,  May  22,  1859,  at  the 
age  of  seventy  years  and  three  months.  His 
wife  was  a  daugliter  of  Dr.  Joseph  Monroe,  of 
Hillsborough.  She  died  at  Hancock,  N.H., 
January  16,  1871,  at  the  age  of  seventy-five 
years  and  eight  months.  They  were  both 
Unitarians.  They  had  si.x  children,  of  whom 
three  are  deceased,  namely :  Thomas  B. ,  who 
died  in  1894,  seventy-nine  years  old;  Elijah 
M.  Tuhbs,  who  died  in  1881,  fifty-eight  years 
old;  and  Mrs.  Sarah  W.  Merriman,  who  died 
at  the  age  of  fifty-five  years.  The  others  are: 
Mrs.  Maria  T.  Blood,  who  resides  in  Hancock, 
N.H. ;  Louisa  A.,  also  a  resident  of  Hancock; 
and  Henry, 'the  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Henry  Tubbs,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
the  youngest  of  his  parents'  children,  was  a 
student  for  a  time  in  the  private  school  of 
Dr.  Sullivan  McCollester.  His  first  business 
venture  was  as  a  clerk  in  a  country  store. 
Later  he  was  employed  in  the  dry-goods  busi- 
ness in  ]?oston  for  a  while.  In  1859  he 
entered  his  brother's  office  in  Peterboro,  and 
began  to  study  dentistry.  He  located  in 
Newp3rt  in  i860,  where  he  was  the  pioneer 
in  his  calling.  On  December  24,  1865, 
he  married  Mary  A.  Rogers,  who  was  born 
in  Sunapee.  They  have  three  children  — • 
Annie  L. ,  Chandler  T.,  and  Gerty  M. 
Annie  is  the  wife  of  Will  Chandler  White,  of 
Concord;  and  Gerty  is  at  school  at  Bradford, 
Mass.  In  politics  Dr.  Tubbs  is  Republican. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Lower  House  of  the 
State  legislature  in  1896.  A  jjrominent 
Mason,  he  belongs  to  Mount  Vernon  Lodge 
of  Newport,  the  Royal  Arch  Chapter  of  New- 
port, and  Sullivan  Commandery  at  Claremont. 
He  has  also  membership  in  Mount  Coit 
Lodge,  Knights  of  Honor.  The  Doctor's 
success  in  life  is  entirely  the  result  of  his 
own  efforts. 


/^^TkORGE  T.  ABBOTT,  a  well-known 
\  1^  I  farmer  of  Concord,  was  born  here, 
September  16,  1833,  on  the  estate 
which  was  bought  by  his  father,  Aaron,  of  the 
late  Daniel  Prince.  His  great-grandfather, 
Nathaniel  A.,  was  the  third  settler  in  that  part 
of  Concord  known  as  the  Iron  Works,  coming 
here  from  Massachusetts  in  1735,  when  the 
district  was  almost  a  wilderness  and  Indians 
were  numerous.  Nathaniel  brought  his  wife 
with  him  and  built  for  their  home  a  log  house. 
Before  his  death  he  had  cleared  considerable 
land  and  had  seen  great  changes,  as  he  lived 
to  be  a  very  (dd  man.  He  reared  a  numerous 
family,  of  whom  his  son,  Levi,  continued  to 
live  on  the  homestead  farm  until  his  death. 

Aaron  Abbott,  son  of  Levi  and  father  of 
George  T. ,  was  one  of  the  best  known  carpen- 
ters and  builders  of  this  section.  He  was  also 
engaged  in  farming.  He  learned  his  trade  at 
Limeboro,  and  many  of  the  buildings  in 
this  vicinity  were  put  up  by  him  and  his  sons. 
Aaron  Abbott  married  Nancy  Badger,  daugh- 
ter of  Jacob  Badger,  of  Concord,  and  became 
the  father  of  nine  children.  These  were:  Jo- 
seph C. ,  Ann  Mary,  Elizabeth  H.,  Sara  Jane 
Hale,  George  T. ,  Edward  M.,  Susan  E., 
Ellen  S. ,  and  Alice  Aaronette.  Joseph  C. 
was  Colonel  of  the  Seventh  New  Hampshire 
Regiment  and  afterward  United  States  Sena- 
tor from  North  Carolina.  Edward  M.,  who 
was  a  |irinter  by  trade,  went  to  Iowa  earl)'  in 
life,  where  he  died  in  1890.  Jane  Abbott, 
who  lives  in  St.  Paul,  is  the  wife  of  (ieorge 
G.  Sanborn,  formerly  of  Ilennikcr.  ICliza- 
beth  resides  in  Maiden,  Mass.,  and  is  the 
widow  of  the  late  A.  W.  Sanborn,  of  I\Tan- 
chester,  N.H.  Ann  married  Granville  P. 
Mason,  a  Captain  in  the  Seventh  New  Hamp- 
shire Regiment;  and  Ellen  S.  marriecl  Judge 
William  M.  Chase.  The  other  two  sisters  are 
unmarried  and  reside  in  Concord. 


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(icorgc  T.  Abbott,  llic  fifth  child  and  tlic 
subject  of  this  sketch,  has  been  engaged  as  a 
farmer  and  teamster  since  he  liegan  to  he  self- 
sii|i|)ortinj;.  Ilis  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Mary  1'.  Sanders,  is  a  daughter  of  Jolm 
Sanders,  of  I'.ast  Concord.  Of  the  three 
children  she  lias  lionie  her  husband,  I'lmma, 
the  elder  daughter,  married  Frank  ().  Whit- 
tier;  and  l'"rancis  U.,  the  only  son,  married 
Alice  Toof,  and  has  three  chiklren.  Mr. 
George  Abbott  is  a  prominent  Republican. 
Me  cast  his  first  vote  for  State  officers  in 
March,  1855;  and  he  has  voted  at  every  elec- 
tion since,  except  the  November  election  of 
1856.  lie  is  a  member  of  the  grange  and  an 
officer  in  that  organization.  He  attends  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  but  is  non-sec- 
tarian in  religious  matters. 


^>  '".ORGK  HENRY  STOWELL,  a 
i|  wholesale  and  retail  dealer  in  hard- 
ware and  one  of  the  wealthiest  citi- 
zens of  Claremont,  was  born  in  Cornish,  N.  H., 
October  28,  1835.  His  father,  Amasa  Stow- 
ell,  came  to  Cornish  from  Hartland,  Vt.  He 
died  when  our  subject  was  a  young  bo}'.  He 
had  ten  children,  of  whom  five  are  living, 
namely:  Evaline,  who  married  G.  W.  Hewey  ; 
Sylvester,  who  is  engaged  in  agriculture  in 
I'^ast  Unity,  N.H.;  Josejih,  who  is  in  the 
harness  and  livery  and  carriage  business  at 
Lawrence,  owns  three  livery  stables,  and  raises 
fast  stock;  Austin,  who  is  in  business  with 
Joseph;  and  George  H.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  Carrie,  who  married  Calvin  Adams, 
is  recently  deceased. 

George  H.  Stowell  received  a  common- 
school  education  in  his  native  town.  In  1854 
he  embarked  in  the  business  of  making  monu- 
ments and  headstones  at  Springfield,  Vt.  He 
came   in     1S60    to    Claremont,    where   he   pur- 


chased the  marble  business  of  J.  A.  &  J.  !•'. 
Uavis.  This  he  conducted  until  February, 
1S64,  when  he  bought  the  hardware  business 
of  Levi  Hrown,  and  began  to  carry  it  on  in  his 
own  name  on  the  site  of  his  present  store. 
.Starting  with  a  small  capital,  he  has  by  energy 
and  ability  built  up  what  is  claimed  to  be  the 
largest  wholesale  and  retail  business  in  this 
part  of  the  .State,  and  amassed  one  of  the 
largest  fortunes  in  the  town.  In  his  st(jre, 
which  is  spacious  and  well-ordered,  he  carries 
the  largest  stock  to  be  found  in  the  county. 
He  has  a  very  large  trade  with  stores  in  -ad- 
joining counties.  Also  conducting  an  exten- 
sive coal  business,  he  has  been  agent  for  the 
Delaware  &  Hudson  Coal  Company  in  this 
locality  for  ten  years.  He  has  been  instru- 
mental in  giving  Claremont  some  of  her  best 
business  blocks  and  buildings.  He  erected 
"Stowell's  ]?lock  in  the  rear  of  his  own  estab- 
lishment; is  part  owner  of  the  Union  Block, 
one  of  the  imposing  business  structures  of  the 
town,  erected  in  i88g;  and  he  has  built  si.x  or 
seven  fine  residences  here.  His  own  private 
residence  is  one  of  the  most  attractive  in  the 
town.  l''inancially  interested  in  the  People's 
National  ]?ank,  he  has  been  a  Director  of  it 
and  the  Vice-President  since  it  was  organized. 
He  has  been  honored  with  town  and  State 
offices,  all  of  which  he  has  tilled  with  credit 
to  himself  and  constituents.  He  was  the 
Claremont  legislative  Representative  in  i  S72 
and  1873;  a  member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Senate  in  1875  and  1876;  a  member  of  the 
E.xecutive  Council  from  1881  to  1883;  and 
Aide  to  Governor  Prescott,  with  the  rank  of 
Colonel,  from  1887  to  1889.  In  1876  and 
again  in  1889  he  was  a  member  of  the  conven- 
tions for  the  revision  and  amendment  of  the 
State  Constitution,  and  he  was  a  delegate  to 
the  Republican  National  Convention  to  nomi- 
nate candidates  for  the  Presidency  and  Vice- 


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Presidency  in  1S84.  He  was  Chief  Engineer 
of  the  Fire  Department  of  Claremont  from 
1873  to  1894.  Mr.  Stovvell  is  a  Mason,  and 
for  fifteen  years  was  Generalissimo  of  the  Siil- 
1  i  va  n  Com  m  a  n  d  e  ry . 

Mr.  Stowell  married  .Sarah  E.  Field,  of 
\'ermont.  They  have  a  daughter,  Cora  E. , 
who,  after  graduating  from  .Stevens  High 
School,  went  to  Boston  to  take  the  elocutionary 
course  of  two  years  at  the  New  England  Con- 
servatory of  Music.  She  married  George  I. 
Putnam,  a  graduate  of  West  Point  and  now  the 
editor  of  the  Advocate,  a  leading  Claremont 
newspaper.  In  1880,  overta.\ed  by  his  multi- 
farious duties,  Mr.  Stowel.l  spent  some  time 
in  European  travel  for  the  benefit  of  his 
health.  Whether  considered  in  the  light  of  a 
citizen  or  a  business  man,  he  is  recognized  as 
an  indispensable  factor  in  the  progress  of  the 
town;  and  for  thirty-five  years  he  has  been  one 
of  the  leading  spirits  in  its  histor)'. 


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'\NIEL  G.  PI-:ASLEE,  a  farmer 
and  himberman  of  Bradford,  resid- 
ing about  three  miles  west  of  the 
village,  was  born  April  4,  1841,  in  Newbury, 
Merrimack  County.  His  father,  Jonathan 
Peaslee,  a  native  of  Newbury,  was  a  son  of 
Samuel  Peaslee,  one  of  the  pioneers  of  the 
town.  Further  mention  of  the  Peaslee  family 
may  be  found  in  the  biography  of  J.  Albert 
Peaslee. 

Jonathan  Peaslee,  who  was  reared  t"  farm- 
ing, became  a  tiller  of  the  soil  from  choice. 
When  ready  to  settle  in  life,  he  bought  a  tract 
of  land  lying  on  the  Bradford  and  Newbury 
line,  and  built  his  house  near  the  present  resi- 
dence of  Hollis  L.  Blood.  He  also  built  an 
upright  saw-mill,  in  which  he  manufactured  a 
large  part  of  the  timber  cut  from  his  land  into 
lumber.      Lumbering  and   farming  formed   his 


chief  occupation  until  his  demise  at  the  age  of 
seventy-six  years.  His  first  wife,  Mary  Gil- 
lingham  Peaslee,  a  daughter  of  James  and  Bet- 
sey (Lane)  Gillingham,  and  a  sister  of  both 
Mrs.  Jack  Packard,  of  Concord,  and  Moody 
Gillingham,  died  at  the  age  of  forty-nine 
years.  Of  her  children  two  died  in  infancy. 
The  others  were:  Laurel  G.,  of  Newbury; 
Jefferson  G.,  of  Bradford;  Joel,  who  died  in 
infancy;  ICllis  A.,  now  the  wife  of  Isaac  San- 
born, of  Dunbarton ;  Marion,  who  died  in 
childhood;  Daniel  G.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  Alburton,  who  remained  on  the  home 
farm,  never  married,  and  died  in  1893; 
P^anny,  the  wife  of  Charles  A.  Bailey,  of  Bel- 
voir,  Kan.  ;  and  Webster,  now  deceased,  who 
was  a  farmer  in  Newbury.  Jonathan  Peaslee 
married  for  his  second  wife  Abigail  Putney, 
of  Bradford,  and  had  three  children,  namely: 
Frank,  now  residing  in  Bradford  village; 
Fred,  also  of  Bradford  village;  and  George 
H.,  a  conductor  on  the  northern  line  of  the 
Boston  &  Maine  Railroad. 

Daniel  G.  Peaslee  remained  with  his  father 
until  about  si.xteen.  Then  he  went  to  his 
brother  Laurel  in  Newbury,  and  was  in  his 
employment  for  two  years.  P'rom  Newbury 
he  returned  to  the  old  homestead,  and  remained 
there  until  his  marriage.  Next  year  he 
rented  a  farm.  During  the  ensuing  three 
years  he  carried  on  the  farm  of  his  father-in- 
law,  Mr.  Ayer.  In  1867  he  and  his  brother 
Alburton  jjurchased  his  present  homestead. 
At  that  time  less  than  an  acre  of  the  land  was 
cleared  ;  and  on  it  was  an  old,  worn-out  up- 
right saw-mill.  lie  repaired  the  mill  and  en- 
gaged in  lumbering.  In  the  course  of  time 
a  large  business  in  custom  sawing  compelled 
him  to  run  the  mil!  night  and  day.  The  part- 
nership with  his  brother  continued  for  ten  or 
twelve  years.  -Since  that  time  Mr.  Peaslee 
has  conducted  the  business  alone.      His  farm, 


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which  is  nnw  well -impifjvcil,  contains  seventy- 
fivij  acres,  ami  has  excellent  Iniildinf^s.  The 
mill  has  a  new  wheel  and  shiiifjle  machine. 
I  lis  iithcr  |)i"(i|)erty  includes  a  valn;d)le  tract 
of  wood  and  pasture  land,  measuring  two  hun- 
dred and  thirty  acres.  He  has  put  up  some 
Iniildings  hy  contract.  in  his  mill  lu-  makes 
a  specialty  of  ash  lumher,  which  he  markets 
in  Manchester,  H(3ston,  and  other  cities,  mak- 
inj,^  yearly  sales  often  amounting  to  fifteen 
hundred  dollars.  He  also  cuts  a  good  deal  of 
wood,  some  years  from  four  huiidicd  to  five 
hundred  cords.  I'rom  three  to  six  men  are 
employed  by  him. 

In  iNVj^,  March  13,  Mr.  Peaslee  married 
/eroida  Ayer,  a  daughter  of  Benjamin  Ayer, 
of  Newbury.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Peaslee  have  two 
children,  namelj':  Minnie  H.,  who  has  taught 
scho:>l  at  Meh'in's  Mills  for  the  past  nine 
terms;  antl  iMiiily  A.,  a  dressmaker,  living  at 
home. 

Ill  politics  Mr.  I'easlee  is  a  straightforward 
Democrat,  and  he  has  served  with  credit  to 
himself  and  his  constituents  in  many  of  the 
town  offices.  In  1876  and  1877  he  was  Select- 
man ;  and  in  iSSi  and  iSSj  he  represented 
Bradford  in  the  State  legislature,  serving  on 
the  Agricultural  Committee.  In  1S82  he  was 
elected  Selectman  for  two  years.  He  declined 
niiniination  for  the  next  and  succeeding  terms 
until  1888,  when  he  was  elected  for  three 
years.  In  this  term  the  town's  bonded  debt 
of  nine  thousand  two  hundred  ilollars  was 
cleared,  and  a  surplus  of  eight  hundred  and 
fifty  didlars  was  left  in  its  treasury.  Though 
repeatedly  urged  to  accejit  the  same  office 
since,  Mr.  Peaslee  has  persistently  declined. 
On  the  adoption  of  the  new  school  laws  he 
was  chosen  to  fill  a  vacancy  for  an  unexpired 
term,  and  at  the  end  of  two  years  he  was  re- 
elected for  three  years.  Mr.  Peaslee  has  been 
Justice  of  the  Peace  for  about  seven  years. 


US1;A  liALLOU  CARTJ-:k,  .son  of 
.Susan  Shannon  (Merrick)  Carter  and 
Tappan  Sargent  Carter,  was  born 
at  Kast  Hamp.stcad,  Rockingham  County, 
NT!.,  on  September  5,  1834.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  Hanipstead  and 
at  Atkinson  Academy,  where  he  was  a  class- 
mate of  General  William  Cogswell,  of  I'rad- 
foril,  Mass.,  and  later  of  Salem,  Mass. 

The  intrinsic  inwardness  of  modern  politi- 
cal and  legislative  contests  has  drawn  to  the 
service  of  political  managers  and  corporate 
magnates  the  sagacity,  shrewdness,  anrl  fidel- 
ity of  a  i^eculiar  class  of  men,  not  infrequently 
found  in  New  ICngland,  especially  in  New 
Hampshire,  who, 'being  of  humble  or  obscure 
origin,  finding  themselves  unable  to  demon- 
strate or  promulgate  their  ideas,  inventions, 
and  schemes  (not  possessing  the  capital  re- 
quired therefor),  enter  the  line  of  service  in- 
dicated for  the  twofold  purpose  of  compensa- 
tion and  education.    " 

The  subject  of  this  sketch,  born  and  reared 
among  the  granite  hills  of  New  Hampshire, 
is  an  exponent  of  what  an  uncultured  buccdic 
lad  from  the  backwoods  may  accomplish 
when  sustained  by  an  equitable  supply  of  sand 
tempered  with  ironic  silence  and  common- 
place courtesy.  At  the  age  of  ten  years  he 
had  learned  the  tratle  of  shoemaking  to  aid  his 
father  in  furnishing  the  meagre  comforts  of 
the  humble  home  of  that  industrious  New 
England  mechanic,  who  has  for  more  than 
threescore  years  daily  continued  to  toil  at  llie 
workbench,  and  who  now,  at  the  ripened  age 
of  eighty-three  years,  may  be  found  at  the 
shoe  bench  for  eight  hours  each  day,  which  he 
recognizes  as  the  proper  hours  for  work-day 
for  willing  labor. 

"  Hozee,"  as  he  is  familiarly  known  through- 
out New  Hampshire,  leaving  the  family  fire- 
side in  1849,  began  the  battle  of  life  first  as 


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a  tin  peddler,  next  as  a  speculator  in  patent 
rigl'.ts  and  patented  novelties,  and  later  on  as 
an  encyclopaedia  canvasser.  The  milestones 
marking  his  course  and  route  from  the  shoe 
bench  at  Hampstead  to  the  State  House  at 
Concord  are  many  and  interesting.  In  fact, 
his  career  marks  an  epoch  in  the  political  his- 
tory of  the  State. 

He  was  located  in  Bost;)n  in  1858-59  and 
i860,  engaged  in  the  sale  of  an  extensive  line 
of  popular  patented  novelties,  through  a  band 
cf  travelling  salesmen  (then  known  as  "street 
fakirs'"),  shrewd  youngsters,  to  whom  he  had 
taught  the  practical  science  of  street-corner 
demonstration  of  "chin-and-hand  "  commerce, 
whereby  credulous  spectators  were  induced  to 
insist  upon  the  immediate  exchange  of  the 
novelties  exhibited  for  the  current  "coin  of 
the  realm."  When  the  war  of  the  Rebellion 
came,  in  1861,  these  young  salesmen  were 
among  the  first  men  in  Boston  to  volunteer 
their  service  in  defence  of  the  national  honor. 

Mr.  Carter  then  became  a  private  detective, 
which  calling  he  followed  until  1866,  receiv- 
ing from  the  start  eminent  patronage,  and  en- 
rolling among  his  somewhat  remarkable  clien- 
tage many  officials  of  high  rank  in  the  service 
of  the  Federal  government,  among  which  we 
find  the  name  of  Abraham  Lincoln.  He  was 
at  the  (so-called)  I^eace  Conference  of  Colo- 
rado Jewett  and  Horace  Greeley  at  the  Clifton 
House,  Niagara  Falls,  in  1864,  and  continued 
shadowing  Confederate  leaders  at  Hamilton, 
Toronto,  St.  Johns,  Quebec,  and  Montreal, 
during  that  iiistoric  fall  and  winter  of  1864-65, 
covering  that  period  when  the  famous  "Rebel 
raid"  upon  the  banks  at  .St.  Albans,  Vt. ,  was 
perpetrated;  and  he  was  on  duty  constantly 
during  that  peculiar  trial  (by  a  Canadian  court 
at  Montreal)  of  the  Confederate  Colonel  Ben- 
nettc  H.  Young  and  his  inf.imous  band  cf 
Confederate  highwaymen.      He  also  witnessed 


the  discharge  of  the  entire  band  by  that  same 
Canadian  court,  which  also  returned  to  Colo- 
nel Young  and  his  band  the  funds  taken  from 
the  banks  at  St.  Albans. 

Returning  to  Washington  in  June,  1865, 
Mr.  Carter  testified  as  witness  for  the  United 
States  in  the  trial  of  Mrs.  Surratt  and  the 
assassination  conspirators,  after  which  he  re- 
turned to  his  New  Hampshire  home,  where  he 
received  an  appointment  as  Postmaster  of  his 
native  village.  But  the  next  year,  becoming 
restless  through  the  Puritanic  restraint  of  that 
quiet  borough,  he  accepted  a  position  as  com- 
mercial traveller  at  a  liberal  salary;  and  for  a 
quarter-century  he  followed  the  fortunes  of  a 
commercial  tourist,  covering  New  Hampshire, 
Maine,  Massachusetts,  and  Vermont.  He  rep- 
resented New  Hampshire  from  1876  to  18S0 
as  Commissioner  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road upon  the  Interstate  Board  with  the 
Hon.  James  G.  Blaine,  of  Augusta,  Me. 

Visiting  every  town  in  New  Hampshire  at 
all  seasons  of  the  year,  and  having  personal, 
political,  and  commercial  association  with 
prominent  men  of  each  county,  it  was  possible 
for  him  to  perform  valuable  service  for  his 
patrons  in  legislative  proceedings  and  other 
matters.  The  varied  experience  he  acquired 
by  constant  attendance  upon  more  than  twenty 
consecutive  sessions  of  the  legislature  of  the 
State  matle  him  an  available  expert  wiiere- 
v.itli  in  I  S90  His  PZxcellency  Governor  Goodell 
and  the  Honorable  Coimcil  could  fill  a  vacancy 
caused  by  the  decease  of  the  Secretary  of 
State,  to  which  position  they  by  unanimous 
vote  elected  Mr.  Carter  —  namely,  official 
editor  of  the  State  Manual  for  the  General 
Court,  a  duty  previously  performed  by  the  late 
Secretary  of  Slate.      * 

The  works  of  his  head  and  hand  abound. 
A  complete  "blue  book,"  covering  the  official 
succession  of   New    Hampshire   for   more   than 


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two  centuries  (1680  to  i.Sgi),  published  by 
the  State,  attests  liis  superiority  as  an  editor, 
collator,  ctjiiijiiler,  and  statistician.  "The 
'I'uwn  and  C.\ly  y\tlas  of  New  1  ianipsliire, " 
puhlislicd  in  I  .S9J,  which  contains  more  than 
six  hnndrc<l  distinct  maps,  showin<;  location 
of  counties,  townships,  and  city  wards,  also 
inDtnitains,  l,d<cs,  rivers,  streams,  railways, 
jiost-roads,  hij^liways,  with  city  and  vi liaise 
streets,  also  the  precise  location  of  ])ul)lic 
hniidin,i;'s,  manufactories,  hotels,  private  resi- 
dences, etc.,  <;ave  in  detail  llie  names  of 
owners  i:r  occupants  thereof,  'i'his  compre- 
hensive wor]<,  edited  by  Mr.  Carter,  is  ]ier- 
h.i]is  the  most  complete  publication  of  Ljeo- 
j^raphical  and  statistical  information  ever 
issued  in  America,  indorsed  by  official  and 
cducaiional  patrons  tliroughout  tlie  .State. 

"The  Grand  Souvenir  Album  of  Imminent 
New  Hampshire  Men  "  contains  four  hundred 
and  eight  biograph, ical  sketches  and  half-tone 
pi  ite  |)ortraits  of  eacli  of  those  ]ironiinent  and 
illustrious  sons  of  the  Granite  State.  This 
work,  published  in  1893,  does  bis  talent 
credit. 

His  ICxcellenc)'  Governor  John  15.  .Smith, 
in  his  message  to  the  legislatiu'e  of  1893,  ad- 
vised the  recognition  of  the  interests  of  wage- 
earning  laljor;  and  in  compliance  therewith  a 
Bureau  of  Labor  was  created,  of  which  Mr. 
Carter  was  made  chief  clerk.  He  continued 
in  that  service  until  May,  1896,  when  he  was 
|iro;iioted  to  the  position  of  Deputy  Commis- 
sioner, in  cliarge  of  the  Labor  Hureau  office  at 
the  State  House,  Concord. 

In  politics  he  would  in  modern  parlance  be 
termed  "a  middle-of-the-road  Republican,"  as 
he  had  the  distinction  of  "rapid  transit"  in 
true  amateur  statesmanship,  having  served 
with  the  Free  .Soil  pioneer  guartl  of  the  Re- 
publicans of  the  "  Fremont-and-fried-dog" 
camjiaign   of    iS5f,    and    continuously    there- 


after until  the  Republican  .State  Convention 
of  New  Hampshire  in  1884,  at  which  he 
served  as  Chairman  of  the  Committee  u|)(mi 
Credentials.  \'et  the  very  ne.xt  day  he  was 
made  Chairman  of  Committee  on  Credentials 
at  the  Democratic  State  Convention  of  New 
Hampshire,  as  a  "Clevelantl  and  reform"  con- 
vert. Now,  in  the  "free-silver-craze"  cam- 
paign of  1896,  he  has  had  his  pr.litical 
luggage  transferred  across  the  gulf  to  the  Mc- 
Kinley  reservation,  as  he  cannot  fully  com- 
prehend that  financial  scheme  requiring  the 
flying  of  a  " twin-t.iiled  "  kite  for  the  relief 
of  that  class  of  debtors  who  absolutely  refuse 
to  labor,  yet  do  insist  upon  a  "free-lunch  "ad- 
ministration of  every  branch  of  the  Federal 
government. 

On  September  19,  1854,  Mr.  Carter  mar- 
ried Catharine  Elizabeth  Martin,  of  the  town 
of  Dickinson,  St.  Lawrence  County.  N.  Y. 
They  have  two  children,  namely:  Nettie 
Belle,  wife  of  Jolin  !•".  McCollister,  now  of 
Bradford,  Mass.;  and  Susie  Isabelle,  wife 
of  Joseph  G.  Nor?Tian,  residing  at  the 
Carter  homestead,  Hampstead,  Rockingham 
Countv,    N.  1 1. 


/3)l()RGI-;  H.  11AIXI;.S,  a  well-known 
\  p  I  resident  of  Chichester,  Merrimack 
County,  N.  H.,  for  quite  a  number 
of  years  engaged  as  a  carriage  and  sleigh  nian- 
ufactiircr,  also  as  an  extensive  lumber  dealer, 
now  partially  retired  from  his  former  activi- 
ties, was  born  in  this  town,  January  27,  1845, 
son  of  George  P.  and  Sarah  F.  (Towle) 
Haines. 

The  family  is  cf  Colonial  origin ;  and  the 
first  ancestor  of  whom  there  is  any  exact 
knowledge  was  Robert  Haines,  who  settled  in 
Falmouth,  Me.,  and  remained  there  eight  or 
nine  years,    or   until   the   Indian    outbreak    in 


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1688.  He  married  Rachel  Davis,  who  was 
born  in  Falmouth  in  1663,  daughter  of  Law- 
rence Davis.  His  son  Thomas  was  a  member 
of  Captain  Gilmore's  company,  which  pursued 
the  Indians  after  they  had  murdered  Colonel 
Hilton  at  Exeter,  N.H.,  on  June  23,  1710. 
He  served  at  Fort  William  and  Mary,  New 
Castle,  N.H.,  in  1708,  and  was  Captain  of  a 
scouting  expedition  in  1723.  He  was  a 
weaver,  and  is  known  to  have  been  following 
his  trade  at  Hampton,  N.  H.,  in  1733.  His 
first  wife,  whom  he  married  January  7,  171 2, 
was  Abigail  Philbrick,  born  in  1692.  She 
died  January  26,  17 16;  and  he  married  for  his 
second  wife  Abigail  Cole.  Thomas  Haines 
was  the  father  of  seven  children;  and  his  son, 
Thomas,  Jr.,  born  October  7,  1726,  was  a 
resident  of  LLimpton  in  1776.  Malachi 
Haines,  Jr.,  son  of  Malachi,  Sr.,  and  grand- 
son of  Thomas  Haines,  Jr.,  was  a  prosperous 
farmer  in  Chichester  throughout  the  active 
period  of  his  life,  and  he  died  in  this  town. 
By  his  union  with  Sally  Fife,  his  first  wife, 
who  was  a  native  of  Pembroke,  N.H.,  he  had 
two  sons;  and  by  his  second  wife  also,  Mrs. 
Sarah  Pevcrly,  ncc  Sherburne,  a  native  of 
Canterbury,  N.H.,  he  had  two  children, 
George  P.,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
being  the  elder. 

George  P.  Haines  was  bora  in  Chichester. 
When  a  ycung  man  he  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits,  and  carried  (m  business  for  some 
time  in  Concord,  N.  H.  He  later  became  pro- 
[irietor  of  a  general  store  and  Postmaster  in 
his  native  town,  and  was  a  leacjing  merchant 
here  for  fifty  years.  He  was  also  a  shoe  man- 
ufacturer for  several  years;  and  he  was  the 
first  to  manufacture  friction  matches  in  this 
locality,  being  actively  interested  in  that  busi- 
ness for  many  years.  He  was  originally  a 
Whig,  but  later  voted  with  the  Republican 
party,    and    served    for  a   number  of  years   as 


Town  Clerk.  His  wife,  Sarah  F.  Towle,  was 
born  in  Chichester,  daughter  of  Jonathan 
Towle.  They  reared  si.x  children,  five  of 
whom  are  living,  namely:  Sarah  J.;  George 
H.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Annie  M.;- 
Albert  H.;  and  Alvin  M.  Annie  M.  Haines 
is  the  widow  cf  John  B.  Currier,  late  of  Bos- 
ton, Mass.,  and  has  one  daughter,  Josephine 
Haines  Currier.  Alvin  ]\L  married  Jennie 
Greenley,  of  Ha\x'rhill,  Mass.,  and  has  one 
daughter,  Sarah  C.  Greenley.  John  P. 
Haines,  eldest  son  of  George  P.,  enlisted 
as  a  private  in  the  First  Regiment,  New  ■ 
Hampshire  Volunteers,  and  later  re-enlisted 
in  the  Thirteenth  Regiment.  He  was  mus- 
tered out  as  a  Lieutenant  at  the  close  of  the 
war,  and  died  at  his  home  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  from  the  effects  of  disease  contracted 
while  in  the  service.  He  married  Nellie 
Leighton,  of  l-'armington,  N.H.,  and  left 
three  children:  Ignatius,  a  graduate  of  the 
Harvard  University  Medical  School;  Bea- 
trice; and  Brenda,  a  student  at  Radcliffe  Col- 
lege, class  of  I  goo.  George  P.  Haines  passed 
his  last  days  in  Chichester,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-six  on  January  14,  18S8.  His 
wife  survived  him  nine  years,  residing  at  the 
homestead  in  this  town,  where  she  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-six,  March  28,  1897.  She  was 
a  member  of  the  Baptist  church,  of  which  her 
husband  v^fas  an  attendant. 

George  H,  Haines  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town;  and  when  his 
studies  were  com[i]cted  he  went  to  Boston, 
where  he  was  employed  for  two  years.  He 
then  enlisted  in  the  First  New  Hampshire 
Heavy  Artillery,  and  served  with  his  regiment 
as  a  non-commissioned  officer  until  mustered 
out  at  the  close  of  the  war,  when  he  once  more 
took  up  his  residence  in  Boston.  In  1867  he 
returned  to  Chichester,  and,  establishing  him- 
self    in     the     manufacture     of     carriages    and 


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siciylis,  he  coiiliiuicil  ill  thai  Ijusiiicss  quitcj 
L'xtL'iisivcly  until  1S.S9,  being  also  engaged  in 
the  lumber  trade.  Since  1889,  on  account  of 
failing  health,  he  has  retired  fi'oni  manufact- 
uring. 

On  November  13,  1876,  Mr.  llaines  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mary  !''.  .Sanborn, 
daughter  of  Deacon  Jacob  S.  and  Elvira 
(Lcavitt)  Sanborn,  of  Chichester.  Mrs. 
llaines  has  two  brothers  and  two  sisters, 
namely:  Jacintha  M.,  of  Manchester,  who 
married  Edward  Langmaid;  I-lllen  A.,  who 
married  Charles  A.  Langmaitl ;  Jeremy  I.., 
who  mariieil  Emma  Cofran,  of  Pembroke;  and 
Augustus  E.,  who  married  Bertha  W.  Ed- 
munds. One  son,  George  Smith,  horn  to  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Haines  in   1877,  dietl  in  infancy. 

In  politics  Mr.  Haines  is  a  Republican. 
He  has  served  in  town  offices  and  many  years 
as  Justice  of  the  I'eace.  In  1S69  he  united 
with  the  Methodist  I^piscopal  Church  of  Chi- 
chester, and  luitil  the  present  time  has  been 
an  official  member  of  the  same.  Much  inter- 
ested in  the  New  Hampshire  .State  militia,  he 
was  actively  engaged  in  maintaining  one  of 
the  first  companies  raised  after  the  war,  the 
Merrimack  Guards,  and  served  as  Eieutenant 
and  as  Commander  until  compelled  to  resign 
on  account  of  ill  health. 

He  is  a  comrade  of  George  H.  Hoyt  I'ust, 
No.  66,  G.  A.  R.,  of  Epsom,  N.H.  Mr. 
Haines  is  a  man  of  excellent  business  ability, 
and  is  one  of  the  most  esteemed  and  iuHu- 
ential   residents  of  Chichester. 


<^«*» — 


kORMAN  A.  DEMING,  a  leading 
farmer  of  Cornish,  Sullivan  County, 
N.  H. ,  is  a  native  of  the  town.  He 
was  born  July  iS,  1824,  son  of  Harvey 
and  Eunice  (Ford)  Deming.  His  paternal 
grandfather,     Ebenezer      Ueming,      came     to 


this  State  from  Connecticut.  He  was  a 
school  teacher  of  great  success,  and  taught  for 
forty-six  consecutive  winters.  Harvey  Dem- 
ing, son  of  libenezer,  was  jjorn  at  Cornish, 
December  6,  1769.  He  owned  a  farm  of  four 
hundred  acres,  and  carried  on  farming  on  an 
extensive  scale,  raising  a  large  amount  of 
stock,  and  producing  great  quantities  of  hay 
and  grain.  In  jiolitics  he  was  a  strong  Dem- 
ocrat and  in  religious  views  a  Hajjtist,  and  he 
was  one  of  the  Deacons  of  the  church.  He 
died  in  February,  1835.  1^'s  vvifc,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Eunice  Ford,  bore  the  follow- 
ing children:  John  Milton,  born  October  27, 
1799;  Judah  Solon,  born  March  10,  1801  ; 
ICliza  ICmily,  born  February  19,  1803;  Harvey 
Ford,  born  June  17,  1809;  Stephen  Bial,  born 
November  3,  1812;  Daniel  Philander,  born 
May  3,  18 16;  ICunice  Jane,  born  July  22, 
1818;  and  Norman  A.,  the  youngest. 

John  Milton  Deming,  the  eldest  son,  re- 
ceived his  education  in  the  public  schools  of 
the  town  of  Cornish.  He  became  a  farmer, 
and  married  Charlotte  Huggins,  and  had  five 
children,  four  of  whom — ^  Harvey  F.,  John, 
P'mily,  and  Alvery  O.  — are  living.  Judah 
-Solon  became  an  extensive  farmer,  and  for 
miles  around  was  noted  for  his  piety.  He 
married  Matilda  Jackson,  who  bore  him  four 
children  —  M.  J.  Deming,  Elizabeth,  Bell, 
and  Susan.  Harvey  Ford  was  educated  in  the 
town  schools,  and  then  became  a  school 
teacher.  Afterward  he  attended  the  medical 
college  at  Castleton,  Vt.,  and  upon  graduat- 
ing settled  for  practice  in  Maine.  He  mar- 
ried Mary  Lord,  of  PZllsworth,  ;\Ie.,  and  was 
the  father  of  two  children  —  Harvey  and 
Mary,  the  former  of  whom  was  killed  in  the 
Unitetl  States  service  while  fighting  the  Ind- 
ians, and  the  latter  is  now  Mrs.  Hollis 
Black,  of  Maine.  Stephen  Bial  Deming, 
who   also   is    a    farmer,    married   Nancy    Ann 


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Fisher,  and  had  eight  chikhx'n:  Frank; 
Henry;  Charles;  Laura;  Eunice;  Nancy;  a 
child  that  died  in  infancy;  and  Stephen,  who 
died  in  1886.  Daniel  Philander  Deniing,  wiio 
was  educated  in  the  schools  of  Cornish  and  of 
New  London,  N.H.,  became  a  clergyman  of 
the  Baptist  denomination,  and  was  twice  mar- 
ried. His  first  wife,  formerly  a  Miss  Clough, 
bore  him  two  children.  His  second  wife, 
Abbie  Hardy,  had  one  child,  Carrie,  who  is 
now  married,  and  lives  with  her  widowed 
mother  at  Holyoke,  Mass.  Eunice  Jane  be- 
came the  wife  of  Wesson  Newccmb,  and  the 
mother  of  Fred  W.  and  H.  C.  Newcomb. 
She  died  April  18,   1879. 

Norman  A.  Deming  when  a  lad  was  sent 
to  the  schools  of  his  native  town,  and  also  to 
New  Hampton.  He  started  in  life  for  himself 
as  a  farmer,  and  now  owns  four  hundred  acres, 
and  is  engaged  in  dairy  farming.  He  raises 
large  crops  of  hay  and  grain  and  many  cattle. 
He  has  been  very  prominent  in  the  public 
affairs  of  the  town,  and  takes  a  deep  interest 
in  all  questions  touching  the  general  welfare; 
has  been  Selectman  for  nine  years;  and  has 
served  a  term  as  Collector  of  Ta.\es.  As  was 
his  father,  Mr.  Deming  is  a  strong  Baptist. 
He  is  also  a  stanch  Republican.  He  has 
been  twice  married.  ]5y  his  first  wife,  who 
was  in  maideniiood  Lucy  Ann  Bartlett,  he  had 
five  children  —  Herbert,  Almina,  Jennie, 
Harvey,  and  Mattie —  of  whom  Herbert  and 
Almina  are  the  only  ones  now  living.  Mr. 
Deming's  second  wife,  Calista  Flower  Dem- 
ing, has  borne  him  three  children  —  Victor, 
1  larvey,  and  Hugh. 

Mr.  Deming's  son  Herbert  was  born  in 
Cornish,  and  was  sent  to  school  in  that  town 
and  at  Meriden,  this  State.  After  completing 
his  education,  he  taught  school  at  Cornish, 
at  Hartland,  Vt. ,  ami  at  Claremont,  N.IL; 
and  for  three  years  he  was  in   California.      He 


is  now  a  prosperous  farmer,  is  Trustee  for  sev- 
eral large  estates,  and  has  Ijeen  on  the  School 
Board  for  several  years.  He  is  a  man  univer- 
sally respected,  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  and  possessor  of  a  host  of 
friends.  He  married  Nellie  Hilliard,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  L.  and  Mary  Hilliard,  and  has 
four  ciiildren  —  Claude  and  Clytle  (twins), 
Hubert,  and  Jesse.  Jennie  Deming  became 
a  school  teacher,  and  subsequently  married 
Dr.  O.  Terry,  of  Bethel,  Vt.  Both  she  and 
her  husband  are  now  deceased.  They  left 
one  daughter,  Nellie  li.,  who  married  James 
A.  Graham,  of  Barre,  Vt.,  and  has  one  child, 
Harry  J.  Almina  Deming  married  James 
Fitch,  and  has  two  children  —  Chester  and 
Maurice.  Victor,  Mr.  Deming's  eldest 
son  by  his  second  wife,  married  Mary  Bishop, 
and  has  one  little  girl.  He  has  taught 
school,  and  is  now  in  the  railroad  station  at 
Bellows  Falls,  Vt.  Harvey  mairied  Nettie  F. 
Merrill,  and  lives  in  Manchester,  N.H.  He 
is  a  wholesale  and  retail  dealer  in  stone  and 
granite.  Hugh  married  Maizie  Harris,  of 
Fort  Ann,  N.Y. 


TEPHEN  C.  PATTEE,  one  of  the 
most  prominent,  skilful,  and  pros- 
perous agriculturists  of  Merrimack 
County,  New  Hampshire,  lives  in  Warner,  on 
a  highly  improved  farm  known  as  Maple 
Grange,  which  has  been  owned  and  occupied 
by  his  family  for  more  than  one  hundred 
years.  He  was  born  on  this  ancestral  home- 
stead, January  11,  1828,  son  of  Asa  Pattee, 
and  is  of  distinguished  English  and  Colonial 
stock,  tracing  his  descent  from  Sir  William 
Pattee,  who  was  physician  to  Cromwell  and 
King  Charles  H.,  and  was  knighted  in  1660. 
Peter  Pattee,  son  of  .Sir  William,  born  in 
1648    in     Lansdown,     England,     emigrateil    to 


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America  when  a  ydiiiij^  man  of  twciUy-onc 
y(.'ar.s,  settled  lirst  in  Vii\;^iniri,  and  a  few  years 
I  iter  removed  to  Haverhill,   Mass. 

ills  j^randson,  Cai)tain  Asa  I'attcc,  cotii- 
inanded  a  company  in  one  of  the  Colonial 
wars,  about  the  middle  of  the  eighteenth  cen- 
tury, and  later  received  a  Captain's  commission 
from  Governor  Meshech  Weare.  He  was  the 
first  of  the  family  to  settle  in  Warner,  and 
built  the  first  frame  house  in  the  village,  it 
being  now  known  as  the  Dr.  Eaton  house. 
Cnptain  Asa's  son  John,  grandfather  of 
Stephen  C.  Pattee,  settled  at  Maple  Grange 
in  17S6,  taking  up  the  land  wlien  it  was  in  its 
primeval  wildness,  and  was  afterward  through- 
out his  years  of  activity  engaged  in  the  pio- 
neer labor  of  clearing  and  improving.  He 
was  an  industrious,  temperate  man,  and  lived 
to  the  ripe  old  age  of  eighty-five  years.  He 
married  I^unice  Sargent,  a  native  of  Dover, 
N.I  I.,  and  the  daughter  of  l?enjamin  Sargent, 
who  owned  the  adjoining  farm.  They  had 
three  sons:  Asa;  Jesse,  who  removed  to  W'est 
Cambridge,  Mass.,  now  Arlington,  wdiere  he 
made  a  fortune  as  a  baker;  aiul  Cyrus,  who 
was  also  a  baker  by  occupation,  but  died  on  a 
farm  in  Haverhill. 

A.sa  Pattee,  son  of  John,  inherited  the 
homestead  in  Warner;  and  from  his  earliest 
youth  until  his  demise  he  worked  upon  the 
soil,  being  engaged  in  general  farming,  stock- 
raising,  and  lumbering.  He  married  Sally 
Colby,  whose  father,  Stephen  Colby,  a  Revo- 
lutionary pensioner,  was  one  of  the  early  set- 
tlers of  the  town  of  Warner,  where  he  occupied 
a  farm  about  a  mile  east  of  the  village,  on 
which  his  grandson,  Asa  V.  Colby,  now  lives. 
Asa  and  Sally  (Colby)  Pattee  had  five  sons  and 
two  daughters,  namely:  Stephen  C,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch;  John  H.,  who  died  in 
Troy,  N.  Y.  ;  Susan;  Luther,  a  ])hysician,  who 
was  settled  first  at  Candia,  then   at    Wolfboro, 


and  later  at  Manchester,  where  lie  |)ractise(l 
from  1S63  until  his  death  in  1895;  Asa,  alsu 
a  physician,  and  William  Herbert,  iiis  twin 
brother,  who  died  in  infancy;  and  i'lmnia,  who 
died  at  a  comparatively  early  age  in  woman- 
hood. Susan  Pattee  first  married  A.  Jackson 
lulmunds,  and  after  his  deatii  became  the  wife 
of  William  H.  Palmer.  .She  died  of  consiimp- 
ti(jn  three  years  after  her  second  marriage, 
leaving  two  children,  neither  of  whom  is  liv- 
ing. Dr.  Asa  Pattee  began  practice  in  Merri- 
mac,  Mass.,  remaining  there  about  five  years, 
and  then  removed  to  Boston,  where  he  prac- 
tised about  thirty  years,  or  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  but  a  few  months  since,  on 
May  31,  1897.  Emma  Pattee  married  first 
George  Quimby,  and  afterward  became  the 
wife  of  E.  C.  Cole,  editor  of  the  Kearsarge 
Independent  and  Times.  The  Pattee  home- 
stead descended  to  Asa  Pattee's  son  Stephen, 
the  present  owner. 

Stephen  C.  Pattee  received  his  elementary 
education  in  tiie  common  schools  of  Warner, 
afterward  stuilying  at  private  schools  in  Con- 
toocook  and  Bradford.  He  subsequently 
taught  school  in  this  State  and  ;\Iassachusctts 
for  twenty  years  during  the  winter  terms;  and 
he  has  since  been  actively  identified  with  the 
educational  progress  of  his  native  town,  hav- 
ing been  for  many  years  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Education,  and  by  the  will  of  the 
donor,  the  late  Franklin  Simoiuls,  being 
made  a  life  Trustee  of  the  Simonds  Free 
High  School  Fund  of  Warner.  In  his  agri- 
cultural labors  Mr.  Pattee  has  met  with  emi- 
nent success,  his  judiciously  conducted  enter- 
prises having  yielded  satisfactory  results.  In 
his  earlier  days  he  carried  on  general  farming, 
then  turned  his  attention  to  wool-growing,  and 
when  that  was  no  longer  profitable  he  raised 
lambs  for  the  market.  He  has  since  made 
money     in     raising    valuable     horses,    always 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    KEVIEVV 


breeding  to  the  best,  including  as  sires  Mani- 
brino  Wilkes,  Almont  Eagle,  Vittoria,  and  a 
son  of  X'iking.  For  several  years  he  has 
made  dairying  his  specialty,  having  a  fine 
herd  of  grade  Holstein  and  Jersey  cows,  each 
of  which  tests  above  the  standard.  He  raises 
some  grain  every  year,  as  wheat,  oats,  and 
corn;  and  at  the  World's  Columbian  Exposi- 
tion in  Chicago  in  1893,  he  was  awarded  a 
diploma  and  a  bronze  medal  for  his  exhibit  of 
corn. 

Mr.  Pattee  was  one  of  the  managers  of  the 
early  agricultural  association,  which  was 
merged  into  the  Kearsarge  Agricultural  and 
Mechanical  Association,  which  he  has  served 
as  President,  and  which  each  year  holds  a  fair 
in  Warner.  He  is  very  prominent  and  active 
in  grange  work,  and  for  several  years  served 
as  one  of  the  Executive  Committee  of  the  State 
Grange.  He  is  an  authority  on  all  questions 
connected  with  agriculture,  especially  the 
raising  of  cereals,  and  was  at  one  time  em- 
ployed by  the  Board  of  Agriculture  to  give  an 
address  on  "Wheat  Culture"  before  the  Agri- 
cultural College  at  Hanover  and  at  various 
local  institutes  throughout  the  State.  He  has 
written  much  on  agricultural  topics  for  the 
press,  being  a  paid  contributor  to  the  People 
and  Patriot,  Boston  Cii/tiiurtor,  Nezo  England 
Fanner,  Country  Gentleman,  and  Gerviantozvii 
Telegrapli;  and  his  articles  invariably  attract 
attention.  In  politics  he  has  always  been  a 
straight  Democrat,  an  attendant  of  all  local 
conventions,  and  has  served  in  all  the  town- 
shi])  offices.  Fraternally,  he  is  an  active 
Mason,  belonging  to  Harris  Lodge,  F.  & 
A.  M. 

On  January  9,  1853,  Mr.  Pattee  married 
Miss  Sally  Currier,  who  was  born  in  Canter- 
inu-y,  N.H.,  and  who  died  May  5,  1895,  leav- 
ing three  sons  —  Jesse  B.,  William  H.,  and 
George   Ouimby.      Jesse  B.    Pattee,    who   was 


admitted  to  the  bar  in  Plymouth  County,  Mas- 
sachusetts, has  a  fine  legal  practice  in  Man- 
chester, N.  H  ,  where  he  now  resides.  In  the 
fall  of  1896  he  was  elected  a  Representative  to 
the  State  legislature  for  the  term  of  1897-98. 
William  H.  Pattee,  who  adopted  what  may 
well  be  termed  the  hereditary  profession,  re- 
ceived the  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medicine  at 
the  Vermont  University  in  Burlington,  prac- 
tised medicine  for  a  time  in  Loudon,  N.H., 
then  spent  ten  years  in  Pelican  Rapids, 
Minn.,  returning  from  there  to  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  where  he  is  one  of  the  leading  physi- 
cians. George  O.  Pattee  is  a  book-keeper  in 
Boston. 


ESSE  H.  FARWELL.  —  In  North 
Charlestown,  Sullivan  County,  N.H., 
Jesse  H.  Farwell  was  born  January  22, 
1834.  His  father,  George  Farwell,  was  a 
grandson  of  William  Farwell,  who  was  among 
the  first  white  inhabitants  of  the  town.  On 
settling  in  life,  George  P'arwell  bought  a  little 
corner  of  the  old  farm,  and  built  the  small 
house  in  which  all  the  children  were  born;  but 
afterward  he  owned  the  whole  farm,  and  lived 
in  the  old  farmhouse. 

An  editorial  in  a  Vermont  journal  gives  one 
of  the  few  glimpses  we  have  of  the  early  life 
of  his  son  Jesse  :  — 

"His  boyhood  was  a  tj'pe  of  that  of  many 
from  New  England  farms  and  firesides,  who 
afterward  became  leaders,  the  representative 
men  of  the  nation.  His  sole  educational  ad- 
vantages were  derived  from  the  district  school 
near  his  old  home.  An  (dd  neighbor  details 
some  interesting  reminiscences  of  his  early 
days.  Having  business  with  the  elder  F"ar- 
well,  he  visited  him  one  day  at  noon,  as  the 
industrious  habits  of  the  family  detained  them 
in  the  fields  from  early  morn  until  the  evening 
shadows    fell.     Duiing  the  progress  of  busi- 


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417 


ncss  ail  intricate  mathcniatical  problem  was 
involvccl,  wiiich  neither  could  satisfactorily 
solve.  Jesse,  then  a  lank  stripling  of  about 
fifteen  years,  weighing  not  over  seventy-five  or 
one  hundred  pounds,  clad  in  a  pair  of  jean 
overalls,  hitched  by  a  single  suspender  over  a 
l)artially  sleeveless  shirt,  and  with  tufts  of 
brown  Iviii-  waving  tlirongli  the  crevices  of  a 
broken  straw  hat,  sat  on  a  log  by  the  roadside, 
improving  his  'nooning'  by  the  perusal  of  a 
scrap  of  an  old  newspaper.  Observing  the 
dilemma  of  the  two  men,  he  jiried  a  scrap  of 
bark  from  the  log  on  whicii  he  was  resting, 
and,  fishing  a  portion  of  a  nail  from  his 
pocket,  soon  had  the  matter  correctly  ad- 
justed. The  attention  of  the  gentleman  being 
thus  called  to  the  boy,  he  entered  into  con- 
versation with  him.  The  picture  he  pre- 
sented, as,  with  bare  feet  crossed  over  his  hoe 
handle,  in  the  brilliant  summer  sunshine,  he 
told  of  the  progress  of  their  farm  work,  and 
how  they  had  helped  nearly  all  iheir  neighbors 
out,  would  have  made  a  scene  fit  for  poet's 
pencil  or  artist's  brush.  He  also  confided  to 
his  friend  some  of  his  hopes  and  aspirations 
for  the  future,  feeling  even  then  that  he  had 
outgrown  the  narrow  limits  of  his  birthplace, 
and  longing  for  new  fields  of  opportunity  and 
labor  —  in  short,  for  more  worlds  to  conquer. 
The  father,  however,  entertained  different 
plans,  and  about  this  time  took  another  large 
farm,  hoping,  with  the  assistance  of  the  boy, 
to  pay  for  it;  and  when,  two  years  later,  Jesse, 
at  the  age  of  sixteen,  decided  to  leave  home, 
the  shock  and  disappointment  were  such  as  to 
seriously  affect  the  health  and  happiness  of 
the  father.  It  is,  however,  most  gratifying  to 
know  that  he  lived  to  realize  that  what  he 
then  looked  upon  as  a  calamity  almost  too 
great  for  endurance  proved  a  blessing,  not 
only  to  him  and  his  family,  but  to  his  native 
town  and  to  future  generations,  who  will  have 


cause  to  thank  God  that  such  a  man  has 
lived." 

Mr.  I'arwell  says:  "Our  home  was  a  mile 
from  any  public  road,  our  nearest  neighbors 
across  the  river  in  Vermont.  The  house  was 
small,  and  near  the  east  bank  of  the  Connecti- 
cut. The  scenery  was  beautiful.  George 
Farwell,  my  father,  was  active,  industrious, 
economical,  and  intelligent,  as  good  a  reader 
as  I  ever  listened  to.  I"or  five  years  after 
his  majority  he  was  in  the  employ  of 
John  and  James  Rowland  at  New  Bedford, 
then  largely  engaged  in  the  whale  fishery. 
During  that  time  he  met  my  mother,  Aurilla 
Brownell,  an  acquaintance  of  the  Howlands, 
who  were  descendants  of  those  of  the  same 
name  who  came  over  in  the  'Mayflower,'  as 
my  mother  was  of  John  Alden  and  Priscilla 
Molines,  an  historic  couple  in  Plymouth  in 
Miles  Standish's  day.  My  j^arents  soon  after 
their  marriage  came  to  the  old  homestead, 
bought  twenty- five  acres  of  grandfather's  farm, 
and  settled.  My  mother  was  a  strong,  hardy, 
rosy-cheeked  woman.  Both  were  cheerful, 
happy,  and  well  mated,  constant  in  kind  ad- 
vice and  admonition  to  their  children.  The 
prominent  admonition  of  my  mother  was,  'If 
you  can  say  nothing  good  of  others,  say  noth- 
ing.' I  confess  that  in  the  hurry  and  excite- 
ment of  my  somewhat  active  life  I  have  fre- 
quently broken  that  rule,  violating  my  better 
judgment  in  cooler  hours. 

"In  my  very  early  life  industry  was  as  nat- 
ural to  me  as  breathing,  economy  a  necessity, 
perhaps  a  pleasure.  Harshness  and  unkind- 
ness  were  strangers  to  my  parents,  except  as 
seen  in  others.  My  mother's  religious  train- 
ing had  been  in  Orthodox  Congregationalism, 
but  she  became  largely  imbued  with  the  lib- 
eral views  of  the  Farwell  family,  for  which 
they  were  distinguished. 

"With  four  boys  and  two  girls,  one  passing 


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BIOGRAnilCAL    REVIEW 


away  when  three  years  old,  the  other  at 
twenty-one,  the  house  was  never  lonely;  and 
mother's  busy  hands  had  less  rest  than  they 
needed.  Staying  on  the  farm  until  sixteen 
years  old,  I  was  then  to  go  to  Buffalo.  My 
father  assented,  and  gave  me  ten  dollars, 
which  my  mother  sewed  up  in  my  inside  coat 
pocket;  and  I  left  familiar  scenes  and  associa- 
tions, with  varying  emotions  of  affection  and 
hope  better  imagined  than  described." 

This  step  from  the  farm  into  the  wide 
world  in  1850  was  taken  in  response  to  a 
letter  from  an  uncle  in  Buffalo,  proposing  his 
coming  to  that  city  for  three  years  as  an  ap- 
prentice in  the  undertaking  business,  his  fare 
out  to  be  paid  and  his  board,  and  fifty  dollars, 
one  hundred  and  fifty  dollars,  and  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five  dollars  for  the  whole  time. 
By  rail  and  stage  and  canal  packet-boat  the 
city  was  reached.  The  family  met  him 
kindly,  the  new  life  opened  rapidly,  and  in 
business  and  social  life  he  met  excellent 
people  in  ways  to  gain  insight  of  their  real 
life  and  character.  For  five  years,  as  appren- 
tice and  then  assistant,  he  was  with  that 
uncle,  E.  Farwell,  whom  he  prized  as  being 
largely  the  counterpart  of  his  beloved  father. 
Meantime  his  two  older  brothers  had  left  the 
farm;  and  his  father  wrote,  urging,  even  com- 
manding, his  return.  He  declined,  in  view 
of  opening  advantages;  and  in  a  few  years  the 
father  gladly  acknowledged  the  better  judg- 
ment of  his  son. 

Twenty-one  years  of  age,  energetic,  capable, 
and  enterprising,  in  September,  1855,  he 
landed  from  the  steamer  "'Plymouth  Rock" 
at  ten  o'clock  I'.m.,  in  Detroit.  The  next 
morning  he  met  Marcus  Stevens  and  Samuel 
Zugg,  both  strangers,  and  before  noon  laid  the 
foundation  for  a  five  years'  partnership,  they 
to  offset  two  thousand  dollars  against  his 
whole  time  and  skill,  and  he  to  have  one-lhinl 


of  the  profits,  as  undertakers.  This  went  on 
for  twelve  years;  and  in  1867  he  became  con- 
nected with  a  company  of  paving  contractors, 
controlling  the  patent  for  the  Nicholson  pave- 
ment. On  their  dissolution  in  1873,  Mr. 
Farwell,  in  connection  with  E.  Robinson, 
continued  the  business,  and  operated  exten- 
sively in  street  paving  in  Detroit  and  other 
Michigan  cities  up  to  18S5.  For  eight  years 
from  1872  he  was  connected  with  the  Clough 
&  Warren  Organ  Company  of  Detroit ;  and  he 
was  also  President  and  leading  owner  for  some 
years  of  the  Dominion  Organ  and  Piano  Com- 
pany of  Bowmanville,  Ont.,  both  of  which 
concerns  during  these  years  rose  from  small 
beginnings  to  the  front  rank  in  such  enter- 
prises. 

He  is  President  of  the  Farwell  Transporta- 
tion Company,  which  has  during  its  existence 
owned  and  controlled  a  fleet  of  some  twenty 
vessels,  among  which  are  some  of  the  largest 
and  best  steamers  and  sailing  craft  on  the 
Lakes. 

He  was  first  President  of  the  Detroit  liven- 
ing Journal  Company,  then  an  independent 
paper.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Farwell  are  separate 
owners  of  real  estate  in  the  city.  To  wait  and 
watch  with  quiet  sagacity  until  the  time  was 
ripe,  and  then  to  enter  into  enterprises,  old  or 
new,  with  prompt  vigor,  has  been  his  method 
in  business;  and  thus  his  enlarging  operations 
have  usually  been  safe  from  the  start. 

A  Democrat  in  politics,  he  holds  fast  to  his 
party  with  sincere  fidelity.  He  favors  woman 
suffrage  as  based  on  justice  and  therefore 
sure  to  bring  benefit.  Of  the  liberal  school 
in  religion,  he  has  been  a  Trustee  of  the  De- 
troit Unitarian  Society  and  President  of  the 
State  Association,  and  in  later  years  a  sup- 
porter of  the  Univcrsalist  Society  in  the  city. 
Unpretending  in  manner,  he  is  quietly  social 
and    friendly,    with   a   cheery   humor   as   spar- 


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kliiiL;  and    Inic  as  tlic   bahlil  iiij;'   brooks  amony 
his  iial  i\'c  hills. 

Ajiril  24,  1859,  i\Ir.  I'arvvcll  married  ICniiiia 
J.  Godfrey,  of  Detroit,  a  woman  whose  frank 
and  honest  eyes  tell  an  elo<|uent  story  of 
kindly  sincerity.  Their  home  life  has  been 
happy.  Their  two  sons,  George  and  Jerry  G., 
are  in  business.  A  danghter,  Emma,  just  be- 
yond that  mystic  verge  where  childhood  and 
womanhood  meet,  makes  u[)  the  trio. 

The  story  of  the  building  and  dedication  of 
the  l''arwell  School-house,  North  Charles- 
town,  N.  H.,  1889-90,  is  a  twice-told  tale 
well  worth  reading.  During  the  visits  of  Mr. 
I'"arwell  and  his  family  to  his  birthplace  the 
ruinous  condition  of  the  district  school-house 
had  become  a  subject  of  discussion,  until  their 
daughter  Emma,  in  an  inspired  and  ins])iring 
moment,  proposed  that  they  should  build  a 
new  one.  This  plan  ripened.  Mrs.  Farwell 
wished  to  pay  half  the  cost.  The  house,  the 
finest  country  school-house  in  the  State,  had 
its  corner-stone  laiil  July  4,  1S89;  and  a  year 
after  the  completed  building  was  passed  over 
to  the  town,  these  occasions  being  gala  days  to 
hundreds.  Extracts  from  the  addresses  of  Mr. 
l'"arwell,  and  a  glim[5se  of  the  exercises,  will 
show  the  spirit  in  which  the  good  work  was 
done  and  accepted. 

I'jiima  Farwell,  who  first  suggested  the 
building,  fitly  laid  the  corner-stone.  The 
Hon.  George  S.  Smith  presided.  The  Rev. 
T.  D.  Howard  said:  "There  rises  in  my 
memory  an  address  by  Dean  Stanley  to  an 
I'jiglish  audience  on  the  restoration  of  an 
ancient  church.  He  spoke  of  the  influence 
u[K)n  those  who  daily  were  in  siglit  of  the 
revered  and  noble  building  whose  walls  had 
been  repaired.  An  atmosphere  distinct  from 
that  which  commonly  prevails  envelopes  a 
building  dedicated  to  high  public  service. 
Above  this   corner-stone    is    to    be  erected    a 


beautiful  building.  The  passing  traveller 
will  pause  to  hear  the  story  of  local  attach- 
ment, affectionate  memory,  and  open-handed 
generosity,  which  caused  these  walls  to  rise. 
He  may  be  led  to  think  of  the  blessings  of 
knowledge  and  rcfineinent  which  thence  may 
reach  future  generations,  while  every  resident 
near  by  may  well  draw  inspiration  to  kindly 
deeds  fiom  this  proof  of  aiiiding  love. 

"I  am  glail,  for  one,  that  the  friendly  rain 
has  led  us  from  floor  outside  into  this  church. 
The  cause  of  education  may  here  fitly  receive 
its  rightful  sanction.  Here  we  may  well 
affirm  that  good  knowledge  is  the  handmaid  of 
religion,  and  ho[)e  and  pray  that  the  instruc- 
tion given  young  minds  may  lead  toward  that 
'fear  of  the  Eord  which  is  the  beginning  of 
wisdom.'  " 

Only  the  opening  sentence  of  Mr.  Far- 
well's  speech  is  quoted: — ■ 

"With  a  view  of  giving  added  interest  to 
the  cause  of  education  in  country  schools,  and 
with  a  sincere  regard  for  the  place  of  my  na- 
tivity, childhood,  and  early  boyhood,  and  in 
affectionate  remembrance  of  my  parents, 
George  and  Aurilla  Farwell,  my  grand-parents, 
Jesse  and  Abigail  Farwell,  and  my  great -grand- 
parents, William  and  Bethiah  F'arwell,  all 
now  deceased,  and  with  a  desire  to  perpetuate 
the  memory  of  their  modest  worth  as  parents 
and  citizens,  I  have  been  led  to  construct  this 
building,  the  corner-stone  of  which  is  this  day 
to  be  laid,  with  the  purpose,  when  fully  com- 
pleted, to  present  the  same  to  my  native  town. 
In  depositing  this  declaration  beneath  the 
corner-stone,  I  desire  that  there  may  go  with 
it  an  acknowledgment  of  my  appreciation  of 
the  worth  of  the  several  teachers  by  whom  it 
was  my  good  fortune  to  be  instructed  during 
my  school-boy  days." 

Others  spoke  briefly ;  and  the  people  went  to 
their  hornes  iri  happy  mood,  to  meet  again   in 


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larger  numbers,  July  4,  1890,  to  see  the  build- 
ing dedicated  and  passed  over  to  the  town. 
When  multitudes  from  near  and  far  gathered 
beneath  a  spacious  canopy  on  the  grounds,  the 
building  stood  complete  before  them.  The 
front  door  of  heavy  oak  opens  into  a  hall, 
around  which  are  school  and  cabinet  and 
library  rooms.  Its  front  is  ea.stward,  and  its 
broad  windows  open  a  fine  view  down  the 
valley  toward  the  Connecticut  River  a  few 
miles  west  and  the  Vermont  mountains  be- 
yond. Healthfulness,  comfort,  and  the  latest 
and  best  school  apparatus  have  been  sought 
for;  and  further  plans  for  library  and  cabinets 
are  being  laid. 

Music  by  choir  and  band,  brief  talks  by  the 
Rev.  Calvin  Stebbins,  of  Worcester,  formerly 
of  Detroit,  the  Hon.  H.  W.  Parker,  of  Clare- 
mont,  A.  Wait,  of  Newport,  the  Rev.  D.  E. 
Croft,  of  Charlestown,  an  address  by  the  Hon. 
Justin  Dartt,  reading  of  letters,  a  flag  deliv- 
ery (the  flag  presented  by  Dr.  Byron  G.  Clark, 
of  New  York  City),  a  presentation  of  mineral- 
ogical  cabinet  by  John  Hancock  Lock,  Esq., 
of  North  Charlestown,  a  deluge  of  mountain 
flowers  poured  upon  Mrs.  Farwell  by  the  ladies 
and  school  children,  filled  the  time  enjoyably, 
the  speaking  being  all  fit  and  valuable. 

From  Mr.  Farwell 's  address,  passing  over 
the  school-house  to  the  town,  extracts  are  given 
as  follows  :  — 

''Mr.  Chairuian, —  Agreeably  to  promise 
heretofore  made,  I  now  deliver  the  deed  of  this 
house  and  lot  from  myself  and  wife,  who  joins 
with  me  in  this  conveyance,  and  who  has  vol- 
untarily and  cheerfully  contributed  from  her 
own  estate  the  one-half  of  the  cost  of  this  gift 
to  my  native  town. 

"Among  the  conditions  attached  to  this  gift 
are  that  it  shall  be  used  for  a  general  school 
and  library,  and  when  not  in  use  for  those 
purposes  shall  be  free  to  all  religious  organiza- 


tions which  may  make  application  for  its  use, 
the  purpose  being  to  have  it  entirely  unsecta- 
rian  and  free  to  all  who  may  choose  to  use  it, 
reversing  in  this  respect  the  rule  enjoined  by 
the  benefactor,  and  steadily  enforced  in  one 
of  the  great  educational  and  industrial  insti- 
tutions of  the  city  of  Philadelphia,  whereby  no 
minister  is  to  pass  within  its  walls.  There  is 
no  better  way  to  abolish  religious  prejudice 
and  bigotry  than  a  free  and  full  presentation 
of  the  various  doctrines  pertaining  to  the 
Christian  and  other  religions  of  the  world.  In 
the  language  of  one  of  the  eminent  scholars 
of  New  England,  now  deceased,  'the  right  to 
read  and  construe  the  sacred  writings  of  the 
Christian  and  other  religions  belongs  exclu- 
sively to  no  class  or  set  of  men,  but  to  the 
individual  who  is  to  rise  or  fall  by  his  own 
acts  and  his  own  faith,  and  not  by  those  of 
another. " 

"It  is  the  sincere  wish  of  Mrs.  Farwell, 
myself,  and  our  daughter,  who,  with  your  aid, 
laid  so  strong,  and  we  trust  enduringly,  the 
corner-stone  of  this  building  on  the  Fourth  of 
July  last,  that  the  management  of  the  affairs 
of  this  school  district  by  those  whose  duty  it 
now  becomes  to  care  for  it,  coupled  with  the 
efforts  of  the  teachers  who  from  time  to  time 
may  be  intrusted  with  the  education  of  the 
children  who  may  here  attend,  together  with 
the  efforts  of  the  children  themselves,  may  be 
successful  in  making  this  school  a  pride  to  the 
community,  an  ornament  to  the  township,  and 
the  model  rural  school  of  New  Hampshire  and 
New  England. 

"There  is  much  in  the  historic  memories  of 
this  community,  town  and  State,  to  stimulate 
the  rising  generation  to  noble  effort;  and  with 
well-directed  effort  there  is  sure  to  follow 
worthy  achievement. 

"In  the  early  hours  and  engagements  of  the 
Revolution,  when  this  neighborhood  was  little 


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iiioic  than  an  ui]l)nikcn  wildcnicss,  it  was  rep- 
resented ably  and  heroically  by  its  full  share 
of  active  men. 

"Although  of  remote  lineage,  the  gallant 
record  of  Captain  Farvvcll,  who  was  from  this 
immediate  nciglihnrhood  at  tlie  battle  of  Bun- 
ker Hill,  the  second  engagement  of  the  Revo- 
lution, has  been  and  will  ever  be  a  proud 
recollection  to  myself  and  family. 

"Within  sight  of  where  we  now  are,  on 
yonder  mountain  range,  is  to  be  seen  the  first 
camping-ground  of  the  intrepid  Stark  and  his 
band  of  Granite  patriots,  while  on  their  hur- 
ried march  to  the  field  of  Bennington,  made 
historic  by  their  heroism  a  few  days  later. 

''Going  back  to  earlier  days,  long  prior  to 
the  Revidution,  during  the  distressing  years  of 
I'rench  and  Indian  wars,  we  find  the  little  fort 
in  this  town  the  extreme  northerly  fortified 
point  in  the  valley  of  the  Connecticut.  l""rom 
the  headquarters  of  their  allies  at  Montreal 
and  Quebec  the  Indians  made  their  way  by 
water  transit  up  the  St.  Lawrence,  through  its 
connecting  waters  to  Lake  Champlain,  thence 
by  trail  across  the  mountain  regions  of  Ver- 
mont, reaching  the  Connecticut  abreast  of  this 
town  where  they  too  often  found  a  rich  har- 
vest of  scalps  and  prisoners  among  the  sur- 
jirisetl  and  ambushed  settlers  of  those  early 
da}s.  The  market  for  the  Indians'  booty  of 
human  scalps  and  half-starved  prisoners  was 
as  clearly  established  and  more  steady  at  Mon- 
treal and  Quebec  in  those  days  than  are  the 
markets  of  to-day  for  the  ordinary  items  of 
commerce. 

"Many  of  us  forget,  in  reading  of  far-off 
heroic  deeds,  the  equal  heroism  which  has 
been  displayed  nearer  home  and  at  our  very 
doors.  The  heroic  determination  to  defend, 
to  the  last  drop  of  blood,  all  which  they  held 
nearest  and  dearest,  which  animated  Captain 
Stevens  and  a  mere  handful   of  men,   women. 


and  children,  in  the  defence  of  the  fort  at 
Charlestown,  No.  4,  during  the  French  and 
Indian  wars,  against  nearly  a  thousand  Indian 
warriors,  is  not  surpassed  by  the  Grecian  de- 
fence at  the  Pass  of  Thermopyla;  or  the  Texan 
patriots  at  the  gate  of  the  Alamo. 

"Allusion  was  made  to  the  profile  of  the 
'Old  Man  of  the  Mountain'  by  the  distin- 
guished orator  at  the  laying  of  the  corner- 
stone of  this  building,  as  being  an  emblem  or 
sign  of  one  of  the  occupations  of  the  people  of 
this  State  —  namely,  the  rearing  of  men.  The 
allusion  was  a  beautiful  and  fitting  one. 
However  we  may  speculate  as  to  whether  that 
colossal  image  of  the  human  face,  placed  on 
its  lofty  pedestal  midst  the  clouds,  the  White 
Mountains  its  fitting  base,  silent  witness  of 
the  ever-changing  forms  of  creation  and  the 
steady  growth  of  man,  w-as  created  as  a  type  of 
the  great  men  who  were  to  be  reared  in  the 
Granite  State,  one  thing  is  certain :  that  there 
is  an  influence  radiating  from  that  majestic 
image,  with  all  its  attendant  and  surrounding 
grandeur,  which  is  directly  traceable  in  the 
moulding  of  mind  and  character  of  all  who  are 
so  fortunate  as  to  be  born  and  reared  within 
its  influence.  .  .  . 

"To  the  young  I  would  say  in  conclusion: 
Place  high  your  ideals,  and  work  steadily 
toward  them.  Lmulate  as  near  as  may  be  the 
distinguished  examples  the  history  of  your 
State  affords.  Cultivate  a  wholesome  and 
kindly  rivalry  for  intellectual,  moral,  and 
physical  advancement.  Let  the  girls  vie  with 
each  other  and  with  the  boys,  and  the  boys 
with  the  girls,  in  efforts  to  care  for  this  prop- 
erty and  in  ornamentation  of  its  grounds. 
Keep  frequently  in  mind  the  stirring  incidents 
of  the  past,  consider  your  prospects  and  your 
duties,  think  of  the  rich  inheritance  acquired 
by  generations  of  ancestors,  and  recollect  al- 
ways that  it  was  they  who  founded   the  fabric 


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of  your  iH'osperity  in  a  severe  and  robust 
morality,  having  intelligence  for  its  cement, 
and  religion  for  its  groundwork.  Continue 
to  build  on  the  same  foundation  and  by  the 
same  principles. " 

The  following  is  the  address  by  the  Hon. 
Justin  Dartt,  the  leading  orator  of  the  day:  — 

"This  is  a  day  of  gladness.  It  is  a  hapjiy 
occasion  that  has  called  us  here.  I  see  it  in 
your  faces.  Who  here  is  not  happy.'  Who 
does  not  rejoice  in  the  great  fortune  that  has 
fallen  to  this  community.'  Who  has  not  a 
stronger  faith  in  humanity  and  more  hope  and 
more  courage  for  the  future,  as  he  looks  at  this 
beautiful  structure,  grown  from  the  generous 
philanthropy  of  a  man  whom  your  State  gave  to 
the  West,  and  who  is  now  giving  back  to  the 
East.'  Some  people  know  how  to  build  monu- 
ments that  shall  endure.  -Such  are  your  bene- 
factors. 

"Some  months  ago  I  was  beside  that  won- 
deiful  mausoleum  in  my  native  State  where  a 
man  expended  a  fortune  of  nearly  one  hundred 
thousand  to  entomb  the  remains  of  his  wife 
and  daughter,  and  set  up  before  its  portal  a 
statue  of  himself.  This  was  some  satisfaction, 
some  pleasure  to  him,  no  doubt,  but  no  benefit 
to  others,  save  as  a  work  of  skill  and  art  which 
they  may  admire.  And  then  a  little  later  I 
stood  in  the  shadow  of  Brigliam  Acatlemy,  and 
read  over  its  entrance,  'Erected  by  Peter  ]5rig- 
ham.'  Here,  I  thought,  is  a  monument  worth 
the  building.  That  mausoleum  with  its  statue 
and  its  mirrors  and  its  landscapes,  shall  con- 
sume away  and  crumble  into  dust  with  the 
bodies  of  the  dead,  and  the  builder  will  be  for- 
gotten ;  but  I'eter  Brigham  will  live  on  and  on 
in  the  lives  of  those  he  helped  to  a  better  man- 
hood and  of  those  influenced  by  them.  Yes, 
we  are  learning  to  build  monuments  more  last- 
ing than  the  granite  and  the  marble.  We 
build  them  in  human  hearts. 


"This  school  building  is  intrusted  to  your 
care,  people  of  this  district.  You  have 
accepted  the  trust,  guard  it  well.  Let  no 
idle  hand  deface  its  walls  or  mar  its  beauty. 
Keep  in  your  hearts  the  spirit  of  the  donor, 
and  suffer  no  neglect  to  lessen  your  interest  in 
its  preservation.  Permit  no  teacher  to  preside 
in  these  rooms  who  has  not  a  love  for  and  a 
sympathy  with  childhood,  and  may  the  influ- 
ence of  this  school  ever  be  as  clean  and  chaste 
as  the  edifice  now  before  us.  We  dedicate  it 
to  the  children  of  this  district,  those  who  are 
here  and  those  who  are  to  come  after  them  in 
the  years  of  the  future.  Happy  are  those 
children  whose  parents  and  the  people  among 
whom  they  live  never  grow  old,  never  forget 
that  they  have  been  children,  and  who  can 
appreciate  the  value  of  the  beautiful  in  the 
surroundings  of  child  life. 

"Wordsworth  wrote,  'The  child  is  father  to 
the  man'  ;  and  Milton  said  that  'childhood 
shows  the  man  as  morning  shows  the  day.' 
E.xperience  proves  that  they  knew  whereof  they 
spoke ;  and,  as  we  hope  for  true  men  and  noble 
women  in  the  future,  so  we  build  for  them 
to-day,  and  this  beautiful  structure,  unique  in 
its  design,  elegant  in  all  its  appointments, 
shall  stand  for  learning  and  culture,  for  dis- 
cipline of  life  and  worth  of  character,  in  those 
who  are  trained  within  it.  How  well  the  ar- 
chitect has  made  it  represent  the  thought  for 
which  it  stands!  Varied  and  diversified  in  its 
material,  it  shall  give  its  privileges  to  all. 
No  sectarianism  here,  no  party  divisions  in  its 
favors,  no  distinction  in  those  to  whom  its 
benefits  are  given  ;  but  it  is  free  to  all,  a  grand 
representative  of  the  common-school  system  of 
which  it  forms  a  part.  Other  men  have  built 
academies,  colleges,  halls,  and  libraries  almost 
without  number;  and  we  honor  their  deeds  and 
their  memories.  The  donors  of  this  buiUling 
have  built   better  than   they  because  they  have 


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Iniill  fur  the  chililrcn,  fi)r  the  CDinniDii  scIkiuI, 
the  fouiulation  of  uur  ccliicalional  system. 

"I  believe  this  to  be  the  first  instance 
where  a  house  of  such  rare  beauty  and  ele- 
gance has  been  devoted  to  the  elementary 
schools  of  the  country,  a  house  that  has  no 
e()ual  anion<;-  the  district-school  buildings  of 
the  land. 

"Standing  here  in  tliis  representative  com- 
munity of  the  State,  this  house  is  also  dedicated 
to  the  future  stability  of  the  Commonwealth. 
Carved  from  the  granite  of  her  hills,  it  shall 
be  the  sujiport  of  her  honor  and  the  guardian 
of  her  virtue  and  patriotism  by  means  of  its 
influence  upon  her  citizenship,  for, 

'  The  riches  of  the  Comnionwealth 
Are  free,  strong  minds  and  hearts  of  health  ; 
And  more  to  her  than  gold  and  gain 
The  cunning  hand  and  cidtured  brain.' 

"]5ut  more  than  this.  Planted  here  in  this 
lovely  valley  of  a  sovereign  State  of  the 
nation,  a  part  of  a  great  system  of  education 
that  reaches  from  ocean  to  ocean,  from  the 
Gulf  to  the  Great  Lakes,  this  little  gem,  more 
valuable  than  the  diamond,  is  consecrated  to 
national  liberty,  to  the  further  and  larger  de- 
velopment of  that  idea  which  landed  with  the 
Pilgrims,  to  the  principle  that  was  born  in  the 
cabin  of  the  'Mayflower,'  a  principle  destined 
to  permeate  all  nations  and  draw  the  alle- 
giance of  the   world. 

"It  is  said  by  the  great  generals  of  the  past 
that  in  every  decisive  battle  there  is  a 
moment  of  crisis  on  which  the  fortune  of  the 
day  turns,  and  he  who  seizes  and  holds  that 
ridge  of  destiny  wins  the  victory.  There  are 
crises  in  the  course  of  nations  as  well  as  in 
the  tide  of  war,  and  in  this  crisis  of  our  coun- 
try— ^  for  I  believe  we  are  even  now  fast  ap- 
proaching one  —  education  and  her  allies  must 
hold   the   part.      She  will  hold    it,  and  win  for 


truth  and  righteousness,  'ihe  mightiest  fac- 
tors in  human  progress  arc  unseen.  They 
come  not  with  the  noise  and  wrangle  of  polit- 
ical debate,  they  are  not  on  the  surface  of 
strikes  and  labor  agitations;  but,  like  the  sun- 
shine and  the  rain,  they  move  the  latent 
powers  of  a  world's  philanthropy,  and  give  an 
abundant  harvest  of  blessings. 

".Such  a  power  are  the  schools  of  America. 
The  lines  that  lead  out  from  our  New  Kngland 
civilization  have  touched  every  village  and 
hamlet  of  the  national  domain.  The  school 
teachers  are  touching  the  wires  that  arc  to 
reach  every  home  and  child  in  the  land. 
Grand  as  have  been  the  successes  of  the  past, 
they  are  to  pale  and  grow  dim  before  the 
results  of  the  near  future.  We  are  not  to  fail. 
We'll  meet  the  incomer  from  every  nation 
with  the  common  school  for  his  children. 
We'll  send  its  currents  through  and  through 
the  great  surging  mass  of  ignorance  in  that 
South  land.  Even  now  the  rays  are  breaking 
out  through  the  dark  cloud  like  electric  lights 
in  the  blackness  of  a  storm. 

"When  cities  rivalling  the  magnificence  of 
every  other  age,  shall  stand  on  the  borders  of 
the  Pacific,  the  public  school  will  be  there. 
When  the  commerce  of  the  Eastern  nations 
shall  crowd  the  gates  of  those  cities,  we'll  send 
back  to  the  worn-out  civilizations  of  the  Old 
World  the  bearers  of  a  Christian  education, 
before  which  ignorance  shall  be  ashamed  and 
superstition  hide  from  the  sight  of  man." 

The  question  of  deep  water  ways  from  lakes 
to  ocean  and  other  matters  of  moment,  in  com- 
merce and  transportation  especially,  have  al- 
ways commanded  Mr.  Farwell's  attention, 
whether  he  had  direct  personal  interest  in 
them  or  not.  A  new  site  for  a  new  post-office 
building,  for  instance,  was  an  impersonal 
affair,    but  enlisted   his  hearty  interest. 

Whether    the    railroads    should    bridge    the 


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river  at  Detroit,  and  thus,  as  he  and  others 
claimed,  obstruct  navigation,  or  whether  a 
tunnel  should  or  could  be  built  under  water 
fifty  feet  deep,  he  held  of  great  importance  to 
the  people  of  the  whole  North-west.  When 
the  question  came  up  in  1888,  he  addressed 
jniblic  meetings  and  wrote  terse  and  strong 
letters  in  favor  of  a  tunnel.  In  one  of  these 
letters  is  quoted  a  statement  of  General  Poe, 
the  eminent  engineer  then  in  government 
charge  of  harbors,  canals,  etc.,  on  the  Great 
Lakes,  that  the  annual  saving  in  freight  from 
Lake  Superior  alone,  by  water  rather  than 
rail,  was  over  ten  million  dollars,  and  that, 
but  for  water  routes,  the  total  like  e.xtra  cost 
would  e.xceed  forty  million  dollars,  saying  that 
the  freight  passing  through  the  Suez  Canal  is 
less  than  half  what  passes  through  the  river  at 
Detroit,  "which  speculators  are  trying  to  ob- 
struct by  piers  and  bridges."  Mis  brief  para- 
graphs made  a  strong  impression.  The  advo- 
cates of  a  bridge  about  that  time  made  an 
estimate  of  its  cost  as  about  six  million  dol- 
lars, along  with  an  effort  to  show  that  a  tunnel 
was  impracticable. 

It  was  soon  known  that  he  was  ready,  with 
others,  to  guarantee  the  completion  of  a  tunnel 
for  three  million  five  hundred  thousand  dol- 
lars, and  from  the  leading  Lake  cities  came 
protests  against  bridges.  During  the  ten 
years  since,  one  tunnel  has  been  built,  and  is 
in  safe  and  constant  use  at  Port  Huron,  but 
not  a  bridge  at  Detroit  or  elsewhere.  When 
navigation  through  the  "Soo"  and  the  .St. 
Clair  Canals  was  obstructed  by  accidents  in 
1888,  Mr.  I'"arwell  telegraphed  President 
Cleveland,  who  promptly  cut  all  "red  tape," 
and  had  needed  help  given  at  once.  Me  after- 
ward addressed  him  a  letter  favoring  the  Nica- 
ragua Canal. 

In  deep  waterways  —  twenty-foot  channels 
and   canals  from    Chicago  and   Duluth   to  the 


seaboard  —  he  took  strong  interest.  On  these 
subjects  he  spoke  at  Buffalo,  Detroit,  St. 
Louis,  Tacoma,  and  elsewhere,  usually  in  con- 
ventions. Mis  resolutions  and  remarks  at  St. 
Louis  are  given  in  full  :  — 

"At  the  Nicaragua  Canal  Convention  held 
at  St.  Louis,  Mo.,  on  June  i,  1893,  Mr.  Jesse 
H.  Parwell,  representing  the  State  of  Michi- 
gan, offered  the  appended  resolutions  and 
addressed  the  convention  as  follows:  — 

"  117/rmrs  tlic  construclion  of  a  canal  nniting 
tlie  zvatcrs  of  tlie  Atlantic  and  Pacific  Oceans  by 
7vay  of  Lake  Nicaragua  is  noic  the  imperative 
demand  of  the  commercial  icorld,  and  zuill  l>e 
the  equal  benefactor  of  all  maritime  nations ; 
and 

"  Whereas  the  distinguishing  feature  of  the 
generation  in  7chich  zee  live  is  the  g/vzcth  of 
the  sentiment  of  univcisal  brotherhood  and  by 
virtue  thereof  the  fraternity  of  nations  ;  there- 
fore 

"Resolved  that  the  President  of  the  United 
States  be  and  he  is  hereby  requested  to  invite 
to  a  conference  representatives  from  all  nations 
with  whom  this  nation  has  had  diplomatic  rela- 
tions^ to  the  end  that  tlie  Nicaragua  Canal  may 
be  built  by  Joint  effort  of  nations,  that,  as  its 
beneficence  is  universal,  so  the  protection  and 
care  of  it  may  be  the  bounden  obligation  of  the 
maritime  zvorld,  that,  uninterrupted  by  inter- 
necine strife,  it  may  co7itinuc  for  all  time  tlie 
peaceful pathivay  of  a  zvorUV s  commerce.'" 

Mr.  I-'arwell  spoke  as  follows;  "Coming 
uninstructed  from  a  State  which  stands  promi- 
nent in  successful  efforts  for  the  development 
of  the  internal  commerce  of  the  country;  a 
Commonwealth  which  has  by  far  tlie  longest 
coast  line  washed  by  navigable  waters  of  any 
of  our  forty-four  States;  a  State,  every  foot  of 
whose  borders  of  two  thousand  miles  is  con- 
stantly washed  by  the  ebb  and  flow  created  by 
the    innumerable   steam    and   sail    craft   whose 


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keels  create  a  perpetual  wake  around  her  two 
peninsulas;  a  State,  in  front  of  whose  chief 
financial  and  coniniercial  nietropulis  there 
moves  a  commerce  which  in  volume  surpasses 
that  passing  any  other  point  on  the  globe;  a 
city  which,  sitting  on  liic  banks  of  the  broad, 
1)1  uc  l'osi)]iorus  (if  tilts  western  hemisphere, 
has  iieen  justly  likened  in  its  geogra|)hical 
position  to  the  city  of  Constantiiie  in  the 
eastern  world-  it  is  pinper,  f  bclic\'c,  that  1 
call  llic  attention  of  this  convention  to  the 
fact  that,  under  a  wise  and  liberal  system  of 
State  and  national  policy,  seventy  million  of 
people  cheerfully  contriinite  to  the  widening, 
straightening,  and  deei)ening  of  the  various 
channels  connecting  our  great  inland  seas. 

"Long  before  the  United  States  had  a  na- 
tional existence  and  at  a  period  of  Juigland's 
history  when  she  had  already  dotted  the  sur- 
face of  the  globe  with  her  possessions  and  her 
military  posts,  and  when  her  morning  drum- 
beats, travelling  with  the  sun  and  keeping 
time  with  the  hours,  circled  the  earth  with 
(Hie  continuous  ami  unbroken  strain  of  her 
martial  airs,  she  in  connection  with  France 
dedicated  all  the  water  ways  of  our  northern 
and  north-western  frontier  to  be  forever  free 
and  unobstructed  to  all  the  nations  of  the 
earth. 

"The  development  following  the  policy  just 
outlined,  and  which  may  be  classed  as  the 
line  of  Christian  civilization,  is  simpl\'  mar- 
vellous. 

"Buffalo  at  that  time  was  a  straggling  vil- 
lage, Detroit  a  camping-ground  of  the  Indians, 
Chicago  absolutely  unknown,  and  the  w^aters 
of  Lake  Superior  had  scarcely  been  stirred  by 
a  white  man's  skiff;  while  to-da)'  almost 
every  square  mile  of  its  vast  area  is  lightened 
by  the  sails  of  its  vessels,  or  shaded  by  the 
smoke  of  its  rushing  steamers.  And  the  gate- 
way to  and   from    that  lake,    which,    although 


admitting  at  ohc  liiih,  ,uim  c\li^>  ii.niii'iui  four 
of  the  largest  steamships,  and  with  one  move- 
ment lifting  them  from  the  level  of  Lake  Huron 
t(j  that  of  Lake  Superior,  is  insufficient  for  the 
]Hescnt  and  rajjidly  increasing  traffic. 

"Coming  from  a  State  with  surrounding.s 
such  as  I  have  recited  and  with  an  experience 
thus  suggestive  and  cheering,  I  hazard  nothing 
in  saying  that  Michigan  will  he  in  the  very 
liont  rank  of  promoters  of  tiiis  work,  and  will 
stand  ready  to  do  her  full  share  in  aid  of  its 
rapid  and  speedy  completion. 

"For  the  sake  of  contrast,  go  in  memory  over 
the  history  of  the  eastern  world,  and  you  will 
call  to  mind  that  to  gain  possession  of  the 
eastern  Bosphorus  on  one  hand  and  to  main- 
tain the  same  on  the  other,  Europe,  Asia,  and 
Africa  have,  decade  after  decade,  generation 
after  generation,  and  century  after  century, 
marshalled  gigantic  armies,  and  almost  from 
the  period  of  recorded  history  have  continued 
to  enrich  the  soil  of  each  with  the  best  blood 
of  their  soldiery,  and  crimsoned  alike  the  cold 
currents  of  the  Baltic,  the  softer  currents  of 
the  Mediterranean  and  the  Nile,  and  the  blue 
waters  of  the  Adriatic  with  the  best  blood  of 
their  naval  heroes. 

"The  development  following  this  last  re- 
cited policy  has  been  along  the  line  of  bar- 
baric civilization,  the  effect  of  which  is  best 
described  under  terms  of  servile,  mindless,  and 
enervate  Ottoman  and  darkest  Russia. 

"Assembled  as  we  are,  Mr.  President,  to 
consider  a  project  which  has  occupied  the  at- 
tention of  the  civilized  world  since  the  discov- 
ery of  America,  and  which  has  through  suc- 
cessive periods  received  some  of  the  best 
thought  and  effort  of  engineering  and  business 
minds,  and  to  accomplish  which  five  hundred 
millions  of  dollars  and  fifty  thousand  human 
lives  have  been  wasted,  it  may  be  well  to  con- 
sider the  board  and   enlightened  policy  which 


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dictated  the  treaty  I  have  alluded  to,  and  the 
unexampled  results  which  have  arisen  there- 
from. 

"Had  the  maritime  nations  acted  in  conso- 
nance with  that  policy  in  reference  to  an 
interoceanic  canal,  we  should  have  enjoyed  its 
advantages  one  hundred  years  ago. 

"The  expressed  desire  of  one  of  the  many 
able  writers  and  promoters  of  this  enterprise 
is  that  the  first  steamship  which  passes  through 
the  Nicaragua  Canal  may  hail  from  San  Fran- 
cisco; and  he  declares  that  when  he  has  seen 
the  flag  of  our  country  floating  from  the  peak 
of  an  ocean  steamship  on  Lake  Nicaragua,  he 
will  reverently  paraphrase  the  devout  Simeon 
of  nineteen  centuries  ago:  'Lord,  now  lettest 
thou  thy  servant  depart  in  peace,  for  mine 
eyes  have  seen  the  salvation  of  the  Pacific 
Coast  and  the  glory  of  the  great  Republic' 

"My  devout  desire  is  to  live  to  see,  contem- 
poraneously with  the  completion  of  the  Nica- 
ragua Canal  from  ocean  to  ocean,  the  comple- 
tion of  that  other  great  national  work  which 
was  inaugurated  at  Detroit  last  December; 
namely,  a  ship  canal  connecting  our  great  in- 
land seas  with  the  larger  oceans ;  and,  on  the 
completion  of  these  great  works,  world-wide 
in  their  influence  and  benefits,  I  hope  to  see 
not  only  the  Stars  and  Stripes,  but  the  flags  of 
all  maritime  nations,  gaily  and  peacefully 
floating  from  the  mast-heads  of  their  various 
steamers  on  the  route  from  the  Pacific  to  the 
Atlantic  and  vice  versa,  and  also  on  that  other 
route,  which  I  trust  I  may  live  to  see  com- 
pleted, connecting  our  great  inland  lakes  with 
the  outer  oceans.  My  own  idea  is  that  all  the 
maritime  and  inland  States  be  federated  to- 
gether for  the  completion  of  this  great  work. 

"Such  would  be  a  fitting  climax  for  these 
closing  years  of  the  nineteenth  century  of  our 
Christian  era,  and  would  be  the  practical  reali- 
zation  of    what    has    hitherto    been    the    ideal 


dream  of  the  philanthropist — namely,  the  uni- 
versal brotherhood  of  man,  the  federation  of 
the  nations,  and  a  parliament  of  the  world. 

"In  this  line  of  thought,  but  in  no  dogmatic 
spirit,  I  have  offered  these  resolutions,  and 
ask  a  respectful  consideration  theieof  by  this 
convention.  " 

A  glance  at  the  genealogical  records  of  the 
I-'arwell  and  allied  families  shows  that  the 
subject  of  the  foregoing  sketch  numbers  among 
his  ancestors  some  of  the  earliest  colonists  of 
New  England  and  some  of  the  most  noted  and 
influential,  both  in  the  Plymouth  settlement 
and  the  Bay  province.  The  P"arwell  line  is 
thus  given  :  — 

(i)  Henry  Farwell  from  England  settled  in 
Concord,  Mass.,  in  1638,  moved  to  Chelms- 
ford, Mass.,  in  1650,  and  died  there  in  1670; 
his  wife,  Olive,  at  same  town,  1691.  The 
earliest  town  records  of  Concord  being  lost, 
knowledge  of  these  two  is  scanty;  but  they 
were  probably  ancestors  of  all  or  most  of  the 
name  in  New  England  and  of  many  else- 
where. (2)  Their  son,  Joseph  Farwell,  born  in 
Concord,  1642,  married  Hannah  Learned,  of 
Chelmsford,  in  1666,  and  died  in  Dunstable, 
Mass.,  in  1722.  (3)  Lsaac  P^arwell,  son  of 
Joseph,  born  in  Chelmsford,  died   about    1753. 

(4)  William  P'arwell,  son  of  Isaac,  born  in 
Medford,  Mass.,  in  1712,  died  in  Charlestown, 
N. H.,    in    iSoi,    married    Bethiah     Eldridge. 

(5)  Jesse  and  Abigail  (Allen)  Farwell,  of 
North  Charlestown,  N.H.  (6)  George  and  Au- 
rilla  (Brownell)  I-'arwell.  (7)  Their  son,  Jesse 
H.  Farwell,  born  in  1834,  in  North  Charles- 
town, N.  H.,  now  of  Detroit,   Mich. 

Henry  P'arwell  and  his  descendants  were 
trustworthy,  the  men  holding  town  and  church 
offices  far  more  important  then  than  now.  They 
were  substantial  farmers  and  landholders,  in- 
telligent and  independent  in  thought.  One 
stood  firm  in  the  patriot  ranks  on  Bunker  Hill. 


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Several  were  in  Indian  fights,  Sf)me  talccn 
prisoners.  The  Rev.  William  I'arwelJ,  a 
great-uncle  of  Jesse  II.  l-'arweJl,  was  the  first 
Univers.ilist  ])reacher  in  Northern  Vermont 
and  New  1  lanijishire,  an  heretical  bishoji  trav- 
elling much  o\'er  his  wide  diocese,  holding 
toil  and  peril  but  light  trials,  and  much  be- 
loved as  a  true  man.  In  Harrc,  V^t. ,  one  of 
his  societies  built  a  chunli  over  a  century  ago. 
The  ['"arwells  were  a  steadfast  race,  such  men 
antl'women  as  hold  the  world  together. 

The  wife  of  Jesse  l'"arwell  and  grandmother 
of  Jesse  M.  I-'arwell  was  Abigail  Allen, 
daughter  of  Benjamin  and  I'eggy  (Spofford) 
Allen,  and  grand-daughter  of  Captain  John 
and  Hannah  (Tyler)  Spofford.  Benjamin 
Allen  was  in  Stark's  brigade  at  Bennington 
and  .Saratoga.  The  Spofford  family  is  a  very 
old  one  in  England,  the  name  being  found  in 
the  Doomsday  Book,  or  record  of  the  division 
of  lands  after  the  Norman  Concpiest  in  1066, 
and  also  in  Sa.xon  chronicles  of  an  earlier 
date.  The  Spofford  Genealogy,  prepared 
mostly  by  the  late  Dr.  Jeremiah  Spofford,  of 
Georgetown,  Mass.,  and  edited  by  his  daugh- 
ter, contains  a  picture  of  Spofforth  Castle,  an 
interesting  ruin  in  Spofforth  or  .Spofford, 
Yorkshire,  England,  whose  owner  in  the 
eleventh  century,  Gamelbar,  Lord  of  Spni- 
forth,  was  son  of  Gamel,  who  before  the  Con- 
cpiest  was  lord  of  the  manor  of  llkley,  and  was 
the  ancestor  of  the  Spofforths  or  Spoffords  of 
Yorkshire.  Captain  John  .Spofford,  above 
named,  born  in  1704,  grandfather  of  Abigail, 
wife  of  Jesse  Farwell,  was  a  great-grandson 
of  John  .Spofford,  one  of  the  first  settlers  of 
Rowley,  Mass.,  and  the  first  settler  in 
Georgetown,  Mass.  Of  the  latter,  who  had 
the  reputation  of  being  an  intensely  jjious 
man,  a  curious  anecdote  is  related:  "There 
had  been  a  severe  drought,  and  he  went  to 
Salem  to  buy  corn  for  himself  and  his  neigh- 


bors. The  merchant  to  whom  11..  .ijijilicd, 
knowing  the  scarcity,  and  foreseeing  higher 
prices,  refu.scd  to  sell.  After  pleading  in 
vain,  John  .Spofford  cursed  the  merchant  to 
his  face,  and  was  promptly  brought  before  the 
local  magistrate,  charged  w-ith  profane  swear- 
ing. Spofford  replied  that  he  had  not  sworn 
profanely  but  as  a  religious  duty,  and  quoterl 
Prov.  xi.,  2(1,  as  his  authority.  The  words 
he  qu(jted  are:  'lie  that  witholdeth  corn  from 
the  hungry,  the  people  shall  curse  him.' 
Spofford  was  immediately  acquitted,  and,  by 
the  summary  power  of  the  Court  in  those  days, 
the  merchant  was  ordered  to  deliver  the  corn." 
Captain  John  Spofford,  his  great-grandson, 
already  mentioned,  after  marriage  resided  for 
ten  years  in  Georgetown,  and  then  removed 
to  what  is  now  Charlestown,  N.  H.  The  saw- 
mill and  grist-mill  built  here  by  him,  the  first 
in  this  region,  were  burned  by  the  Indians  in 
1746;  and  he  himself,  with  otic  or  tw(j  others, 
was  carried  away  a  prisoner  to  Canada,  whence 
he  returned  in  1747.  The  mills  built  to  re- 
place these  were  also  destroyed,  and  afterward 
the  third  mills  were  built.  Settlers  came 
from  Lancaster,  one  hundred  and  twenty  four 
miles  away,  to  have  their  corn  ground  by  Cap- 
tain Spofford.  Hannah  Tyler,  wife  of  Captain 
John  Spofford,  was  a  daughter  ot  Job  and 
Margaret  (Bradstreet)  Tyler,  and  her  mother, 
Margaret,  a  daughter  of  Colonel  Dudley  Brad- 
street,  who  was  a  son  of  Governor  Simon  and 
Anne  (Dudley)  Bradstreet,  both  of  honored 
memory,  he  an  able  and  faithful  government 
official  in  the  Massachusetts  Bay  Colony  for 
over  si.xty  years,  chief  magistrate  for  thirteen 
years;  she  a  poet,  the  first  American  woman 
of  letters,  a  lady  of  gentle  birth  and  breed- 
ing, daughter  of  Governor  Thomas  Dudley. 
Governor  and  Mistress  Anne  Bradstreet  were 
the  parents  of  eight  children.  From  them 
many  distinguished  Americans — for  e.\ample, 


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Oliver  Wendell  Holmes,  Wendell  Phillips, 
William  Ellery  Channing  —  have  traced  their 
lineage. 

Mr.  Jesse  H.  Farvvell's  mother,  Mrs. 
Aurilla  (Brownell)  Farwell,  was  a  daughter  of 
Henry  and  Ruth  (Shaw)  Brownell,  of  Little 
Compton,  R.  L  She  was,  on  the  maternal 
side,  of  the  si.xth  generation  in  descent  from 
John  and  Priscilla  (Mullens)  Alden,  of  the 
"Mayflower"  and  Plymouth  Colony,  being  a 
great-great-grand-daughter  of  their  daughter 
Elizabeth,  the  first  white  woman  born  in  New 
England,  who  married  William  Pabodie  (or 
Peabody),  of  Duxbury,  afterward  of  Little 
Compton,  R.I.  Sarah  Pabodie,  daughter  of 
William  and  Elizabeth,  became  the  wife  of 
John  Coe;  and  their  daughter,  Mrs.  Lydia  Coe 
Shaw,  was  the  mother  of  Mrs.  Ruth  Shaw 
Brownell  and  grandmother  of  Aurilla  Brown- 
ell. 

Mrs.  Elizabeth  Alden  Pabodie  died  at  Little 
Compton,  R.L,  May  31,  1717,  in  the  ninety- 
third  or  ninety-fourth  year  of  her  age.  Her 
tomb  bears  the  following  inscription:  — 

•'A  bud  from  Plymouth's  '  Mayflower'  sprung, 
Transplanted  here  to  live  and  bloom, 
Her  memory,  ever  sweet  and  young, 
The  centuries  guard  within  tliis  tomb." 


ENJAMIN  W.  BREED,  farmer,  of 
''^^  I-'ranklin,  Merrimack  County,  N.H., 
n^/  a  veteran  of  the  Civil  War,  who 
nearly  lost  his  life  by  a  gimshot  wound  re- 
ceived in  battle,  was  born  in  Nelson,  Cheshire 
County,  February  12,  1830,  son  of  John  and 
Sarah  (Blood)  Breed.  Many  of  his  ancestors 
and  of  their  near  kin  were  of  Massachusetts 
birth,  and  were  lifelong  residents  of  that 
State,  the  family  being  one  of  the  earliest  that 
settled  in  P^ssex  County.  iJr.  Nathaniel 
Breed,  who  was  a  native  of    Lynn,  Mass.,  was 


a  surgeon's  mate  on  the  staff  of  General  Wash- 
ington in  the  Revolution.  Dr.  Breed's  son 
John  was  at  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  which 
was  really  fought,  as  we  know,  on  Breed's 
Hill.  John  Breed  spent  the  greater  part  of 
his  life  in  Nelson,  N.H.,  but  passed  his  last 
years  in  Sheboygan,  Wis. 

John  Breed,  son  of  John  and  father  of  Ben- 
jamin W.,  resided  in  Nelson  until  1840,  when 
he  removed  to  Franklin,  and  settled  upon  the 
farm  which  his  son  now  occupies.  He  died  in 
i860.  He  was  twice  married;  and  by  his  first 
wife,  Rhoda  Wheeler,  of  Nelson,  he  had  four 
children,  none  of  whom  are  living.  His  sec- 
ond wife,  Sarah  Blood,  who  was  a  native  of 
Tyngsboro,  Mass.,  became  the  mother  of  five 
children,  as  follows:  Rhoda,  who  lives  in 
Franklin  Falls,  and  is  the  widow  of  Ben- 
jamin H.  Holt;  Charles,  who  resided  for  a 
time  in  Charlestown,  Mass.,  and  died  at  New 
Orleans  in  1864;  Sarah  Ann,  who  married 
Washington  Clark,  of  Tilton,  and  is  no  longer 
living;  Benjamin  W.,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch;  and  J.  Newton,  who  married  Betsey 
Bromley,  and  resides  in  Chelsea,  Mass.  Mrs. 
Sarah  Blood  Breed  died  in  1879.  She  was 
a  daughter  of  Joseph  and  Hannah  (Walker) 
Blood,  and  grand-daughter  of  Captain  Ben- 
jamin Walker,  who  was  wounded  and  taken 
prisoner  at  the  battle  of  Biuiker  Hill,  and  died 
in  captivity. 

15enjamin  W.  Breed  acquired  a  common- 
school  education,  and  resided  at  home  initil 
twenty-three  years  old.  He  followeil  agricult- 
ural pursuits  until  November  4,  1861,  when 
he  enlisted  in  Company  I,  First  New  luigland 
Cavalry,  under  Captain  S.  R.  Swett  and  Colo- 
nel Lawton,  of  Ivhodc  Island.  He  received 
a  gunshot  woimd  in  his  leg  at  l^ront  Royal, 
Va.,  May  30,  1862,  which  confined  him  to  the 
hos[iital  for  some  time.  Shortly  after  he  was 
shot  he  was  told  that  he  miglit    live   ten   days, 


IJIOOK  M'llMAI, 


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l)ul  tlicrc  was  lui  iikjix'  cliaiuc  lor  liim  to  sur- 
vive four  weeks  tlian  if  bis  head  had  iieen  cut 
off.  The  reply  he  gave  to  the  orderly  sergeant 
was,  "The  surgeon  don't  known  how  tough 
old  Ik'u  is."  And  so  it  jirovcd.  He  was  dis- 
charged Novemljcr  3,  1X62.  Re-enlisting 
November  17,  1863,  in  tlie  Reserve  Corps,  he 
did  hospital  duty  in  Wasiiington,  D. C,  until 
niially  discharged  August  21,  1865.  lie  re- 
turned to  I'^ranklin,  and  resided  upon  the 
River  Road  until  1871,  when  he  took  up  his 
residence  at  the  homestead,  and  has  since  been 
engaged  in  general  farming.  He  owns  one 
hundred  and  seventeen  acres  of  excellent  land, 
the  fertility  of  which  he  has  greatly  increased; 
and  he  has  improved  his  property  by  erecting 
new  buildings.  lie  carried  the  bullet  in  his 
leg  sixteen  years;  and  then,  when  it  had 
worked  out  toward  the  surface,  it  was  ex- 
tracted. He  now  has  it  in  his  possession,  a 
flattened  piece  of  lead,  with  scraped  bits  of 
bone  adhering  to  it  yet.  With  this  source  of 
inllammation  removed,  his  physical  condition 
is  now  much  better  than  before,  and  he  is  able 
to  do  light  work. 

On  February  21,  1851,  Mr.  Breed  was 
joined  in  marriage  with  Sarah  Philbrick.  She 
was  born  in  Sanbornton,  N.H.,  daughter  of 
Benjamin  and  Charlotte  Philbrick.  She  died 
June  12,  1892;  and  on  August  5,  1894,  Mr. 
Breed  married  Mrs.  Cynthia  Jane  Philbrick 
Taylor,  his  first  wife's  sister.  She  was  the 
widow  of  Levi  Taylor,  a  carpenter  of  Provi- 
dence, R.I. ,  and  by  her  first  husband  she  had 
two  children:  Mabel,  now  wife  of  J.  M. 
Wells,  who  is  in  the  hardware  business  in 
Portsmouth,  N. H.  ;  and  Nellie,  wife  of  Alfred 
L.  I'omcroy,  a  coal  dealer  in  Chicopee,  Mass. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Breed  have  no  children. 

In  politics  Mr.  Breed  is  a  Republican,  and 
formerly  took  an  active  interest  in  public 
affairs.     He  is  highly  esteemed  as  an  industri- 


ous farmer  and  a  worthy  citizen,  and  is  popu- 
lar among  the  comrades  of  George  K.  Swett 
Post,  No.  38,  G.  A.  K. 


>VAJ/|1.l1AM     [.-.     1I|;ad,    an    extensive 

'^V  manufacturer,  lumber  dealer,  and 
agriculturist  of  Ilookset,  N.  H.,  is 
well  known  as  one  of  the  most  enterprising 
and  successful  business  men  of  Merrimack 
County.  He  was  born  in  Hookset,  September 
25,  1832,  son  of  John  and  Annie  (Brown) 
Head,  and  is  a  younger  brother  of  the  late  ex- 
Governor  Natt  Head,  with  whom  for  thirty 
years,  1852  to  1883,  he  was  associated  in 
business. 

The  Head  family,  although  not  one  of  the 
oldest  in  New  England,  has  a  history  in  this 
country  of  more  than  two  hundred  years. 
The  emigrant  ancestor  was  Arthur  Head,  a 
native,  it  is  supposed,  of  Wales,  who  settled 
at  New  Castle,  N.H.,  in  1671,  and  died  there 
in  September,  171  i.  lie  was  survived  by  his 
wife,  Sarah,  who  died  not  later  than  1718. 
They  reared  five  children,  the  eldest  of  whom 
was  James  Head,  the  great-great-grandfather 
of  William  F. 

James  Head  was  born  at  New  Castle  in 
1683.  In  1707  he  removed  to  Bradford, 
Mass.,  where  he  made  his  home  until  his 
death  in  1743.  He  was  twice  married,  and 
had  three  children  by  his  first  wife,  Sarah  At- 
wood,  who  died  in  1717,  and  three  by  his  sec- 
ond wife,  l^lizabeth  Atwood,  his  first  wife's  1 
sister,  Major  James  Head,  the  next  in  line  of 
descent,  being  the  last-born. 

Major  James  Head  lived  in  Bradford, 
Mass.,  the  place  of  his  birth,  until  1770, 
when  he  established  himself  as  a  farmer  in 
Pembroke,  N.H.  He  enlisted  in  the  war  of 
the  Revolution,  receiving  a  commission  as 
Major  in  Colonel  Stickney's  regiment,  and  at 


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the  battle  of  Bennington,  August  i6,  1777, 
was  killed.  His  wife,  whose  maiden  name 
was  Sarah  Thurston,  bore  him  seven  children, 
Nathaniel,  their  third  child,  being  grand- 
father of  William  F. 

Nathaniel  Head  was  born  March  4,  1754, 
in  Bradford,  Mass.,  and  in  1770  accompanied 
his  parents  to  Pembroke,  N.  H.,  where  he  was 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits  until  1783. 
Coming  then  to  Chester,  now  Hookset,  he 
built  a  log  cabin,  in  which  he  and  his  family 
lived  for  mqny  years,  while  he  was  engaged  in 
the  pioneer  labor  of  clearing  and  improving  his 
land.  In  addition  to  general  farming,  he  es- 
tablished a  substantial  lumber  business,  which 
has  since  been  profitably  carried  on  by  his  de- 
scendants. He  built  a  hotel,  or  tavern,  as  it 
was  then  called,  and,  being  licensed  as 
an  innkeeper  in  1784,  dispensed  hospitality 
as  a  landlord  for  thirty-five  years.  He  took  a 
prominent  part  in  local  affairs,  holding  at 
different  times  all  of  the  town  offices,  and 
serving  as  Justice  of  the  Peace  many  years. 
He  was  quite  active  in  military  circles, 
and,  being  the  Commander  of  a  company 
of  militia,  was  known  as  Captain  Head.  He 
married  Miss  Annie  Kno.x,  of  Pembroke;  and 
John,  father  of  William  F.  Head,  was  the 
seventh  of  their  nine  children.  Captain 
Head  lived  to  a  good  old  age,  dying  in  1831. 

Colonel  John  Head,  a  lifelong  resident  of 
Hookset,  Merrimack  County,  was  born  May 
30,  1791,  and  died  August  7,  1835.  He  was 
for  many  years  numbered  among  the  foremost 
farmers  and  hunber  dealers  of  this  part  of  the 
county.  He  married  July  11,  1822,  Miss 
Annie  Brown,  a  daughter  of  William  and  Sallie 
(Bunten)  Brown,  and  they  became  the  parents 
of  seven  children;  namely,  Hannah  Ann, 
Sally  B. ,  Natt  and  William  Brown  (twins), 
John  A.,  William  F.,  and  Mary  Jane.  Han- 
nah   Ann    Head,  born   January    19,   1824,  mar- 


ried Colonel  Josiah  Stevens,  and  died  July  9, 
1S96,  leaving  one  child,  Sarah  Frances,  who 
married  J.  Henry  Dearborn.  A  son,  Edwin 
Eugene  Stevens,  died  April  4,  1896,  three 
months  before  his  mother.  Sally  B.  Head, 
who  was  born  P'ebruary  25,  1826,  was  married 
March  4,  1863,  to  Hall  ]?.  I':mery,  of  Pem- 
broke. Natt  Head  (of  whom  see  special  sketch) 
and  William  Brown  Head,  twins,  were  born 
May  20,  1828;  and  William  Brown  died  Sep- 
tember 20,  1829.  John  A.  Head,  born  July 
9,  1830,  married  December  4,  1862,  Abbie  F. 
Davis,  of  Fort  Atkinson,  Wis.,  and  had  one 
child,  a  son,  Frank,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
fifteen  months.  Mary  Jane  Head,  who  was 
born  April  20,  1835,  died  March  13,  1836. 

William  F.  Head  was  educated  in  Pem- 
broke, and  remained  on  the  home  farm  with 
his  mother.  When  about  twenty  years  of  age 
he  entered  into  business  with  his  brother 
Natt,  establishing  in  Hookset  in  1852  the 
manufacture  of  bricks,  which  they  carried  on 
until  the  death  of  Natt  Head  some  tliirty 
years  later,  the  brothers  having  such  faith  in 
each  other's  honor  that  no  books  were  ever 
kept,  everything  being  owned  in  common. 
Mr.  Head  has  had  various  business  enter- 
prises under  his  command,  in  each  of  which 
he  has  been  very  successful,  managing  his 
brickyards,  mills,  and  large  farm,  and  contin- 
uing the  lumber  business  established  by  his 
grandfather.  Captain  Head.  Under  his  saga- 
cious management  this  industry  has  assumed 
large  proportions.  In  1.S71  was  formetl  the 
Head  &  Dowst  Company,  contractors  and 
buiUlers,  Mr.  Head  being  Vice-President. 
His  farm,  the  oUl  Head  homestead,  contains 
two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land,  on  wliich 
he  averages  an  annual  crop  of  two  hundred 
and  fifty  tons  of  hay. 

On  November  4,  1858,  William  !•'.  Head 
married     Miss     Mary     Ilaseltine    Sargent,     a 


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(l;iiit;htcr  of  Sterling  and  Sally  (Gault)  Sar- 
gent, of  Allcnstown,  N.II.  Mr.  ami  Mrs. 
Head  arc  llic  parents  of  two  cliiklren,  namely: 
liugeno  Sterling,  born  June  i,  1863;  and 
Sallio,  who  was  born  A[)ril  30,  1866,  anil 
was  graduated  at  Lascll  Seminary  in  1887. 
Eugene  S.  Head  was  educated  at  I'end)rokc 
Academy  and  at  Dartmouth  College.  He  is 
now  in  business  with  his  father,  the  firm 
name  being  William  !•".  Head  .S:  Son.  On 
account  of  the  father's  impaired  health  the 
management  now  rests  upon  the  son,  who  is 
daily  proving  himself  equal  to  the  responsi- 
bility. In  1891  he  served  creditably  as  a 
member  of  the  Legislature,  and  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Republican  State  Committee.  He 
is  also  a  member  of  the  School  Board.  He 
was  married  November  19,  1884,  to  Miss 
Hattie  M.  lloyt.  They  have  two  children: 
William  Iloyt,  born  April  24,  1886;  and 
Mary  H.,  born  October  29,   1888. 

Mr.  William  l"".  Head  has  held  many  im- 
jjortant  public  olTices.  He  served  as  Se- 
lectman in  1859,  and  1S60;  in  1869,  and 
1870  he  was  a  member  of  the  State  legis- 
lature, representing  the  town  of  Hookset;  and 
in  1876  he  was  a  member  of  the  Constitu- 
tional Convention.  Well-versed  in  monetary 
alfairs  and  a  man  of  marked  executive  ability, 
he  is  Director  of  the  Suncook  Valley  Rail- 
way Company,  a  Trustee  of  the  Merrimack 
River  Savings  Bank,  and  of  the  h'irst  National 
Bank  of  Manchester,  this  .State,  and  a  Trus- 
tee of  the  New  F.ngland  Agricultural  Society. 
For  many  years  he  has  been  prominent  in  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  belonging  to  luneka 
Lodge,  V.  &  A.  M.,  of  Concord,  which 
he  joined  in  1863;  being  a  charter  mendjer 
of  Jewell  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Suncook; 
and  a  member  of  Trinity  Commandery, 
K.  T. ,  of  Manchester.  In  politics  he  is  a 
stanch   Republican. 


^ATHA.MliL    HEAD,    Governor    of 
New   Ilamijshire  from    1879  to  1881, 

-^  V«_^  was  born  May  20,  1828,  son  of 
John  and  Annie  (Brown)  Mead.  Having 
completed  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
Pembroke,  he  began  life  as  a  farmer  and 
lumberman  at  a  very  early  age,  remaining 
on  the  old  homestead.  His  military  career 
commenced  on  Sejitember  1,  1847,  when  he 
was  appointed  Drum  Major  oi  the  Eleventh 
Regiment,  Thiid  Brigade,  I-'irst  Division, 
of  the  State  militia,  in  which  he  served 
four  years.  He  was  an  original  member  of 
the  famous  Horse  Guards,  in  which  he  was 
Drum  Major  and  Chief  Bugler  during  the  ex- 
istence of  the  corps.  He  was  likewise  con- 
nected with  the  Amoskeag  Veterans  of  Man- 
chester, N.II.,  and  was  an  honorary  member 
of  the  ]?oston  Lancers  ami  of  the  Ancient  and 
Honorable  Artillery  Company  of  that  city. 
During  his  early  life  he  served  in  various 
public  capacities,  being  Deputy  Sheriff  many 
years,  and  in  1861  and  1862  representing  his 
town  in  the  State  legislature.  On  March  26, 
1864,  he  received  an  appointment  that  brought 
him  more  conspicuously  before  the  public. 
Governor  Gilmore  making  him  Adjutant,  In- 
spector, and  Quartermaster-general.  In  1875 
occurred  the  celebrated  controversy  in  the 
Senatorial  district  over  the  spelling  of  his 
name,  so  many  of  the  votes  being  cast  out 
that  he  failed  of  election;  but  on  the  follow- 
ing year  his  constituents,  careful  that  a  like 
mistake  iliil  not  occur,  electeil  him  to  the 
Senate  by  a  large  vote.  In  1878  he  was 
elected  Governor  of  the  State,  being  the  first 
to  hold  the  office  under  the  then  new  biennial 
law. 

A  man  of  superior  ability  and  of  strict  in- 
tegrity, Natt  Head  was  also  prominent  in 
other  important  offices.  For  several  years  he 
was  a  Director  of  the  Suncook  Valley  Railway 


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Company,  of  the  First  National  Bank  of  Man- 
chester, N.II.,  and  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Fire  Insurance  Company.  He  was  likewise 
President  of  the  China  Savings  Bank  of  Sun- 
cook  and  a  Trustee  of  the  Merrimack  River 
Savings  Bank  of  Manchester.  He  was  a 
charter  member  of  Jewell  Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M., 
of  Suncook;  a  member  of  the  K.  of  P.  lodge 
of  the  same  place;  and  a  charter  member  of 
the  Howard  Lodge,  L  O.  O.  F.,  of  Suncook. 
Deeply  interested  in  the  early  history  of  our 
country,  he  identified  himself  with  the  New 
Hampshire  Historical  Society,  of  which  he 
was  Vice-President.  He  was  not  a  member 
of  any  church,  but  was  liberal  in  his  religious 
belief.  His  active  public  life,  which  won  him 
a  wide  reputation,  brought  him  in  contact 
with  many  of  the  leading  men  of  his  times; 
and  he  had  a  personal  acquaintance  with  Gen- 
erals Grant,  Sherman,  Sheridan,  and  others, 
and  was  often  invited  to  accompany  them  on 
different  trips  through  the  country. 

He  married  Miss  Abbie  M.  Sanford,  of 
Lowell,  Mass.,  on  November  19,  1863,  and 
they  became  the  parents  of  three  children,  as 
follows:  Annie  Sanford,  born  June  23,  1865; 
Lewis  Fisher,  born  February  18,  1868,  who 
died  March  4,  1S72;  and  Alice  Perley,  who 
was  born  December  28,  1870,  and  died  No- 
vember 20,  1879.  E.x-Governor  Head  died 
November  12,  1883. 


'OHN  P.  ROUNSEVEL,  formerly  a 
well-known  wi)(j1  buyer  of  Claremont, 
was  born  in  Unity,  N.H.,  January  2, 
181 5,  son  of  Royal  and  Betsey  (Sweat)  Roun- 
sevel.  Rounseville,  the  original  spelling  of 
the  name,  was  changed  tu  the  j)rcscnt  form 
by  Joseph  Rounsevel  about  the  year  1768.  In 
1749  Thomas  Rounseville  wrote  from  Ottery 
St.   Mary  to    I'liilij)    Rounseville,    of   pjigland, 


who  afterward  came  to  this  country.  He 
settled  in  I'reetown,  Mass.,  and  was  called  by 
the  townspeople  King  Philip.  His  son  Jo- 
seph, who,  born  January  3,  1737,  died  in 
1827,  went  to  Washington,  N.  H.,  between 
1768  and  1772,  from  Middleboro,  Mass., 
having  previously  resided  in  Itast  Freetown. 
Joseph  was  a  good  farmer,  a  well-read  man, 
and  a  Justice  of  the  Peace.  He  executed  the 
legal  business  of  the  town,  and  represented 
Washington  with  other  towns  in  the  General 
Court.  His  children  were:  Alden,  Charity, 
Phebe,  John,  Rosamond,  and  Royal.  Alden 
married  Hannah  Wells.  Charity  married  Ma- 
nasseh  Farnsworth  in  1784.  Phebe  never 
married.  John  married  Rebecca  Chamberlain 
in  1768.  Rosamond  married  Thomas  Putnam 
in  1787.  Royal's  children  were;  Joseph,  Mi- 
nerva, File  I.,  Lyman,  and  John  P.  Of  them 
Joseph,  who  was  born  in  1796,  and  died  De- 
cember 24,  1858,  married  Betsey  Laughton, 
who  had  by  him  five  children  —  Sarah,  Har- 
riet, Holmes,  Lyman,  and  Marinda.  Mi- 
nerva, born  in  1799,  who  married  John  Stow- 
ell,  had  no  children,  and  died  in  July,  1848. 
Elle  I.,  born  February  15,  1801,  who  married 
Orrill  Reckard,  and  had  four  children —  Ellen 
H.,  Royal  D.,  Mary,  and  William  —  died  Sep- 
tember 19,  1852.  Lyman,  born  November  7, 
1805,  married  Sarah  Sparling,  by  whom  he 
became  the  father  of  seven  children  —  Thomas 
Eaton,  Vienna  Elizabeth,  Lyman  Eaton, 
Homer  .S.,  Almira,  Diantha  S.,  and  William 
Ashton. 

Royal  Rounsevel,  the  father  of  John  P., 
born  in  Washington,  this  count\',  in  1772, 
marrieii  Betsey  Sweat,  of  Unity,  who  died 
January  22,  1837.  He  was  well  educated  for 
the  times,  and  taught  school  in  Weare,  N.  H., 
for  some  years.  He  finally  gave  up  teaching 
for  a  farmer's  life,  and  in  middle  life  moved 
to    Unity.      A    Quaker   in   religious    belief,  he 


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l)L'l(inf;c(l  to  tlio  Society  (if  I'licnds  that  held 
regular  meetings  in  Unity.  While  an  earnest 
member  of  the  sect,  lie  was  a  man  of  quiet 
dispositinn  ami  a  good  neighbor.  He  died 
September  17,  1829,  leaving  five  children. 
These,  with  the  exception  of  John  P.,  were 
for  many  years  residents  and  farmers  of  .Sulli- 
van County,  wiicre  they  were  born.  Lyman, 
who  was  a  drover  for  thirty  years,  spent  the 
last  twenty-five  years  of  his  life  in  the  occupa- 
tiiiu  of  tanner;  and  during  iiis  stay  in  Unity 
he  was  for  two  )'cars  a  mcnihei'  of  the  legis- 
lature. 

John  1'.  i<ounsc\'cl,  the  youngest  son  of  his 
parents,  was  well  educated.  He  attended 
school  at  Chester  and  Cavendish,  Vt. ,  and 
lateral  Meriden  and  Unity,  N.  H.  In  Unity 
he  was  uiuIlm'  the  instruction  of  Dr.  Miner. 
It  was  designed  to  send  him  to  college,  but 
his  impaired  health  caused  the  plan  to  be  given 
up.  At  the  age  of  seventeen  he  entered  the 
lirofession  of  teacher;  and  he  subsctpiently 
taught  in  both  public  and  [jrivate  schools  in 
Charlestowi),  Acworth,  Unity,  and  Claremont. 
He  had  spent  two  years  teaching  in  La 
Grange,  Ga.,  when  his  health  succLmd:)ed  to 
the  warm  climate,  and  he  returned  to  school- 
teaching  in  the  North  for  another  year.  He 
then  tried  travelling  for  his  health,  and  sold 
clothes  and  other  merchandise.  In  1850  he 
went  to  California,  and  there  was  variously 
occupied  in  mining,  farming,  and  trading 
among  the  miners;  but  he  returned  home 
sick  in  1852.  In  1S54  he  became  a  mer- 
chant in  Littleton.  I'"rom  there  he  removed 
to  Claremont  in  1858,  aiul  there  carried  on  a 
dry-goods  business  for  nine  }ears.  He  then 
took  up  the  clothing  business,  and  finally 
that  of  wool-buying,  which  he  commenced 
when  the  Civil  War  was  in  jjrogress,  and  in 
which  he  was  very  successful.  He  was  with 
the    Kcenc    Company,    of    Keene,    N.H.,    for 


ten  years,  and  in  1890  gave  U])  his  bu.siness 
to  his  son.  I-'or  thirty  years  he  was  a  Di- 
rector of  the  Sullivan  Savings  Hank,  and 
its  Vice-I'resident  f<jr  many  years.  Mr. 
Roun.sevel  married  Sarah  Jane,  daughter 
of  Laton  l^ailey.  l^aton  Hailey,  son  of  John 
Bailey,  lived  in  Unity,  and  was  a  farmer  and 
drover.  Before  her  marriage  Mrs.  Rounscvel 
was  a  pupil  of  Mr.  Rounscvel,  and  she  subse- 
quently taught  school  for  one  term.  Their 
only  child,  Charles  W. ,  born  June  25,  1856, 
who  is  the  station  agent  of  Newport,  N.I  I., 
married  Alice  Sargent,  and  has  one  child, 
Henry  II.  Mr.  Rounscvel,  .Sr. ,  was  a  legis- 
lative Representative  for  two  years.  He  tlicd 
May  I,  1897,  regretted  as  a  loss  to  the  com- 
munity. 


ARREN  SMITH  HILL,  a  successful 
contractor  and  farmer  of  Northfield, 
was  born  in  this  town,  I'cbruary  9, 
1842.  His  father,  Captain  Warren  Lapham 
Hill,  was  a  native  of  the  same  town;  and  his 
mother,  Betsey  Tucker  Hill,  was  born  in  Hop- 
kinton,  December  26,  1806,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 6,  1886.  The  progenitors  of  Mr.  Hill 
were  the  original  settlers  of  Northfield,  and 
came  from  Salisbury,  Mass.,  about  the  close 
of  the  Revolutionary  War.  They  were  two 
of  the  four  sons  of  Daniel  Hill,  and  were,  to- 
gether with  their  father,  shoemakers  by  trade. 
They  supplied  the  Continental  soldiers  with 
shoes,  and  were  paid  in  the  scrip  then  issued, 
which  later  became  so  depreciated  that  they 
were  forced  into  other  lines  of  labor  and 
became  coopers.  Seeking  new^  fields  of  ac- 
tivity, they  went  to  Concord,  this  State,  and, 
meeting  with  a  certain  Captain  Blanchard, 
were  directed  to  the  locality  now  known  as 
Bay  Hill,  where,  they  were  told,  was  to  be 
found  good  land  for  farming  and  very  cheap 
(as  there  was  no  meeting-house  in  town  to  give 


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it  much  worth),  besides  the  finest  of  scenery. 
It  is  related  that  on  this  trip  they  each  took 
with  them  a  bag  of  one  hundred  silver  dollars 
(English  coined),  and  that  they  travelled  from 
Salisbury,  Mass.,  to  Northfield,  stopping  in 
Concord,  made  their  selection  and  returned, 
all  within  twenty-four  hours.  Timothy  and 
John  were  their  names;  and  the  former  married 
Miss  Betsey  Lapham,  of  Salisbury,  and  settled 
with  the  rest  of  his  family  in  the  Bay  Hill 
house,  which  still  stands,  almost  in  its  origi- 
nal style.  Timothy,  it  seems,  did  not  use  all 
of  the  one  hundred  silver  dollars  brought  by 
him  to  buy  land,  and  four  of  them  were  dis- 
tributed to  the  living  children  of  Captain 
Warren  Hill  at  a  marriage  anniversary  where 
the  entire  families  were  present.  One  of  the 
dollars  is  kept  as  an  heirloom  by  the  subject 
of  this  sketch. 

Warren  Hill,  father  of  Warren  Smith  Hill 
(or,  as  he  was  familiarly  known  to  his  friends 
and  acquaintances.  Captain  Warren),  succeeded 
to  the  ownership  of  the  farm  jjurchased  and 
cultivated  by  Timothy,  and  during  his  life- 
time continued  its  cultivation,  besides  run- 
ning a  brickyard  near  the  present  site  of  the 
Granite  Mills,  and  also  an  e.xtensive  lumber- 
ing business.  He  served  in  the  State  legis- 
lature as  Representative  one  session,  and  was 
long  a  prominent  factor  in  town  politics.  He 
represented  a  class  of  political  believers  that 
are  fast  dying  out,  a  class  who,  having  once 
fixed  their  opinions,  never  waver,  and  was  an 
uncompromising  Democrat  to  the  time  of  his 
death.  In  the  early  training  days,  long  before 
the  State  militia  was  thought  of,  Captain  Hill 
was  prominent  and  active,  and  was  given  the 
Captaincy  of  a  company.  Hence  his  title  by 
which  he  was  always  thereafter  known.  He 
was  very  prosperous  in  his  business  ventures, 
and  was  one  of  the  best  farmers  in  tiie  town. 
He  died  March  22,  18S7.      He  was  the  father 


of  seven  children;  namely,  Alvah  Tucker, 
Mary  Tucker,  Henry  Tucker,  Martha,  Warren 
S. ,  Marietta,  and  Charles  Frederick,  only  two 
of  whom  are  now  living.  Marietta  is  the  wife 
of  Cliff  Forest  Giles,  of  Newport,  N.  H. 

Warren  S.  Hill  attended  school  in  his 
native  town  till  he  was  twenty-one  years  old. 
He  then  began  farming  for  himself,  and  began 
also  a  general  contractor's  business,  besides 
doing  a  limited  amount  of  lumbering.  Sep- 
tember 7,  1865,  he  married  Miss  Helen  Eliza 
Cofran,  of  Northfield,  daughter  of  James  Hersey 
and  Eliza  Brackett  (Hall)  Cofran,  both  natives 
of  Northfield.  James  H.  Cofran  was  born 
January  3,  1818,  and  his  wife  July  12,  1S17. 
They  were  the  parents  of  four  children, 
namely:  Charles  Chase,  born  March  11,  1S41  ; 
Helen  Eliza,  who  is  now  Mrs.  Hill;  Mary 
Frances,  born  April  9,  185 1,  and  now  a  resi- 
dent of  ]5oston  ;  and  Frank  Adino,  born  E'eb- 
ruary  11,  1853,  who  died  August  15,  1896. 
The  last  named  was  at  the  time  of  his  death 
a  hotel  proprietor  in  Whitefield,  N.H.,  and 
had  during  his  lifetime  successively  run  and 
managed  the  Twin  Mountain  House  and  hotels 
in  Florida  and  Alabama,  and  in  Chicago  during 
the  World's  Fair. 

Mr.  Hill  is  the  father  of  seven  children: 
Kate  E'lorence,  born  June'  16,  1867;  Arthur 
Herman,  who  was  born  November  12,  1868, 
married  E'lorence  Goss,  of  Andover,  N.  H., 
October  15,  1896,  and  is  in  the  grain  business 
in  Manchester,  N.H.  ;  Helen  Josejjhine,  born 
March  2,  1S72,  wife  of  Ned  Deaborn,  of  North- 
field  ;  l^velyn  Belle,  born  November  4,  1876; 
William  Henry  Clough  Hill,  born  July  25, 
187S;  Walter  Burnham,  born  December  5, 
1879;  and  Loring  Cleveland,  born  Maich  3, 
1885.      The  four  last  named  live  at  home. 

Mr.  Hill  follows  the  paternal  example  in 
|)cjlitics,  and  is  a  stanch  Democrat.  He  re- 
tains the  ownership  of  the  old   homestead,  and 


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YTsyrAKVI'.V  GRAVES  Mc  I  NT  IRK, 
I l-i  I  Ai.l).,  lormcrly  one  of  the  leading 
1}P  ^__^  [)hysician.s  of  Concord,  was  born  in 
Lyndeboro,  N.ll.,  July  2,  1824,  son  of  IClias 
and  T':iizal)clh  (lUixton)  Mclntirc.  l<:iias 
Mclntirc,  son  of  IClias,  Sr.,  and  Bethiah 
(Hayward)  Mclntirc,  was  a  native  of  Reading, 
Mass.,  and  belonged  to  one  of  the  oldest  fami- 
lies of  that  town.  Removing  to  New  Hamp- 
shire after  marriage,  he  lived  for  a  time  in 
Amiierst,  and  tlicn  settled  in  Lyndeboro. 
He  followed  the  occupation  of  farmer  through- 
out liis  active  period,  and  was  ninety-six 
years  old  when  he  dieil  in  Lyndeboro.  11  is 
wife,  IClizabeth,  daughter  of  .Stephen  and 
Phebe  (Stearns)  Buxton,  of  Reading,  Mass., 
bore  him  six  children.  The  only  one  now 
living  is  Deacon  Nathaniel  Mcintire,  of 
Lyndeboro. 

Harvey  G.  Mcintire,  the  youngest  of  the 
family,  received  his  education  in  the  district 
schools  and  at  the  academy  of  Lrancestown. 
After  graduating  from  the  latter  institution, 
he  decided  to  enter  upon  the  medical  profes- 
sion. In  accordance  with  this  design  he  be- 
came a  pupil,  first,  of  Dr.  Campbell,  of 
Francestown  and  subsequently  of  Dr.  Elliot, 
of  Manchester,  N.IL  Later  he  attended  lect- 
ures at  Harvard  University  Medical  .School  in 
Boston,  where  he  receiveil  the  degree  of 
Doctor  of  Medicine  in  1S4S.  He  began  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession  in  Goshen, 
N.IL,  where  he  remained  some  seventeen 
years.  Feeling  the  need  of  a  larger  sphere, 
he  then  removed  to  Concord.  Here  he  con- 
tinued in  practice  until  his  death,  which  was 
occasioned  by  an  accident,  complicated  with 
pneumonia.      He  married   Margaret,  daughter 


ol  John  and  Hannah  (Dowst)  McCrillis;  and 
his  children  were:  H.  li.,  Harvey,  and  Na- 
thaniel. Harvey  n)arried  C.  J.  IJriggs;  and 
Nathaniel,  who  is  engaged  in  the  telegraph 
business  at  .St.  I'aul,  Minn.,  married  Alice 
Millard. 

Dr.  Mcintire  died  at  Concord,  N.H.,  May 
2,  1892.  He  was  regarded  by  the  medical 
fraternity  and  the  community  at  large  as  a 
man  of  progressive  ideas  in  his  profession. 
He  kept  abreast  of  all  the  medical  reforms  and 
discoveries  of  his  time,  and,  upon  being  con- 
vinced of  their  superior  merit,  was  prompt  in 
adopting  them.  Dr.  Mcintire  was  the  first 
physician  in  New  Hampshire  to  use  chloro- 
form as  an  anaesthetic  in  surgical  operations. 
He  was  a  member  of  the  Congregational 
church. 


nnx  AVID    E.    F. 

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,— li2/      town,    N.H 


ARWICLL,  one  of  the 
isive  farmers  of  Charles- 
L,  his  native  place,  was 
born  March  20,  1845,  the  youngest  son  of 
George  and  Aurilla  (Brownell)  Farwell.  He 
is  of  the  seventh  generation  in  descent  from 
John  and  Priscilla  (Mullens)  Alden,  of  the 
"Mayflower"  company,  who  were  married  in 
Plymouth  probably  in  162 1.  [For  further 
notes  of  ancestry  see  sketch  of  Jesse  H. 
Farwell.]  ?^Ir.  Farwell's  great-grandfather, 
William  Farwell,  who  was  born  in  171 2,  was 
one  of  the  first  settlers  in  Charlestown,  com- 
ing from  Mansfield,  Conn.  He  died  here, 
December  11,  1801.  His  children  by  his 
wife,  Bethiah  I'Hdridge,  were:  William,  born 
in  Mansfield  in  1749;  Phttbe;  Gladian; 
Edwin;  and  Jesse.  William  Farwell,  Jr.,  was 
one  of  the  first  in  New  Hampshire  to  accept 
the  doctrine  of  Universalism.  Though  his 
opportunities  for  an  education  were  meagre, 
he  was  gifted  with  a  quick  intellect  and  a  re- 
tentive memory,  and  was  one  of  the  best  qual- 


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ificd  preachers  of  his  day.  He  was  reared  a 
Congregationalist,  but  between  1790  and  1795 
was  converted  to  Universalism,  and  was  prob- 
ably the  first  to  preach  it  in  Vermont,  there 
being  only  two  other  preachers  in  the  State  at 
that  time.  The  Rev.  William  F"arwell  lived 
for  some  time  in  Barre,  Vt.  He  married  Miss 
Phuebe  Crosby. 

Jesse  Farwell,  David  E.  Farwell's  grand- 
father, was  born  August  15,  1768.  He  was  a 
brickmaker  by  trade,  but  devoted  a  great  part 
of  his  life  to  farming,  the  Charlestown  home- 
stead coming  into  his  possession.  He  was 
foremost  in  every  movement  for  advancing  the 
interests  of  the  town  ;  and  as  a  liberal-minded, 
public-spirited  citizen  his  memory  is  cher- 
ished by  the  old  residents  of  the  town.  He 
died  October  28,  1844.  Jesse  Farwell  mar- 
ried Abigail  Allen,  and  they  reared  the  fol- 
lowing children:  Bethiah,  born  December  3, 
1793,  who  died  June  12,  1874;  Peggy,  born 
October  17,  179S,  who  became  the  wife  of 
Asa  Meacham;  William,  born  August  11, 
1797,  who  married  Sophia  Putnam,  and  died  in 
Buffalo,  N.Y.,  June  21,  1862;  George,  the 
father  of  David  E.  Farwell;  Melinda,  born 
1797,  who  died  May  it,  1803;  Lewis,  born 
September  16,  1806,  who  married  Sylvia 
Sturtevant;  Melinda,  born  September,  1809, 
who  married  Joseph  Denison,  and  died  in 
July,  1848;  Eldridge,  born  March  13,  1812, 
who  died  in  Buffalo,  N.Y. ,  January  27,  1864; 
and  Matilda,  born  August  30,  18 14,  who  mar- 
ried Seth  Meacham  October  22,  1836. 

George  Farwell  was  born  in  Charlestown, 
June  27,  1804.  He  always  resided  on  the 
homestead,  which  he  eventually  inherited. 
One  of  the  stirring  farmers  and  prominent  cit- 
izens of  the  town,  a  thoroughly  ujjright  man, 
he  was  honorable  in  his  business  transac- 
tions, and  was  highly  esteemed.  He  was  do- 
mestic  in   his  habits,  and   had   no   desire    for 


public  office.  In  religion  Mr.  George  Farwell 
was  a  Universalist.  He  died  November  15, 
1875.  His  wife,  Aurilla  Brownell  I'arwell, 
was  born  March  25,  1804,  and  died  February 
20,  1 888.  They  were  the  parents  of  the  fol- 
lowing children:  John  H.,  born  I-^ebruary  3, 
1830,  now  in  Chicago,  111.  ;  James  H.,  born 
F"ebruary  2,  1832,  a  resident  of  Stockton, 
Cal.;  Jesse  H.,  born  January  2,  1S34;  Sarah, 
born  October  ;iO,  1836,  who  died  February  12, 
1838;  Martha,  born  July  14,  1841,  who  died 
September  12,  1S43;  and  David  E.,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch. 

David  E.  Farwell  was  educated  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Charlestown,  beginning  at  an 
early  age  to  assist  his  father  on  the  farm.  He 
succeeded  to  its  ownership  after  his  father's 
death,  and  has  since  managed  the  property  with 
ability  and  success.  He  owns  one  hundred 
and  seventy-five  acres  of  land,  which  is  de- 
voted to  general  farming,  dairying,  and  stock- 
raising;  and  for  the  past  twenty  years  he  has 
been  engaged  extensively  in  lumbering.  Mr. 
F"arwell  owns  the  Horace  Metcalf  mills  in 
Charlestown  and  a  tract  of  timber  land  in 
Unity,  N.H.  He  was  married  March  20, 
1869,  to  Etta  M.,  daughter  of  Charles  Barker, 
of  Charlestown.  In  politics  a  Democrat,  like 
the  rest  of  his  family,  he  takes  an  active  part 
in  town  matters.  He  was  on  the  School 
Board  two  terms,  and  served  as  Selectman 
one  year.  In  religion  Mr.  P'arwell  is  of  the 
Universalist  faith. 


DWARD  PAYSON  SKINNER,  Jr.,  a 
well-known  business  man  of  Windsor, 
Vt.,  a  dealer  in  fish  and  groceries, 
was  born  in  that  town,  February  8,  1856,  son 
of  I^dward  P.,  Sr.,  and  Rebecca  (Moody) 
Skinner.  His  paternal  grandfather,  John  P., 
was   a   son   of    Cajitain    Benjamin    and    Sarah 


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C.  (Manning)  Skinner.  Captain  Benjamin 
Skinner  was  a  soldier  in  tlie  Revolutionary 
War,  and  wiiile  he  was  in  tlie  army  his  wife 
was  left  at  home  to  take  care  of  the  farm  and 
cattle.  He  died  of  spotted  fever  at  fifty 
years  of  age;  and  she,  long  surviving  him, 
died  about  fifty  years  ago,  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
two  years.  They  had  a  family  of  six  children. 
Tarry  C.  Skinner,  a  brother  of  John  ?.,  was 
Deacon  of  the  15ai)tist  cliLuxh  for  nearly  fifty 
years,  and  was  a  very  active  and  prominent 
business  man;  Elizabeth  P.  Skinner,  a  sister, 
married  the  Rev.  Baron  Stow,  for  many  years 
a  preacher  of  the  Baptist  faith  in  Boston; 
Mary  Skinner  married  William  ]5eal,  of  Bos- 
ton; Sarah  C.  married  a  man  by  the  name 
of  Harris;  and  Lora,  the  other  sister,  mar- 
rieti  the  Rev.  Mr.  Kly,  a  Bajjtist  minister 
who  preacheil  in  Vermont  and  New  Hamp- 
shire. 

John  P.  Skinner,  who  was  born  in  Con- 
necticut, March  lo,  1788,  was  for  thirty  years 
proprietor  of  a  stage  line  along  the  Connecti- 
cut River  from  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  to  Hartford, 
Conn.  He  made  his  headquarters  at  Wind- 
sor, where  he  owned  quite  a  number  of  farms 
Iiesides  village  property;  and  while  engaged  in 
running  the  stages  he  kept  from  eighty  to  one 
hundred  horses.  In  his  young  days,  previous 
lo  the  advent  of  railroads,  it  was  his  custom 
to  cart  .his  farm  products  to  Boston  for  a 
market;  and  these  trips  usually  required  two 
weeks  in  which  to  go  and  return.  He  started 
in  life  as  a  poor  boy,  and  his  accumulation  of 
property  was  the  result  of  that  patient  indus- 
try and  firm  determination  to  succeed  which 
characterized  the  progressive  farmer  and  busi- 
ness man  of  his  generation.  He  was  widely 
known  and  sincerely  respected  as  an  honor- 
able, upriglit  man,  one  who  could  always  be 
depended  upon  to  meet  his  obligations  punctu- 
ally; and  his  record  is  looked  upon  with  pride 


by  his  descendants.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Bai)tist  church  nearly  sixty  years.  He  died 
August  29,  1867.  He  married  for  his  first 
wife,  April  16,  1810,  Duleenath  Hoisington, 
who  was  born  April  7,  1794;  and  for  his  .sec- 
ond wife,  July  3,  1856,  Mi.ss  Sarah  C.  Hall, 
of  Boston.  He  was  the  father  of  ten  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  The 
others  were  as  follows:  Wealtha  M.,  born  Au- 
gust 25,  181 1  ;  Laura  M.,  born  August  25, 
18 13;  Clara  E. ,  born  August  i,  18 15,  who 
died  August  9,  1835;  Parker  G.,  born  June 
25,  1817;  William  H.,  born  April  30,  1819; 
Harriet  N.,  born  May  24,  1821;  John  P., 
born  in  March,  1823,  who  died  in  F'ebruary, 
1824;  Edward  P.,  born  I-'ebruary  26,  1829; 
and  Elizabeth  S.,  born  March  19,  1842. 

Wealtha  M.  married  November  25,  1835, 
the  Rev.  Lemuel  Porter,  of  Boston,  and  died 
July  I,  1880.  She  had  two  children,  one  of 
whom,  a  daughter,  Helen,  is  living  in  San 
Francisco.  Mr.  Porter  was  for  many  years 
pastor  of  the  Worthen  Street  Baptist  Church 
in  Lowell,  Mass. ;  and  at  one  time  he  preached 
in  Pittsfield,  Mass.  Laura  M.  became  the 
wife  of  the  Rev.  Elijah  Hutchinson,  a  Baptist 
clergyman  of  Newport,  N.H.,  and  died  iVIarch 
I,  1869.  Two  of  her  four  children  survive, 
namely:  Henry  E.,  President  of  a  Brooklyn 
bank,  N.Y. ;  and  John  S.,  book-keeper  for  a 
large  firm  in  Brooklyn.  Their  father,  the 
Rev.  Elijah  Hutchinson,  preached  in  the 
Windsor  Baptist  Church  twenty-seven  years, 
and  officiated  at  six  hundred  weddings  and  at 
eight  hundred  funerals.  He  died  August  5, 
1872,  aged  fifty-five  years.  Parker  G.  Skinner 
was  for  several  years  connectetl  with  the  stage 
business  in  Windsor,  Vt. ,  and  is  now  a  tea 
merchant  in  the  city  of  Worcester,  Mass.  He 
married  June  29,  1848,  Patty  W.  Foster,  of 
Knowlton,  P.O.,  and  has  had  four  children, 
two  of  whom  are  living.     William  H.,  who  is 


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living  in  Windsor,  was  in  the  express  busi- 
ness, and  a  United  States  mail  agent  for 
nearly  forty  years.  He  married  Emeline  Ap- 
pleton,  of  Lowell,  Mass.;  and  of  his  four  chil- 
dren the  only  survivor  is  a  daughter,  who  is 
the  wife  of  Frank  Peabody,  and  resides  in 
P'itchburg,  Mass.  Harriet  N.  married  May 
5,  1847,  Jehiel  H.  Simonds,  who  was  for  more 
than  forty  years  proprietor  of  a  hotel  in  Wind- 
sor, Vt.,  and  was  also  connected  with  the 
stage  lines.  She  died  March  21,  18S5. 
Elizabeth  S.  married  February  12,  1S63, 
Thomas  E.  Foster,  a  prominent  insurance  man 
of  Montreal,  Canada,  and  at  one  time  Mayor 
of  that  city.  She  has  had  eight  children, 
three  of  whom  are  living,  namely:  Marion  E., 
who  married  the  Rev.  W.  C.  Carr,  of  Weeds- 
port,  N.Y. ;  Thomas  E.,  now  residing  in 
Claremont,  N.  H.;  and  Sallie  B.,  who  is  a 
trained  nurse  in  a  woman's  hospital  in  San 
Francisco,  Cal. 

Edward  Payson  Skinner,  father  of  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch,  after  completing  his  edu- 
cation in  Lowell,  Mass.,  turned  liis  attention 
to  agricultural  pursuits.  He  has  cultivated 
farms  in  Windsor,  Vt.,  and  in  Plainfield,  N.H., 
where  he  is  now  residing.  He  is  a  ]:)ractical 
and  energetic  farmer,  who  has  acquired  a  com- 
fortable competency,  and  whose  disposition  to 
be  honorable  and  upright  in  his  dealings  has 
gained  for  him  the  esteem  and  confidence  of 
his  fellow-townsmen.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Baptist  church.  His  wife,  Rebecca  M.  Moody, 
of  Lancaster,  N.H.,  born  August  14,  1825,  be- 
came the  mother  of  four  children,  namely: 
]{dward  P.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Will- 
iam II.,  born  March  6,  1866;  Hattie,  wlio 
died  at  the  age  of  two  years;  and  Johnnie,  who 
died  in  his  eighth  year.  William  H.  is 
employed  by  his  brother,  lidward  !'.,  and  is 
also  a  United  States  mail  carrier.  He  mar- 
ried Julia  Ward,  of  Plainfield,  N.H. 


Edward  Payson  Skinner,  Jr.,  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  his  native  town;  and  for  a 
number  of  years  after  completing  his  studies 
he  remained  upon  the  home  farm,  engaged  in 
its  cultivation.  About  1893  he  engaged  in 
his  present  mercantile  business.  Besides 
carrying  a  good  stock  of  groceries,  he  runs  the 
only  fish  market  in  Windsor. 

Mr.  Skinner  married  I'^Ila  Hill,  who  was 
born  in  Bellows  Falls,  Vt.,  January  11,  1861. 
They  have  had  one  son,  Curtis  R. ,  born  in 
Augu.st,  1881,  who  died  in  1887.  Mr.  Skin- 
ner has  inaugurated  his  business  career  ui^on 
progressive  lines;  and,  as  he  has  secured  the 
confidence  of  the  public,  his  success  is  already 
assured. 


I  ■  ■  ■  * 


iRS.  MARY  ELIZABP:TH  COOKE 
PARTRIDGE,  a  well-known  mu- 
sician of  Claremont  and  a 
zealous  worker  in  the  cause  of  temperance, 
was  born  in  Claremont,  daughter  of  God- 
frey and  Abigail  (Hubbard)  Cooke.  Her 
paternal  grandfather.  Captain  John  Cooke,  of 
Norton,  Mass.,  was  among  the  first  of  the 
minute-men  to  report  at  Lexington  in  re- 
sponse to  the  alarm  of  April  19,  1775,  for  six 
days'  service.  He  again  enlisted  with  the 
rank  of  Ensign,  and  was  mustered  out  August 
I,  1775.  Vov  the  third  time  he  enlisted  De- 
cember 8,  1776,  in  a  Rhode  Island  regiment, 
under  Colonel  John  Daggett.  About  the  year 
1779  he  came  to  Claremont,  and  bought  a 
large  and  valuable  tract  of  meadow  land  and 
the  tavern  thereon.  This  tavern  he  conducted 
for  years  with  much  success.  A  family  tradi- 
tion has  it  that  "a  bushel  of  Continental 
money  changed  hands  when  the  old  tavern  was 
bought."  His  daughter,  Matilda,  married 
Colonel  Josiah  Stevens,  who  was  the  father  of 
Paran  Stevens,  a  famous  hotel  man.  I'aran 
Stevens  receiveil  his  first  lessons  in    the   hotel 


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business  from  Godfrey  Cooke.  The  Stevens 
High  School  was  his  gift  to  the  village  of 
Claremont.  Mis  daughter  married  Arthur 
Henry  I-'it/.roy  Paget,  a  son  of  General  Paget 
of  Waterloo  fame.  His  sister  married  Sam- 
uel I'^iske,  the  donor  of  the  Fiskc  Free  Li- 
lirary  in  Clarenmnt. 

Godfrey  Cooke  and  his  brother  George  suc- 
ceeded their  father  in  the  proprietorship  of  the 
tavern,  which  under  tlieir  aiile  management 
became  famous  from  Hoston  to  Northern  Ver- 
mont. Not  long  after  the  death  of  his  father 
Godfrey  Cooke  bought  the  interest  of  his 
brother  George.  Under  him  the  surroundings 
were  much  beautified.  He  built  a  large  and 
elegant  family  residence  in  1825;  and  he  im- 
proved the  farm  of  four  hundred  acres  con- 
nected with  the  tavern,  so  tiiat  it  was  consid- 
ered the  finest  in  the  town.  He  married 
Abigail,  daughter  of  Jonathan  Hubiiard,  of 
Charlestown,  N.H.,  and  became  the  father  of 
five  children  —  Catherine  M.,  Henry  Hub- 
bard, Helen  Maria,  George  I".,  aiul  Mary 
Elizabeth.  Catherine  married  Charles  R. 
Bingham,  and  had  four  children,  of  whom 
Helen  C.  and  Catherine  E.  attained  maturity. 
Henry  Hubbard,  who  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth College,  died  at  the  Theological  Semi- 
nary in  New  York,  where  he  was  preparing  for 
the  Episcopal  ministry,  one  year  before  his 
ordination.  In  the  habit  of  visiting  the  sick 
and  dying,  to  minister  to  their  spiritual  needs, 
he  caught  the  contagion  of  small-pox,  which 
was  the  cause  of  his  death.  His  heart  and 
soul  were  in  his  work,  and  he  was  greatly 
mourned  by  his  class-mates  and  friends. 
Helen  Maria,  now  deceased,  who  married 
Frederick  Smith,  of  Cornish,  N.H.,  is  sur- 
vived by  her  daughter,  Elizabeth  A.  Smith. 
George  F.  Cooke  was  killed  by  accident  on 
the  homestead  at  the  age  of  tvventy-si.\. 

Mary  Elizabeth  Cooke,  the  youngest  of  her 


parents'  children,  had  the  best  educational  ad- 
vantages. On  completing  the  course  of  the 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  she  was  sent  to 
Boston,  where  she  was  thoroughly  trained  in 
piano  playing.  Then  she  returned  to  Clare- 
mont, engaged  in  piano  teaching,  and  soon 
drew  about  her  a  class  of  forty  eager  students. 
She  afterward  followed  this  occupation  with 
success  for  thirty  years.  She  married  lidward 
A.  Partridge,  son  of  Milton  Partridge,  the 
representative  of  a  well-known  family  of  Nor- 
wich, Vt.,  and  from  which  the  military  school 
of  that  place  takes  its  name.  Milton  Part- 
ridge, who  was  well  versed  in  military  sub- 
jects, became  a  fencing  teacher  at  West  Point. 
From  there  he  removed  to  Tarrytown,  N.Y., 
and  was  afterward  successfully  engaged  in  ex- 
ecuting large  engineering  contracts.  He  was 
killed  by  accident.  His  son  William  is  now 
a  prominent  civil  engineer  of  Normal,  111. 
Edward  A.  Partridge  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth College,  and  studied  civil  engineering 
under  General  Ransom  at  Norwich.  He  was 
subsequently  appointed  city  engineer  of 
Dubuque,  la.,  and  died  in  the  following  year. 
Mary  Elizabeth,  his  only  child,  has  studied 
the  pianoforte  with  her  mother,  the  organ 
under  Professor  Whiting,  of  Boston,  and  the 
guitar  with  Hayden.  She  has  taken  her 
mother's  piano  classes,  and  also  conducts  large 
classes  in  the  study  of  the  organ  and  guitar. 
Both  mother  and  daughter  are  imiversal  favor- 
ites in  the  society  of  Claremont.  They  re- 
turned to  Claremont  immediately  after  the 
death  of  Mr.  Partridge. 

Mrs.  Partridge  has  been  especially  active 
in  the  temperance  cause.  She  is  a  member  of 
the  Woman's  Christian  Temperance  Union, 
was  county  President  from  iSgi  to  1896,  and 
for  twenty  years  was  closely  identified  with 
this  society.  She  was  for  ten  years,  under 
appointment    of  the   Union,    the   superintend- 


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ent  of  the  jails  and  almshouses  of  New 
Hampshire.  This  position  entailed  much 
travelling,  which  was  gladly  accomplished 
without  remuneration.  Mrs.  Partridge  was 
instrumental  in  establishing  police  matrons 
for  the  care  of  arrested  females  in  the  police 
stations  of  Nashua  and  Manchester;  and  she 
worked  hard  and  incessantly  for  the  improve- 
ment of  almshouses,  securing  better  accommo- 
dations, with  especial  wards  for  the  insane, 
and  removing  children  to  good  homes.  When 
she  resigned  in  the  fall  of  i8g6,  owing  to  im- 
paired health,  her  successor  found  that  Mrs. 
Partridge's  methodical  work  had  left  to  her  an 
easy  road.  Her  daughter,  who  is  also  deeply 
interested  in  this  philanthropic  wOrk,  attended 
the  National  Convention  of  the  W.  C.  T.  U. 
in  October,  1896,  as  State  delegate,  and  is 
now  State  Reporter  for  the  Union  Signal  of 
Chicago.  Both  Mrs.  and  Miss  Partridge  are 
prominent  workers  in  the  Episcopal  Church  of 
Claremont. 


iflARLES  F.  M.  STARK,  a  well- 
known  resident  of  Dunbarton,  Merri- 
mack County,  was  born  in  this 
town,  February  18,  1848,  son  of  Jdhn  and 
Caroline  J.  (Morris)  Stark.  He  is  a  great- 
great-grandson  of  General  John  Stark,  the 
famous  victor  of  Ik-nnington.  John  .Stark, 
the  father,  was  a  lawyer,  who  practised  his 
profession  in  Galena,  111.,  and  in  New  York 
City.  He  died  in  Washington,  D. C,  at  the 
age  of  forty-two  years.  His  wife,  Caroline, 
was  the  youngest  daughter  of  Thomas  Morris, 
and  a  grand-daughter  of  Robert  Morris,  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence  and  first 
-Secretary  of  .State  of  the  United  States. 

Charles  F.  M.  .Stark  was  a  student  at  .St. 
Paul's  School  in  Concord.  After  leaving 
school,  he  resided  for  a  number  of  years  in 
New  York   City,  and  for  a  time  was   interested 


in  insurance  in  New  York  and  Boston.  He 
finally  returned  to  the  family  homestead  in 
Dunbarton,  where  he  has  since  resided,  it 
having  become  his  property  through  inheri- 
tance. The  house  was  built  by  his  great- 
grandfather. Major  Caleb  Stark,  a  son  of  Gen- 
eral John  .Stark,  and  who  did  good  service  to 
his  county  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  It  was 
built  after  the  model  of  an  English  manor 
house,  and  is  a  quaint  and  interesting  piece  of 
architecture.  Every  room  it  contains  is  re- 
plete with  historic  memories.  Heirlooms  and 
relics  both  of  the  Stark  and  Morris  families 
abound  on  every  hand.  In  the  north-west  cor- 
ner room,  on  the  second  floor,  is  the  four- 
posted  mahogany  bed,  with  canopy  top,  in 
which  Lafayette  slept  while  on  a  visit  here. 
About  half  a  mile  away  from  the  house  is  the 
old  cemetery,  where  rest  the  remains  of  Major 
Caleb  Stark,  and  in  which  others  of  renown 
are  buried. 

Mr.  Stark  married  Miss  Annie  McNeil, 
daughter  of  John  and  Cynthia  McNeil,  at 
that  time  of  Winchester,  Mass.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Stark  have  one  child  —  John  McNeil,  who  is 
now  a  student  at  a  boarding-school  at  Bel- 
mont, Mass.  Mr.  .Stark  is  an  enthusiastic 
sportsman. 


UDLEY  TAPPAN    CHASP:,  a  well- 
known    farmer   of   Claremont,    born 


B 

c~*.mmy  April  2,  1S23,  in  Cornish,  N.H., 
son  of  Colonel  Lebbcus  and  Nizaula  (March) 
Chase,  comes  of  an  ancient  family.  The 
Chase  coat  of  arms  is  described  as  follows: 
"Arms  Gules,  four  crosses  patonce,  argent 
two  and  two;  on  a  canton  azure  a  lion  pas- 
sant, Or,  crest  —  a  lion  ramiiant.  Or,  holding 
between  his  feet  a  cross  patonce  —  Gules." 
The  motto  is  "No  Cede  Mails"  (Yield  not 
to  misfortunes).  The  family  is  traced  back 
to  Thomas   Chase',    of    Ilundrich,   in   the   par- 


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4»7 


ish  of  Chcshani,  Enf^lnnd.  ITis  son,  Richard 
C'liasc",  wlu)  was  Ijapti/.cd  Auj^ust  3,  1542, 
and  tiiarricd  Joan  ]?isho]i,  April  16,  1564, 
lived  and  dicil  in  Chcsham.  Aquila',  son  of 
Richard,  burn  in  Chcsham,  was  baptized 
Aiii;ust  14,  1 580.  llis  son,  Aquila',  by 
his  wife,  Sarah,  born  in  (dieshani  in  1618, 
came  to  America  in  1639,  and  was  one  of  the 
grantees  and  settlers  of  Hampton  (Plymouth), 
Mass.  This  Aquila,  who  was  a  sea  captain, 
removed  to  Newbury,  Mass.,  in  I'l4('),  married 
Anne  Wheeler,  of  Hampton,  daughter  of  John 
Wheeler,  and  died  December  27,  1670.  Ills 
youngest  son,  Moses  Chase',  born  in  New- 
bury, December  24,  1663,  mariied  Ann  Fol- 
lansbee,  November  10,  1684.  Daniel  Chase'', 
the  eldest  son  of  Moses  and  the  twin  brother 
of  Moses,  Jr.,  who  died  )'onng,  was  born  Sep- 
tember 20,  1685,  in  Newbury,  and  married 
Sarah  March,  of  Newbury,  January  2,  1706. 
He  removed  to  Littleton,  and  thence  to  Sut- 
ton, Mass.,  before  March  26,  1733,  and  tlied 
in  the  latter  place,  April  17,  1768.  Samuel 
Chase',  eldest  son  of  Daniel,  born  in  New- 
bur)',  September  28,  1707,  married  Mary 
Dudley,  of  Sutton,  and  died  in  Cornish,  N.  IL, 
August  12,  iSoo.  He  removed  from  Sutton 
to  Cornish  shortly  after  the  settlement  of  the 
town  in  1 765  by  his  sons,  Dudley  and  Jona- 
than, and  others  from  Sutton. 

Samliel's  third  son,  Jonathan'*,  was  born  in 
Sutton,  December  6,  1733,  removed  to  Cor- 
nish in  1765,  married  Sarah  Hall,  daughter  of 
the  Rev.  Dr.  David  Hall,  of  Sutton,  October 
22,  1770,  and  died  January  14,  1800,  in 
Cornish.  Jonathan's  son,  I.ebbeus'',  born  Jan- 
uary 21,  1779,  in  Cornisli,  marrietl  Nizaula 
March,  January  8,  1815,  and  died  in  Cornish, 
February  22,   1865. 

The  birthplace  of  Dudley  Tappan  Chase'°, 
was  the  old  homestead,  where  his  grand- 
father,   General    Jonathan    Chase,    settled   in 


1765,  and  which  was  the  first  two-story  hou.se 
erected  in  town.  The  house  is  still  standing, 
but  much  the  worse  for  wear.  Me  lived  and 
labored  on  his  father's  farm,  and  attended  the 
common  schools  until  he  was  seventeen  years 
of  age.  Then  he  fitted  for  college  at  Kimball 
Union  Academy,  teaching  school  in  the  next 
and  several  succeeding  winters.  After  gradu- 
ating at  the  academy  in  1S44,  he  entered  Dart- 
mouth College  in  the  fall  of  that  year,  and 
was  a  student  there  for  two  years,  continuing 
to  teach  school  in  the  winter.  In  1857  he 
received  the  degrees  of  A.  15.  and  A.  M.  from 
Dartmouth  College,  in  the  class  of  1848.  In 
the  fall  of  1846  he  commenced  the  study  of 
the  law  at  Windsor,  Vt.  In  1847  he  attended 
the  law  school  of  Harvard  University  for  a 
short  time,  and  the  law  school  of  Yale  Uni- 
versity for  a  few  months.  He  was  admitted 
to  the  bars  of  Sullivan  County,  New  Hamp- 
shire, and  Windsor  County,  Vermont,  in 
1849,  and  commenced  practice  in  April  of 
that  year  at  Windsor.  Afterward  he  was 
admitted  to  the  United  States  District  and 
Circuit  Courts  in  Vermont.  He  practised  in 
Windsor  County  and  Sullivan  County  until 
April,  1863,  when  on  account  of  failing  health 
he  retired  from  the  bar,  and  removed  to  Clare- 
mont.  Here  he  bought  a  small  farm,  and 
devoted  himself  to  agricultural  pursuits.  Ac- 
tive exercise  in  the  open  air  restored  his 
health;  and  he  is  still  living  on  his  farm, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-four  years,  but  mainly 
retired  from  labor. 

On  November  12,  185 1,  Mr.  Chase  married 
Mrs.  Adelaide  G.  Merrifield,  daughter  of  Ed- 
ward R.  Campbell,  Esq.,  of  Windsor.  Two 
children  came  of  the  union,  namely:  Edward 
Campbell  Chase",  born  July  2,  1S53,  who 
died  August  12,  1854;  and  I'rancis  Dudley 
Chase",  born  February  27,  1856,  who  died 
January  10,   1857.      The  mother  died  Septem- 


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ber  8,  1856,  aged  thirty-four  years.  On  Feb- 
ruar}'  4,  1858,  Mr.  Chase  married  Mrs.  Siila 
Powers  Smith,  who  was  born  October  5,  1S26, 
daughter  of  Captain  Obed  and  Cynthia  (Com- 
ings) Powers,  of  Cornish.  The  only  child  of 
this  marriage  was  Lucy  Adelaide  Chase", 
born  P^ebruary  4,  1859,  who  died  February  8, 
1859.  Mrs.  Chase,  now  in  her  seventy-first 
year,  enjoys  good  health. 

Mr.  Chase  was  mainly  instrumental  in  hav- 
ing a  subordinate  grange  of  the  Patrons  of 
Husljandry  organized  in  Claremont  in  1873, 
November  18.  He  was  elected  the  first 
Master,  and  had  served  in  that  capacity  for 
several  years,  when  he  refused  to  do  so  any 
longer.  He  was  also  elected  the  first  Master 
of  the  New  Hampshire  State  Grange,  which 
was  organized  December  23,  1873,  and  served 
by  successive  elections  for  six  years.  He 
was  a  member,  together  with  his  wife,  of  the 
National  Grange,  attended  seven  sessions  of 
that  body,  and  was  for  three  years  a  member 
of  its  Executive  Committee.  He  compiled 
the  rules  for  the  regulation  of  the  co-operative 
associations  of  the  grange,  and  had  charge  of 
the  publication  of  the  first  Digest  of  the 
grange,  in  which,  it  is  claimed,  a  single  error 
has  not  been  found.  He  was  also  chairman 
of  the  committee  appointed  to  investigate  the 
financial  condition  of  the  grange,  in  which 
capacity,  after  a  full  examination  of  the  ac- 
counts, he  made  a  report  that  brought  order 
out  of  chaos  and  put  the  finances  of  the 
grange  on  a  sure  basis.  He  was  Chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Constitution  and  By-laws 
for  several  years,  then  considered  the  most 
important  committee  of  the  order.  In  the 
Iliisbaiidutaii,  December  18,  187S,  was  the  fol- 
lowing from  a  correspondent  relative  to  the 
session  of  the  National  Grange  held  at  Rich- 
mond, Va.,  in  the  preceding  November:  "I 
should  be   glad   to   name  with    approval   a   few 


members  who  have  given  conspicuous  service 
to  the  meeting  if  I  might  attempt  the  task 
without  seeming  to  make  invidious  distinc- 
tion. In  such  a  list  I  should  inscribe  the 
name  Dudley  T.  Chase,  of  New  Hampshire, 
whose  clear  perception  has  more  than  once 
saved  the  grange  from  indiscreet  acts." 

Mr.  Chase  is  the  last  survivor  of  a  family  of 
ten  children  of  his  father.  Colonel  Lebbeus 
Chase,  and  the  only  representative  of  the  fam- 
ily save  a  niece,  Miss  Allace  C.  Chase,  now 
of  Smith  College,  of  whom  he  has  been  the 
guardian.  He  has  taken  an  active  part  in  the 
town  meetings.  He  is  an  Independent  in 
politics  and  religion,  has  strong  convictions 
on  most  subjects,  and  is  not  afraid  to  express 
them  on  all  suitable  occasions.  He  has  been 
a  Mason  of  Hiram  Lodge  of  Claremont  since 
1870,  serving  as  Master  for  two  years.  His 
father  was  raised  to  the  degree  of  Master 
Mason  in  this  lodge  in  1800.  His  grand- 
father was  also  a  prominent  Mason,  as  is 
shown  by  the  inscription  on  his  tombstone 
in    the    Cornish    cemetery. 


-jp)TORACE  PERKINS  EATON,  for 
p^i  many  years  a  resident  of  Franklin, 
X!^  \^  ^  Merrimack  County,  and  a  highly 
esteemed  and  influential  citizen,  was  a  nati\'e 
of  Weare,  N.  II.  He  was  born  August  30, 
181 1,  and  was  the  eldest  son  of  Wheeler  and 
Abigail  (Perkins)  Eaton.  His  fatiier,  also  a 
native  of  Weare,  was  a  shoemaker  and  tanner 
by  trade.  He  lived  for  a  while  in  Seabrook, 
from  which  place  he  removed  to  Franklin, 
N.H.,  where  he  settled  in  the  northern  part  of 
the  town  and  engaged  in  general  farming.  He 
spent  the  rest  of  his  life  on  this  farm  ;  Init  in 
his  latter  years  he  sold  out  to  his  son-in-law, 
Dana  W.  Call,  with  wJiom  he  thenceforward 
made  his  home.      Me  died    September  1,    1871, 


HORACE     P.    EATON. 


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at  the  advanced  age  of  eighty-six.  lie  was 
twice  married.  Ilis  first  wife,  who  was  iDcfore 
marriage  Abigail  reri<ins,  bore  five  children, 
all  III'  wluini  are  now  dead.  Their  names  were: 
iliirace  Terkins,  Cyrus,  (jorhani,  ICmily  VV., 
and  William.  Mrs.  Abigail  P.  I'laton  died  in 
iS^S;  and  Mi'.  Wheeler  Matun  married  for 
his  second  wife  Mrs.  Nancy  Jiiirleigh  Sleeper, 
of  .Sanbiirnton,  N.I  I.,  by  whom  he  had  one 
daughter,  i'jnily,  who  married  iJana  W.  Call, 
and  is  now  deceased. 

Horace  Perkins  lOaton  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  best  schools  of  Wearc,  and,  after 
he  had  finished  his  studies,  turned  his  atten- 
tion to  farming.  He  was  an  energetic  man 
and  a  progressive  farmer.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Republican,  and  he  was  the  Representative 
for  liu:  town  of  b'ranklin  for  several  years. 
He  also  served  as  .Selectman  a  number  of 
times.  He  was  always  an  earnest  member  of 
the  Franklin  Christian  Church,  and  took  great 
interest  in  all  chinch  wcnk.  He  died  yXugust 
26,  iiS86.  He  was  married  at  the  age  of 
twenty-six  to  Ismenie  S.  Merrill,  a  native  of 
I*"ranklin,  and  the  youngest  daughter  of  l{ze- 
kiel  and  Jane  (Hradhury)  Merrill.  P'rom 
P'ranklin  Mr.  Merrill  removed  to  Plymouth, 
N.M.  There  he  lived  in  his  later  years  a 
retired  life,  although  previously  engaged  in 
the  business  of  wheelwright.  He  died  at  the 
age  of  iiinety-si.v.  He  was  twice  married,  and 
by  his  first  wife,  Jane  Pradbury,  of  Gilmanton, 
had  seven  children,  of  whom  two,  Joseiih  W. 
and  Mrs.  Eaton,  are  now  living.  His  second 
wife,  Mary  Pevies,  was  born  in  Andover. 
The  daughter  Ismenie,  born  December  23, 
1 8 16,  was  but  eleven  months  old  when  her 
mother  died;  and  she  was  taken  to  live  with  a 
family  by  the  name  of  Simonds,  who  brought 
her  up  as  their  own  child.  She  was  twenty 
years  old  at  the  time  of  her  marriage.  Mr. 
and    Mrs.    Eaton    had    four    children,    namely: 


I'rank  W. ,  who  married  !•  ranees  Young,  and 
is  now  living  in  Hill,  N.II.  ;  Abigail,  who 
died  March  29,  1883,  the  wife  of  John  P. 
Sanborn,  the  latter  now  living  with  his  son  in 
Tilton,  N.  H.  ;  and  twin  daughters,  born  Oc- 
tober 3,  1849.  Nancy  J.,  one  of  the  twins, 
became  the  wife  of  K.  W.  l,.ine,  and  is  living 
in  Sanbornton,  N.  H.  ;  and  the  other,  Lilla  M., 
lives  with  her  mother  on  Main  Street,  I''ranklin 
village,  whither  they  removed  a  year  after  the 
tleath  of  Mr.  I^aton.  Mrs.  Ivaton  is  a  member 
of  the  Christian  church  and  an  efficient  helper 
in   all    church  w(jrk. 


,lilLEMON  C.  HARDY,  a  promi- 
nent citizen  of  Cornish  h'lat,  Sulli- 
van County,  N.H.,  well  known  as 
the  jirojirietor  of  the  Hardy  Remedies,  was 
born  in  the  town  of  Cornish,  March  5,  1S40. 
He  is  a  son  of  the  late  Samuel  Hardy.  His 
great-grandfather  served  as  a  soldier  throiigli- 
out  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  Mr.  Hardy 
is  now  in  possession  of  the  gun  barrel  used  by 
that  ]iatriotic  ancestor  in  the  battle  of  Bunker 
Hill.  After  his  death  his  widow  removed  to 
Grantliam,  N.  H.,  taking  with  her  their  ten 
children,  si.v  boys  and  four  girls.  She  was 
the  first  of  the  name  in  this  section  of  the 
State. 

Her  son  Tristram,  grandfather  of  I'hilcmon 
C,  was  born  in  Bradford,  Mass.,  March  29, 
1771,  but  resided  in  New  Hampshire  the 
greater  part  of  his  life.  He  was  a  farmer,  and 
carried  on  the  trade  of  chair-maker  in 
Grantham,  now  called  P^ast  Plainfield.  He 
married  March  18,  1795,  Kesia  Frazier,  who 
was  born  March  16,  1779,  and  died  January 
10,  1817.  Their  ten  children  were:  I'olly, 
William,  Susanna,  Moses,  Samuel,  Sally, 
James  M.,  Kesia,  Hannah,  and  Mehitable. 
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Polly  Rogers,  to  whom  he  was  married  March 
12,  i8iS.  There  were  no  children  by  this 
marriage.      Polly    Hardy,    born    February   24, 

1796,  married  Hosea  Churchill  on  October  8, 
1S20.  She  died  December  5,  1865,  having 
had  no  children.      William,  born   October  24, 

1797,  died  December  11,  1878.  His  first 
wife  was  Mary  Ball,  whom  he  married  on  Jan- 
uary 17,  1822;  and  his  second  was  Prudence 
Carroll,  with  whom  he  was  united  on  October 
30,  183  I.  Susanna  Hardy,  born  October  26, 
1799,  died  March  20,  1S23,  the  wife  of  Inde- 
pendence Gile,  a  hotel  man,  named  from  hav- 
ing been  born  on  the  Fourth  of  July.  Moses 
Hardy,  born  June  11,  1S02,  died  August  6, 
1S06.  Sally,  born  January  25,  1807,  married 
Joshua  Atwood,  March  20,  1826,  and  died 
April  25,  1868.  She  had  two  children: 
Susan  J.,  born  April  8,  1827;  and  John,  born 
December  29,  1830.  James  M.  Hardy,  born 
January  11,  1809,  died  August  28,  1810. 
Kesia  Hardy,  born  May  11,  1811,  was  mar- 
ried on  March  20,  1836,  to  John  F.  Carroll,  a 
cooper  and  farmer.  Her  husband  died  May  5, 
1879;  and  she  died  April  29,  1886.  Some  of 
their  children  survive.  Hannah  Hardy,  born 
March  10,  1813,  died  May  19,  1S13.  Mehit- 
able,  born  November  7,  1S14,  died  September 
10,   1827. 

Samuel  Hardy,  third  S(in  of  Tristram,  and 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born 
October  i,  1804,  in  Grantham,  and  was  edu- 
cated in  the  public  schools  of  that  town.  He 
learned  the  trade  of  chair-maker  from  his 
father,  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-one  went  to 
Cayuga  County,  New  York,  where  he  worked 
at  his  trade  for  some  years  before  returning  to 
New  Hampshire  to  be  married.  When  he 
went  back  to  New  York  State  he  was  accom- 
panied by  his  wife.  He  stayed  there  ten  years 
in  all,  and  then  came  to  Cornish,  where  he 
had  extensive   farming   interests;  and  in  addi- 


tion to  his  other  labors  he  began  the  manu- 
facture of  the  Hardy  Remedies,  since  so 
widely  known  and  used.  This  was  in  1836; 
and  Mr.  Samuel  Hardy  continued  the  business 
until  1869,  when  Mr.  Philemon  C.  Hardy  and 
his  brother  bought  it  out.  P'ew  changes  have 
been  made  in  the  original  receipts,  but  the 
bitters  are  not  now  made.  The  medicines 
that  now  bear  the  Hardy  name  are:  Hardy's 
Salve,  Woman's  P^riend,  Hardy  Pain  De- 
stroyer, and  Anodyne  Liniment.  During  the 
late  Rebellion  the  soldier  boys  of  New  Hamp- 
shire found  a  quantity  of  Hardy's  Salve  at 
Winchester,  Va. ;  and  some  of  them  wrote  home 
to  their  friends  that  they  were  going  to  have 
him  prosecuted  for  abetting  the  Confederates 
in  giving  or  supplying  them  with  medicine 
which  was  able  to  heal  or  to  save  the  lives  of 
enemies.  An  old  sea  captain  has  told  the 
Doctor  that  rolls  of  the  salve  could  be  found 
in  every  port  of  South  America.  It  is  said  to 
be  to-day  the  oldest  salve  upon  the  market  and 
the  best  known.  Samuel  Hardy  did  a  very 
large  business;  and,  besides  his  extensive  ad- 
vertising through  the  press  of  the  country  and 
by  distributing  circulars,  he  sent  out  a  great 
many  gorgeous  carts  drawn  by  fine  handsome 
horses,  which  were  the  envy  of  small  boys. 
He  never  aspired  for  political  honors,  but 
was  always  a  Republican  of  the  stanchest 
kind  and  ever  ready  to  use  his  influence  for 
the  benefit  of  his  party.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Baptist  Church  of  Cornish,  was  exceed- 
ingly benevolent  and  broad-minded,  and  a 
friend  to  every  needy  or  destitute  person  that 
chance  threw  in  his  way.  He  was  most  lib- 
eral in  his  contributions  to  the  church  and  to 
every  worthy  object  or  cause.  His  death  took 
place  August  7,  1879;  and  in  him  the  town 
lost  a  valuable  citizen,  and  the  cause  of  hu- 
manity a  noble  worker. 

Samuel    Hardy    was    three    times    married: 


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first  In  Sally,  ilaiightcr  of  I'"(illansbcc  Carroll, 
of  CroydtJii,  N.II.  She  was  born  Aiij^ust  23, 
icSoj,  aiul  (lice!  April  iS,  iSjS.  llcr  five  chil- 
dren were:  I'ollansbce  C,  Mary  Ann  G.,  Ed- 
numd,  Mehitabic,  and  Tristram.  ]iy  his 
union  with  his  second  wife,  I'rudcntia  Coburn, 
who  was  born  l-'ebruary  6,  18 13,  in  Vermont, 
and  died  December  16,  1S47,  there  were 
four  children,  all  boiii  in  Cornish;  namely, 
Philemon  C,  Sally,  Hannah  S.,  and  Charles 
T.  The  third  wife  was  IMicbe  A.  Pratt,  who 
had  one  cliild,  William  Wallace.  Follans- 
bee  C.  Mardy,  born  December  20,  1S29,  is  a 
travelling  merchant,  and  lives  in  Worcester, 
Mass.  I'^ormerly  he  had  one  of  the  most 
famous  medicine  carts  ever  put  on  the  road. 
Except  the  wheels  it  was  all  constructed  of 
glass.  He  married  Delia  Pierce,  of  West 
Boylston,  Mass.,  on  June  17,  1856,  and  had  a 
family  of  three  children,  one  of  whom  is  liv- 
ing. Mary  Ann  G. ,  born  September  22, 
1831,  married  Benjamin  F.  Bryant,  of  Hart- 
land,  Vt.,  now  resitling  at  Hudson,  Mass., 
and  has  a  family  of  four  children.  lulmuml 
Hardy,  born  December  11,  1S33,  marrieil  Lu- 
cinda  Bailey,  December  5,  1855.  He  died  in 
the  army,  May  30,  1S63.  Mehitable,  born 
January  10,  1836,  was  first  married  May  4, 
1S58,  to  George  W.  Moore,  of  Hudson,  Mass.; 
and  second,  February  12,  1865,  to  Henry  S. 
Moore,  the  Postmaster  of  Hudson.  There  are 
no  children  by  either  marriage.  Tristram 
Hardy,  born  March  9,  1838,  died  September 
22,  1839.  Sally  Hardy,  eldest  daughter  of 
Samuel  Hardy  by  his  second  marriage,  born 
November  19,  1841,  married  Lewis  I*".  Knight, 
of  Cornish,  November  30,  1863,  and  is  the 
mother  of  five  children,  four  of  whom  are  now 
living.  Hannah  S.  Hardy,  born  August  9, 
1843,  married  Albert  J.  Dyer,  of  Sutton, 
Quebec,  December  24,  1871.  Charles  T. , 
born  June  i,  1846,  married  November  15,  1866, 


Ivllen  .M.  Ripley,  and  until  his  death,  which 
occurred  twelve  years  ago.  May  12,  1885,  was 
associated  in  business  with  his  l)rother  Phile- 
mon. William  Wallace  Hardy,  the  only  child 
of  the  third  marriage,  born  February  6,  1849, 
is  now  living  at  New  Haven,  Conn.  He  is 
in  the  wholesale  cigar  business  in  New  York 
City,  is  exceedingly  energetic  and  talented, 
and  has  accumulated  a  large  fortune.  He 
married  December  25,  1875,  Sarah  J.  Tucker, 
of  Redding,  Conn.,  and  has  one  child,  a  son, 
Samuel  B.   Hardy. 

Mr.  Philemon  C.  Hardy  was  educated  in 
the  schools  of  Cornish  and  in  Kimball  Union 
Academy.  He  worked  on  his  father's  farm 
until  twenty-one  years  of  age,  when  he  began 
to  travel  in  the  interests  of  the  Hardy  Rem- 
edies. He  has  continued  in  tiie  business 
until  the  present  time,  increasing  and  extend- 
ing it  and  managing  it  most  successfully. 
He  is  a  Deacon  of  the  Baptist  church,  and, 
like  his  father,  is  charitable  and  benevolent. 
Mr.  Hardy  was  married  on  October  17,  1867, 
to  Linnie  J.  Dyer,  tiaughter  of  Daniel  Dyer, 
of  Sutton,  (Juebec.  She  was  born  October 
17,  1848,  and  died  March  30,  1895.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Hardy  had  one  daughter,  Nora  A.,  born 
August  4,   1879,  who  died  July  5,  1880. 


OHN  F.  I.KIGHTOX,  a  prosperous 
dairyman  of  Franklin,  was  born  where 
he  now  resides,  May  27,  1832,  son  of 
lidward  and  Jutlith  (Kand)  Leighton.  His 
father,  who  was  a  native  of  Portsmouth,  N.  H., 
came  to  Franklin  in  1816,  settled  upon  the 
farm  now  owned  by  his  son,  and  tilled  the  soil 
successfully  during  the  rest  of  his  active 
period,  attaining  the  age  of  ninety-two  years. 
He  first  married  February  20,  1806,  Lydia 
Rand,  whose  only  child,  Moses,  is  deceased. 
For   his  second   wife,  on   April   24,    1813,   he 


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nianiccl  Judith  Rand,  a  cousin  of  his  first 
wife  and  a  native  of  Somersvvorth.  Of  this 
union  there  were  Ijorn  eight  children,  namely: 
Lydia,  July  S,  1814;  Thomas,  March  11, 
1817;  John  S.,  June  13,  iSig,  who  died  in 
childhood;  Mary,  Novembers,  1821;  Edward, 
August  II,  1825;  Judith,  August  8,  1S27; 
John  F.,  the  subject  of  his  sketch;  and  Loren 
S. ,  January  2,  1838.  Lydia  is  the  widow 
of  Samuel  I5rown,  late  of  Northfield,  N.  II. 
Thomas  and  Edward  are  no  longer  living. 
]\lary  is  the  widow  of  James  Gardner,  and 
now  lives  in  Ccjncord,  N.  H.  Judith  is  the 
wife  of  Benjamin  Sargent,  formerly  of  Tilton, 
and  now  a  merchant  in  Chicago,  111.  Loren 
S.  married  Tirza  French,  October  16,  1859, 
and  is  residing  in  Alma,  Minn.  Mrs.  Edward 
Leighton   died  at    the  age   of   eighty-two. 

John  F.  Leighton  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  of  Franklin  and  Tilton.  Fie  has 
always  resided  upon  the  home  farm,  and  has 
managed  it  since  reaching  his  majority.  His 
property  consists  of  two  hundred  acres  of  de- 
sirably located  land,  and  he  has  made  vaiious 
improvements  in  the  buildings.  He  carries  on 
a  large  and  profitable  milk  business,  keeping 
about  thirty  cows  on  the  average. 

On  August  27,  1857,  Mr.  Leighton  married 
for  his  first  wife  Mary  A.  Hanaford.  She  was 
born  in  Northfield,  September  19,  1839, 
daughter  of  John  A.  and  Mary  A.  (Park)  Han- 
aford, the  former  of  whom,  now  deceased,  was 
a  native  of  that  town  and  a  prosperous  farniei-; 
while  the  latter,  horn  in  Lowell,  Mass.,  now 
resides  with  Mr.  Leighton.  Mrs.  Mary  A. 
Leighton  died  June  5,  1886.  On  February  9, 
1888,  Mr.  Leighton  married  Emma  L.  Colby, 
who  was  born  in  Canterbury,  N.H.,  December 
29,  1852,  daughter  of  Leonard  and  Mary  Ann 
(Page)  Colby.  Her  father  was  a  native  of 
Bow,  N.  H.  ;  and  her  mother  was  born  in  St. 
Johnsbury,    Vt.      They  were   industrious  farm- 


ing peoijle,  and  resitled  in  Canterbury  many 
years.  The  father  is  no  longer  living.  The 
mother  is  residing  with  her  son,  Osborn  L. , 
a  farmer  of  Canterbury.  By  his  first  union 
Mr.  Leighton  had  three  children,  namely: 
Maria  V.,  born  June  13,  185S,  who  died  July 
30,  1881  ;  Nellie  A.,  born  September  9,  i860; 
and  George  E. ,  born  October  15,  1864. 
George  is  now  in  business  in  Providence,  R.I. 
Nellie  A.  married  Benjamin  Kimball,  and 
died  July  20,  1893,  leaving  four  children  — 
I\Iary  E.,  Rena  E.,  Ik-rtha  L.,  and  Harry  M. 
The  children  by  Mr.  Leighton's  second  mar- 
riage are:  Leonard  C,  born  June  13,  1889; 
and  Mary  E. ,  born  March  12,   1895. 

Mr.  Leighton  holds  a  warm  place  in  the 
hearts  of  his  neighbors,  who  are  familiar  with 
his  liberality  and  kindness  of  heart.  He  is 
connected  with  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  and 
both  he  and  Mrs.  Leighton  are  members  of  the 
P'irst  Baptist  Church  in  PTanklin  P'alls.  In 
]5olitics  he  is  a  Republican. 


;s^01IN  F.  JONES,  a  well-to-do  farmer 
of  Claremont,  was  born  here,  Jime  2, 
1830,  son  of  Worcester  and  Sarah 
(Dove)  Jones.  His  great-grandfather,  Asa 
Jones,  came  here  from  Colchester,  Conn.,  in 
the  early  days  of  the  town,  and  settled  along 
the  river  at  Claremont  Junction,  taking  uj)  a 
large  tract  of  land.  Asa  was  a  Lieutenant  in 
the  army  and  a  man  of  importance  in  the  town. 
He  married  Sarah  Treadway,  of  Colchester, 
anil  had  a  son,  also  nameti  Asa.  Asa  Jones, 
Jr.,  born  July  18,  1752,  died  June  4,  1828. 
On  January  20,  17S3,  he  married  Mary  Par- 
dee, who,  born  July  7,  1759,  died  May  17, 
1835.  They  left  the  following  children: 
Worcester,  born  November  8,  1783,  who  mar- 
ried Sarah  Dove,  and  died  December  2,  1858; 
Zabina,    born    June    30,     1785,    who    married 


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ICIvira  Aldcn,  ;in(l  died  Jimc  7,  1S28;  Asa, 
1)0111  I'ulHiKuy  _'_',  i7'S7,  who  married  Sarah 
Iniics,  and  (HliI  August  7,  1S62;  Mary,  born 
Oclnhci  18,  1788,  who  married  Ilcnry  Si- 
iiidiis,  and  died  August  25,  1S25;  Augustus, 
burn  June  6,  1793,  who  married  Amanda 
Sheldon,  and  died  August  7,  1862;  Fanny 
J?eecher,  born  April  28,  1795,  who  married 
Henry  Ainswortli,  and  died  in  1893;  Sally 
R.,  born  July  13,  1797,  who  married  German 
Ilendy,  and  died  April  1 8,  1878;  Nancy  Ma- 
linda,  born  September  17,  1799,  who  married 
John  Simon,  and  died  March  28,  1840;  Phi- 
lantla,  born  August  13,  1801,  who  married 
Elizabeth  Day,  and  died  February  22,  1871  ; 
and  l":iizabeth  M.,  born  March  9,  1804. 

Worcester  Jones,  the  father  of  John  F., 
settled  on  the  farm  of  his  grandfather  in 
Worcester,  then  containing  about  one  hundred 
and  fifty  acres.  He  became  a  large  farmer, 
and  added  considerably  to  the  estate.  I5esides 
keeping  all  kinds  of  cattle,  he  [iroduced  Initter, 
pork,  and  cheese,  which  he  s(dd  at  market. 
He  was  also  interested  in  the  Clarcmont  Na- 
tional ]?ank,  of  which  he  was  a  Director.  In 
[lolitics  he  was  a  Whig,  and  he  attended  relig- 
ious service  at  the  Union  Church.  Public- 
spirited  to  a  high  degree  and  a  supporter  of 
every  good  cause,  he  was  a  leader  among  his 
townspeople.  He  died  December  20,  1858. 
His  children  were:  .Sarah,  who  married  Laban 
Ainsworth,  and  is  deceased;  Mary  Ann,  who 
died  at  the  age  of  seventy-eight  years;  Freder- 
ick, who  married  Lucy  Dean,  daughter  of 
Horace  Dean,  and  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty- 
two  years;  Fannie,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty  years;  Maria,  who  died  at  the  age  of 
fifteen;  Ilellen,  who  died  when  a  child  of  five 
years;  and  John  F.,  who  is  the  only  survivor. 

John  1"'.  Jones  obtained  his  education  in  the 
district  schools  and  at  the  academy  in  Clare- 
mont.      He  assisted   his  father  with   the  farm 


until  1855,  when  he  and  his  brother  Frederick 
were  given  complete  charge.  They  carried  on 
the  farm  until  1862,  when  Frederick  married. 
John  then  assisted  his  brother  until  the  fall  of 
1869,  when  he  bought  the  Horace  Dean  farm, 
a  place  of  three  hundred  acres,  where  he  has 
since  been  farming  on  a  large  scale,  thereby 
earning  a  comfortable  income.  He  married 
Helen  Dean,  daughter  of  Horace  Dean.  Her 
grandfather  was  Lemuel,  a  Revolutionary 
S(ddier,  who  settled  early  in  Clarcmont.  He 
married  Lucy  Terry,  and  had  three  children, 
namely:  Maria,  who  died  in  infancy;  Maria 
(second),  born  in  1800,  who  married  James 
li'illock,  and  died  in  1S85;  and  Horace,  who 
married  ICmalinc  Pres.sy,  and  had  eleven  chil- 
dren. For  several  years  Horace  Dean  carried 
on  the  hotel  and  Cupola  Farm,  and  afterward 
bought  the  farm  now  owned  by  his  son-in-law, 
Mr.  Jones.  The  Cupola  F'arm  was  considered, 
perhaps,  the  best  farm  in  the  .State.  It  con- 
tained five  hundied  acres  of  well-tilled  land. 
He  raised  line  stock  for  the  Boston  markets, 
dealt  in  horses,  and  kept  a  dairy.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Union  Church,  was  influential 
in  town  affairs,  and  he  acceptably  served  the 
town  for  a  time  in  the  capacity  of  Selectman. 
A  poor  boy  at  the  outset,  he  became  one  of  the 
wealthiest  farmers  of  the  district.  He  died 
in  1884.  His  other  children  were:  Lucy, 
who  married  I-'rederick  Jones,  and  died  in 
Se[)tember,  1894,  having  had  no  children; 
John,  who  married  Hannah  Harlow,  became 
a  superintendent  of  railroad  construction  in 
Kansas,  and  served  through  the  war,  had  no 
children;  Lemuel,  who  died  in  September, 
1849,  aged  ten  years;  Alice,  who  married 
James  Thompson,  and  had  one  child,  who  died 
in  infancy;  I'lllzabeth,  who  married  Charles 
Fisher;  Thomas,  who  became  a  hardware  mer- 
chant of  Memphis,  Tenn.,  served  on  govern- 
ment farms  during  the  war,  and  died  in  1S67; 


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Samuel,  who  married  Kate  Cotton,  daughter 
of  Charles  Cotton,  and  is  a  farmer  in  Dakota; 
Charles,  living  in  Texas,  who  successively 
married  Ophelia  Roberts,  of  St.  Louis,  and 
Carrie  Johnson,  of  Springfield,  Vt.,  and  has 
a  daughter  Edna  by  the  first  wife,  and  a  son, 
Thad  P.  George,  by  the  second ;  and  Kate, 
who  is  unmarried.  Thad  P.  George,  son  of 
Charles  Dean,  resides  in  California,  engaged 
in  mining,  lumbering,  and  hotel-keeping. 
The  elder  Mrs.  Dean  died  in  April,  1897,  at 
the  age  of  ninety  years.  Mr.  Jones  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Union  church.  He 
has  represented  his  town  in  the  legislature, 
serving  during  his  term  of  office  on  the  Insur- 
ance Committee.  He  is  a  public-spirited  man 
and  universally  liked. 


/^3)eORGE  a.  SUMNER,  a  popular 
V  mT  storekeeper  and  real  estate  owner  of 
Hill,  was  born  on  the  place  where 
he  now  resides,  June  27,  1S39,  son  of  George 
W.  and  Hannah  (Abrams)  .Sumner.  [  Eor  the 
full  genealogy  of  the  Sumner  family  the 
reader  is  referred  to  the  account  of  Governor 
Increase  Sumner,  to  be  found  in  the  General 
Register.]  George  Sumner  is  a  direct  de- 
scendant of  Edward  Sumner,  a  Revolutionary 
patriot,  who  for  a  long  time  would  not  allow 
tea  to  be  served  on  his  table,  and  who  was 
one  of  the  Boston  Tea  Party.  Edward's  son, 
Nathaniel,  by  his  wife  Hannah  Bullock  Sum- 
ner, was  also  a  prominent  patriot,  and  a  man 
of  large  property  and  much  influence.  Na- 
thaniel had  a  numerous  family  of  children, 
and  gave  each  of  his  sons  a  farm.  George,  the 
next  in  line,  married  Margaret  Lewis.  One 
of  his  children,  who  was  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  settled  in  New  Boston, 
N.  H.  Grandfather  .Sumner  married  I>ydia 
Winchester.      He  bought  a   farm    in    Deering, 


N.II.  He  was  noted  in  the  district  fur  his 
indomitable  courage. 

George  W.  Sumner,  at  the  age  of  nineteen, 
after  having  helped  his  father  in  clearing  the 
Deering  property,  left  his  home  and  applied 
himself  to  learning  the  clothing  business.  He 
came  to  Hill  and  engaged  in  wool  carding  and 
cloth  dressing,  constructing  a  dam  and  erect- 
ing a  mill  for  these  purposes.  In  1825  he 
built  a  fine  brick  house,  which  is  still  one  of 
the  most  prominent  structures  in  the  town. 
He  married  Hannah  Abrams  in  1822;  and  his 
children  were:  Mary,  Ellen,  Catherine,  Jane, 
George  A.,  and  Sarah.  Of  these  George  is 
the  only  survivor. 

George  A.  Sumner  was  sent  to  the  jiublic 
schools  of  Hill  and  later  to  P'ranklin  Acad- 
emy. At  the  age  of  nineteen  he  bought  a 
grist-mill.  After  running  that  for  a  time,  he 
exchanged  it  for  a  general  merchandise  store. 
A  few  years  later  he  bought  out  Mr.  Stack- 
pole,  whose  business  was  located  in  the  rail- 
road station,  and  joined  the  two  stores. 
About  the  year  1890  he  took  in  a  partner. 
The  business  is  now  conducted  under  the  firm 
name  of  Sumner  &  Foss.  Recently,  becom- 
ing interested  in  real  estate,  Mr.  Sumner  has 
built  a  number  of  tenement-houses  for  the 
workmen  employed  in  the  needle  factory.  At 
one  time  he  was  the  freight,  express,  and 
telegraph  agent  of  the  Boston  &  Maine  Rail- 
road. 

On  April  28,  1S68,  Mr.  Sumner  married 
Angle  Montague,  of  Springfield,  Mass.  His 
children  are:  Annie  G.  and  G.  Willis  Sum- 
ner. The  last  named  is  a  graduate  of  Oberlin 
College,  Ohio.  Mr.  Sumner  has  been  an 
active  man  in  town  affairs,  and  has  held  sev- 
eral town  offices.  He  has  been  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  twenty-five  years.  Postmaster  for 
four  years,  and  Town  Clerk  for  six  years.  He 
has   also  filled    the   offices   of    Selectman    and 


I!I<)(;K.\I'IIIC.\1,     KI'AlhAV 


457 


TdWii  'I'lcasiircr.  In  ■■'^ijS  lie  ic|iiesciitc(l  tlic 
t(]\vii  In  the  .St;ite  le^i.slaUne.  A  lnyal  Ke- 
|)iil)liLaii,  his  Inst  Presidential  vote  was  cast 
lor  Abraham  l.iiu-nln  in  i  .S6o.  He  is  a 
Mason,  and  takes  much  interest  in  the  dovelop- 
nient  of  the  organization.  lie  is  a  nicnibcr  of 
the  Conf^rej^ational  Church  of  Hill  and  a 
re^tilar  attendant  on  the  services. 


\C\)  /  1 1 , 1 . 1  A  M  .S.  .ST  R  A  W,  a  j )rosi)erous 
('Jyj  farmer  <if  IIii|ikinton  antl  a  son  of 
William  and  Hannah  Straw,  was 
born  in  the  house  where  he  now  lives,  June  i, 
iSij.  He  is  tlescendcd  from  William  and 
Mehitahle  Straw  of  early  Colonial  times. 
Their  children  were  born  as  follows:  William, 
May  23,  i6,sr);  John,  July  i,  i68S;  .Samuel, 
August  13,  1692;  antl  Hawrcnce,  May  13, 
1699.  Lieutenant  Jacob  .Straw,  the  grand- 
father of  William  .S.,  came  from  Rowley, 
Mass.,  to  Hopkinton,  some  time  between  1740 
and  1755,  while  still  a  young  man.  He  se- 
cured fifty  acres  of  land,  upon  which  he 
ercctetl  some  small  buildings,  and  then  sold 
the  whole  to  such  advautage  tiiat  he  was  able 
later  to  purchase  two  hundretl  acres  on  Sugar 
Hill,  in  the  town  of  Weare.  Here  again  he 
erected  buildings,  sold  out  at  a  profit,  and 
bouglit  three  hundred  acres  in  West  Hopkin- 
ton, near  wheie  William  S.  Straw  now  lives. 
This  purchase  was  made  in  1782;  and  he 
spent  the  rest  of  his  life  upon  the  jiroperty, 
[luttiiig  up  large  and  convenient  buiklings  and 
making  many  other  improvements.  A  pros- 
perous farmer,  he  was  able  to  give  each  of  his 
sons  a  faim,  besides  affording  his  sons-in-law 
substantial  assistance.  IHs  death  resulted 
from  a  cancer  in  his  seventy-eighth  year.  He 
married  Betsey  (or  Lydia)  Ordway,  of  Rum- 
ford,  later  of  Concord.  They  had  twelve 
children,     the    youngest    of    whom    died    aged 


si.\ty-si.\,  and  the  eldest  at  the  age  of  eighty- 
nine.  Their  names  were:  .Samuel,  Mzekiel, 
Jacob,  J,evi,  Joseph,  William,  Lydia,  Doro- 
thy, Sarah,  Hetscy,  Hannah,  and  a  daughter 
whose  name  has  not  been  preserved. 

William  Straw,  the  father  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  born  on  the  farm  in  West 
Hopkinton  in  1782.  When  a  young  man  he 
learned  the  saddler's  trade,  and  he  subse- 
quently worked  at  it  for  a  short  time  in  his 
native  town.  Then  he  went  to  Warner,  and 
from  there  to  Canaan,  where  his  father  had 
given  him  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  twenty 
acres.  After  clearing  a  i)art  of  the  farm,  he 
sold  it  and  returned  to  Hopkinton  to  buy  a 
part  of  the  old  farm.  Soon  after,  he  married 
Hannah  Huse,  a  daughter  of  Thomas  Muse, 
who  owned  an  adjoining  farm.  Mr.  Huse 
dying  soon  after,  William  and  his  wife  moved 
into  the  new  house,  which  was  but  just  com- 
pleted; and  by  buying  out  the  other  heirs 
Mr.  Straw  became  the  possessor  of  one  hun- 
dred anil  five  acres  of  the  original  Huse  farm, 
probably  about  the  year  i<S'i2.  His  wife, 
Hannah,  died  while  still  a  young  woman, 
leaving  her  husbaml  with  tour  children,  all  of 
whom  lived  to  be  over  si.\ty-five  years  of  age. 
Their  names  were:  Sarah,  who  married  Leon- 
ard Felch,  of  Weare;  Anne,  who  married 
William  Chandler,  a  blacksmith  of  Henniker; 
Harriet,  who  married  Otis  Lewis,  of  Lynn, 
Mass.  ;  and  William,  the  subject  of  this 
sketch.  William  Straw  afterward  successively 
married  Lucretia  Page  and  Joannah  Goodhue, 
of  Bow,  N.H.  Lucretia  had  two  children  — 
Jesse  Osgood  and  Page  Huse.  The  third  wife 
survived  him  four  years.  She  hatl  one  daugh- 
ter, who  married  Jacob  S.  Chase,  and  died  in 
Warner  in  1893. 

William  S.  Straw  received  his  early  train- 
ing on  the  farm  where  he  was  born  and  where 
he    has    spent    the    greater    part    of    his    life. 


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After  he  hnd  reached  the  age  of  twenty,  he 
worked  for  a  while  in  a  factory  at  Mcthuen, 
Mass.  He  owned  another  farm  before  he  went 
to  live  on  the  old  Hiise  farm  where  he  now 
lives.  A  capable  farmer,  he  is  always  ready 
to  make  improvements.  In  politics  he  has 
been  a  stanch  Democrat.  He  is  a  Universal- 
ist  in  religious  belief  and  an  earnest  mem- 
ber of  the  church  in  Henniker.  He  has  been 
a  subscriber  for  the  Xl-zv  England  Farmer  and 
for  the  Christian  Leader  for  forty-six  years. 
He  married  Mary  Ann  Flanders,  a  daughter  of 
James  and  Mary  (Peasler)  Flanders,  who  has 
had  five  children.  These  were:  Hannah 
Marion,  who  married  E.  Harvey  Edmonds,  of 
Hopkinton  village,  and  died  in  1893;  Luella, 
who  married  George  H.  Pierce,  and  lives  on 
a  farm  near  her  parents;  Abbie  Frances,  who 
married  Geoige  H.  Dodge,  of  Henniker; 
James  Otis,  whose  life  is  sketched  elsewhere 
in  this  volume;  and  Charles  H.,  now  an  artist 
living  at  home. 


iHARLES  GH^MAN  SANDERS,  an 
enterprising  lumber  manufacturer  of 
Chichester,  was  born  in  this  town, 
April  30,  1824,  son  of  Fllijah  and  Olive  (Phil- 
brick)  Sanders.  His  grandfather,  Robert 
Sanders,  followed  the  sea  from  the  age  of 
seventeen  until  he  was  sixty  years  old.  Rob- 
ert was  engaged  in  both  the  foreign  and  coast 
trade;  and  during  the  War  of  181 2  he  served 
u])on  a  jjrivateering  vessel,  which  was  fitted 
out  at  Portsmouth,  N.  H.,  by  Captain  Chase. 
His  last  days  were  ])assed  in  Epsom,  N.  H.  ; 
and  he  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-four  years. 
He  voted  with  the  Whig  parly  in  jwlitics,  and 
in  his  religious  views  was  a  Congregationalist. 
He  married  a  Miss  F"oss,  who  lived  to  be 
seventy-eight  years  old;  and  she  reared  six 
sons  and  two  daughters. 


FLlijah  Sanders,  born  in  F'psom  in  1799, 
learned  both  tanning  and  shoemaking,  and 
afterward  followed  those  trades  in  Chichester 
for  fifty  years.  He  was  an  energetic  and  in- 
dustrious man.  His  wife,  Olive,  was  a  dau"h- 
ter  of  Perkins  Philbrick,  a  native  of  Rye, 
N.  H.,  who  moved  from  that  town  to  Epsom, 
where  he  passed  the  rest  of  his  life.  She  be- 
came the  mother  of  two  sons:  Charles  G.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  and  George  S.,  who  is 
no  longer  living.  George  .S.  Sanders  married 
for  his  first  wife  Elizabeth  i^axter,  of  Bridge- 
water,  Mass.  By  that  union  there  is  one 
son,  Charles  H.  For  his  second  wife  he 
wedded  Hattie  Atwater,  a  native  of  Maine, 
and  left  two  children  by  this  union  —  Calvin 
E.  and  Clara  Olive.  His  second  wife  sur- 
vives, and  is  living  with  her  children  in 
Worcester,  Mass.  Elijah  Sanders  lived  to  be 
eighty-six  years  old,  and  his  wife  died  at 
seventy  -  two.  They  were  members  of  the 
Methodist    Episcopal    church. 

Charles  Gilman  .Sanders  acquired  a  com- 
mon-school education  in  his  native  town. 
When  his  studies  were  finished,  he  learned 
the  shoemaker's  trade  with  his  father.  He 
f(j]]owed  that  calling  for  fifteen  3'ears;  and 
then,  in  company  with  his  father,  he  built  a 
saw-mill  for  the  manufacture  of  shingles, 
clapboards,  etc.  This  mill  was  destroyed  by 
fire,  and  in  1878  he  erected  another  upon  the 
same  site.  At  the  present  time  he  is  operat- 
ing two  saw-mills,  one  for  the  manufacture  of 
shingles  and  clapboards,  and  the  other  for  the 
sawing  of  heavy  lumber.  He  also  cultivates 
a  farm  of  sixty-five  acres.  Both  his  manufact- 
uring and  agricultural  enterprises  are  in  a 
flourishing  condition. 

On  December  3,  1846,  Mr.  Sanders  married 
Abigail  M.  Ayer,  daughter  of  Daniel  Ayer,  of 
Chichester.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Sanders  have  had 
five     children,     of     whom     four     are      lis'inir; 


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iianiuly,  I''r;mk  I..,  \\':irrcii  A.,  Nettie  A., 
ami  l.iiicn  \).  I'"rank  L.  in  allied  I'jiinia 
I'liidtii,  wlici  (lied  leavilij;'  (me  son,  llaii)'. 
W'ariei)  man  ied  Mary  Ida  I'alinunds,  of  tiiis 
town,  and  lias  four  childien  —  ]5ert,  Minnie, 
I'xlward,  and  Rena.  Nettie  A.  is  the  wife  of 
I'led  Lear,  of  Kpsom,  and  has  no  children. 
I.oren  1).  married  Martha  Toml  iiisoii,  a  native 
of  X'ermoiit,  and  has  one  child,  Ilarley  (jil- 
iiiaii.  In  jiolitics  Mr.  Sanders  is  a  Repuh- 
licaii.  lie  takes  a  lively  interest  in  the 
progress  of  his  town,  and  is  a  member  of 
Chichester  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry. 


4^*^» 


|i;V.  ISAAC  G.  IIUHBARD,  at  one 
time  the  rector  of  Trinity  Church, 
Claremont,  was  born  here,  April 
i,^,  iSi<S',  son  of  Isaac  and  Ruth  (Cobb)  Hub- 
hard.  His  grandfather,  George  Hubbard,  who 
was  a  Lieutenant  in  the  Revolutionary  War, 
came  to  Claremont  in  I77<S  from  Tolland, 
Conn.  Judge  J.  IT.  Hubbard,  of  Windsor,  a 
son  of  George,  was  one  (if  the  ablest  lawyers 
in  New  I'"nglaii(i.  He  was  a  powerful  man, 
and  as  a  pleader  at  the  Ijar  he  liad  few 
eciuals.  Isaac  Hubbard,  another  son,  who 
settled  in  Claremont,  became  a  successful 
farmer  and  stock-raiser.  He  was  an  influen- 
tial man,  served  in  different  town  offices, 
did  much  legal  work,  was  Justice  of  the  Peace, 
was  considered  a  practical  lawyer,  and  was 
prominent  in  the  Episcopal  church.  He  died 
in  January,  i<S6i,  leaving  a  fine  estate  of  some 
four  hundred  acres.  By  his  first  wife,  a 
daughter  of  I'3zra  Jones,  there  was  one  child, 
a  daughter,  who  married  Charles  1'".  Long, 
and  had  four  children  :  Caroline,  who  died 
young;  Charles  H.  ;  Isaac  G.  ;  and  Charlotte 
H.  The  three  last  named  are  still  living. 
His  second  wife,  in  maidenhood  Ruth  Cobb, 
(.laughter  of  Samuel  Cobb,  of   Springfield,  \t., 


had  four  children.  Amos,  the  eldest,  now 
deceased,  win;  was  in  the  nursery  business  in 
Detroit,  Midi.,  married  Catliarinc,  daughter 
of  .Samuel  P'iske.  .She  was  half-sister  of 
Philip  I'"iske,  the  donor  of  the  l""iskc  Library 
in  Claremont;  and  her  mother  was  a  sister  of 
I'aran  Stevens,  the  famous  hotel  man  of  that 
place.  The  second  child  of  Isaac  Huhbartl 
was  Sarah  M.,  wIkj  married  the  Rev.  Joel 
Clapp,  an  Lpiscopal  minister,  ("harles  H. 
died  at  the  age  of  twelve. 

Isaac  G.  Hubbard  graduated  from  Trinity 
College  in  1839.  He  then  entered  the  Gen- 
eral Theological  Seminary  in  New  York, 
where  he  spent  two  years,  and  finished  the 
prescribed  course  with  Bishop  Carlton  Chase. 
He  was  ordained  Deacon  in  Trinity  Church, 
Claremont,  June  25,  1845,  and  in  1847  re- 
ceived priest's  orders  from  Bishop  Chase.  Me 
began  preaching  in  Potsdam,  N.  Y. ,  and  subse- 
quently officiated  as  assistant  to  Dr.  Muhlen- 
berg for  several  months  at  the  Church  of  the 
Holy  Communion,  New  York  City.  In  March 
(jf  the  year  1852  he  accepted  charge  of  St. 
Michael's  at  Manchester,  where  he  reniained 
until  1 866.  This  was  a  missionar\-  field  de- 
manding the  utmost  patience  ;  but  it  jjroved 
work  to  which  Mr.  Hubbard  was  admirably 
adapted,  and  under  him  the  parish  was  en- 
largetl  and  the  membership  much  increased. 
He  was  partly  instrumental  in  the  erection  of 
a  beautiful  stone  church  and  rectory,  and  other 
tangible  results  followed  from  his  efforts. 
Mr.  Hubbard's  health  was  delicate,  however, 
and  compelled  his  early  resignation.  He  re- 
turned to  his  father's  farm  for  a  period  of 
much  needed  rest.  In  1867,  his  health  hav- 
ing improved,  he  accepted  the  rectorshijj  of 
Trinity  Church  at  Claremont.  He  remained 
here  until  Easter  of  the  year  1875,  when, 
upon  a  return  of  his  former  malady,  he  was 
again    obliged    to  rest    from   his    labors    and 


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travel  abroad  for  a  time.  Returning  to  his 
lionie  in  1876,  he  temporarily  took  up  work 
at  the  Union  Church.  On  Passion  Sunday, 
March  30,  1879,  he  started  as  usual  for 
church;  but,  feeling  indisposed,  turned  home- 
ward, and  expired  on  the  way. 

Mr.  Hubbard  was  a  scholar  of  pronounced 
ability,  and  he  accomplished  a  noble  work  in 
the  cause  of  good.  For  twenty  years  he  was 
a  Trustee  of  St.  Paul's  School  at  Concord, 
N.  II.  He  married  Elizabeth  Stimpson, 
daughter  of  William  Stimpson,  and  had  four 
children.  These  were:  George  Isaac,  who 
died  while  a  student  of  St.  Paul's  School; 
Charlotte  Louise,  William,  and  Ruth  Eliza- 
beth, who  are  living. 


ff^AMES  YEATON,  a  well-known  farmer 
of  Plpsom,  Merrimack  County,  was  born 
in  this  town,  January  11,  1832,  son  of 
John  and  Sarah  (Bickford)  Yeaton.  His  an- 
cestors for  several  generations  were  prosperous 
farmers  in  this  State;  and  his  great-grand- 
father, John  Yeaton  (first),  was  a  pioneer  set- 
tler in  Epsom.  John  Yeaton,  second,  grand- 
father of  James,  was  a  native  of  this  town,  and 
resided  here  his  entire  life.  A  successful 
farmer,  he  accumulated  considerable  property. 
He  was  a  Democrat  in  politics  and  a  Congre- 
gationalist  in  his  religious  views.  At  his 
death  he  was  about  eighty-one  years  old.  He 
was  three  times  married.  His  first  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Bickford,  died  at  the 
age  of  twenty-five.  Of  her  two  sons  who  at- 
tained maturity,  John  was  the  elder.  The 
father  married  for  his  second  wife  a  Miss 
Towle,  who  had  three  children,  none  of  whom 
are  living.  His  third  marriage,  which  was 
made  with  the  widow  of  William  Yeaton,  re- 
sulted in  no  children. 

John    Yeaton,    third,    was    born    in    Epsom, 


March  29,  i  S04.  He  was  reared  to  farming, 
which  he  followed  successfully  dining  his 
active  period ;  and  he  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-si.\  years,  leaving  a  good  estate.  He 
was  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  his  day. 
While  not  an  office-seeker  for  himself,  he  took 
an  active  part  in  securing  the  election  of  ca- 
pable officials.  In  politics  he  acted  with  the 
Free  Soil  party,  but  later  became  a  Republi- 
can. He  was  a  member  of  the  Free  Will  Bap- 
tist church.  His  first  wife,  Sarah  Bickford 
Yeaton,  whom  he  married  December  25,  1828, 
was  a  daughter  of  Samuel  Bickford,  of  Epsom. 
She  died  at  the  age  of  forty-nine  years,  leav- 
ing five  of  her  six  children;  namely,  James, 
Sarah  E. ,  Daniel,  Vianna  R.,  and  Betsy  A. 
Daniel  Yeaton  married  Annie  B.  Rowell,  of 
Chichester,  N.  H.,  and  has  three  children  — 
Alfred  D. ,  Minot  R.,  and  Alice  B.  Vianna 
R.  is  now  the  widow  .of  Elbridge  Batchelder, 
late  of  b^psom,  and  has  two  children  —  George 
E.  and  Edith  G.  Betsy  A.  married  for  her 
first  husband  Thomas  B.  Robinson,  of  Epsom, 
by  whom  she  had  two  sons — Bert  and  Elmer. 
She  is  now  the  wife  of  John  Brown,  of  North- 
wood,  N.H.  John  Yeaton,  third,  married  for 
his  second  wife  Mrs.  Caroline  Cilly,  the 
widow  of  Samuel  Cilly,  late  of  Lowell,  Mass., 
and  a  sister  of  his  first  wife.  By  this  union 
there  were  two  children:  Stella  R.,  who  is  no 
longer  living;  and  Fred  W. 

James  Yeaton  was  educated  in  the  schools 
of  his  native  town  and  at  Pembroke  Academy. 
After  leaving  school,  he  learned  the  shoe- 
maker's trade  in  Deerfield,  N.  H.,  and  fol- 
lowed it  for  three  winters.  He  then  engaged 
in  agriculture.  In  187S  he  i)urchased  his 
present  farm  of  si.xty  acres.  On  March  3, 
1858,  he  contracted  his  first  marriage  with 
Martha  A.  Randall,  daughter  of  Francis  D. 
Randall,  of  Deerfield,  N.H.  Of  her  three 
children    lulwin     Randall    Yeaton    is     living. 


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]?()rn  June  25,  i860,  he  married  Ella  M. 
Kastman,  of  this  town,  and  now  has  one  child 
—  Allien  James,  who  was  born  May  26, 
i.Sg6.  Mrs.  Martha  Yeaton  died  at  the  age 
of  thirty-six.  On  April  g,  I.S74,  Mr.  Yeaton 
entered  his  second  marriage  with  Annie  K. 
Crockett,  whose  mother  was  a  sister  of  his  first 
wife.  She  was  born  in  Concord,  March  30, 
i,S5_^,  danj^hter  of  John  K.  and  Sally  Rebecca 
(Randall)  Crockett.  The  children  of  this 
union  are:  John  C,  who  was  horn  May  19, 
1875;  Helen  E.  P.,  born  July  22,  1878;  and 
George  Hill,  born  December  21,  1883. 

Mr.  Yeaton  is  a  member  of  the  Free  Will 
Haptist  church.  In  politics  he  is  a  Democrat. 
He  served  as  Town  Clerk  for  two  years  in  suc- 
cession, and  has  been  several  times  elected  a 
member  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen.  As  a 
public  official  he  was  able  and  efficient.  lie 
is  much  respected  by  his  townsmen. 


^^•m  ► 


RANK  A.  JORDAN,  a  veteran  of  the 
Civil  War,  who  is  carrying  on  a  thriv- 
ing business  as  a  stone  cutter  in 
riainfield,  N.  H.,  was  born  in  this  town,  April 
ly,  1840,  son  of  Anthony  W.  and  Mercy 
(Root)  Jordan.  It  is  known  that  some  of  his 
ancestors  served  in  the  Revolutionary  War. 
His  grandfather  was  James  Jordan,  who  died 
May  10,  i860,  aged  eighty-two  years.  He 
was  a  native  of  Plainfield  and  a  son  of  the 
first  member  of  the  family  to  settle  here. 
James  Jordan  was  a  contractor  for  the  con- 
struction of  roads  and  bridges,  and  also  car- 
ried on  a  farm.  He  married  Waitte  Kenyon, 
of  Plainfield,  born  in  January,  1782,  and 
reared  seven  sons,  namely  —  Anthony  W.  ; 
William  Riley,  first;  Raymond  K.  ;  W^ardner; 
Lester;  Kenyon;  and  Jarvis  —  none  of  whom 
are  living.  The  majority  of  them  were 
farmers;  and  all  became   heads  of  families  ex- 


cept Kenyon,  who  died  at  the  age  of  twenty 
years. 

William  Riley  Jordan,  first,  married  a  Miss 
Esther  Spaulding,  of  Plainfield;  and  six  of  his 
eight  children  survive.  Wardncr,  who  was 
overseer  of  the  poor  farm  for  seventeen  years, 
married  Lucy  Whittaker,  of  Grantham,  N,  H.  ; 
and  of  his  four  children  two  are  living.  Les- 
ter married  Luzina  Stone,  and  had  a  family  of 
eight  children,  none  of  whom  arc  living.  Jar- 
vis  was  Sergeant  of  Company  C,  Fifth  Regi- 
ment, New  Hampshire  Volunteers,  during  the 
Civil  War.  Three  of  his  sons  were  also  sol- 
diers, and  two  died  while  in  service.  He  was 
prominent  in  public  affairs,  and  served  as  a 
Selectman  for  .some  time.  Raymond  K.  Jor- 
dan was  a  cooper  by  trade  and  a  hard-working 
temperate  man.  He  and  his  wife,  Sophia 
Waller,  had  a  family  of  thirteen  children, 
who  are  all  deceased  but  one  son.  Two  of 
the  boys  were  in  the  war  of  the  Rebellion, 
serving  in  Company  C,  Fifth  New  Hamp- 
shire Volunteers.  The  Jordans  and  Kenyons 
were  early  settlers  in  Plainfield,  coming  here 
from  Connecticut. 

Anthony  Wayne  Jordan,  father  of  F'rank  A., 
was  born  in  Plainfield,  February  i,  1804.  He 
learned  the  stone- mason's  trade,  which  he  fol- 
lowed industriously  during  his  active  years, 
and  provided  his  family  with  a  good  living  and 
a  practical  education.  He  died  March  10, 
1870.  His  wife,  Mercy  Root,  born  April  30, 
1807,  and  died  February  11,  1878,  aged 
seventy-one,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Allen 
Root,  of  Plainfield,  became  the  mother  of  nine 
children,  namely:  Albert;  Calista;  William 
Riley,  second;  Louisa;  Francis  G.  ;  F'rank  A., 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  ;  James  ;  Marcia  ;  and 
Electa.  Albert  Jordan,  born  March  21,  1824, 
was  employed  in  a  stone-mill  in  Manchester, 
Vt.,  for  many  years,  or  until  losing  his  arm 
during    a     Fourth     of    July    celebration.      He 


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afterward  peddled  tinware  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  in  iSjg.  He  married  Mary 
French,  of  Plainfield,  and  reared  a  family. 
Calista,  who  was  born  April  26,  1S26,  married 
Alanson  Hadley,  of  Plainfield,  N.H.  Riley 
Jordan,  born  June  26,  182S,  was  a  marble  cut- 
ter, following  his  trade  in  various  parts  of  this 
county;  and  he  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  Civil 
War  in  the  Sixth  New  flampshire,  Company 
G.  He  died  July  3,  18.S1,  aged  fifty-three 
years.  The  maiden  name  of  his  wife  was 
I^aura  I'rench.  I'rancis  G. ,  who  was  born 
August  6,  1830,  was  burned  to  death  in  his 
cradle,  December  7,  1831.  Louisa,  who  was 
born  July  17,  1833,  married  Byron  Sanborn, 
a  native  of  Lisbon,  N.  H.,  and  a  farmer  in 
Plainfield,  and  died  in  March,  1872,  leaving 
one  child.  James,  who  was  born  June  13,  1843, 
and  served  for  a  time  in  the  P'ifth  New  Hamp- 
shire Regiment,  Company  C,  during  the 
Civil  War,  died  P'ebruary  21,  1896.  Marcia 
was  born  October  29,  1845,  and  was  acciden- 
tally killed  June  25,  1856.  She  had  returned 
to  the  school-house  for  something  left  there, 
and  while  attempting  to  enter  through  the 
window  it  fell  upon  her  neck.  J'llecta,  who 
was  born  in  October,  1848,  married  a  Mr. 
Allen  Root,  foreman  of  a  sash  and  blind 
factory  in  P'itchburg,  Mass.,  and  has  one 
child.     , 

I'rank  A.  Jordan  began  his  education  in  the 
common  schools  of  Plainfield,  and  completed 
it  in  Newbury,  Yt.  He  learned  the  stone- 
cutter's trade,  and  for  a  time  was  employed  in 
the  construction  of  the  Woodstock  Railway. 
He  enlisted  in  Company  B,  Second  Regiment 
Vermont  Volunteers,  and  after  the  first  battle 
of  Bull  Run  was  transferred  with  five  hundred 
and  fifty  others  to  the  marine  service.  He 
did  duty  as  fireman  upon  the  gunboats  "Cin- 
cinnati "  and  "]?enton  "  in  the  Cairo  expedi- 
tion under  Commodore  l-'oote  up  the  Tennessee 


and  Cumberland  and  on  the  ujiper  Mississippi. 
After  the  expiration  of  his  first  term  he  re- 
enlisted  in  the  Third  Vermont  Regiment, 
and  took  part  in  the  battles  of  Culpeper  Court- 
house, the  Rajjpahannock,  Bristoe  Station, 
Rapidan,  Brandy  Station,  and  all  along  that 
line,  at  Pittsburg  Landing,  Fort  Henry,  and 
Island  No.  10.  Since  the  war  he  has  been 
engaged  in  the  stone-cutting  business  in  Plain- 
field,  and  has  executed  some  excellent  work 
upon  several  large  estates  in  this  locality. 
He  is  a  skilful  workman  and  an  able  busi- 
ness man,  and  aside  from  his  everyday  calling 
he  carries  on  a  farm. 

Mr.  Jordan  married  Cornelia  E.  Davis,  who 
was  born  in  Bethel,  Vt. ,  April  3,  1S47,  daugh- 
ter of  Joseph  R.  Davis,  of  that  town.  Mrs. 
Jordan  is  the  mother  of  four  children, 
namely:  Sherman  T.,  born  August  i,  1865, 
who  assists  his  father  in  business;  Mabel  M., 
born  March  6,  1870;  Emma  Z.,  born  May  20, 
1873,  married  Edwin  Milliner,  of  Plainfield, 
and  has  five  children;  and  Parker  C,  horn 
March  11,  1875,  who  is  employed  by  his 
father.  Politically,  Mr.  Jordan  is  a  Republi- 
can, but  is  prevented  by  business  pressure 
from  taking  an  active  part  in  public  affairs. 


^S^A^II^.S  -S.  ELKINS,  a  prominent  citizen 
of  Canterbury,  N.H.,  was  born  in  Rye, 
N.  H.,  December  24,  1809,  son  of 
James  and  Mehitable  (Rand)  Elkins.  His 
paternal  grandfather,  Samuel  Elkins,  was  a 
native  of  Rye,  where  he  was  engaged  in  agri- 
culture during  the  active  period  of  his  life. 
James  Elkins  was  a  farmer  and  fisherman,  fol- 
lowing the  first-named  occupation  in  Rye, 
where  he  was  born  May  3,  1777.  He  died  in 
Canterbury,  November  29,  1855.  His  wife, 
Mehitable  Rand  lilkins,  was  born  in  Rye, 
June   19,    1787,    and   died    in   Canterbur}',    July 


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TO,  1S59.  TIiL'y  Iiacl  three  children:  James 
S.,  the  siil)ject  oi  liiis  sketch;  David,  born 
Novenilier  4,  1.S12,  and  now  deceased;  and 
Moses,  horn  I''el)ruary  21,  iSi.j,  wim  died  Se])- 
teniher  20,    18X9. 

James  S.  I'llkiiis  received  liis  education  in 
the  [luhlic  schools  of  his  native  town.  lie 
I'cmained  at  home,  and  helped  on  the  farm 
until  he  was  twenty  years  of  age.  His  par- 
ents icmovcd  to  Little  l^onr's  Head  and  then 
to  .Stialham,  N.I  I.,  remaining  four  years  in 
each  place.  Tn  1834  they  moved  to  Canter- 
bury, lie  was  engaged  in  stone-cutting  in 
Ouincy,  Gloucester,  and  15oston,  where  he 
bellied  build  the  First  Merchants'  Exchange. 
In  1S34  he  bought  a  farm  near  the  village  of 
Canterbury.  About  1873  he  purchased  the 
property  where  he  now  resides,  and  where  for 
the  last  twenty  years  he  has  lived  retired  from 
business.  In  politics  Mr.  I"'lkins  has  always 
been  a  strong  Democrat  and  an  active  politi- 
cian. He  served  three  years  as  Selectman, 
and  was  the  Representative  of  his  district  two 
years,  besides  holding  other  minor  ofifices. 
He  has  been  twice  married.  His  first  wife 
was  Abbie  S.  Tallant,  a  daughter  of  James 
Tallant,  of  Canterbury.  They  had  one  child, 
who  died  in  infancy.  Mrs.  Elkins  died  No- 
vember 22,  1884;  and  on  December  2,  1885, 
]\Ir.  I-'.lkins  married  L.  Maria,  a  daughter  of 
Jonathan  and  Phoebe  (Eastman)  Sargent,  born 
September  10,  1833.  Mrs.  Elkins  is  a  mem- 
ber of  llie  Congregational  church,  in  which 
both  she  and  her  husband  are  active  workers. 


.^I^OSES  EATON  DODGE,  late  a 
prosperous  and  highly  respected 
farmer  of  Hopkinton,  N.  H.,  was 
born  September  20,  1828,  son  of  Henry  and 
Susan  (I^aton)  Dodge.  His  parents,  after 
their  marriage,   settled   on    the   present    Dodge 


farm,  which  has  been  in  the  j)o.ssc.ssion  of  the 
family  for  seventy-five  years.  He  was  edu- 
cated in  the  common  .schools,  and  early  became 
engaged  in  farming  and  lumbering,  in  both  of 
which  occujiations  he  was  successful,  and  in 
the  latter  of  which  he  did  an  extensive  busi- 
ness, often  employing  about  forty  men.  He 
was  a  man  of  quiet  habits,  a  great  reader,  and 
an  intelligent  and  useful  citizen,  respected  by 
his  fellow-townsmen.  He  served  as  Town 
Assessor;  and  he  was  a  charter  member  of 
Union  Grange,  in  which  he  also  held  ofTicc. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat.  January  29, 
1 86 1,  he  married  Abbie  A.,  daughter  of 
Charles  and  Phoebe  (Hill)  Weeks,  of  Hopkin- 
ton, by  whom  he  had  one  son,  Henry.  Mr. 
Dodge  died  December  16,  1889,  and  was 
buried  in  the  old  Stumpfield  district  ceme- 
tery, where  his  parents  rest.  Mrs.  Moses 
Dodge,  who  survives  her  husband,  and  resides 
on  the  old  farm,  is  a  lady  of  education  and 
refinement,  and  an  excellent  conversationalist. 
She  is  somewhat  of  an  invalid,  being  afflicted 
with  rheumatism,  w'hich  necessitates  her  con- 
stant use  of  a  wheel  chair.  Still,  she  views 
life  serenely,  and  spends  her  quiet,  leisurely 
days  in  the  pleasant  surroundings  of  her  pict- 
uresque home. 

Henry  Dodge,  the  son  mentioned  above, 
was  born  on  the  farm,  January  2,  1863.  He 
was  educated  at  Contoocook  Academy,  and 
at  New  Hampton  Institute,  in  which  latter 
institution'  he  took  the  four  years'  course,  and 
was  graduated  with  high  honors  in  1885.  He 
studied  medicine  with  Dr.  Conn  at  Concord, 
and  subsequently  attended  Dartmouth  Medi- 
cal College,  and  also  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont, where  he  took  his  degree  as  Doctor  of 
Medicine  in  188S.  He  had  as  early  as  the 
age  of  sixteen  taught  school  in  Warner  during 
the  vacations,  and  he  kept  it  up  during  his 
college  course.      After  receiving  his  diploma, 


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he  began  practice  at  Goffstown,  but  soon  after 
went  to  Webster,  where  he  succeeded  to  the 
practice  of  Dr.  Arey  on  the  death  of  that 
gentleman.  He  was  soon  after  elected  County 
Physician  for  a  term  of  three  years,  having  an 
office  at  Penacook.  He  has  since  been  in 
general  practice  in  Webster,  and  is  a  promi- 
nent citizen  there.  He  served  on  the  School 
Board,  and  in  1894  he  was  elected  to  the 
legislature  of  the  State.  He  is  a  prominent 
member  of  the  grange,  in  which  he  is  valued 
as  a  speaker  on  matter  affecting  the  interests 
of  that  body.  Dr.  Dodge  married  Miss  Josie 
Hoyt,  daughter  of  Benjamin  Hoyt,  who  was 
roadmaster  at  Wareham,  Mass.,  for  thirty 
years.  The  Doctor  and  his  wife  had  one  son 
■ — Clarence  B. ,  whom  they  named  for  the  son 
of  ex-Governor  Burleigh,  of  Maine,  but  who 
died  quite  suddenly,  November  23,   i  cSg4. 


mWARD  DIMICK  BAKia^  was  an  able 
advocate  and  lawyer  of  Claremont.  He 
was  born  April  21,  1827,  at  Meriden, 
N.H.,  son  of  Dimick  and  Hannah  (Colby) 
]?aker.  He  was  a  descendant  in  a  direct  line 
from  Joseph  Baker,  who  was  born  April  13, 
1678.  Joseph's  son,  Hernon,  by  his  wife, 
Abigail  Bissel  leaker,  married  Lois  Gilbert, 
who  had  a  son  Oliver,  a  physician,  who  mar- 
ried Dorcus  Dimick,  and  became  the  father  of 
Dimick  Baker. 

Dimick  Baker  was  born  March  18,  1793,  in 
Plainfield,  N.H.,  where  he  resided  throughout 
his  life.  He  was  a  ]irosperous  merchant  and 
farmer,  and  one  of  the  most  influential  men 
of  the  town.  His  wife,  Hannah,  had  five 
children,  namely:  Elias,  who  died  November 
II,  1884;  Hannah;  Helen  F.  ;  Edward  D.  ; 
and   Cyrus  ]•'.. 

Having  graduated  from  Kimball  Union 
Academy  at  Meriden,   Edward   Dimick    15aker 


at  twenty-one  began  the  study  of  law  with 
the  Hon.  Nathaniel  W.  Westgate  at  luifield, 
N.  H.  He  continued  his  .studies  with  the 
Hon.  Henry  A.  Bellows,  a  Chief  Justice  of 
New  Hampshire,  and  in  1851  was  admitted 
to  the  bar.  He  practised  at  Cornish,  this 
county,  until  1855,  and  afterward  in  Clare- 
mont until  the  time  of  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred February  i,  1895.  Mr.  Baker  was  an 
able  and  fearless  lawyer.  He  argued  for  the 
right  on  matters  of  public  im]5ortance,  and  to 
unnecessary  or  unwise  e.xpenditure  he  was  al- 
ways a  strong  opponent.  It  was  said  of  him 
that  he  "was  a  careful  and  able  lawyer,  and  a 
just  and  honorable  arbitrator  in  differences,  in 
which  he  frequently  interposed  his  good  offices 
to  prevent  unnecessary  and  expensive  litiga- 
tion." Politically  a  Republican,  he  was 
Representative  to  the  General  Court  in  1859, 
1885,  and  1886.  He  also  filled  other  posi- 
tions of  honor  and  trust.  His  religious 
preferences  were  given  to  the  Congregational 
church.  The  authority  already  quoted  further 
states:  "He  inherited  considerable  property, 
which  grew  through  his  business  thrift  to  a 
large  estate.  In  public  affairs  he  had  well- 
defined  opinions  and  a  definite  policy,  which 
he  defended  with  an  ability  and  a  ready  wit 
that  always  assured  him  an  audience.  He 
was  a  man  of  many  admirable  qualities.  In 
his  charities,  and  they  were  many,  he  was  as 
unostentatious  as  in  his  life.  He  made  no 
pretensions  to  be  else  than  a  quiet  citizen  and 
a  courteous  gentleman." 

On  November  12,  185 1,  Mr.  Baker  married 
IClizabeth  Ticknor,  of  Plainfield,  with  whom 
he  lived  most  ha])[iily,  and  who  survixes  him. 
She  was  a  daughter  of  Erastus  Ticknor,  who 
married  Cynthia  Wood,  and  had  eight  chil- 
dren, of  whom  two  died  young.  I^lisha  Tick- 
nor, in  the  harness-making  business,  is  a 
prominent   citizen    of     Lebanon,     N.  H.      John 


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has  become  a  railroad  man,  and  is  living  in 
Piiiladel]iliia.  Cynthia  married  Newel!  Colby, 
Mabel  nianied  a  Mr.  (jroves,  and  Caroline 
married  Chailes  ]■',.    i'',lliiilt. 


XCXJlWAAAM  ().  C.  VV()()1)1UIR\',  bm: 
J'\l  a  prominent  bnsiness  man  of  Clare 
mont,  N.II.,  and  one  of  the  leading 
Odd  ]''cll(i\vs  in  Sullivan  County,  was  horn  in 
Acworth,  N.II.,  h'ehruary  2C),  iSiS,  son  of 
Amos  Woodbury.  II  is  father,  wlio  was  born 
Angust  5,  1795,  was  twice  married,  first  to 
Mary  b'arnam  Carleton,  born  October  19, 
'79S>  l^y  whom  he  had:  William  Oliver 
Carleton,  Mary  Lawrence,  Hannah  Kelly, 
Eliza  Crombce,  Amos  Omera,  Amelia  Jane, 
Judith  Annette,  Harriot  An,t;eline,  and  Sarah 
Maria;  antl  second  to  Louisa  Chandler,  born 
August  iiS,  1S07,  who  gave  him  James  Vilas 
Chandler  and  Samuel  Ira  Lawrence.  Of 
these  children  by  Imlb  marriages  the  living 
are:  Mary  L.,  llainiah  K.,  Amelia  J.,  and 
Harriot  A.  Amos  Woodbury  was  a  clock  re- 
pairer by  trade. 

William  learned  the  trade  of  his  father.  In 
his  youth  he  entered  the  .store  of  I-lben  and 
Samuel  Bailey,  makers  of  spoons,  silverware, 
and  small  wares;  and  fur  bis  services  in  retail- 
ing to  customers  he  was  allowed  the  jirivilcge 
of  repairing  watches.  He  soon  established  a 
good  trade;  and,  ac(|uiiing  capital  by  economy 
and  hai'd  work,  he  c\-entually  succeeded  his 
employers  in  business,  remaining  for  twenty- 
seven  years  at  the  old  stand  in  l^ailey  lilock. 
Having  accumidated  a  snug  fortune  for  those 
days,  he  sold  his  business  interests,  but  after- 
ward he  bought  back  his  old  store  and  contin- 
ued for  some  eighteen  months  longer  in  busi- 
ness. He  died  December  29,  1875.  Mr. 
Woodbury  was  a  charter  member  of  Sullivan 
Lodge,  No.    12,   L    O.    O.    F.,    first  organized 


October  23,  1845.  Some  time  afterward  this 
lodge  was  disbanded;  l)ut  Mr.  Woodbury  l)y 
his  deep  interest  and  enthusiasm  for  the  so- 
ciety succeeded  in  having  it  reinstatcfl  in  1X72, 
and  was  always  looked  upon  a.s  the  father  of 
this  lodge.  His  wife  is  a  charter  member  of 
the  Rebecca  Lodge,  which  was  called  Wood- 
bury Lodge  after  him.  Mr.  Woodbury  was 
liberal,  hospitable,  and  public-spirited,  and, 
though  retired  in  habits,  a  man  of  good  judg- 
ment and  well  liked  by  all  his  acquaintances. 
He  married  Polly  M.  Spencer,  daughter  of 
Lewis  S.  Spencer,  of  Kast  Randolph,  Vt.,  a 
native  of  Clarcmont,  and  his  wife,  I'ojiy 
Miner,  of  Lempster,  N.  IL  Mrs.  Woodbury's 
paternal  grandfather  was  Reuben  Spencer,  who 
married  Alice,  daughter  of  Ivdward  yXinswfirth. 
Lewis  S.  Spencer  was  born  March  13,  1788, 
and  his  wife  Polly,  December  27,  1793. 
They  were  married  May  25,  1815,  and  their 
children  were:  Timothy  M.,  Fanny,  Polly  M., 
Norman,  Lewis  G.,  Fdwin,  Charles,  Timothy 
M.  (second),  Reuben,  Maria  L.,  and  Annie  K., 
of  wliom  Timothy  M.,  Norn)an,  Lewis  G. ,  and 
Charles  are  now  deceased. 


ACOB  NHWTON  IJUTLPLR,  M.D., 
of  Lemjister,  N.  H.,  one  of  the  best 
known  physicians  in  this  part  of 
Sullivan  County,  was  born  in  Lyndcboro, 
Hillsborough  County,  this  State,  l-'ebruary  6, 
1.S21,  son'  of  Jacob  and  Sarah  (Hlanchard) 
Butler.  Llis  great-grandfather,  William  But- 
ler, came,  it  is  said,  from  Fngland,  and  settled 
in  ICssex  County,  Massachusetts.  He  married, 
so  we  are  informed,  Sarah  Perkins,  and  had 
seven  children,  three  sons  and  four  daughters. 
The  three  sons  enlisted  in  the  War  for  Inde- 
pendence, and  one  never  came  back.  One  was 
taken  prisoner  and  carried  to  Llalifax,  N.  S. , 
where  he  died  of  small-pox.      The  other  son, 


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Jniiathnii  Bntlcr,  grandfather  of  Jacob  N.,  was 
hdiii  ill  GIdiicester,  Mass.,  and  was  the  first 
of  the  family  to  settle  in  Lyndeboro.  He 
served  in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill  and  in 
many  other  engagements  during  the  War  for 
Independence.  While  in  the  service  he 
worked  at  his  trade  of  a  blacksmith  nine 
months,  and  later  followed  his  trade  in  con- 
nection with  farming.  He  was  Town  Clerk 
for  a  great  many  years.  He  died  in  1S44, 
aged  ninety-two  years;  and  his  wife,  Lois 
Kidder  Butler,  died  in  1S46,  aged  eighty-six 
years.  They  were  the  parents  of  twelve  chil- 
dren, as  follows:  Sarah,  born  January  11, 
1779;  Hannah,  born  October  27,  i  7S0 ;  Jacob, 
first,  born  December  30,  1782;  Jonathan,  born 
March  i,  17S5  ;  Lois,  born  April  27,  1787; 
Rachel,  born  July  4,  1789;  Tryphena,  born 
April  2,  1792;  Jacob,  second,  born  June  7, 
1794;  Mary,  born  September  4,  1796;  Susan- 
nah, born  Se]itember  23,  1798;  Lucy,  born 
January  21,  1802;  and  William,  born  April 
21,  1S05.  William  Butler,  who  became  a 
practising  physician,  married  Nancy  Smith, 
of  New  Boston,  N.  H.  Soon  after  graduating 
he  located  in  Union,  Broome  County,  N.  Y. 
He  was  a  successful  practitioner,  and  lived  to 
be  over  ninety  years  old.  He  had  two  sons: 
Smith  Butler,  who  enlisted  in  the  late  war, 
and  died  soon  after;  and  Morris,  who  is  now 
a  ]ihysician  in  Brooklyn,  N.  Y. 

Jacob  Butler,  Dr.  J.  N.  I^utler's  father,  was 
i)orn  in  Lyndeboro,  N.  H.,  June  7,  1794. 
He  served  as  a  soldier  in  the  War  of  18 12, 
and  after  his  return  from  the  army  lie  engaged 
in  agricultural  ]iursuits  in  his  native  town. 
He  tilled  the  soil  with  energy  during  the  rest 
of  his  active  period,  and  was  an  ex'ceedingly 
able  and  thrifty  farmer.  In  politics  he  was 
originally  a  Whig,  but  joined  the  Reiniblican 
party  at  its  formation,  and  was  for  many  years 
a   prominent    factor    in  the  tran.saetion    of   the 


town's  public  business.  In  his  religious 
views  he  was  a  Congregationalist,  and  the  tem- 
perance cause  had  in  him  a  strong  and  earnest 
advocate.  His  wife,  Sarah  Blanchard,  who 
was  born  in  Lyndeboro,  May  29,  1793,  be- 
came the  mother  of  si.\  chil(ht;n,  namely: 
Jacob  Newton,  first,  born  August  2,  1819,  and 
died  in  infancy;  Jacob  Newton,  second,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  born  February  6,  1821  ; 
Jonathan  H.,  born  June  17,  1823;  William 
Horace,  born  October  28,  1825;  Charles  Mil- 
ton, born  August  7,  1S27;  and  Olney  Page, 
born  April  22,  1S35.  Jonathan  H.  married 
and  became  a  ranchman  in  Nebraska,  where  he 
was  killed  by  the  Indians;  William  Horace 
Butler  was  a  harness-maker,  and  followed  his 
trade  until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  May, 
1880.  Charles  Milton,  who  is  a  travelling 
man,  wedded  Martha  M.  Weston,  of  Ohio. 
Olney  Page  Butler,  who  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing, died  May  i,  1880,  survived  by  his  wife, 
Mrs.  Hannah  Langdell  Butler,  who  is  now  re- 
siding in  Lyndeboro,  N.  H.  Mrs.  Sarah  B. 
Butler  died  in  April,  1S69;  and  her  husliand, 
Jacob  Butler,  died  April   16,   1882. 

Jacob  Newton  Butler  pursued  the  primary 
branches  of  stud)'  in  the  district  schools,  and 
advanced  by  attending  the  academics  in  Han- 
cock and  New  Ipswich.  He  resided  for  a  year 
with  his  uncle  in  Union,  Broome  County, 
N.Y. ,  where  he  attended  a  fitting  school  for 
college,  and  then  devoted  himself  to  educa- 
tional work,  presiding  over  schools  in  Green- 
field and  Tem]Tle,  N.  H.  While  thus  engaged, 
he  studied  medicine  with  Dr.  John  Ramsay, 
of  Greenfield,  N.H.,  and  l.^rs.  Smith  and 
I'ollansby,  of  Peterboro,  and  later  with  Dr. 
Joseph  B.  Parsons  in  Bennington,  N.  H.  He 
attended  two  courses  of  lectures  in  Woodstock, 
Vt.,  and  then  entered  the  Berkshire  Medical 
College,  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1843.      On  December   5   of  the  same 


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year  iic  Inratcd  in  I.cmpstcr,  wlierc  lie  bcf^an 
liis  professional  careOr;  aiul  it  lias  never  been 
necessary  for  liim  to  seek  otiier  fields  for  ])rac- 
ticc,  as  liis  al)ilit\'  lias  found  ample  scojie  for 
useful  and  luci'ative  eniplrjynient  in  this  town 
and  vicinity.  lie  has  lonu;  enjoyed  the  repu- 
tation of  heiny  one  ol  the  most  skilful  and 
reliable  ]ili\'sicians  of  this  section,  and  he  is 
still  in  active  practice. 

Dr.  l?Litler  is  one  of  the  oldest  members  of 
the  New  llampsliirc  State  Medical  Society. 
Politically,  he  is  a  luni  supporter  of  the  l^e- 
[niblican  party;  and,  although  his  professional 
duties  have  ]:)rcvented  him  from  often  accept- 
ing public  office,  he  was  induced  to  serve  upon 
the  School  Board,  and  for  many  years  he  ren- 
dered valuable  aid  to  the  cause  of  public  edu- 
cation in  Lempster.  He  is  connected  with 
Silver  Mountain  Grange,  No.  ig6,  Patrons  of 
Husbandry.  Ills  activity  in  the  temperance 
cause  has  been  of  much  benefit  to  the  commu- 
nity, and  as  a  niember  of  the  Congregational 
church  he  has  displayed  a  deep  inteiest  in  le- 
ligious  work. 

On  June  23,  i<S4r),  Dr.  Hutler  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Harriet  Moore.  She  was 
born  in  Lempster,  I-'ebruar}'  lO,  1827,  daugh- 
ter of  Charles  and  Airra  (Heckwith)  Moore,  of 
Goshen.  Charles  Moore,  who  was  a  native  of 
Bolton,  Mass.,  settled  in  Lempster  when  a 
young  man,  and  fed  lowed  agricultural  pursuits 
for  the  rest  of  his  life.  He  was  the  father  of 
four  children,  namely:  Harriet,  who  is  now 
Mrs.  l^utler;  Helen,  wife  of  Hiram  Parker, 
a  merchant  and  Postmaster  in  this  town ; 
George,  who  married  Alniina  Weed,  of  Unity, 
and  is  now  a  prosperous  farmer  in  X'ermont; 
and  Charles  Austin,  a  travelling  man,  who 
married  P311a  Smith,  of  Ludlow,  Vt.,  and  re- 
sides in  Rutland. 

George  Arthur,  only  child  of  Dr.  and  Mrs. 
Butler,   was  born    May   23,   1850.      He  gradu- 


ated in  1871  at  the  Kimball  Union  Academy, 
Meriden,  "N.  H.,  having  also  attended  the 
Thayer  School  in  Hanover,  N.  H.  He  then 
entered  the  academical  department  at  Dart- 
mouth, from  which  be  graduated  in  the  class 
of  1875.  JJiuing  his  college  vacations  for 
ff)ur  years  he  was  employed  on  the  United 
States  Coast  Survey  service.  Since  1S79  he 
has  been  in  the  civil  engineering  department  of 
the  Chicago,  Kock  Island  &  Pacific  Railroad, 
and  resides  in  Chicago.  He  married  Abigail 
McCrillis,  of  Sandwich,  X.ll.,  antl  has  one 
son  —  Newton  Crillis,  born  .March  16,   18S8. 


YLVi:STER  PRENTISS  DAN- 
FORTH,  an  enterprising  member 
of  the  well-known  firm  of  Danforth, 
Forest  &  Morgan,  contractors,  builders,  and 
lumber  dealers  of  Concord,  N.PL,  was  born  in 
Bo.scawen,  N.H.,  August  14,  1838.  His  par- 
ents were  Nathan  C.  and  Sophia  C.  (Brown) 
Danforth,  both  residents  of  Merrimack  County 
for  many  years.  His  father  and  grandfather 
were  engaged  in  the  lumber  business  for  years, 
while  his  maternal  ancestors  were  farmers  in 
this  county. 

Sylvester  P.  Danforth  attended  the  public 
schools  and  Boscawen  Academy,  completing 
his  school  education  at  the  age  of  eighteen 
years.  He  then  learned  the  cabinet-maker's 
trade  with  Caldwell  &  Amsden,  for  whom  he 
worked  eight  years  as  foreman.  On  Septem- 
ber I,  1867,  he  came  to  Concord  and  served  as 
superintendent  for  Isaac  I^lwell  &  Co.,  furni- 
ture manufacturers,  remaining  with  them  three 
years.  His  ne.xt  employer  was  F.  B.  Hutchin- 
son, contractor,  whom  he  served  as  foreman  in 
the  moulding  and  finishing  department  for 
twelve  years.  In  1882  Mr.  Danforth  bought 
a  half-interest  in  the  Charles  Kimball  interior 
and     exterior    building,     finish,     and     lumber 


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business.  Five  years  later  George  S.  Forest 
became  associated  as  partner,  under  the  firm 
name  of  Kimball,  Danforth  &  Forest,  contrac- 
tors, builders,  and  lumber  dealers.  On  Sep- 
tember I,  1893,  Mr.  Kimball  retired,  and  Mr. 
F.  A.  Morgan  became  associated  with  the  firm, 
which  assumed  its  present  style  of  Uanforth, 
Forest  &  Morgan.  They  have  an  excellent 
record,  and  have  been  employed  in  the  con- 
struction of  many  prominent  buildings. 

Mr.  Danforth  has  been  twice  married.  On 
August  14,  1893,  he  was  united  in  matrimony 
with  Caroline  A.  Morgan,  of  Concord,  who 
bore  him  one  child,  Herbert  Milton.  The 
maiden  name  of  his  second  wife  was  Flora 
Augusta  Wheeler.  In  politics  Mr.  Danforth 
is  a  Democrat,  and  he  was  an  alternate  at  the 
National  Democratic  Convention  at  Chicago  in 
1896.  He  is  identified  with  various  fraternal 
organizations,  namely:  Blazing  Star  Lodge, 
No.  II,  in  which  he  is  Past  Master;  Plorace 
Chase  Council,  F.  &  A.  M.  ;  Trinity  Chapter, 
R.  A.  M.  He  is  Past  District  Deputy  Grand 
Master;  Generalissimo  of  Mount  Horeb  Com- 
mandery,  K.T.  ;  Past  Grand  Lecturer  of  the 
Fourth  Masonic  District;  and  also  a  thirty- 
second  degree  Mason  of  the  Ancient  and 
Accepted  Scottish  Rite. 


(5  I  HH  CANTEKPURY  SHAKERS.— 
ojl  Communism  has  been  a  vital  topic  with 
mankind  since  the  world  was  young, 
and  Pellamy's  "Looking  Backward"  has  re- 
awakened public  interest  in  the  subject.  P'ew 
people  stop  to  consider  that  in  several  of  our 
States  are  families  whose  modes  of  living  are 
governed  by  the  essential  ]n'inciples  of  com- 
munism. The  Shakers,  or  United  Society  of 
Jklievers,  found  now,  it  is  said,  only  in  the 
United  States,  though  the  sect  originated  in 
P'rance  and   flourished   for  a  time   in   England, 


believe  in  a  "community  of  goods"  and  in 
co-operative  work,  as  religious  communism  is 
the  ruling  power  of  the  organization. 

The  history  of  Shakerism  dates  from  16S9, 
when  the  people  were  much  talked  of  in 
France;  and  in  the  beginning  of  the  eigh- 
teenth century  their  peculiar  tenets  caused 
much  excitement  in  P^ngland.  James  Ward- 
ley,  an  elocjuent  preacher  of  the  Quaker  de- 
nomination, with  his  wife,  Jane,  formed  a  so- 
ciety at  Bolton,  near  Manchester,  England, 
which  was  the  first  English-speaking  commu- 
nity. The  kernel  of  their  religion  was  the  be- 
lief that  all  good  actions  are  done  under  the' 
influence  of  God,  and  they  believed  his  spirit 
would  be  ever  with  any  one  who  tried  to  lead 
a  righteous  life.  At  their  religious  services 
they  would  sit  in  reverent  meditation  until  one 
of  their  number  would  be  inspired  by  the 
spirit  of  God.  The  inspired  one  would  often 
manifest  deep  emotion,  which  would  gradually 
pervade  the  entire  congregation  with  worship- 
ful effect. 

Among  Wardley's  followers  was  the  family 
of  John  Lee,  a  Manchester  blacksmith,  whose 
daughter  Ann  has  ever  since  been  regarded  by 
the  .Shakers  as  the  incarnation  of  the  Christ. 
She  was  born  in  Manchester,  England,  Febru- 
ary 29,  1736.  Her  early  life  from  childhood 
was  narrowed  by  factory  and  other  work,  which 
deprived  her  of  educational  advantages.  Even 
as  a  child  she  was  of  a  religious  turn  of  mind, 
taking  a  great  interest  in  Wardley's  meetings, 
and  was  the  subject  of  heavenly  visions. 
Through  the  influence  of  her  parents  she  n)ar- 
ried  Abraham  Stanley.  In  175S  she  joined 
Wardley's  society.  While  in  prison  during 
the  persecution  of  the  sect,  she  had  an  inspira- 
tional vision  commissioning  her  to  preach 
Christian  celibacy  or  absolute  purity  of  body 
and  mind.  The  Shakers  accepted  her  visions 
and  counsels   as   the   actual    second   coming   of 


JilOCK AI'IIICAI.    KKVIKW 


•17' 


Cliiist  thiinigh  "Motlicr  Ann  Lcc. "  In  the 
spiinu;'  of  1774  she  had  a  revelation  directing 
her  to  i;o  to  America  with  eigiit  of  her 
f(dlo\vcis,  among  wiiom  were  her  luisljand 
and  brother.  After  their  dejiarture  active 
Shakerism  chised  in  Kngland.  'I'iiey  reached 
New  \'orl<,  August  6,  1774,  and  remained  in 
tliat  \'icinity  two  years,  IMotiier  Ann's  hus- 
liand  Iea\'ing  her  meanwhile,  as  she  was  de- 
termineii,  agreeably  to  the  new  light,  to  lead 
a  virgin  life.  In  1776  the  Rev.  John  llock- 
nell,  who  had  a  little  |)ro[)erty,  bought  a  tract 
of  land  near  Niskayuna,  now  VVatervliet, 
N.  Y.  ;  and  here  the  little  colony  found  a  home. 
Mother  Ann  Lee  closed  this  life  September 
8,   1784. 

History  tells  of  the  persecutions  which  the 
Shakers  suffered  while  endeavoring  to  gain 
a  foothold  in  this  country;  but  to-day  there  are 
seventeen  of  their  communal  families  in  the 
States,  the  one  at  New  Lebanon,  N.Y. ,  estab- 
lished in  1787,  being  the  oldest.  There  are 
two  in  New  Ham|)sliire,  one  at  Entield  and 
the  other  at  I-last  Canterbury.  The  Canter- 
bury community  was  formetl  in  1792,  under 
the  direction  of  Job  liishop,  a  delegate  from 
New  Lebanon,  N.Y.  Benjamin  Whitcher,  a 
farmer  who  settled  in  this  place  in  1774,  with 
his  wife  became  converted  to  the  Shaker  be- 
lief; and  they  gave  their  farm  to  the  family. 
A  meeting-house  and  dwellings  were  accord- 
ingly built  upon  the  land,  where  they  have 
now  stood  for  over  one  hundred  years.  Benja- 
min Whitcher  became  one  of  the  Elders  of  the 
family,  and  his  wife,  Mary  Shepard,  a  trustee. 
Elders  and  trustees  manage  the  spiritual  antl 
temporal  affairs  of  the  society.  The  head  of 
the  church  is  the  Order  of  Ministry  at  New 
Lebanon,  N.  Y. ,  the  oldest  settlement. 

Mt)ther  Ann  Lee  selected  her  successor,  and 
the  ]irecedent  established  by  her  has  been  fol- 
lowed ever   since.      An   Order   of   Elders   con- 


sists, generally,  of  two  Brethren  and  two  Sis- 
ters, the  Shakers  believing  in  the  equality  of 
men  and  women.  The  bishopric  consisting  of 
the  societies  at  Canterbury  and  J''nfiel(!  is  at 
present  under  the  guidance  of  ICIder  Henry  C. 
Blinn  and  Eldresses  Joanna  Kaime  and  Enie- 
linellart,  who  divide  their  lime  between  the 
two  places.  They  are  ai)])ointed  to  office  by 
the  authority  at  New  Lebanon.  luich  family 
also  has  a  board  of  l^klcrs  and  I''ldresse.s. 
Those  at  Canterbury  at  present  are  Elders 
Benjamin  II.  Smith  and  William  Briggs  and 
Eldresses  Dorothy  A.  Durgin  and  Dorothea 
Cochran;  at  the  upper  family.  Elder  I'reeman 
B.  White  and  Eldresses  Sarah  Libbey  and 
Lucy  A.  Miller.  These  are  chosen  by  the 
family  with  which  they  are  connected. 

The  financial  business  of  each  family  is 
under  a  board  of  trustees,  who  hold  in  trust 
all  the  property.  The  Canterbury  board  con- 
sists of  p]lder  Henry  C.  Blinn,  William 
Briggs,  and  Arthur  Bruce,  and  Sisters  Lucy 
i\nn  Shejiard  and  ICmeline  Hart.  The  trus- 
tees are  chosen  by  the  family  in  which  they 
reside.  The  ranks  of  the  Shakers  arc  re- 
cruited by  converts  from  abroad  and  by  chil- 
dren whom  they  educate.  Their  funds  are 
augmented  by  the  income  derived  from  various 
kinds  of  industrial  work.  The  Canterbury 
family  seek  a  li\elihood  by  manufacturing 
several  medicinal  preparations  and  by  a  lim- 
ited line  of  woollen  knit  goods.  They  also 
jiublish  a  neat  periodical  in  ])amphlet  form, 
called  The  Alanifcsto,  a  monthly,  which  is 
under  the  management  of  Elder  H.  C.  Blinn. 

It  seems  fitting  to  close  this  sketch  with 
a  brief  synopsis  of  their  religious  belief. 
They  accept  the  Bible  as  the  best  historical 
record  of  God's  work  among  his  people. 
They  reverently  regard  Jesus  as  the  most 
deeply  inspired  medium,  hence  the  best  pre- 
pared   agent    for    manifesting    God's    will    to 


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hiinmiiity.  The  Christ  they  worship  is  the 
spirit  i)f  God.  The  idea  of  the  omnipresence 
of  this  spirit  is  the  corner  stone  of  their  be- 
lief. Earthly  life  is  an  infinitely  short  part 
of  the  life  of  our  spirit  and  of  our  endeavor  for 
good  or  evil.  The  resurrection  of  the  body 
is  not  accepted  by  the  Shakers  ;  but  they  be- 
lieve in  the  eternal  life  of  the  soul,  continu- 
ing in  the  future  world  as  it  has  in  this,  only 
more  strengthened  as  the  spirit  of  God  is 
developed.  A  departed  spirit  may  give  aid  to 
the  spirit  of  one  on  earth  and  reveal  light  and 
truth  to  him. 

The  nine  cardinal  virtues  of  Shakerism,  as 
presented  by  Father  Joseph  Meacham,  the 
head  of  the  sect  in  1787,  are:  i.  Purity  in 
mind  and  body — a  virgin  life.  2.  Honesty 
and  integrity  of  purpose  in  all  words  and  trans- 
actions. 3.  Humanity  and  kindness  to  both 
friend  and  foe.  4.  Diligence  in  business, 
thus  serving  the  Lord.  Labor  for  all,  accord- 
ing to  strength  and  ability,  genius  and  circum- 
stances. Industrious,'  yet  not  slavish ;  that 
all  may  be  busy,  jieaceable,  and  happy.  5. 
Prudence  and  economy,  temperance  and  fru- 
gality, without  parsimony.  6.  Absolute  free- 
dom from  debt,  owing  no  man  anything  but 
love  and  good  will.  7.  I{ducation  of  children 
in  scriptural,  secular,  and  scientific  knowl- 
edge. 8.  A  united  interest  in  all  things  more 
compreliensive  than  the  selfish  relations  of 
husbantl,  wife,  and  children  —  the  mutual  love 
and  unity  of  kindred  spirits,  the  greatest  and 
best  demonstration  of  jjractical  love.  9. 
Ample  jHovision  for  all  in  health,  sickness, 
and  advanced  life.  A  perfect  equality  —  one 
faith,  ]iractising  every  virtue,  shunning  all 
vice. 

The  name  Shaker  has  become  a  s^'nonyni 
for  charity,  and  no  one  ever  asked  help  at  a 
Shaker's  door  without  a  kind  response  to  his 
need. 


Y?3\ATHANIP:L  TOLLLS,  M.D.,  was 
1=^  for  many  years  one  of  the  most  prmni- 
-1-^  \^  ^  nent  physicians  and  surgeons  uf 
Claremont.  A  native  of  VVeathersfield,  Vt., 
he  was  born  September  17,  1805,  son  of  John 
Tolles.  His  father,  an  industrious  farmer, 
moved  from  Weathersfield  to  Claremont  about 
the  year  iSig.  His  grandfather,  Henry 
Tcjlles,  was  a  member  of  Captain  William 
Upham's  company  during  the  Revolutionary 
War. 

Young  Nathaniel  Tolles  availed  himself 
of  the  advantages  for  obtaining  an  education 
offered  by  the  Catholic  Seminary  in  this  town, 
then  in  charge  of  the  Rev.  Daniel  Barber. 
Here  he  fitted  for  college,  and  was  about  to 
enter  upon  his  classical  course,  when  a  severe 
illness,  resulting  from  a  too  close  application 
to  study,  prevented  him  from  carrying  out  his 
purpose.  Afterward,  for  a  period,  he  assisted 
his  father  upon  the  farm  in  the  summer  and 
taught  school  in  the  winter.  Beginning  in 
1827  he  studied  medicine  under  Dr.  James 
Hall,  of  Windsor,  Vt.,  for  two  years.  Then 
for  a  short  time  he  was  under  the  instruction 
of  Dr.  Charles  G.  Adams,  of  Keene,  N.  H. 
Subsequently  he  attended  lectures  at  Bowdoin 
and  Dartmouth  Universities;  and  he  graduated 
from  the  last-named  college  in  November, 
1830.  Immediately  after  leaving  college,  he 
was  appointed  resident  physician  at  the  South 
]?oston  Almshouse,  where  he  remained  si.x 
months.  In  September,  1831,  he  located  for 
practice  in  I'ieading,  Vt.  Unable  to  consult 
more  e.xperiencetl  colleagues  of  the  [jrofession 
owing  to  the  remoteness  of  his^location,  he 
had  to  lely  solely  upon  his  own  judgment  diu'- 
ing  tlie  first  ten  years  of  his  jiractice.  In 
the  fall  of  1841  he  niaile  a  protracted  visit  to 
the  public  iiospilals  of  New  York  City,  where 
he  gained  the  advantage  of  much  observation. 
In  March,    1842,  lie  settled  in  Claiemont ;  and 


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he  was  suoii  in  possession  of  a  larfj;c  pi'acticc. 
l-'or  many  years  lie  was  tlie  principal  surgeon 
in  this  locality,  and  his  advice  in  cases  where 
consiillalidn  was  necessary  was  eagerly  sought 
liir.  Several  medical  students,  who  have 
since  become  successful  practitioners,  found  in 
him  a  willing  and  syni[iathizing  tutor.  lie 
was  a  Director  of  the  old  Claremont  Hank,  and 
iif  the  Claremont  National  ]5ank  from  the  date 
of  its  organization  in  i(S64.  Though  not  an 
aspiiant  for  political  honors,  he  accepted  and 
aljly  lilleil  various  positions  of  trust  and  re- 
s]ionsihility.  In  1858  he  served  as  Chairman 
of  the  first  l^oard  of  Commissioners  of  Sulli- 
van County,  and  he  was  one  of  the  Presiden- 
tial electors  from  this  State  to  cast  its  vote 
for  Abraham  Lincoln  in  i860.  He  was  one 
of  the  projectors  of  the  Stevens  High  School 
building,  a  nicndicr  of  the  c<inimittee  ap- 
pointed to  erect  it,  a  member  of  its  Ikiard  of 
Management  for  four  years,  and  one  of  the 
trustees  of  the  Stevens  h'und.  He  joined  the 
Masonic  fraternity  when  a  young  man,  and  he 
attentled  the  Kpisco[)al  church. 

Dr.  T(d!es  was  twice  married.  On  the  first 
Dccasiun  he  wlis  united  tn  b'rances  J.  Diiham, 
of  VVeathersficld,  \'t.,  who  died  l'\-bruary  26, 
1833.  His  second  marriage  was  contracted 
with  Jane  Weston,  daughter  of  Ezekiel  Wes- 
ton, of  Rockingham,  Vt.  ;  and  she  dieil  April 
-9>  ^'^93-  I^'s  five  children  were  Frances 
Jane,  who  is  now  residing  at  the  homestead  in 
this  town;  Ida  Adelaide,  who  died  December 
-5>  ''^39>  :iged  two  years,  seven  months,  and 
seven  days;  Valentine  Mott,  who  died  March 
7,  1844,  agec],  seven  months  and  nineteen  days; 
Clarence  W. ,  born  in  Claremont,  Ainil  30, 
1845  ;  and  Florence  Cameron,  who  died  Octo- 
ber 7,  1 86 1,  aged  twelve  years,  nine  months, 
and  twenty-seven  days.  The  early  education 
of  Clarence  W.  Tolles,  who  is  now  a  ph\'sician 
of  Clarenumt,  was  of  a  nature   calculated   to  fit 


him  especially  lor  a  professional  career.  His 
medical  studies  were  begun  under  the  direc- 
tion of  his  father;  and  he  graclualed  from 
Jkllevue  Medical  College,  New  York  City,  in 
1868.  After  a  year's  course  at  the  University 
Medical  College  in  London  he  entered  into 
practice  with  his  father.  He  has  made  sur- 
gery a  specialty  for  the  past  fifteen  years,  and 
it  is  conceded  that  he  is  one  of  the  ablest  and 
best-read  surgeons  in  the  State.  He  has  been 
a  member  of  the  local  board  of  health  for  the 
last  three  years,  was  one  of  the  committee  to 
select  the  site  for  the  Cottage  Hospital,  and 
is  now  the  surgeon  of  that  institution.  He 
occupies  a  high  social  position,  and  he  is  a 
member  of  the  Masonic  fraternity. 

Dr.  Nathaniel  Tolles  died  at  his  home  in 
Claremont,  June  24,  1879.  The  event  was 
mourned  by  the  townspeople  as  a  great  loss  to 
the  community.  The  esteem  in  which  he  was 
held  is  best  shown  by  the  following,  taken 
from  the  resolutions  adopted  at  a  meeting  of 
his  brother  physicians:  "Resolved,  That  in 
the  ])rofessional  life,  labors,  and  character  nf 
Di'.  Tolles,  which  extended  over  a  full  half- 
century,  we  have  a  commendable  e.\am[)le  (if 
industry,  of  zeal,  of  usefulness,  and  of  profes- 
sional honor,  not  often  combined  in  a  single 
life." 


LBERT  BINGHAM  WOOD  WORTH, 
the  Mayor  of  Concord  and  a  well- 
known  merchant  of  the  city,  was 
born  in  Dorchester,  April  7,  1843,  son  of 
(ieorge  and  Louisa  (Hovey)  Woodworth.  His 
grandfather,  Sylvanus  Woodworth,  Ijorn  in 
Lebanon,  Conn.,  who  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  Dorchester,  served  in  the  Revolu- 
tionary War,  and  fought  at  Bunker  Hill 
under  General  Putnam.  The  father,  also  a 
native  of  Dorchester,  was  a  man  of  lofty  char- 
acter and  thoroughly  respected  where  he  was 


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best  known.  He  was  a  remarkably  well-read 
man,  and  he  was  one  of  the  original  anti 
slavery  men  of  New  Hampshire.  He  was 
prominent  in  the  Congregational  chuich,  of 
which  he  became  a  member  early  in  life.  The 
mother  was  a  native  of  J.yme,  N.H. 

Albert  B.  VVoodworth  removed  with  his 
parents  from  Dorchester,  N.H.,  to  Hebron, 
N.H.,  where  he  attended  the  public  schools. 
Siibsecpiently  his  education  was  completed  at 
Boscawen  Academy.  At  the  age  of  fifteen 
years  he  was  employed  by  D.  E.  Willard,  of 
Orford,  N.H.  After  entering  on  his  nine- 
teenth year,  he  managed  a  country  store  in 
Warren,  N.  H.,  for  four  years.  For  a  year, 
beginning  in  1867,  he  was  associated  with 
Cyrus  Taylor,  of  Bristol.  In  the  spring  of 
1868  he  succeeded  Parker  &  Young,  of  Lis- 
bon, in  one  of  the  largest  general  merchandise 
stores  in  Northern  New  Hampshire,  where  he 
continued  to  do  business  until  1873.  Mr. 
Woodworth  then  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H., 
and,  with  his  brother,  Edward  B. ,  forming  the 
firm  Woodworth  l^rcthers,  bought  out  C.  C. 
Webster  &  Co.  Three  years  later  they 
bought  the  store  of  Hutchins  &  Co.,  and  con- 
ducted it  for  five  years  under  the  style  of 
Woodworth,  Dodge  &  Co.  Then  for  the  fol- 
lowing two  years  it  was  carried  on  by  Wood- 
worth,  Dow  &  Co.  ;  and  since  1883  the  firm 
name  has  been  Woodworth  &  Co.  A  Director 
of  the  Parker  &  Young  Manufacturing  Com- 
pany of  Lisbon,  N.H.,  since  its  organization, 
Mr.  Woodworth  was  elected  its  President  in 
1895.  He  was  formerly  one  of  the  fountlers 
and  a  Trustee  of  the  Lisbon  Savings  Bank  and 
Trust  C(jmpany. 

On  September  30,  1873,  Mr.  Woodworth 
was  married  to  Miss  Mary  Parker,  of  Lisbon. 
He  is  now  the  father  of  three  children  —  P2d- 
ward  K.,  Grace,  and  Charles  P.  Woodworth. 
In  religion  Mr.  Woodworth  is  a  member  and  a 


vestryman  of  .St.  Paul's  I'^piscopal  Church  of 
Concord.  In  politics  he  affiliates  with  the 
Republican  [larty.  He  served  Conconl  for 
four  years  in  the  capacity  of  Alderman  ;  repre- 
sented it  in  the  State  legislature  in  1893; 
and  on  November  4,  1S96,  was  elected  Mayor 
of  the  city  for  two  years.  Mayor  Woodworth 
is  a  member  of  Kane  Lodge,  V.  &  A.  M.,  of 
Lisbon. 


ILLIAM  B.  LEAVITT,  a  promi- 
nent resident  of  North  Grantham, 
widely  known  as  the  compiler  of 
Leavitt's  Almanac,  was  born  August  7,  1812, 
son  of  John  and  Susan  (Burnham)  Leavitt. 
The  family  has  been  in  America  since  the 
early  part  of  the  seventeenth  century,  when 
three  brothers  came  from  England  to  the 
shores  of  the  New  World.  Robust,  sturdy, 
and  energetic,  these  brothers  soon  assumed  a 
leading  position  among  the  early  settlers. 
Since  that  time  the  family  tree  has  grown  so 
that  now  its  branches  may  be  found  in  several 
parts  of  the  country.  It  has  given  men  of 
upright  lives  and  noble  characters  to  the 
nation,  and  has  helped  to  swell  the  roll  of 
brave  soldiers  who  have  fought  in  defence  of 
liberty  and  the  Union. 

Nathaniel  Leavitt,  the  grandfather  of  Will- 
iam B.,  was  born  December  27,  1727,  at  E.\e- 
ter,  N.  H.,  and  died  in  1824.  He  lived  in 
Exeter  during  the  greater  part  of  his  life. 
When  he  was  quite  advanced  in  years,  he 
moved  to  Grantham,  where  he  took  iiji  his 
residence  with  one  of  his  sons.  His  wife, 
in  maidenhood  Lydia  Sanborn,  who  was  born 
in  h'ebruary,  1736,  died  October  30,  1827. 
She  had  si.\  children  by  him;  namely,  Na- 
thaniel, Jr.,  Dudley,  John,  Josiah,  Moses,  and 
Jeremiah.  The  first  married,  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  in  Grantham,  and  died 
in  X'einiont.       DutUey    and    Josiah,    who    were 


lilOCRAI'HlCAI,    kK\IKVV 


475 


fiirmers  of  Grantham,  iDarried  and  liad  cliil 
(lien.  RIdsos,  a  resident  of  Sanljornlon,  lliis 
Statu,  and  a  tanner,  had  a  large  family  of 
childien,  who  arc  now  widely  scattered. 
Jeremiah  lived  in  Canada  antl  was  engaged  in 
farming.  John  l.eavitt,  the  father  of  Mr. 
William  ]?.,  binii  at  I'^.xeter,  December  5, 
1761),  died  in  October,  1H54.  He  was  the 
lirst  Leavitt  to  settle  in  Grantham,  coming 
here  when  a  young  man.  He  carried  on  farm- 
ing on  an  extensive  scale,  and  was  very  acti\'e 
in  town  affairs,  but  never  desired  public  office, 
lie  was  known  as  a  religions  man,  and  was 
much  respectcil  on  account  of  his  many 
amiable  t|ualities.  lie  was  three  times  mar- 
ried, on  the  first  occasion  to  Mehitable  King, 
who,  born  November  12,  1769,  died  October 
!('),  i<s'o7.  Her  five  children  were:  Jonathan, 
John,  IMoses,  Mary,  and  Thomas.  His  sec- 
ond marriage  was  made  with  Susan  Burnham, 
of  blsse.x,  N.  H.,  who  was  born  in  October, 
1763,  and  died  in  October,  1-S36.  Of  her 
children  Mehitable,  born  November  2.S,  1 8og, 
died  October  12,  1842;  Nathaniel  was  born 
on  March  i,  1S16;  and  Phylura,  July  19, 
1818.  The  others  were:  William  15.  and 
Isaac.  The  third  wife,  Rachel  I),  liliss  Leav- 
itt, had  no  children.  Jonathan,  the  eldest 
son  of  John  Leavitt,  was  a  farmer  of  this 
town,  and  represented  it  for  a  time  in  the 
legislature.  John  also  was  a  farmer  here  and 
a  Kepresentative.  Moses,  likewise  a  farmer, 
lived  at  Grafton.  Mary  married  Ezekiel  Al- 
exander, a  farmer  of  Grantham.  Thomas  died 
at  the  age  of  eighteen.  Isaac,  twin  brother 
of  William  B.  Leavitt,  has  not  married,  and 
is  a  farmer  in  the  State  of  Illinois.  Na- 
thaniel also  was  engaged  in  farming  in  Illi- 
nois, and  married  Susan  Martin.  I'hylina 
married  Samuel  B.  Hastings,  of  Grantham. 

b^arly  in  his  life  William  B.   Leavitt  showed 
a  great  fondness  and  aptitude  for  the  sciences. 


He  was  instructed  by  JJudiey  Leavitt,  a 
teacher  of  phiI(jso()hy,  astrononiy,  aiul  mathe- 
matics, who  first  compiled  Leavitt's  Farmer's 
Almanac  in  January,  179''),  when  Washington 
was  President  of  the  United  States  and  our 
government  was  but  eight  years  old.  As  this 
publication  has  been  continued  through  a 
l)eriod  of  one  hundred  years  down  to  the  pres- 
ent time,  the  name  of  Dudley  Leavitt  is  a 
familiar  one  in  all  the  rural  households  of 
this  and  many  other  States  of  the  Union.  At 
his  death  in  1851  Dudley  left  the  almanac  to 
be  carried  forward  by  his  successor  and  former 
pupil,  William  B.  Leavitt.  At  present  the 
calculaticjns  for  this  great  work  arc  made  out 
to  the  year  1914.  Mr.  Leavitt  is  a  student 
now,  as  he  has  always  been.  He  has  given 
much  thought  to  the  cjuestions  of  public  inter- 
est which  have  arisen  in  the  life  of  the  town. 
His  townsmen  have  many  times  wished  to 
make  him  one  of  the  |iublic  officers  of  the 
town;  but  Mr.  Leavitt  lias  resisted  all  impor- 
tunities, consenting  only  to  serve  as  Town 
Treasurer  for  two  years  and  as  Town  Clerk  for 
the  same  length  of  time. 

Mr.  Leavitt  married  P'rances  B.  Merrill, 
who  was  born  in  Croydon,  Rhirch  12,  1817,  and 
died  March  20,  1893.  She  was  descended 
from  one  of  the  old  and  most  influential  fam- 
ilies of  the  State.  Her  children  were:  Man- 
dana,  born  August  3,  1S43,  who  died  July 
28,  1869;  Mary  M.,  born  November  14,  1S45; 
Malana  E. ,  born  August  28,  1847;  Phylura, 
born  August  25,  1S50;  William  M.,  born 
April  25,  1853;  P'red  A.,  born  November  14, 
1856;  and  P'rank  W. ,  born  August  14,  185S. 
Mandana  married  Daniel  Hanson,  of  North 
Weare,  N.H.,  a  manufacturer  of  shoemakers' 
knives.  Mary  became  Mrs.  Oscar  S.  ]5uzzell, 
of  Newport,  and  the  mother  of  three  children. 
?klalana  married  Moses  P.  Burpee,  a  prominent 
man  of  Grantham,  and  has  had  three  children, 


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of  whom  one  is  living.  Pliylura  married  Dan- 
iel Hanson  after  the  death  of  his  first  wife,  and 
has  one  daughter.  William  M.,  a  govertmient 
printer  in  Washington,  successively  married 
Mlla  nines  and  May  Renner.  Fred  A.  mar- 
ried Mary  Brown,  of  Grantham,  and  is  largely 
interested  in  the  milk  business  in  Boston. 
Frank  Leavitt  was  educated  in  the  schools  of 
his  native  town  and  at  Colby  Academy.  After 
finishing  school,  he  went  West  for  a  tin)e,  and 
did  some  prospecting.  Since  his  return  he 
has  lived  on  the  homestead  with  his  father, 
engaged  in  farming  and  running  a  steam  saw- 
mill, which  employs  a  number  of  men.  He 
is  very  prominent  in  town  affairs,  and  at  this 
writing  is  the  Town  Treasurer.  He  married 
Addie  Finney,  of  Grantham,  who  was  born 
March  28,  1S63.  They  have  three  children: 
William  B.,  born  November  27,  1885;  Wal- 
lace E.,  born  September  20,  1890;  and 
lamest,  born  October  27,   1895. 


T^ATHANIEL  S.  DRAKE,  the  treas- 
I  =^  urer  and  superintendent  of  the  Drake 
J-^  X^  &  Sanborn  Shoe  Company,  of  Pitts- 
field,  was  born  here,  September  16,  1851,  in 
the  house  he  now  occupies  on  Main  Street,  son 
of  James  and  Betsey  (Seavey)  Drake.  His 
genealogy  is  traced  to  Robert  Drake,  born  in 
the  County  of  Devon,  England,  in  15S0,  who 
came  to  New  England  with  a  family  before 
1643.  Robert  was  one  of  the  grantees  and 
first  settlers  of  E.xeter.  He  removed  in  165 1 
to  Hampton,  "where  he  owned  and  left  con- 
siderable estate."  Much  respected  through- 
out his  life,  his  death  on  January  14,  1668, 
was  mourned  as  a  loss  to  the  cnmniunity. 
Abraham  Drake,  son  of  Robert,  was  born  in 
England  in  1621.  His  son,  Abraham  Drake 
(second),  by  his  wife,  Jane,  was  born  Decem- 
ber 29,   1654.      This    i\biahani   married   .Sarah 


Hobbs,  and  died  May  20,  17 14.  Abraham 
Drake  (third),  son  of  Abraham  (second),  born 
in  December,  16S8,  died  April  13,  1767. 
He  married  Theodate  Roby,  whose  son, 
Simon,  born  October  4,  1730,  married  Judith 
Perkins,  and  died  March  16,   1801. 

Major  James  Drake,  it  is  stated,  was  of 
middle  stature,  well  proportioned,  of  a  fine 
figure,  and  possessed  great  physical  strength 
and  powers  of  endurance.  A  description  of 
his  person  strongly  resembles  that  which  is 
given  of  England's  famous  admiral.  Sir  Fran- 
cis Drake.  This  resemblance  extended  also  to 
his  mental  and  moral  traits;  for  it  is  said  he 
was  a  man  of  great  force  of  character,  possess- 
ing a  strong  will  and  much  determination, 
which  qualities,  tempered  by  sound  judgment, 
brought  him  into  considerable  prominence  in 
the  community  in  which  his  lot  was  cast.  I^e 
was  born  November  14,  1755,  either  in  Epping 
or  Hampton,  N. PL  He  came  to  Pittsfield 
when  a  young  man  and  shortly  before  his 
marriage,  being  among  its  early  settlers.  Be- 
sides clearing  a  farm  from  the  wilderness,  he 
eventually  became  the  owner  of  several  other 
good  farms,  all  of  which  he  acquired  by  his 
industry  and  enterprise.  The  outbreak  of  the 
War  of  Independence  so  aroused  his  patriotism 
that,  although  but  nineteen  years  of  age,  he 
abandoned  his  a.\e,  and,  shouldering  a  musket, 
joined  a  company  then  being  organized,  and 
shared  its  fortunes  in  the  ensuing  struggle. 
After  his  discharge  from  the  Continental  army 
he  resumed  his  axe,  and  continued  the  work  of 
clearing  and  improving  his  farm.  He  re- 
ceived his  title  of  Major  from  his  connection 
with  the  early  State  militia.  Good  service 
was  rendered  by  him  to  Pittsfield  in  the  ca- 
pacity of  its  Representative  in  the  State  legis- 
lature. No  man  was  more  highly  esteemed  for 
his  personal  integrity.  Pie  died  P'ebruary  26, 
1834.       His   wife,    Hannah    Ward    Dr.d-ce,    who 


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came  from  irampton  and  was  Ixnii  October  31, 
\/C>T,,  rcareil  twelve  children,  each  of  whom 
li\c(l  lo  he  over  sixty  years  old.  She  died 
])ecend)er  17,    i.S'4.S,  aged  eighty-five  years. 

Cciloiud  James  J)rake,  the  father  of  Nathan- 
iel S. ,  bom  at  the  homestead  in  I'iltsfieJd, 
I  line  29,  1805,  was  brought  up  to  agriculture, 
which  he  also  followed  successfully  for  some 
years,  also  dealing  extensively  in  live  stock, 
lie  eventually  moved  to  the  village,  and,  be- 
coming President  of  the  I'ittsfield  National 
Hank,  held  that  position  for  the  rest  of  his 
life.  An  excellent  business  man,  he  acquired 
a  handsome  projierty.  He  figured  prominently 
in  public  affairs,  served  as  a  .Selectman  and  in 
other  town  offices,  and  he  was  also  a  member 
of  the  State  Senate.  In  politics  he  supported 
the  Democratic  party.  lie  was  identified 
with  tiie  .State  militia,  in  which  he  served  as 
Colonel  of  the  Kightcenth  Regiment.  His 
strict  adherence  to  high  principles  was  con- 
s[iicuous  among  his  many  commendable  quali- 
ties, and  the  cause  of  morality  and  religion 
had  in  him  a  stanch  and  generous  supporter. 
He  died  at  his  home  in  I'ittsfield,  A[)ril  7, 
1S70.  His  wife,  Betsey  .Seavey  iJiake,  whom 
he  man  ied  August  13,  1H34,  was  born  Octo- 
ber 14,  181 1,  a  daughter  of  George  and  Hetscy 
(Lane)  Seavey,  of  Chichester,  N.  H.  She  had 
three  cliildren,  of  whom  the  survivors  are: 
Georgia  II  and  Nathaniel  S.  Georgia  B.  is 
the  wife  of  Josiah  Carpenter,  a  successful 
banker  of  Manchester,  N.  H.  She  is  actively 
engaged  in  charitable  and  patriotic  work,  and 
is  the  New  Hamjishire  State  Regent  of  the 
Daughters  of  the  American  Revolution.  'I'he 
other  child  was  I'^rank  James  Drake,  born 
November  3,  1842,  who  died  August  20, 
1 89 1.  He  graduated  from  Dartmouth  Col- 
lege in  1865,  and  located  in  Manchester, 
N.  H.,  where  he  was  a  successful  vvholesale 
flour  and    trrain    merchant.      The   mother,  who 


was  a  member  of  the  Haptist  church,  died 
.Se|)teml)er  28,   1865. 

Natiianiel  S.  Drake  began  his  education  in 
the  common  schools,  and  completed  his  studies 
at  the  I'ittsfiekl  Acadeiuy,  h'or  two  year.s 
after  leaving  school,  he  was  in  the  clcjthiiig 
business  in  this  town.  Afterward  he  was 
connected  with  the  United  States  and  Canada 
Express  and  the  American  ICxjjrcss  Company 
in  this  town,  spending  a  short  time  in  their 
offices  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  Boston,  Mass. 
Later  he  entered  the  employ  of  the  Lancaster 
Shoe  Company,  with  which  he  remained  about 
twelve  years,  serving  for  the  last  six  years  in 
the  cajiacity  of  superintendent  of  the  factory 
and  its  branches.  He  was  the  founder  of  the 
Hill  &  Drake  Shoe  Company,  which  com- 
menced business  on  January  i,  1893,  and 
which  is  now  known  as  the  Drake  &  Sanborn 
Shoe  Company.  In  this  connection  it  is 
interesting  to  note  that,  although  Pittsfield 
has  the  reputation  of  being  a  manufacturing 
town,  the  Drake  &  Sanborn  Shoe  Company, 
now  employing  over  fifty  people,  is  the  first 
enterprise  conducted  ujion  home  capital  and 
giving  employment  to  more  than  a  dozen  men 
that  has  ever  existed  in  the  town,  all  the  other 
manufacturing  enterprises  being  and  having 
been  owned  and  operated  by  outside  capital. 
As  treasurer  and  superintendent  of  the  com- 
pany, which  manufactures  misses'  and  chil- 
dren's medium-priced  goods,  Mr.  Drake  is 
rapidly  bringing  it  to  the  front;  and  it  is  now 
well  advanced  upon  the  road  to  prosperity. 

On  March  17,  1873,  Mr.  Drake  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  M^ry  A.  R.  Green, 
who  was  born  July  3,  1857,  daughter  of  Dan- 
iel and  Elizabeth  F.  (Chase)  Green,  of  I'itts- 
field. Mrs.  Drake  is  the  mother  of  two  chil- 
dren: James  Frank,  born  September  i,  1880; 
and  Agnes,  born  April  2,  1883.  In  politics 
Mr.    Drake   is   a    Democrat.      He    has    served 


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with  ability  as  Moderator  and  Town  Treas- 
urer for  several  years.  He  is  a  Director  of 
the  First  National  Bank  and  one  of  the  Trus- 
tees of  the  Farmers'  Savings  Bank.  His 
prominence  in  business  circles,  together  with 
his  high  social  standing,  jjlaces  him  in  the 
front  rank  among  the  leading  residents  of 
Pittsfield.  Mrs.  Drake,  who  is  a  member  of 
the  Episcopal  church,  shares  her  husband's 
popularity,  and  is  a  lady  of  jileasing  manners 
and  true  womanly  grace. 


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HARLES     EASTMAN     STANIELS, 


a  prominent  life  insurance  agent  of 
^i^  ^  Concord,  N.  H.,  was  born  in  Low- 
ell, Mass.,  December  27,  1844,  son  of  Ed- 
ward L.  and  Ruth  Bradley  (Eastman)  Stan- 
iels.  The  father,  born  in  Chichester,  N. H., 
for  many  years  was  interested  in  the  drug 
business,  successively  in  Lowell  and  I^oston, 
Mass.  Toward  the  latter  part  of  his  life  he 
removed  to  Ro.xbury,  Mass.,  then  a  suburb  of 
Boston,  and  died  there  at  the  age  of  si.xty-fivc 
years.  He  was  twice  married.  By  his  first 
wife  there  were  three  children,  all  of  whom 
are  now  dead.  His  second  marriage  was  made 
with  Ruth  l^radley  Eastman,  now  over  eighty- 
five  years  old,  whose  only  child  is  the  subject 
of  this  sketch.  A  daughter  of  General  Isaac 
Eastman,  of  Concord,  N.H.,  she  is  a  direct 
descendant,  in  the  si.xth  generation,  of  Captain 
Ebenezer  Eastman,  the  first  settler  of  Con- 
cord, and  of  Captain  Edward  Johnson,  the  his- 
torian of  Woburn,  Mass.,  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners appointed  by  the  General  Court  of 
Massachusetts  J^ay  Colony  to  fix  the  northern 
boundary  of  that  colony  in  1652.  In  1833  a 
large  boulder  was  discovered  at  the  entrance 
of  Lake  Winnepesaukee  at  Weirs,  N.  H., 
bearing  the  initials  of  Governor  John  Endi- 
cott,    with   those   of   the   commissioners.   Cap- 


tain Edward  Johnson  and  Captain  .Symon  Wil- 
lard,  which  had  remained  unnoticed  and  sub- 
ject to  elemental  conditions  for  one  hundred 
and  eighty-one  years.  The  State  of  New 
Hampshire  has  erected  a  substantial  stone 
canopy  upon  this  historic  "Endicott  Rock," 
thereby  protecting  the  ancient  inscriptions  for 
all  time.  Jonathan  Staniels,  the  grandfather  of 
Charles  Eastman,  was  a  native  of  Chichester, 
and  followed  the  occupations  of  farmer  and 
builder.  He  lived  to  a  very  advJlnced  age, 
and  left  a  family  of  twelve  children.  Judge 
William  M.  Chase,  of  Concord,  is  one  of  his 
descendants.  The  original  surname  of  this 
family  was  Stanyan,  and  its  annals  are  inter- 
woven with  those  of  Rockingham  County. 

Charles  Eastman  .Staniels  was  educated  in 
the  Boston  grammar  schools  and  in  the  Ro.x- 
bury Latin  School.  In  the  latter  institution 
he  was  prepared  for  college,  but  the  outbreak 
of  the  Civil  War  diverted  him  from  the  pur- 
pose of  pursuing  a  collegiate  course.  He  had 
enlisted  in  the  Fifty-si.xth  Massachusetts 
Regiment  of  Volunteers  when  his  parents  had 
him  discharged  on  account  of  his  extreme 
youth.  He  then  went  to  work  in  a  wholesale 
furnishing  house  in  the  city  of  Boston.  Sub- 
sequently, in  1865,  he  became  a  commercial 
traveller  for  the  same  concern,  and  has  been 
more  or  less  on  the  road  ever  since.  In  those 
mid-century  days,  Western  travel  was  an  en- 
tirely different  affair  from  the  convenience  and 
even  luxury  that  attend  it  to-day.  The  incon- 
venience, hardship,  and  even  suffering  in- 
volved in  a  long  western  mercantile  trip  in 
those  days  can  hardly  be  comprehended  to-day. 
"Staging,"  as  it  was  called,  and  steamboating 
on  Western  rivers  were  then  common  factors  in 
a  travelling  man's  experience.  Before  the 
completion  of  the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  and 
the  consec[uent  development  and  growth  of 
large  business  centres,  the  commeicial    tiavcl- 


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Icr  in  the  extreme  West  was  subject  to  diver- 
sions not  known  to  tiie  ])rcsent  generation  of 
mercantile  agents.  A  buffalo  hunt,  an  Indian 
scrimmage  on  the  frontier,  or  a  few  nights  in 
a  snow  blockade  in  the  Rockies  were  not  con- 
sidered unusual  or  especially  unmixed  l>less- 
ings.  Following  the  war,  it  was  hog,  hominy, 
and  cockroaches  in  the  South ;  spiders  and 
keno  in  Texas;  alkali,  Indians,  and  snowdrifts 
on  the  plains;  lime  water,  lager  beer,  bed- 
bugs, and  iioker  on  the  Mississippi;  and  brag, 
bluff,  and  bunco  in  Chicago  and  St.   Paul. 

In  iS6g  Mr.  .Staniels  :issumed  the  charge  of 
a  manufacturing  establishment  in  Boston,  and 
thereafter  managed  its  affairs  in  the  South  and 
West  for  a  number  of  years.  At  length,  his 
health  becoming  somewhat  undermined  by  his 
devotion  to  business  matters,  he  removed  to 
New  Hampshire  and  took  two  years  of  com- 
plete rest.  Then  he  engaged  in  the  fire  in- 
surance business  in  Concord.  To  this  he  has 
since  added  life  insurance,  and  has  now 
been  engaged  in  both  very  successfully  for  the 
past  twelve  years,  highly  esteemed  by  his 
business  associates.  He  has  been  a  member 
iif  the  I^lxecutive  Committee  of  the  National 
Life  Underwriter's  Association  of  the  United 
States  since  its  organization,  and  has  also  served 
as  President  of  the  New  Hampshire  Life  Un- 
derwriters' Association.  He  married  Eva  F. 
Tuttle,  of  Boston,  Mass.,  whose  parents  were 
natives  of  New  Hampshire,  and  they  have  a 
family  of  three  children  ;  namely,  Charles  T., 
Mabel  R.,  and  Roscoe  K. 

A  deservedly  popular  man  in  his  com- 
munity, Mr.  Staniels  has  been  elected  to  mem- 
bership in  numerous  associations.  He  was 
twice  chosen  to  fill  the  presidential  chair  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Society  of  the  Sons  of  the 
American  Revolution,  and  left  that  organiza- 
tion in  fine  condition  when  he  retired  from 
the    office.      He    has    also    been    President   of 


the  White  Mountain  Travellers'  Association. 
During  its  continuance  he  wa.s  the  Secretary  of 
the  Chautauqua  A.ssembly  oi  New  Hampshire, 
and  also  served  the  Fastman  I'"amily  Association 
in  a  similar  ca])acity.  Wherever  he  has  made 
his  home,  he  has  taken  a  keen  interest  in  the 
local  military  matters.  While  living  in  Bos- 
ton, he  was  a  commissioned  officer  of  the  Bos- 
ton Tigers.  On  one  occasion,  at  the  time  of 
the  "draft  riots"  in  that  city,  he  was  in 
command  of  a  detachment  of  that  f)rganization, 
guarding  the  arms  and  ammunition  of  the 
State  stored  in  old  Boylston  Hall.  Since  com- 
ing to  New  Hampshire,  he  has  served  as  a  com- 
missioned officer  in  the  old  Amoskeag  Veterans. 
In  politics  Mr.  Staniels  is  a  Republican,  and 
he  cast  his  initial  ballot  for  Abraham  Lincoln 
in  1864.  He  is  a  member  of  the  F^ast  Con- 
cord Congregational  Church. 


LDER  JOHN  G.  HOOK,  of  Concord, 
N.H.,  was  born  in  Chichester,  this 
State,  February  13,  1820,  the  son 
of  Jacob  Hook.  ICldcr  Hook's  grandfather, 
I'Vancis  Hook,  was  born  in  Salisbury,  Mass. 
He  was  a  fisherman  by  occupation,  and  he  also 
ran  a  horseback  express  from  his  native  town 
to  Newburyport.  He  fiiially  bought  a  large 
tract  of  land  in  Chichester,  and  started  all  his 
five  sons  in  life  with  a  comfortable  farm. 
Jacob  Hook,  father  of  Elder  Hook,  was  the 
eldest  of  the  family.  He  was  educated  in  the 
Salisbury  public  schools,  and  was  engaged  in 
farming  all  his  life.  At  the  time  of  his  death 
he  w\is  exactly  ninety-two  years  and  si.x 
months  old.  He  married  Hannah  Griffin,  of 
Northwood,  N. H.  Six  children  were  born  to 
him:  I'lsthcr  B.  ;  Asa  J.;  Mary  A.;  Elvira, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  five;  John  G.,  the  sub- 
ject of  this  sketch;  and  William  P. 

Elder    Hook    is    the    only   survivor  of    this 


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family.  His  life  has  been  one  of  unceasing 
effort  fur  the  uplifting  of  humanity,  and  of 
many  and  varied  experiences.  The  son  of  a 
poor  man,  he  received  only  a  limited  education 
in  his  youth,  and  early  worked  at  the  printing- 
press  on  Bibles  for  Roby,  Kimball  &  Merrill. 
After  this  he  was  travelling  salesman,  and  sold 
Yankee  notions.  In  1839  he  started  for  the 
Far  West.  On  the  way  he  met  some  kinsfolk, 
among  them  an  aunt  and  several  cousins,  and 
stayed  with  them  in  the  town  of  Marcellus, 
N.  Y. ,  where  he  was  providentially  converted 
to  the  Christian  religion,  largely  through  the 
influence  of  his  devoted  aunt.  Word  reached 
his  parents  in  the  East  that  he  had  been  mur- 
dered, and  his  mother  was  saved  from  dying  of 
grief  through  the  timely  arrival  of  a  letter 
from  her  son. 

After  his  return  to  Concord  he  attended 
some  religious  meetings  conducted  by  Elder 
Joshua  B.  Hines,  of  Boston,  who  came  here 
with  a  mammoth  tent,  the  largest  then  made 
in  the  United  States,  costing  eight  hundred 
dollars.  Its  maker,  James  Martin,  pitched 
the  tent  and  cared  for  it.  Those  were  wonder- 
ful meetings,  awakening  great  interest,  and 
people  came  to  them  from  all  parts  of  the 
country.  Here  Elder  Hook  heard  for  the 
first  time  the  Advent  doctrine,  which  he  ac- 
cepted; and,  laying  aside  all  else,  he  went  at 
once  to  spreading  the  tidings  of  the  second 
coming  of  Christ.  Since  that  time  he  has 
devoted  his  life  to  this  work,  and  during 
all  these  years  has  never  preached  for  a  living. 
He  has  travelled  over  two  hundred  thousand 
miles  without  aid  from  any  missionary  society 
or  backing  from  any  church,  and  has  never  had 
a  salary  or  fi.xcd  price  for  his  services.  lie  has 
])reached  in  many  of  the  States  and  Territories 
and  in  the  15ritish  Provinces,  and  has  been 
able,  with  what  the  Lord  has  moved  (Hhers  to 
help  him,  to  pay  his  own    expenses  by  working 


in  different  lines.  He  has  dealt  largely  in 
real  estate.  He  bought  the  land  on  the  hill 
in  Concord  where  he  now  lives,  and  laid  out 
Auburn  Street  at  his  own  expense.  At  one 
time  he  labored  indejiendently  in  Hawaii. 
His  preaching  has  extended  through  fifty-five 
years.  He  once  held  meetings  in  San  Fran- 
cisco under  his  tent,  three  services  a  day  for 
eighty  consecutive  days,  his  audiences  being 
composed  of  people  from  many  lands  and  of 
various  nationalities.  Later  in  the  same  year 
his  tent  was  destroyed  by  a  storm.  A  series 
of  revival  meetings,  held  by  him  in  Concord 
in  Phoenix  Hall  and  in  Eagle  Hall,  indepen- 
dently of  any  of  the  churches,  resulted  in  the 
greatest  revival  that  has  ever  been  experienced 
in  this  city.  It  lasted  for  two  months,  and 
I'llder  Hook  baptized  one  hundred  and  fifty 
converts  by  immersion ;  and  on  one  occasion 
four  of  the  Concord  clergymen  assisted  Elder 
Hook  at  a  river  baptism.  About  two  thousand 
souls  have  been  baptized  by  Elder  Hook,  and 
fourteen  of  these  have  become  ministers. 

Elder  Hook  married  Celinda  H.  Ingersoll, 
daughter  of  Cornelius  Ingersoll,  who  was 
named  by  an  Indian  chief  and  was  the  first 
male  white  child  born  in  Onondaga  County, 
New  York.  Elder  and  Mrs.  Hook  have  two 
children  —  Eunice  and  Alice.  Eunice  C.  is 
the  wife  of  Captain  E.  F.  Gordon,  a  veteran 
of  the  Civil  War  and  brother  of  the  late  Rev. 
Dr.  A.  J.  Gordon,  of  Boston.  Alice  married 
Abner  Blodgett,  a  relative  of  Judge  Blodgett, 
of  this  State. 

Elder  Hook  has  never  meddled  with  poli- 
tics, confining  himself  to  the  spreading  of  the 
gospel.  lie  has  never  voted  for  a  governor 
or  a  Picsident.  He  is  the  maker  of  a  healing 
halm  foi'  all  kinds  of  inflammatory  diseases. 
It  is  for  internal  and  external  application.  It 
is  in  common  use  in  Concord;  and  the  testi- 
monies are  many  from  lawyers,  doctors,  minis- 


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tcrs,  and  loading  citizens.  The  Ijalm  is  said 
to  he  particularly  valuai)le  in  bronchitis,  and 
if  used  oftencr  it  is  thought  there  would  be  less 
necessity  of  clergymen  going  to  ilurope  while 
liieir  flocks  suffer  at  home. 


|N()(J1I  COUCH  was  a  prominent  farmer 
of  Webster  in  his  time.  He  was  born 
in  Webster,  April  12,  1793,  son  of 
Joseph  and  Sarah  (I'illsbury)  Couch.  His 
grandfather,  Joseph  Couch  (first),  who  emi- 
grated from  Wales  in  1748,  settled  in  New- 
buryport,  Mass.  In  1768  the  grandfather 
moved  to  Webster,  and  there  improved  the 
farm  now  owned  and  occupied  by  his  great- 
grand-daughter.  He  resided  here  for  the  rest 
of  his  life,  and  died  in  17S4.  The  first  of  his 
three  marriages  was  made  with  Klsic  Rowell, 
the  "second  with  Mary  Webster,  and  the  third 
with  Mrs.  Muzzey.  liorn  of  the  first  were 
four  childien  —  John,  Elsie,  Henjamin,  and 
Joseph;  and  of  his  second,  one  daughter, 
Mary. 

Joseph  Couch,  the  father  of  Enoch,  was  born 
in  Massachusetts,  and  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Webster.  He  succeeded  to  the  possession 
of  the  homestead,  which  he  carried  on  for  the 
rest  of  his  life;_and  he  died  I'ebruary  7,  1821, 
aged  si.\ty-five  years.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the 
Revolutionary  War,  enlisting  from  Newbury- 
port,  Mass.  His  wife,  Sarah,  a  native  of 
Newburyport,  whom  he  married  February  10, 
1785,  died  March  16,  1S46,  aged  seventy-six 
years.  She  was  the  mother  of  six  children, 
as  follows:  Enoch  (first),  born  November  23, 
1785,  who  was  accidentally  killed  August  iS, 
1789;  Sally,  born  August  23,  1787,  who  mar- 
ried Samuel  Little,  and  died  June  5,  1852; 
Captain  Joseph,  born  May  23,  17S9,  who  died 
in  Nashua,  N.H.,  in  1851;  Enoch  (second), 
the  subject  of  this  sketch  ;  Phcebe,  born  July  2, 


1798,  who  married  Ilerschel  Circcn,  of  Salis- 
bury, N.II.,  and  died  September  22,  1854; 
and  Eunice  J.,  born  July  4,  1810,  who  married 
I'ctcr  Coffin,  and  died  December  4,  1888. 

luioch  Couch  was  rearefl  to  farm  life,  and 
always  resided  at  the  homestead.  He  was  an 
industrious  and  successful  farmer.  He  im- 
proved the  fertility  of  the  soil,  bringing  it  to 
a  high  state  of  cultivation.  Although  a  man 
of  much  natural  ability,  he  never  aspired  to 
political  prominence,  but  preferred  instead  to 
enjoy  the  comforts  of  home  and  the  society  of 
his  family.  He  was  highly  esteemed  for  his 
many  commendable  qualities;  and  his  death, 
which  occurred  at  his  home,  April  23,  1867, 
when  he  was  seventy-four  years  old,  caused 
general  regret.  He  married  for  his  first  wife 
Nancy  Eastman,  of  Salisbury,  who  died  Sep- 
tember 26,  1S28,  aged  thirty-two  years,  leav- 
ing no  children.  For  his  second  wife,  on 
April  2,  1834,  Mr.  Couch  wedded  Jane  O. 
Stickney,  of  Brownfield,  Me.  Her  parents, 
John  and  Mary  (Evans)  Stickney,  both  of 
whom  were  natives  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  moved 
from  that  place  to  Brownfield,  Me.,  where  they 
resided  for  the  rest  of  their  lives.  The  chil- 
dren of  Mr.  Couch's  second  marriage  were: 
Nancy  K.,  born  February  12,  1S35,  who  now 
occupies  the  homestead ;  Joseph,  born  March 
22,  1837,  who  died  March  14,  1872;  and 
Mary  S. ,  born  June  12,  1844.  Joseph  was  for 
some  years  engaged  in  teaching  school,  and 
later  assisted  in  carrying  on  the  farm.  Mary 
S.  married  Orlando  Whitney,  and  died  April 
17,  1876.  She  left  one  son  —  Herbert  C. , 
born  November  16,  1867,  who  is  now  residing 
with  his  aunt.  Mrs.  Enoch  Couch  died  Au- 
gust 31,  1877.  Miss  Nancy  E.  Couch,  who 
now  owns  the  homestead  of  sixty  acres,  to- 
gether with  other  real  estate,  is  a  lady  of 
much  ability  and  worth,  and  is  loved  and  re- 
spected by  her  many  friends  and  acquaintances. 


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ILLIAM  E.  CHADBOURNE,  a 
prominent  resident  of  Cornish,  was 
born  here,  July  31,  1823.  His 
grandfather,  William  Chadboiirne,  who  was 
born  in  Maine,  had  six  children  —  Humphrey, 
Jabez,  William,  Thomas,  Benjamin,  and 
Electa.  Humjjhrey  married  Abbie  Peck,  and 
had  three  children.  Jabez  went  to  Canada, 
where  he  married  and  died.  William,  who 
was  an  extensive  farmer  in  Canada,  had  a  large 
family.  Thomas  was  a  butcher  in  Salem, 
Mass.,  and  died  there.  Electa,  now  deceased, 
married  Mr.  Cross,  of  Canada. 

Benjamin  Chadbourne,  the  father  of  Will- 
iam E.,  was  born  at  Moultonboro,  N.  H.,  Jan- 
uary 28,  1792.  He  was  prominent  in  town 
affairs,  and  was  Tax  Collector  and  Deputy 
Sheriff  for  a  number  of  years.  His  wife, 
whose  maiden  name  was  Sarah  Cady,  of  Cor- 
nish, bore  him  seven  children  —  Curtis,  Mi- 
randa, William  E. ,  Hannah,  Gratia,  Ruth,  and 
Alfred.  Curtis,  born  September  12,  1819, 
was  educated  in  the  town  schools,  and  after- 
ward became  a  tailor  in  Charlestown,  N.  H. 
He  married  Adeline  Fogget,  and  had  five 
children.  His  death  occurred  in  1890,  on 
November  26.  Miranda,  born  May  23,  1820, 
married  Alamanda  Powers,  of  Charlestown, 
this  State,  a  shoe  manufacturer,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 4,  1889.  Elannah,  born  June  6,  [826,  is 
now  Mrs.  John  Ferguson,  and  lives  in  Canada. 
Ruth,  born  September  18,  1829,  who  lives 
in  .Somerville,  Mass.,  married  Lafayette 
.Smith,  of  Cornish,  a  drover,  and  had  four 
children.  Alfred,  born  P'ebruary  21,  1832, 
married  l-'lizabeth  Demming,  of  Cornish,  had 
six  children,  and  died  June  26,   1891. 

After  receiving  his  education  in  the  jniblic 
.schools,  William  E.  Chadbourne  engaged  in 
farming,  which  has  since  been  his  ])rincipal 
occupation.  He  has  never  aspired  to  public 
office,  while  he  has  always  taken  a  prominent 


part  in  town  affairs  and  has  served  as  Highway 
Surveyor.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican. 
He  married  on  June  15,  1S58,  Rosella  Stone, 
of  Plainfield,  N.H.,  daughter  of  Solomon  and 
Betsy  (Reed)  .Stone. 

Mr.  Chadbourne's  children  are:  Angle  L., 
William  Lucius,  Gratia  S.,  Emma  E.,  Lu- 
ther E.,  and  James  B.  Angle,  born  October 
ig,  1862,  is  now  Mrs.  liarl  Westgate,  of  Cor- 
nish. William  L.,  born  February  24,  1865, 
was  married  Ajiril  21,  1S87,  to  Minnie  Wood, 
and  has  one  child  —  Daphna  W. ,  born  July  9, 
1888.  Gratia,  born  May  27,  1867,  was  edu- 
cated at  Windsor,  Vt.,  and  is  a  teacher  of  fine 
ability,  well  known  and  very  popular  in  Clare- 
mont,  Cornish,  and  other  places.  Emma, 
born  December  i,  1869,  was  educated  at 
Windsor,  and  is  employed  in  one  of  the  large 
mercantile  establishments  of  that  town.  Lu- 
ther, born  April  8,  1872,  who  was  a  pupil  of 
Kimball  Academy  at  Plainfield,  joined  his 
father  on  the  farm.  James,  who  was  educated 
at  Windsor  High  School,  also  assists  his 
father. 

.Solomon  Stone  was  burn  in  Plainfield,  No- 
vember 6,  181 1,  and  died  January  12,  1892. 
His  wife,  born  in  Cornish,  June  11,  1813, 
still  lives  in  Plainfield,  enjoying  good  health 
and  able  to  do  nearly  all  her  own  work  with- 
out assistance.  Mr.  Chadbourne's  mother, 
Sally  Cady,  was  born  in  Cornish,  August  29, 
1790,  and  died  December  16,  1864.  Grand- 
father Cady  was  the  first  of  the  name  to  come 
to  Cornish.  He  was  born  in  1743;  and  his 
wife  was  Hannah  Hutchins,  born  in  1746. 
Grandfather  Cady  rode  from  Connecticut  by 
marked  trails.  For  a  riding  whip  he  had  a 
willow  stick;  and  when  he  alighted  from  his 
horse  in  Cornish  he  stuck  the  whip  into  the 
ground  by  his  future  home,  and  there  has  al- 
ways been  a  willow-tree  there  since.  When 
he  came  here,  he  brou<rht    with    him    a    silver 


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ildllar  tli.it  he  nlwny.s  carried  as  a  pocket  piece. 
At  one  time  lie  nnkiuiwiiigly  sent  it  with  some 
other  silver  coins  to  jje  made  into  spoons.  On 
missing  it  lie  immediately  took  means  to  get  it 
back.  'I'lu;  dulkir  had  already  been  i:iit,  hut 
he  had  it  soldeied  together  again,  and  it  is 
still  preserved  in  the  family  as  a  \aluable 
relic.  It  bears  the  date  of  1750.  Mr.  Chad- 
h(inrne  received  at  his  birth  from  his  gr.ind- 
father  Cady  a  silver  <lollar  bearing  the  date  of 
1780. 

]■.  I\Ib;RRII.T.,  M.I).,  a  well  known 
physician  of  l<"ranklin  l'"alls,  Merri- 
mack County,  was  born  in  (iilmanton, 
N.  IL,  Jiuie  5,  1856,  son  of  Jacob  D.  and  .Sarah 
(Sanborn)  Meiiill.  Mis  parents  are  farming 
people  of  Gilmanton.  Their  six  children  are 
all  living,  and  are  as  follows:  Ida,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Alonzo  Caverly,  and  resides  in  Lynn, 
Mass.  ;  George  and  Frederick,  who  are  engaged 
in  shoe  mainifacturing  in  Lynn,  Mass.,  under 
the  firm  name  of  Merrill  Brothers;  Charles, 
who  still  remains  with  his  parents;  Addie, 
who  is  the  wife  of  George  lUanchard,  and  a 
resident  of  Lynn;  and  J.  ]•'.,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch. 

After  acquiring  a  fair  amount  of  elementary 
knowledge  in  the  common  schools  of  Gilman- 
ton, the  subject  of  this  sketch  completed  his 
general  studies  mider  a  private  tutor.  He 
then  studied  medicine  for  about  four  years 
with  Ur.  Young,  of  Pittsfield,  preparatory  to 
entering  Dartmouth  Medical  College,  where 
he  attended  a  course  of  lectures.  He  was  sub- 
sequently graduated  at  the  University  of  Ver- 
mont, receiving  his  degree  of  Doctor  of  Medi- 
cine from  that  institution,  August  19,  1886. 
After  graduating,  he  bought  out  the  practice 
of  Dr.  J.  P.  Elkins,  of  New  London,  N.  H.,  in 
which  town  he  remained  nearly  nine  years. 
He  came  to  Franklin    Falls    in    1894,  ami    has 


since  been  successfully  engaged  in  the  prac- 
tice of  his  ])rofession  here.  On  January  i, 
1879,  Dr.  Merrill  married  Miss  I'llma  I'crkins, 
of  rittsfield,  N.H.,  a  daughter  of  .Samuel  K. 
I'erkins;  :ind  she  bore  him  a  daughter  — 
l{dna,  born  in  August,  1880.  Mrs.  KIma  1'. 
Merrill  died  December  21,  1882.  On  June 
8,  1885,  the  Doctor  married  for  his  second 
wife  Mrs.  Abbie  rillsbury  Foss,  a  daughter  of 
John  C.  I'illsbury,  of  Strafford,  N.  1 1. 

Dr.  Merrill  is  a  Republican  in  politics. 
While  a  resident  of  New  London,  he  served 
thiee  years  as  a  meinber  of  the  School  Hoard 
of  that  town.  He  is  a  member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Medical  .Society,  and  also  belongs 
to  .Snncook  Lodge,  No.  10,  I.  O.  O.  1-". 
Highly  successful  in  his  profession  and  pojju- 
lar  as  a  man,  he  may  be  regarded  as  a  repre- 
sentative citizen  of  his  county.  He  and  his 
wife  are  members  of  the  Baptist  church  at 
I-"r;uiklin  I'alls. 


(QiX  Lb'RLl)  I'TICH,  a  prominent  farmer  of 
Cornish  and  a  descendant  of  one  of  the 
old  families  of  the  tf)wn,  was  born 
May  13,  iSrii.  The  first  of  the  family  to 
settle  in  Cornish  was  James  Fitch,  who  came 
from  Connecticut.  He  was  born  in  1712,  and 
died  October  25,  1805.  His  son,  James,  was 
father  of  .Samuel,  who  was  the  great-grand- 
father of  the  present  Alfred.  Hezekiah,  a 
brother  of  Samuel,  and  who  was  born  in  Cor- 
nish in  1746,  died  September  30,  1830,  built 
the  house  owned  by  the  Fitch  family  of  to-day. 
Samuel  Fitch  was  born  in  Cornish,  October 
'S.  ^7S7-  fi^  married  Thankful  Royce,  who 
bore  him  eleven  children.  His  son,  James, 
born  in  Cornish,  November  16,  1784,  married 
Bethena  Bartlett,  of  Cornish,  who  bore  him 
four  children.  These  were:  Chester,  the 
father  of  the    subject  of   this    sketch;    Maria, 


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born  November  i6,  1820;  James,  born  No- 
vember I,  1S25;  and  Edwin,  born  July  21, 
1827. 

Chester  Fitch  was  born  in  Cornish,  April 
23,  181  8,  and  was  educated  in  the  town  schools 
and  at  Windsor,  Vt.  The  Hon.  William  E. 
Evarts  was  one  of  his  teachers.  He  was  a 
Free  Mason,  Patron  of  Husbandry,  and  a 
consistent  member  of  the  Congregational 
church.  He  had  great  musical  ability,  and 
was  the  organist  and  a  chorister  at  the  church 
for  many  years.  He  married  Amy,  daughter 
of  John  Westgate,  of  Plainfield.  She  was  born 
April  13,  1835,  and  is  still  living  at  Clare- 
mont,  enjoying  the  best  of  health.  Her  si.\ 
children  were:  James,  Alfred,  Willis,  Elmer, 
Jennie,  and  Frank.  James,  b(jrn  April  13, 
1859,  who  is  now  a  farmer,  married  Alniina 
Demming,  and  has  two  children — Chester 
and  MfHTis.  Willis,  born  September  26, 
1864,  now  a  shoe-cutter  and  living  at  North 
Adams,  Mass.,  successively  married  May 
Peters  and  Susan  Bryant,  both  of  North 
Adam.s.  Elmer,  born  November  16,  1S67, 
now  a  farmer  and  milkman,  lives  at  Clare- 
mont.  Jennie,  born  August  23,  1871,  died 
July  31,  1873.  F'rank,  born  Octobers,  1S72, 
died  January  15,   1S81. 

Alfred  Fitch  received  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  Cornish.  After  leaving  school,  he 
went  to  work  in  a  general  merchandise  store 
for  a  short  time.  He  then  came  to  his 
father's  farm,  where  he  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  agriculture.  He  has  held  a  number 
of  town  offices,  and  is  known  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen  as  a  man  of  unimpeachable  integ- 
rity and  steiling  worth.  A  religious  man,  like 
his  father,  he  is  a  meml)er  of  the  Con<rre<ra- 
tional  church. 

On  March  27,  1884,  he  married  Ida  Will- 
iams, who  was  born  at  Plainfield,  January  11, 
1863.      Her  father,    Orvillc    R    Williams,    a 


native  of  Morristown,  Vt. ,  was  a  farmer  on  an 
extensive  scale;  and  her  mother  was  a  native 
of  Bradford,  N.  H.  Her  sisters,  Carrie  and 
Nettie,  are  school-teachers  in  Windsor.  Four 
children  have  been  born  to  them — James  B. , 
]5ernice  A.,  Harold  A.,  and  Frank  W.  Mr. 
Fitch  is  a  very  enterprising  farmer,  and  his 
estate  is  one  of  the  few  remaining  ones  that 
are  still  in  possession  of  the  families  who 
originally  owned  them.  All  of  the  farms  of 
this  part  of  the  town  have  beautiful  situations 
and  fine  views.  Mr.  Fitch's  place  is  pleas- 
antly located  on  Dingleton  Hill,  and  the  resi- 
dence is  surrounded  with  spreading  meadow 
and  pasture  lands. 


I'b'U.S  VIRGIN,  a  prosperous  farmer 
and  well-known  citizen  of  Concord, 
was  born  on  the  Virgin  homestead, 
where  he  now  resides,  January  7,  181S,  son  of 
Isaac  and  .Susan  (Batchelder)  Virgin.  He  is 
a  descendant  of  Ebenezer  Virgin,  second,  one 
of  the  old  proprietors  of  New  Hampshire. 
The  Virgin  family  has  been  closely  identified 
with  the  history  of  Concord  since  the  town  was 
first  settled.  Jonathan  Virgin,  grandfather  of 
Rufus,  took  up  new  land  here,  cleared  it,  and 
became  the  owner  of  a  large  farm.  He  died 
at  about  si.xty  years  of  age.  PI  is  wife,  in 
maidenhood  Sarah  Austin,  was  the  mother  of 
four  sons  and  one  daughter.  Isaac  Virgin 
was  brought  up  to  agricultural  pursuits,  and 
received  his  education  in  the  district  school. 
The  school-house  was  a  long  distance  from  the 
farn) ;  but,  not  discouraged  by  that,  he  was  a 
regular  attendant  as  well  as  a  diligent  student. 
When  he  came  into  possession  of  the  farm, 
which  he  did  previous  to  the  War  of  181 2,  he 
built  a  substantial  set  of  buildings,  which  arc 
standing  to-day,  but  little  the  worse  for  the 
ravages  of    time.      He    died    June    12,     1870, 


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liaviiij;'  l)L'cn  SL'loctm:in,  Captain  in  tliu  State 
militia,  and  for  many  years  a  member  of  the 
city  government.  His  wife,  Snsan,  was  hmn 
March  4,  1790,  and  died  in  1^/6.  Slic  was 
the  mother  (if  fimr  ciiihlrcn  —  Susan  C. ,  Mliza 
J.,  Iviifus,  and  William  If.  Susan  C.  mar- 
rictl  tiie  Rev.  Caleb  h'ales,  a  Methodist  min- 
ister, and  died  not  long  after  her  marriage. 
]''.\\/.:i  J.  became  the  wife  of  W.  K.  Holt,  of 
Loudon,  but  is  now  deceased.  William  died 
at  the  age  of  seventeen. 

l^ufus  Virgin  received  a  pn])l ic-scliool  edu- 
cation, and  also  studied  at  a  select  ]irivate 
school.  He  has  been  a  farmer  since  he  was 
old  enough  to  work,  and  has  always  resided 
at  the  old  home.  Notwithstanding  the  busy 
life  he  has  led,  he  has  found  time  to  interest 
himself  in  town  affairs.  He  was  in  the  City 
Council  in  1864  65,  and  was  sent  to  the  legis- 
lature as  Rcpiesentative  in  i.SSi.  Pcditically, 
he  is  a  Democrat,  and  first  voted  in  1S36.  In 
ICS40  he  married  Mary  Ann  Stevens  (see 
sketch  of  Albert  .Stevens),  who  was  born  Jan- 
uary 12,  1818.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Virgin  have 
had  si.\'  children,  whose  names  are  respec- 
tively: I'^llen  A.,  Emma  A.,  Frank  P.,  P^sther 
A.,  P'red  P.,  and  P'alcs  P.  The  (ddest  son, 
PVank,  died  August  10,  1871,  at  the  age  of 
twenty-three  years.  The  remaining  five  arc 
married,  and  Mr.  X'irgin  has  tpiite  a  luuuber 
of  grandchildren.  Mr.  \'irgin  is  well  known 
locally  as  an  historian  and  for  the  collection 
of  historical  facts  in  his  possession.  He  has 
a  complete  record  of  events  that  have  occurred 
in    Concord   and    vicinity   for   over   fifty  years. 


Ri\  C.  ])A\T.S,  an  esteemed  resilient 
of  Plainfield,  was  born  in  the  town  of 
Hartford,  Vt.,  March  8,  1847.  His 
great-grandfather,  Jeremiah,  was  a  native  of 
Sutton,   N.H.      Jeremiah   and    his   father   were 


the  first  (if  the  name  to  settle  in  the  part  of 
Grantham,  N.  H.,  now  called  Plainfield.  Mo 
was  a  farmer  by  occupation,  and  had  a  family 
of  nine  children.  The  grandfather,  Samuel 
Davis,  also  a  native  of  .Sutton,  horn  in  177O, 
married  Maria  Hadley,  daughter  of  Simeon 
Hadley,  and  had  a  family  oi  nine  children. 
These  were:  Lucy,  Isaac,  Samuel,  Charles, 
Martin,  Alfred,  Louisa,  fieorge  W'.,  and 
A  Ivan.  Lucy  married  Norman  Hadley,  a 
farmer  of  Canaan.  Lsaac  was  twice  married, 
the  first  time  to  Klsie  Tyler,  who  bore  him 
two  children.  On  the  second  occasion  he 
married  a  widow.  Me  was  a  farmer,  and  en- 
gaged in  the  meat  business  at  Canaan. 
Charles,  also  a  farmer  of  Canaan,  married 
Caroline  Miner,  and  had  four  children.  Mar- 
tin, who  was  employed  in  a  mica  mine,  and 
was  killed  by  an  explosion  over  thirty  years 
ago,  had  one  son.  Alfretl,  now  a  wealthy 
farmer,  married  Abigail  Aldrich,  of  Concord, 
and  has  no  children.  Louisa  married  Will- 
iam iMdrich,  of  Concord,  a  farmer  and  active 
granger,  and  has  one  son.  George  W. ,  a  sue-. 
cessful  farmer  of  Canaan,  N.  H.,  owns  the 
largest  farm  in  that  town,  is  a  leading  man 
in  the  grange,  and  has  represented  Canaan  in 
the  legislature.  He  married  Lmma  Kilton,  of 
Grafton,  N.H.  ;  and  they  have  four  children. 
Alvan,  also  a  farmer  of  Canaan,  and  who  is 
said  to  raise  more  fruit  than  au)'  other  man  in 
this  section,  is  Chairman  of  the  Hoard  of  Su- 
pervisors of  the  town.  He  married  a  Miss 
Richardson,  and  has  seven  children  living. 

Samuel  Davis,  Jr.,  the  father  of  Ora  C. 
Davis,  was  born  in  Plainfield,  I'ebruary  2, 
1822,  was  educated  in  the  common  schools  and 
at  Kimball  Union  Academy.  After  the  close 
of  his  school  life  he  began  farming,  and  has 
been  engaged  in  that  occupation  ever  since. 
liy  industry,  energy,  and  strictly  honorable 
dealing    in    every  transaction  he  has  accunui- 


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lated  a  fortune  sufficient  for  his  needs.  He 
has  been  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen 
many  times,  and  he  has  efficiently  served  in 
the  capacities  of  Treasurer  and  Tax  Collector. 
His  political  principles  are  those  of  the  Re- 
publican party,  which  he  stanchly  supports; 
and  he  attends  religious  services  at  the  Baptist 
church.  He  married  Martha  J.  Hersey,  who 
was  born  September  4,  1824.  She  was  a 
daughter  of  Stephen  Hersey,  a  farmer  and  car- 
penter of  Grantham.  The  three  children  of 
this  marriage  are:  Emma  A.,  Ora  C. ,  and 
Ella  M.  Emma,  born  in  Hartford,  Vt. ,  July 
17,  1845,  attended  the  public  schools  of  Plain- 
field  and  Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  was 
afterward  one  of  the  most  successful  public- 
school  teachers  in  this  part  of  the  State.  She 
married  J.  C.  Willis,  of  Milwaukee,  a  rail- 
road man,  who  makes  two  trips  weekly  from 
Chicago  to  Minneapolis.  They  have  no  chil- 
dren. Ella,  born  July  19,  1850,  was  edu- 
cated in  the  schools  of  the  town  and  at  Kim- 
ball Union  Academy.  She  also  taught  school 
successfully  for  a  number  of  years  before  she 
married  Warren  11  Richardson,  of  Canaan. 
Mr.  Richardson,  who  is  well-to-do,  has  been 
Town  Treasurer  and  Deinity  Sheriff,  and  is 
now  Police  Justice. 

Ora  C.  Davis  received  his  education  in  the 
same  schools  as  did  his  sisters,  and,  like  them, 
became  a  teacher.  He  taught  for  about  twenty 
winters,  being  gifted  not  only  with  unusual 
ability  to  instruct,  but  with  sujjcrior  tact  as  a 
disciplinarian.  He  keeps  a  farm,  and  has 
done  a  considerable  amount  of  painting.  He 
has  been  Chairman  of  the  Republican  Town 
Committee  for  many  years;  has  been  Select- 
man for  five  years,  being  at  present  Chairman 
of  the  Board;  and  he  has  also  served  as  .Super- 
intendent of  Schools. 

The  second  of  Mr.  Davis's  two  marriages 
was  contracted  with  Almie  F.  Morse,  daughter 


of  Charles  H.  Morse,  of  Plainfield.  By  his 
previous  marriage  he  has  two  children  —  Hu- 
bert S.  and  Edna  W.  Hubert,  born  in  Plain- 
field,  November  g,  1871,  who  was  educated  in 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  became  a 
farmer,  married  Mary  Woodward,  and  has  two 
children  —  Gleason  and  Clifford.  Edna  W., 
born  January  2,  1874,  is  living  at  Plainfield. 
In  religious  belief  Mr.  Davis  is  a  Ilaptist. 
He  now  holds  the  office  of  Deputy  Sheriff,  and 
is  Justice  of  the  Peace.  Prominent  in  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  he  is  now  the  Master  of 
his  lodge.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  local 
grange. 

ON.  EDMUND  H.  BROWN,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in 
Fisherville,  now  Penacook,  a  part 
of  Concord,  N.  H.,  October  29,  1857.  He  is 
the  youngest  son  of  Henry  Hayes  and  Lucretia 
(Symonds)  Brown,  and  traces  his  ancestry  di- 
rectly back  to  the  early  Pilgrim  settlers.  The 
late  Henry  H.  Brown,  father  of  Edmund  II., 
conducted  an  extensive  manufacturing  busi- 
ness in  Penacook  for  many  years,  and  was  one 
of  the  most  enterprising  citizens  and  [iromi- 
nent  residents  of  that  village  in  his  day. 

I'ldmund  H.  Brown  was  educated  at  the  Pen- 
acook Academy  and  the  Massachusetts  Insti- 
tute of  Technology,  Boston.  After  complet- 
ing his  studies  he  entered  the  works  of  the 
Concord  Axle  Company,  and,  having  applied 
his  efforts  to  a  thorough  mastery  of  every 
branch  of  these  extensive  works,  fitted  himself 
for  the  responsible  position  which  he  assumed 
in  1S87,  that  of  General  Superintendent.  He 
was  one  of  the  incorporators  of  this  company, 
and  is  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Directors. 
Aside  from  his  connection  with  the  axle 
works,  he  was  one  of  the  organizers  of  and 
Director  in  the  Penacook  l']lectric  Eight  Com- 
Ijany,  and    was    instrumental    in   giving   to   his 


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village  the  c.Ncullciit  lighting  SL-rvicc  that  it 
now  CI) joys. 

ICaiiy  in  the  spring  (if  1.S97  he  Ijccamc 
associated  with  Mr.  Charles  1',.  l-'oote  in  the 
well-known  honse  of  l'"o<)te,  jirown  &  Co., 
having  purchased  a  half  -  interest  from  Mr. 
Stewart  I.  15rown.  This  firm  carries  one  of 
the  largest  and  hest  selected  stocks  of  general 
merchandise  to  he  found  in  the  county,  enjoys 
an  enviahle  rejjntation  for  honesty  and  fair 
dealing,  and  stands  high  in  its  connections  in 
the  business  world. 

Mr.  ]5rown  inherited  from  his  father  those 
sterling  ([ualities  that  go  toward  making  the 
useful  and  res|iecte(l  man  of  affairs,  and  no 
member  of  the  community  is  held  in  higher 
esteem  by  all  classes  than  he. 

In  politics  he  has  been  an  earnest  supporter 
of  the  Republican  party  from  the  day  he  be- 
came a  voter,  and  has  served  the  party  zeal- 
ously in  his  ward  organization  and  u[)()n  the 
State  Committee,  of  which  he  was  a  member 
from  1887  to  1893.  As  a  candidate  for  the 
House  of  Representatives  in  i8g2,  he  contrib- 
uted his  full  share  toward  successfully  redeem- 
ing his  ward  ;  and  as  a  member  of  that  body  he 
acquired  a  wide  re[)utation  as  a  well-informed 
man,  and  won  many  frienils  by  his  marked 
social  attainments.  At  the  Republican  con- 
vention in  1894  he  received  a  unanimous 
nomination  for  Senator  in  the  l^leventh  Sena- 
torial District,  and  at  the  subsequent  election 
was  handsomely  elected  as  the  first  Republican 
from  that  district.  He  was  a  prominent  mem- 
ber and  earnest  worker  in  that  honorable  body, 
and  served  faithfull)'  the  interests  of  a  large 
constituency. 

In  religious  and  educational  matters  Mr. 
Brown  has  always  taken  an  active  interest. 
He  joined  the  First  Baptist  Church,  Penacook, 
at  the  age  of  fifteen,  and  has  become  one  of  its 
most  influential   members.      He  was   President 


of  the  i\ew  H.diipsliirc  Baptist  State  Conven- 
tion in  1X93.  He  is  a  'i'rustec  of  Colby 
Acailemy,  New  London,  and  a  niemijer  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Hislfirical  Society. 

Mr.  Brown  is  a  thirty-second  degree  Mason. 
He  is  a  Past  Ma.stcr  of  Horace  Chase  Lodge, 
No.  72,  ]'■.  &  A.  M.  ;  a  member  of  Trinity 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  Horace  Chase 
Council,  Royal  and  Select  Masters;  Mount 
Iloreb  Commandcry,  Knights  Templar;  and 
ICdward  A.  Raymond  Consistory  of  Nashua. 

On  October  11,  1881,  Mr.  Brown  married 
M.  Belle  Proctor,  daughter  of  the  late  well- 
known  Dr.  William  Proctor,  of  Pittsfield, 
N.H.  They  have  had  three  children  ;  namely, 
Helen  L.,  Howard  II.,  and  William  P.  The 
latter  died  in  infancy. 


"CjuciAR  A.  CHURCHILL,  a  prominent 
Jo'  resident  of  Cornish,  was  born  in  this 
town,  August  29,  1847.  His  parents 
were  Barker  B.  Churchill,  son  of  Lewis 
Churchill  and  Mary  (Angier)  Churchill,  of 
Cornish.  The  latter,  who  was  Barker's  first 
wife,  had  eight  children,  of  whom  Edgar  A., 
Mary  K.,  and  Jennie  reached  maturity.  Mary- 
is  now  Mrs.  l.ovell  B.  George,  of  Newport,  and 
has  tw-o  children  —  Jennie  and  Albert.  Jennie 
Churchill,  who  married  William  F.  Waite, 
a  pattern  maker  of  llubbardston,  Mass.,  is  now 
deceased.  The  father,  a  carpenter  by  trade, 
was  in  the  late  war,  having  enlisted  at  West 
Lebanon  in  the  First  New  Hampshire  Heavy 
Artillery  for  three  years.  He  had  served  about 
thirteen  months  when  the  war  ended,  antl  he 
was  honorably  discharged.  Shortly  after  he 
contracted  a  second  marriage  with  Mary 
(Westgate)  Britton,  a  widow  of  Plainfield, 
who  bore  him  one  child,  Nettie  B.,  now  Mrs. 
Marvin  B.  Lindsey,  of  Cornish. 

In    his    boyhood    Edgar    A.   Churchill    was 


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sent  to  school  at  Cornish  and  to  Kimball 
Union  Academy  at  Flainfield.  After  finish- 
ing his  education,  he  taught  school  for  a 
while,  and  then  learned  the  trade  of  a  carpen- 
ter with  his  father.  In  August,  1864,  he 
enlisteil  for  service  in  the  war,  with  his  father, 
in  the  First  New  Hampshire  Heavy  Artil- 
lery. After  serving  thirteen  months,  he  came 
home  and  began  work  at  his  trade,  carrying 
on,  also,  general  farming.  Mr.  Churchill  is  a 
loyal  member  of  the  Democratic  party,  and  has 
served  his  native  town  in  numerous  positions 
in  the  public  service.  He  has  been  Highway 
Surveyor  and  Measurer  of  Wood  and  Lumber, 
.Selectman  of  the  town  for  the  past  four  years, 
and  Chairman  of  the  Board  of  -Selectmen  for 
the  last  two  years  of  that  time.  Upright  and 
public-spirited,  his  support  is  always  assured 
for  any  measure  he  believes  to  be  for  the  gen- 
eral well-being  of  the  community,  even  though 
it  may  conflict  with  his  personal  interests. 
His  estate,  situated  on  Davis  Hill  in  the 
northern  part  of  the  town,  commands  a  fine 
view  of  the  country  for  miles  around.  His 
domestic  circle  includes  a  little  girl,  whom 
he  has  benevolently  undertaken  to  rear.  He 
is  largely  interested  in  stock-raising  and  graz- 
ing; and  he  has  a  large  number  of  pet  ani- 
mals, including  canary  birds,  cats,  and  dogs, 
the  care  of  which  affords  him  much  pleasure. 
He  is  a  member  of  William  H.  Bryant  Post, 
No.  6^.  G.  A.  R.,  f)f  Cornish,  and  of  the  local 
grange. 

For  years  Mr.  Churchill  has  made  his  home 
with  Miss  Georgiana  and  Mrs.  Henrietta 
Davis,  who  are  daughters  of  the  late  John 
and  Hannah  (Hrown)  Davis.  Mr.  Davis, 
born  June  11,  1/92,  died  February  20,  1.S67. 
His  wife,  who  was  born  at  Kpsom,  November 
'3i  '7931  "^lied  December  27,  1847.  Their 
five  children  were  David,  John  H.,  Mary 
Ann,    and   the   ladies  already   named.      David 


died  in  infancy.  John  II.,  born  March  9, 
1820,  is  now  living  with  his  third  wife  in 
Illinois.  Of  his  three  children  two  are  liv- 
ing. Mary  Ann,  born  September  7,  1821, 
married  James  Winn,  of  Vermont,  and  died 
September  20,  1891.  .Mrs.  Henrietta  Davis, 
born  January  13,  1S24,  who  married  Henry 
W.  Davis,  July  5,  1854,  had  two  children, 
of  whom  Winfield  Scott  Davis  is  living,  and 
resides  in  Cornish.  While  serving  in  the 
Civil  War,  her  husband  was  exposed  to  so 
much  hardshiij  that  his  health  was  destroyed; 
and  he  died  in  a  few  days  after  reaching 
home.  Miss  Georgiana  Davis,  who  was  born 
January  14,  1828,  and  was  educated  in  the 
town  schools,  has  always  made  her  home  at 
the  old  homestead,  which  was  her  birthplace. 
Both  she  and  her  sister  are  very  charitable. 
Their  great-grandfather,  John  Davis,  was  born 
in  Wales,  luigland.  The  grandfather,  David 
Davis,  was  born  at  Greenland,  N.H.,  Decem- 
ber 25,  1758.  He  was  a  soldier  in  the  Rev- 
olutionary War,  and  thereafter  drew  a  pension 
from  the  government  as  long  as  he  lived. 
An  earnest  Christian,  he  was  a  daily  reader 
of  the  Scriptures.  He  died  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty-eight  years.  As  his  grand- 
daughters, Mrs.  Davis  and  her  sister  are  cjual- 
ified  to  become  members  of  the  organization 
called  the  "Daughters  of  the  Revolution." 


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ENRV      HARRISON       EDWARDS, 

a   watchmaker  of  acknowledged   abil- 

-     \^ _,  ity,  wlio  is  iiiiw  residing   in   jMlens- 

town,  was  born  in  Laconia,  N.H.,  July  28, 
1840,  son  of  Nathaniel  and  Rachel  (Ranlett) 
ICdwards.  His  grandfathei',  Fbenezer  lul- 
wards,  who  in  his  earlier  years  followed  the 
sea,  subsequently  learned  the  hatter's  trade, 
and  followed  it  in  Laconia  for  many  years. 
.Annther    source    of    income    to    him    was    the 


JiKXiRAl'illCAl.    RKVIIAV 


IV  I 


tcachin;^  ot  (jloculiun.  His  upright  character 
ami  intellectual  attainments  gained  for  him  a 
high  staiuling  in  the  cslinialiun  nf  his  fellow- 
Idwnsnicii.  lie  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-eight 
)c,iis.  In  politics  he  acted  with  the  Whig 
party,  and  he  was  a  Hajitist  in  his  religions 
helief.  He  wedded  Martha  Watson,  a  native 
of  Dover,  N.II.,  who  also  died  at  the  age  of 
sixty-eight.  ( )f  their  eleven  children  David, 
William,  Charles,  J'dien,  Mary,  and  rierjiont 
are  li\'ing. 

Nathaniel  lulwards,  father  of  Henry  11. , 
was  born  in  I'lymouth,  N.H.,  December  7, 
181 3.  He  learned  the  shoemaker's  trade  in 
New  Market,  N.H.,  and  followed  it  for  several 
years  in  his  native  town.  Later  he  became 
assistant  suiierintcndcnt  of  the  Lake  Water 
Company.  In  politics  he  was  originally  a 
Whig,  and  later  became  a  Republican.  He 
served  as  Tax  Collector  for  some  time,  and  was 
Chief  of  the  I'^ire  Department  for  a  number  of 
years.  In  his  latter  years  he  attended  the 
Haptist  church.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-two  years.  His  wife,  Rachel,  who  is 
a  native  of  Gilmanton,  N.H.,  became  the 
mother  of  three  sons —  Ceorge  W. ,  Henry  H., 
and  Frank  A.  George  VV.,  now  deceased, 
marrietl  for  his  first  wife  Miss  Lawton,  of 
rittsfield,  Mass.,  who  had  no  children.  His 
second  wife,  Ida  Mills  Edwards,  of  Williams- 
town,  Mass.,  now  resides  in  Pittsfield,  Mass., 
with  her  two  children  —  George  W.  and 
Blanche.  Frank  A.  married  Nellie  Tilletson, 
of  Whiteficld,  N.H.,  and  his  children  are: 
F'rank,  Nathaniel  II.,  Louise,  and  Jessie. 
Mrs.  Nathaniel  F^dvvards,  now  eighty-four  years 
idd,  is  residing  with  ber  son  in  Laconia. 

Henry  Harrison  lulwards  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town.  Subse- 
quently he  learned  the  watchmaker's  trade  in 
Laconia,  and  followed  it  there  as  a  journey- 
man  for   four  years.      Off    and   on   for   several 


years  he  was  employed  at  the  Waltham  Watch 
Factory;  and  he  has  also  worked  in  St.  Johns- 
bury,  Vt.,  Pittsfield,  Worcester,  and  Haver- 
hill, Mass.  His  last  engagement  with  the 
Waltham  Com|)any  extended  (jver  a  period  of 
twenty  years,  ending  in  1.S92,  at  which  time 
he  came  to  Allenstown. 

On  September  13,  1-S77,  Mr.  ICdwards  \v.,.s 
united  in  marriage  with  Helen  P.  Otterson, 
daughter  of  Thomas  James  and  Phoebe  P.  S. 
(Pryant)  Otterson,  late  of  Allenstown.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  lulwards  have  had  one  daughter, 
Pauline  L. ,  now  deceased.  Politically,  Mr. 
lulwards  is  a  Republican.  Both  he  and  Mrs. 
lulwards  are  liberal  in  their  religious  views. 


HOMAS  J.  OTTERSON,  formerly  a 
well-known  business  man  of  Allens- 
town, was  born  in  Hookset,  N.  H., 
I-'ebruary  8,  181 8,  son  of  William  and  Betsey 
(Cofran)  Otterson.  On  the  paternal  side  he 
descended  from  William  Otterson,  a  native  of 
Ireland,  who  was  drowned  in  Lake  Champlain 
during  the  French  and  Indian  War.  William's 
son,  James  Otterscm,  grandfather  of  Thomas 
J.,  was  born  in  Londonderry,  N.  LI.,  August 
'9.  '757-  "^^  \^''is  the  father  of  twelve  chil- 
dren, of  whom  William  (second),  father  of 
Thomas  J.,  was  the  third  child.  The  father, 
who  was  born  in  Hookset,  October  30,  1789, 
reared  a  family  of  five  children,  of  whom 
Thomas  J.  was  the  eldest. 

Reared  and  educated  in  Hookset,  Thomas 
James  Otterson  was  engaged  in  mercantile 
pursuits  in  his  native  town  until  1861.  Then 
he  moved  to  Allenstown,  and  entered  the  lum- 
ber business.  He  was  very  successful  finan- 
cially, was  prominent  in  public  affairs,  and 
served  as  Treasurer  and  Collector  in  Allens- 
town for  a  number  of  years.  Highly  respected 
for  his  upright  character  and  other  estimable 


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qualities  in  life,  his  death  on  January  28, 
1S93,  when  he  was  seventy-five  years  old,  was 
regretted  by  all  who  knew  hini.  Me  left  a 
good  estate. 

Mr.  Otterson  married  riicKbe  P.  S.  l^ryant, 
daughter  of  Nathan  and  Delight  (Nichols) 
Bryant.  Their  only  child,  Helen  P.,  is  now 
Mrs.  Henry  H.  Edwards,  of  Allenstown.  Mrs. 
Otterson  died  at  the  age  of  si.\ty-seven  years. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Otterson  attended  the 
Universalist  church. 


(^AMES  MADISON  JONES,  the  popu- 
lar and  efficient  station  agent  of  the 
Concord  &  Montreal  Railroad  at  Con- 
cord, was  born  at  Deerlield,  N.H.,  April  26, 
1833,  son  of  James  and  Hannah  L.  (Marston) 
Jones.  Jacob  Jones,  his  grandfather,  a  native 
of  Pittsfield,  N.H.,  kept  a  successful  clock 
and  gunsmith  shop  in  his  native  town  for 
many  years.  He  had  a  high  local  reputation 
as  a  mechanic,  and  he  lived  to  a  good  old  age. 
James  Jones,  who  was  born  in  Pittsfield, 
N.H.,  inherited  his  father's  mechanical 
talent.  He  took  up  and  continued  the  pater- 
nal business  of  making  and  repairing  clocks 
and  executing  gunsmith  work,  adding  thereto 
that  of  a  blacksmith.  In  the  latter  half  of 
his  life  he  removed  to  Concord,  where  he  en- 
tered the  employ  of  Abiel  Chandler,  the 
clock-maker,  and  soon  established  for  himself 
a  great  local  reputation  in  that  city  for  skill 
in  his  line  of  business.  He  could  repair  any 
sort  of  machine  or  mechanical  instrument. 
His  useful  life  closed  in  Concord,  at  the  age 
of  seventy-eight  years.  He  married  Hannah 
L.  Marston,  of  Pittsfield.  Their  family  con- 
sisted of  the  following  children:  James  Madi- 
son, the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Thomas  A., 
who  went  to  Chicago,  111.,  and  was  appointed 
jjaymaster   on    the    Chicago   &    North-western 


Railroad;  Charles  E.,  who  is  an  engineer  on 
the  Boston  &  Maine  Railroad;  George  A., 
who  enlisted  for  service  in  the  Civil  War,  first 
at  Portsmouth  in  the  First  New  Hampshire 
Regiment  of  Volunteers,  and  subsequently  for 
three  years  in  Company  E  of  the  Second  New 
Hampshire  Regiment,  and  who  was  killed  at 
the  battle  of  Gettysburg  in  1863;  Frank  and 
Eddie,  twins,  of  whom  P>ank  died  aged  two 
years  and  Eddie  aged  twelve  years;  and  Addie, 
who  died  at  the  age  of  nine  years. 

After  receiving  his  education  in  the  district 
schools  of  Concord,  James  Madison  Jones  first 
went  to  work  in  hotels.  After  that  he  took 
up  stage  driving  as  a  means  of  livelihood,  and 
for  a  number  of  years  continued  in  that  busi- 
ness, running  stages  to  and  fro  between  vari- 
ous New  Hampshire  towns.  He  first  drove  a 
stage  from  Hillsborough  to  Bradford  Springs, 
then  from  East  Andover  to  West  Springfield, 
then  the  daily  stage  between  Springfield  and 
New  London,  then  from  Manchester  to  Hills- 
borough, and  after  that  to  Concord.  At  the 
time  of  the  building  of  the  Sixth  Avenue 
Railroad  in  New  York  City  he  went  twice  to 
New  York  with  a  shipment  of  horses,  remain- 
ing in  that  city  on  each  occasion  for  about  six 
months.  On  July  i,  1852,  he  entered  the  em- 
ploy of  the  Old  Concord  Railroad,  and  worked 
as  brakeman  and  baggage-master  between 
Concord  and  Boston  for  about  eight  vears. 
Then  he  was  promoted  to  the  post  of  con- 
ductor, in  which  capacity  he  served  the  corpora- 
tion on  various  trains  running  from  Concord, 
Nashua,  Portsmouth,  Boston,  and  return,  for 
another  period  of  eight  years.  In  1869  he 
was  appointed  to  the  important  anil  resjjon- 
sible  jiosition  of  station  and  baggage  agent, 
and  the  superintendence  of  trains  and  train- 
men at  Concord.  Upon  the  consolidation  of 
the  Concord  and  Montreal  roads  he  was  contin- 
ued in  the   same   capacity,  i^eing   too   valuable 


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19  3 


and  wrl  l-traiiR'(l  a  man  fur  the  corporat  inn  Id 
lose.  In  November,  i8(S5,  the  new  ami  cum- 
motlious  station  erected  by  the  railroad  author- 
ities was  ready  for  use;  and  Mr.  Jones  was 
|)ul  in  chari^e  of  the  same,  to  the  satisfaction 
of  the  travellers  passing  through  the  place. 

Mr.  Jones  married  Jane  Maria  Swan,  and 
has  two  children.  These  arc:  Fred  C. ,  who 
has  been  a  conductoi-  on  the  Concord,  Boston 
&  Maine  Railroad  for  about  twenty  years; 
and  Jennie,  who  niarrieil  George  H.  Wright, 
of  Bradford,  and  is  the  mother  of  two  children 
—  Dorothy  and  James  Jones  Wright.  A  sec- 
ond marriage  was  contracted  by  Mr.  Jones 
with  Harriet  M.  Merrill.  In  [lolitics  he  is  a 
Democrat,  and  iiis  first  Presidential  vote  was 
cast  for  James  Buchanan  in  1856.  He  is  an 
attendant  at  the  Congregational  church  in 
Concord.  He  has  been  a  member  of  the  St. 
John  Lodge  of  Free  Masons  of  Portsmouth 
since  the  year  1861,  and  he  also  belongs  to 
the  White  Mountain  Lodge  of  Odd  Fellows  of 
Concord. 


RANK  H.  CHAPMAN,  a  leading 
druggist  of  P'ranklin  Falls,  was  born  in 
Lowell,  Mass.,  May  29,  1848,  son  of 
l':ben  L.  Chapman,  of  New  Market,  N.  PL 
The  father,  who  was  born  in  1807,  removed  to 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  and  was  there  a  successful 
grocer  for  forty-one  years,  retiring  from  active 
business  in  i860.  He  married  for  his  first 
wife  a  Towle,  of  New  Market,  who  died  leav- 
ing no  children.  For  his  second  wife  he 
married  Mrs.  Martha  J.  Hilton  Hanscomb,  and 
their  children  were:  P'rank  H.,  the  subject  of 
this  sketch;  and  Charles,  who  died  at  the  age 
of  six  years. 

P'rank  PL  Chapman  received  his  education 
in  the  common  and  high  schools  of  Lawrence, 
Mass.  In  1864  he  entered  the  employ  of 
II.  M.   Whitney,  a  druggist,  to  learn  the  busi- 


ness, remaining  there  for  five  years.  After- 
ward, in  Brooklyn,  N.  V.,  he  was  em|)loyed  in 
the  store  id  lOmil  Heydenreich  &  Co.  for  three 
years.  In  1875  he  came  to  Franklin  Fall.s,  and 
purchased  the  drug  store  of  ]•:.  H.  Sturtevant, 
whom  he  succeeded  in  the  business,  continu- 
ing alone  until  1893,  when  he  .sold  one-half 
interest  to  Charles  luldy.  The  store  is  now 
carried  on  under  the  style  of  P".  H.  Chapman 
&  Co.  They  have  a  full  line  of  drug.s,  medi- 
cines, etc.,  and  have  succeeded  in  building  up 
a  large  and  successful  business.  Mr.  Chap- 
man now  leaves  the  entire  charge  of  the  store 
to  his  partner,  Mr.  luldy.  He  is  also  con- 
nected with  the  well-known  wholesale  drug- 
gists, Rust  &  Richardson,  of  Hanover  Street, 
Boston,  Mass.  At  one  time  he  was  the  Presi- 
dent of  the  New  Hampshire  Pharmaceutical 
Association. 

In  August,  1872,  Mr.  Chapman  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Ella  V.  James,  of  Lawrence, 
Mass.,  daughter  of  T.  W.  James,  a  machinist 
residing  in  that  city.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chajiman 
are  the  parents  of  five  children,  namely:  Lucy 
B.,  born  in  June,  1873,  who  is  now  the  wife 
of  John  Proctor,  of  P'ranklin  P'alls;  Eben  L., 
born  in  August,  1876,  now  attending  the  In- 
stitute of  Technology  in  Boston,  Mass.  ; 
P'rank  W. ,  born  in  August,  1877,  a  student 
at  Dartmouth  College;  Charles  E. ,  born  in 
June,  1S78,  who  attends  Phillips  Academy  at 
Andover,  Mass.  ;  and  John  H.,  born  in  March, 
1883,  novy  at  home  with  his  parents.  Mr. 
Chapman  was  the  legislative  Representative 
of  his  district  in  1893.  He  has  also  been 
Town  Clerk  for  several  years.  In  politics  he 
is  a  stanch  Republican.  In  Masonry  he  has 
taken  the  thirty-second  degree,  having  mem- 
bership in  the  Blue  Lodge  and  in  the  F.  A. 
Raymond  Consistory  of  Nashua,  N.  H.  He 
also  belongs  to  the  Odd  Fellows,  Red  Men, 
Knights  of  Honor,    and   Knights  of    Pythias. 


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Mr.  Chapman  i.s  one  of  Franklin  ]''alls'  most 
highly  esteemed  citizens,  and  has  been  emi- 
nently successful  throughout  his  life.  His 
home  is  one  of  the  finest  residences  in  Frank- 
lin Falls,  and  he  has  surrounded  his  family  with 
many  of  the  lu.xuries  of  life. 


I^OSES  H.  FARNUM,  a  prominent 
resident  of  Concord,  was  born  in 
Concord,  February  3,  1811,  son 
of  Moses  and  Esther  (Carter)  ]'"arnum.  The 
family  is  of  Welsh  origin.  Ralph  Farnum, 
the  first  of  the  name  in  this  country,  came 
from  Wales  and  settled  in  Andover,  Mass. 
He  subsequently  removed  to  Concord,  N.  H.  ; 
and  his  descendants  have  continued  to  hold 
and  occupy  his  original  land  purchase  in  that 
town  up  to  the  present  time.  Ephraim  Far- 
.num,  son  of  Ivalph  and  the  great-grandfather 
of  Moses  IF,  born  on  the  paternal  estate,  re- 
sided thereon  throughout  his  life.  His  son, 
also  named  Ephraim,  was  born  on  the  same 
estate,  passed  his  life  in  its  cultivation  and 
improvement,  and  died  at  the  age  of  ninety- 
four  years.  Tlie  maiden  name  of  Grand- 
father Farnum's  wife  was  Judith  Hall. 

Moses  Farnum,  son  of  Ephraim  and  the 
father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch,  was 
also  born  on  the  paternal  estate,  and  passed 
his  life  there  as  a  farmer.  A  portion  of 
his  house  is  still  standing.  He  served  his 
town  as  Selectman  for  a  time,  and  he  at- 
tained the  age  of  seventy-one  years.  The 
second  of  his  two  marriages  was  contracted 
with  Esther  Carter,  a  sister  of  his  first  wife. 
He  reared  a  family  of  si.\  children. 

Moses  H.  Farnum  received  his  education 
partly  in  the  district  schools  and  jjartly  in  a 
private  school  of  Concord.  He  has  passed  his 
long  life  on  his  patrimonial  estate,  devoting 
his   time   and    attention    to    its     improvement. 


Reduced  by  subdivision,  the  ijro[jerty  now  con- 
tains one  hundred  acres.  In  1870  he  erected 
on  it  a  fine  set  of  hew  buildings.  Prior  to  the 
incorporation  of  Concord  as  a  city  Mr.  Far- 
num served  it  as  Selectman  for  a  number  of 
years.  Afterward  he  was  several  times  elected 
by  his  townsmen  to  represent  them  in  the  city 
government.  He  also  held  the  office  of  As- 
sessor of  Taxes  in  his  ward  for  a  number  of 
years.  In  18S3  he  was  elected  to  the  New 
Hampshire  legislature. 

Mr.  P'arnum  has  been  twice  married.  By 
his  first  wife,  Judith  A.  Kilburn  P^arnum, 
his  children  were:  Frank  B.,  residing  in  Con- 
cord, who  married  Sadie  Brown,  of  Boscawen, 
and  has  two  children;  Anna  L.,  who  married 
Charles  P'arnum,  and  resides  in  the  neighbor- 
hood ;  and  Edward  E.,  who  married  Mary 
Larthard  of  P.E.  Island,  has  one  child,  Judith 
H.,  and  lives  on  the  homestead.  P'or  his 
second  wife  he  married  Ann  Hale,  the  widow 
of  Asa  L.  Pervier,  and  a  daughter  of  Isaac  and 
Betsy  (Pearson)  Hale.  Born  of  this  marriage 
is  one  son  —  Raljih  Perley  P'arnum,  who  lives 
at  home. 

In  politics  Mr.  P^irnum  is  a  Republican. 
He  cast  his  first  Presidential  ballot  for  Martin 
Van  Buren  in  1S36.  Both  he  and  Mrs.  Far- 
num are  members  of  the  West  Congregational 
Church  of  Concord.  He  has  the  satisfaction 
of  looking  back  over  an  unusually  well-spent 
and  useful  life,  and  that  brought  by  the  con- 
fidence and  respect  of  all  who  know  him. 


M 


ANIEL  F.  WYMAN,  a  successful 
lumber  dealer  of  Henniker  and  an 
e.x-member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  was  born  in  the  southern  part  of 
this  town,  November  29,  1826.  His  maternal 
ancestors  were  early  settlers  in  New  Hamp- 
shire.      Moses     Harriman,     his     jireat-grand- 


CYRUS     E.    BAKER. 


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father,  was  Ijorn  in  I'laistf)vv  in  17^,0.  I  lis 
<;raiui|)arcnts,  l^ldad  aiul  Lyilia  (White)  llar- 
riman,  wiio  were  iiichistribus  farminf^  people, 
lived  til  be  eij;lity-fiuir  years  old.  Daniel 
resided  with  his  grandparents  until  he  was 
sixteen  or  seventeen  years  old.  Ihen  he 
learned  daguerreotyping;  and,  after  following 
it  for  a  time,  he  sold  out  his  apparatus  and 
became  a  clerk  for  James  I'everly  in  Concord. 
A  year  later  he  was  employed  in  the  same 
capacity  in  Hcnniker.  Subscciueiill)'  Mr. 
VVyman  visited  Ohio  for  the  purpose  of  seeing 
the  country.  In  1849  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  Jonas  Wallace,  the  father  of  Judge 
Robert  M.  Wallace,  of  Milford,  and  for  sonu' 
years  was  engaged  in  a  general  mercantile 
business  in  Henniker.  He  then  returned  to 
the  farm  for  the  purpose  of  managing  the 
projierty  and  caring  for  his  aged  grandparents 
and  mother.  After  the  death  of  the  former 
he  settled  the  estate.  He  then  took  up  his 
residence  in  Henniker  village,  bought  timber 
lands,  and  established  himself  in  the  lumber 
business,  which  he  has  since  successfully  fol- 
lowed. He  erected  houses  in  Henniker  and 
Manchester  with  lumber  which  he  cut  and 
sawed.  He  has  invested  to  a  considerable 
extent  in  city  property  in  Los  Angele.s,  Cal., 
which  he  visited  eight  years  ago,  spending 
several  months  in  sight -seeing  upon  the 
Pacific  slope.  He  spent  the  winter  of  1875 
and  1876  in  Florida.  In  politics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  has  been  quite  active  in  local 
affairs.  He  has  served  as  Supervisor;  and 
he  represented  this  town  in  the  legislature 
of  1883,  serving  upon  the  Insurance  Com- 
mittee. 

In  1853  Mr.  Wyman  first  joined  in  mar- 
riage with  Mar)'  E.  Coggswell,  who  died  in 
1879.  She  was  a  daughter  of  George  W. 
Coggswell,  Henniker.  Mr.  Wyman  con- 
tracted   a    second     marriage    on    January    10, 


r.S'S2,  with  Harriet  Strobridge,  who  was  born 
in  Meriden  village,  town  of  I'lainficld,  .Sulli- 
van County,  N.H.,  daughter  of  Oliver  H.  and 
Lucinda  (Sijaulding)  .Strobridge.  Her  father 
died  when  she  was  ten  years  old.  I'rior  to 
her  marriage  Mrs.  Wyman  was  a  milliner  in 
St.  Johnsbury,  Vt.,  and  in  Manchester,  N.H. 
Her  mother,  Mrs.  .Strobridge,  resides  with 
her.  Mr.  Wyman  is  a  member  of  Crescent 
Lodge  and  l-jicampment  of  the  Independent 
Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  He  has  been  quite 
active  in  the  affairs  of  the  lodge,  and  was  at 
one  time  a  member  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of 
New  Hampshire. 


7TAVRUS    ]•.    HAKER,   M.D.,   of    Clare- 

(  Vp  niont,  Sullivan  County,  N.H.,  the 
^v^.^.^  well-known  physician  and  oculist, 
was  born  in  I'lainfield,  this  State,  April  9, 
1835,  son  of  Dimic  and  Hannah  (Colby) 
Baker,  lie  is  of  the  eighth  generation  in 
descent  from  Jeffrey  Baker,  who  came  from 
England,  and  was  one  of  the  original  settlers 
of  Windsor,  Conn. 

Jeffrey  Baker  married  November  25,  1642, 
Joan  Rockwell.  They  had  five  children,  one 
of  them  being  a  son,  Joseph,  born  June  18, 
1655,  who  married  Hannah  Cook  Buckland, 
January  30,  1677.  I'ive  children  were  the 
fruit  of  this  union.  Joseph  Baker's  son, 
Joseph,  Jr.,  born  April  13,  1678,  was  mar- 
ried on  July  8,  1702,  to  Hannah  Pomroy,  by 
whom  he  had  Joseph,  Jr.,  second,  and  Sam- 
uel; and  by  his  second  wife,  Abigail  Bissel, 
he  had  John,  Hannah,  Jacob,  Abigail,  Elbene- 
zer,  Daniel,  Heman,  Titus,  and  Abigail. 
Joseph,  Jr.,  second,  died  January  29,  1754; 
his  wife,  Abigail,  died  I-'ebruary  13,  1768. 
Their  son,  Heman,  the  next  in  this  line,  was 
born  April  27,  1719.  He  married  Lois  Gil- 
bert, November  24,  1747,  and  had  the  follow- 
ing children:   Heman,  Jr.,  who  was  a  soldier 


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during  the  Revolutionary  War,  was  taken 
prisoner,  and  died  three  months  after  his  dis- 
charge; Anna;  Deborah;  John;  Oliver,  who 
became  a  doctor  of  medicine;  Abigail;  Lois; 
Delight;  and  Lydia.  Oliver  Baker,  son  of 
Heman,  was  born  at  Tolland,  Conn.,  October 
5,  1755,  and  died  October  3,  1811.  Remar- 
ried Dorcas  Dimic,  March  23,  1780.  She 
was  born  September  23,  1760,  and  died  Octo- 
ber 3,  1849.  Their  children  were:  Heman; 
Diantha;  Zinia  and  Lina,  who  were  twins; 
Oliver,  Jr.;  Semantha;  Dimic;  Dorcas; 
Lodema;  Elizabeth;  and  Mary.  Heman  died 
March  16,  1845.  Lina  died  August  27, 
1808.  Dorcas  died  July  26,  1825.  Semantha 
died  August  i,   1S26. 

Dimic  Baker,  son  of  Oliver  Baker,  M. D., 
was  born  March  18,  1793,  in  Plainfield,  N.H., 
where  he  lived  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred March  19,  1876.  He  was  a  prosperous 
farmer  and  wool  producer,  a  shrewd  buyer 
and  seller,  and  one  of  the  strongest  and  most 
prominent  men  of  the  town.  He  married 
June  2,  1822,  Hannah  Colby,  who  was  born 
February  7,  1794,  and  died  March  17,  1S56. 
It  had  been  his  noble  aim  to  leave  his  chil- 
dren the  legacy  of  a  good  education.  The 
children  were  five  in  nimiber,  as  follows: 
Elias,  who  died  November  11,  1884;  Edward 
D.,  who  was  an  able  lawyer,  as  shown  by  a 
brief  memoir  on  another  page;  Hannah  A.; 
Helen  F. ;  and  Cyrus  E.,  the  direct  subject 
of  the  present  sketch. 

At  the  age  of  eighteen  Cyrus  E.  Baker, 
although  not  a  college  graduate,  began  teach- 
ing school,  being  called  from  Kimball  Union 
Academy,  Meriden,  N.H.,  while  taking  his 
Latin  course.  He  followed  this  occupation 
during  the  winter,  and  in  the  spring  returned 
to  the  academy  to  complete  the  course.  On 
reaching  his  majority,  and  having  received  a 
fair  education,  he  learned  of  the  sale  by  the 


United  States  government  of  the  "Delaware 
Trust  Lands"  in  the  West,  which  were  then 
open  for  pre-emption,  and  started  in  the 
spring  of  1857  for  ''bleeding  Kansas,"  so 
called,  to  become  a  squatter  and  purchaser  of 
a  portion  of  said  lands,  where  for  months  he 
witnessed  all  the  horrors  of  the  Southern  sys- 
tem of  human  bondage  and  their  enmity  to 
the  Union  cause,  taking  his  chances  among 
them  as  a  Union  man,  standing  for  the  per- 
sonal protection  of  James  Lane  and  John 
Brown's  sons,  and  the  cause  they  espoused, 
their  father  having  been  killed  a  few  months 
before  for  his  Union  principles. 

Locating  among  the  wilds  of  Kansas,  some 
eight  miles  north  of  what  is  now  the  city  of 
Topeka,  he  stayed  there  about  six  months; 
and  then,  having  secured  his  lands,  he  re- 
turned to  his  home  in  New  Hampshire,  with 
the  fullest  convictions  of  the  injustice  of 
human  slavery  and  Southern  rule.  He  after- 
ward attended  the  College  of  Physicians  and 
Surgeons  in  New  York,  where  he  was  grad- 
uated in  1S62,  ranking  high  in  his  class. 
He  seemed  to  have  inherited  an  aptitude  for 
his  profession,  there  having  been  in  his  fam- 
ily several  eminent  physicians.  While  an 
undergraduate,  he  was  for  a  time  usher  to  the 
noted  Dr.  Alonzo  Clark,  one  of  the  professors 
at  the  college,  with  whom   he  was  a  favorite. 

After  receiving  his  degree  of  Doctor  of 
Medicine,  Dr.  Baker  was  for  several  months 
house  pliysician  in  the  New  York  City  Hospi- 
tal, receiving  within  that  time  two  promotions, 
and  finally  becoming  "acting  house  physician  " 
there.  He  left  this  fine  position  to  enter  the 
army,  enlisting  as  acting  assistant  surgeon  in 
the  United  States  Army,  and  serving  with 
efficiency  in  the  Departments  of  Virginia  and 
North  Carolina,  having  taken  this  step  from 
the  purest  motives  of  duty  and  of  loyalty  to 
his  country,  which   spirit   had  been  character- 


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istic  of  his  ancestors.  Durin<:;  his  service  in 
the  army  he  stood  by  the  operating-table 
upon  the  field  of  action;  and  he  also  treated 
cases  of  small-pox  and  fevers  and  other  dis- 
eases among  the  colored  as  well  as  the  white 
troops.  He  was  once  ordered  to  establish  a 
small-pox  hos|iital,  which  was  placed  in  his 
charge.  Always  doing  his  best  work,  in  all 
cases  he  used  his  tiieoretical  as  well  as  his 
practical  knowledge,  and  became  an  excep- 
tionally efficient  and  va]ual)lc  physician,  al- 
ways willing  and  loyal,  never  murmuring  at 
overwork  and  extra  hours.  The  intimate 
knowledge  of  small-pox  thus  acquired  came 
to  his  aid  in  after  years,  when  in  1895  this 
dreaded  disease  gained  an  entrance  into  the 
town  of  Claremont.  The  physicians  of  the 
town  were  baffled;  and  it  was  not  until  Dr. 
Baker  was  consulted,  and  he  consented  to 
take  charge,  that  the  epidemic  was  stopped. 
Many  a  home  is  grateful  to  him  for  his 
skilled  treatment  of  this  disease.  He  was 
equally  successful  in  cases  of  typhoid  fever. 

In  August,  1862,  while  marching  with 
McClellan  from  Harris's  Landing  to  Fortress 
Monroe,  the  Doctor  received  a  severe  sun- 
stroke, from  the  effects  of  which  he  has  never 
fully  recovered.  Though  he  did  not  at  once 
leave  the  armv,  his  health  was  so  seriously 
impaired  that  he  was  finally  honorably  dis- 
charged; and  he  returned  to  Claremont, 
where  he  took  up  his  practice,  and  where  he 
has  been  established  ever  since  the  war.  He 
now  receives  a  pension  from  the  government. 
He  is  justly  proud  of  his  war  record;  and, 
undoubtedly,  no  physician  or  soldier  served 
his  country  more  faithfully  than  did  Dr. 
Cyrus  E.  Baker.  In  later  years,  owing  to 
the  fact  of  continued  ill  health,  he  has  made 
a  specialty  of  the  study  of  the  eye,  and  has 
accomjilished  more  in  this  direction  than  has 
any  other  physician  in   Claremont.      Since  the 


organization  of  the  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic at  Claremont  he  has  been  surgeon  of  the 
fraternity.  He  was  for  some  time  a  member 
of  the  Sullivan  Cornmandery  of  Masons;  but, 
owing  to  the  illness  and  deafness  which  were 
the  result  of  the  sunstroke  received  in  the 
army,  he  was  obliged  to  resign  from  both 
societies.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church,  and  in  pf)litics  he  is  a  Republi- 
can. 

Dr.  Baker  has  twice  married.  By  his  first 
wife,  Martha  Jane  Preston,  of  Weathersficld, 
Vt. ,  he  had  one  daughter,  Alice,  who  died  at 
the  age  of  fourteen  years.  The  Doctor  and 
his  second  wife,  Elizabeth  Ann  Erskine, 
daughter  of  Hiram  Erskine,  of  Claremont, 
have  had  four  children,  namely:  Georgietta, 
who  was  graduated  at  the  Stevens  High 
.School,  and  died  at  the  age  of  twenty  years; 
lulgar  H.  and  Eugene  A.,  twins,  who  died  in 
infancy;  and  Walter  E, ,  their  only  living 
child,  who  is  now  attending  the  Stevens  High 
School. 


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EORGE  H.  BARTLETT,  a  prosper- 
V  f^F  ous  manufacturer  of  .Sunapee,  was 
born  in  that  town,  September  28, 
1 84 1,  son  of  John  and  Sarah  (Sanborn)  Bart- 
lett,  natives  respectively  of  Deering  and 
Springfield,  N.H.  He  belongs  to  an  old 
family.  One  of  his  ancestors  was  a  signer 
of  the  Declaration  of  Independence.  John 
Bartlett,  his  grandfather,  was  a  farmer  in 
Deering,  and  died  at  a  good  old  age.  John's 
son,  also  named  John,  was  a  pioneer  of  Suna- 
pee. This  John  came  here  on  horseback,  and 
took  up  new  and  almost  wild  land.  The  re- 
mainder of  his  life  was  spent  in  Sunapee, 
where  he  left  the  reputation  of  an  energetic 
man.  He  lived  to  the  ripe  age  of  cighty- 
tiiree  years,  and  his  wife  lived  to  be  eighty- 
two.      They  were  both  supporters  of  the  Meth- 


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odist  Episcopal  church,  and  in  politics  he  was 
a  Democrat.  Of  their  eight  children  five 
are  living.  One  is  John  Bartlett,  the  present 
Representative  to  Concord  from  the  town  of 
Sunapee.  General  Charles  H.  Bartlett,  of 
•Manchester,  N.H.,  is  another. 

George  H.  Bartlett  passed  his  boyhood  in 
his  native  place,  receiving  the  education  af- 
forded by  the  common  schools,  supplemented 
by  a  course  at  New  London  Academy.  His 
first  experience  in  business  was  obtained  in 
a  sash  and  blind  factory  in  Manchester,  and 
he  was  a  box-maker  there  for  some  time. 
Later  on  he  returned  to  Sunapee,  and  en- 
gaged in  his  present  business  —  the  manufact- 
ure of  hames.  He  and  Mr.  W.  H.  H.  Cowles 
established  the  industry  there  in  1865,  and  it 
was  started  on  a  small  scale  compared  with  its 
extent  at  the  present  time.  At  first  they 
made  the  Concord  hame.  They  continued  in 
business  till  1882,  when  Mr.  Cowles  sold  his 
interest  to  Irving  G.  Rowell,  who  is  now  in 
business  with  Mr.  l-Sartlett  at  Sunapee  in  the 
same  concern.  The  firm  name  was  Bartlett 
&  Rowell  until  January,  i8g6,  when  the  firm 
was  again  enlarged,  and  incorporated  under 
the  name  of  the  Consolidated  Hame  Company. 
This  latter  company  has  the  largest  hame 
plant  in  the  United  States  to-day,  and  is  at 
present  composed  of  the  two  firms  of  Bartlett 
&  Rowell,  of  Sunapee,  and  Baker,  Carr  & 
Co.,  of  Andover,  N.  H.  They  employ  about 
sixty  hands  at  each  factory,  and  generally  run 
for  the  greater  i:)art  of  the  year.  The  original 
factory  at  Siuiapee  was  destroyed  by  fire  in 
January,  1893.  It  was  immediately  rebuilt 
on  a  much  larger  and  improved  plan.  There 
is  now  a  very  gootl  set  of  new,  neat  frame 
buildings  and  excellent  water-power  drawn 
from  the  Sugar  River.  To  this  the  firm  has 
added  a  brass  foundry.  At  present  they  man- 
ufacture the  common  Vvood  hame,  also  a  fancy 


hame  and  an  iron  one.  The  factory  in  An- 
dover, N.H.,  while  made  up  of  older  build- 
ings, is  about  the  same  in  the  other  details. 

Mr.  Bartlett  has  always  been  actively  in- 
terested in  the  affairs  of  his  native  town. 
From  1 888  to  1892  he  was  Treasurer  of 
Sullivan  County.  He  is  now  a  member  of 
the  Sunapee  School  Board,  and  he  held  the 
office  of  Sergeant-at-arms  in  the  State  Senate 
in  the  year  1880-81.  He  has  been  quite 
active  in  political  matters,  and  is  a  stanch 
Republican.  His  religious  belief  is  the 
Methodist  Episcopal  creed,  and  for  the  past 
sixteen  years  he  has  been  the  superintendent 
of  the  Sunday-school  connected  with  the  local 
society.  He  is  rightly  classed  among  the 
leading  men  of  his  town,  and  has  been  largely 
instrumental  in  the  upbuilding  of  the  Con- 
solidated Hame  Company  in  Sunapee.  He  is 
a  man  of  courteous,  affable  address,  and 
stands  very  high  in  the  estimation  of  his 
townspeople.  Mr.  Bartlett  was  married  in 
1864  to  Sarah  A.  Cowles,  of  Claremont,  N.  H. 
They  have  two  children  —  Ernest  P.  and 
Mary  I. 


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AVID  SARGENT,  a  well-known 
farmer  and  cattle  dealer  of  Dunbar- 
ton,  Merrimack  County,  N.  H.,  was 
born  in  this  town  in  1833,  son  of  Eliphalet 
R.  and  Lydia  (Wells)  Sargent.  His  paternal 
grandfather,  Thomas,  was  a  native  of  Goffs- 
tovvn,  N.  H.,  in  which  place,  also,  he  died. 
He  was  a  farmer  by  occupation. 

Eliphalet  R.  Sargent  was  born  in  Goffs- 
town,  Hillsborough  County,  N.H.  He  ac- 
quired a  common  -  school  education  in  his 
native  town,  after  which  he  engaged  in  farm- 
ing during  the  rest  of  his  active  life.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Republican ;  and  he  served 
as  Selectman  and  as  Representative  to  the 
legislature    two    years,    besides    filling    other 


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offices.  lie  and  his  wife,  T.ydia  Wells  Sar- 
f^cnt,  reared  nine  children.  Mr.  Sargent  died 
at  the  age  of  eighty-two  years. 

David  .Sargent,  who  was  the  next  to  the 
youngest  of  his  parents'  four  sons,  was  educated 
in  the  schools  of  Dunbarton  and  Derry,  N.H. 
lie  then  went  to  work  on  the  farm,  where  lie 
still  remains.  His  enterprising  spirit  has  led 
him  to  engage  in  the  manufacture  of  lumber, 
and  he  has  also  dealt  extensively  in  cattle. 
Some  time  ago  lie  made  a  tour  through  the 
West,  visiting  Salt  Lake  City  and  many  other 
important  places,  including  some  in  Cali- 
fornia. Mr.  Sargent  married  Mary  Ann, 
daughter  of  John  and  Mehitable  (Smith) 
Woo(li)urn,  of  Londonderry,  N.IL;  and  they 
have  reared  five  children,  namely:  Fred  D. 
Sargent,  boni  I-"ebruary  5,  1.S5S;  Mary  Lizzie, 
born  February  13,  1X60;  John  W.,  born 
September  6,  1867;  Frank  H.,  born  April  12, 
1873;  and  Nat  A.,  horn  September  15,  1878. 
Mrs.  Sargent's  father  was  an  uncle  of  Horace 
Greeley.      Mr.    Sargent    is    a    Republican    in 

politics. 

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/  C^TTToRGE  COOK,  M.D.,  a  prominent 
\  f5 1  physician  of  Concord,  was  born  at 
Dover,  this  State,  November  16, 
184S,  son  of  Solomon  and  Susan  Ann  (Hayes) 
Cook.  His  early  education  was  obtained  in 
the  Concord  High  School  and  in  Franklin 
Academy.  In  1865  he  began  to  read  medi- 
cine with  Drs.  Charles  P.  Gage  and  Granville 
P.  Conn,  of  Concord.  Also  he  attended  a 
course  of  lectures  on  medicine  at  Burlington, 
Vt.,  and  two  courses  at  the  School  of  Medi- 
cine of  Dartmouth  College.  After  graduat- 
ing from  the  last-named  school  in  1869,  he 
immediately  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion in  Henniker,  N.H.,  where  he  remained 
for  a  year.  During  the  next  five  years,  from 
1870  to   1875,    he  was  at   Hillsborough,    this 


State,  and  while  there  won  for  himself  wide 
recognition  as  an  able  and  skilful  practi- 
tioner. In  1872  he  had  charge  of  seventeen 
cases  of  small-pox.  He  was  made  .Superin- 
tendent of  Schools  at  Hillsborough  in  1874. 
In  May  of  the  following  year  he  came  to  Con- 
cord, where  he  has  since  resided. 

Dr.  Cook  is  a  member  of  the  Centre  Dis- 
trict Medical  Society,  and  in  1882  was  its 
president.  He  is  also  a  member  of  the  Asso- 
ciation of  Military  Surgeons  of  the  United 
States,  of  the  American  Medical  Association, 
and  of  the  New  Hampshire  State  Medical 
Society.  In  1890  he  was  senior  delegate  of 
the  last-named  society  to  Dartmouth  College, 
and  delivered  an  address  before  the  graduating 
class  on  "The  Physician  as  an  Fducator." 
During  tiie  small-pox  eiMclemic  in  Montreal 
in  1885  Dr.  Cook  was  appointed  Inspector 
for  the  State  Board  of  Health  of  New  Hamp- 
shire. He  had  charge  of  the  small-pox  epi- 
demic in  May  and  June,  1895,  when  he  was 
engaged  for  six  weeks,  attending  twenty-six 
cases.  He  was  a  member  of  the  City  l^oard 
of  Health  from  1878  to  1884,  from  1889  to 
1893  he  was  examining  surgeon  for  pensions, 
while  at  present  he  is  surgeon  to  the  Mar- 
garet Pillsbury  General  Hospital  and  physi- 
cian to  the  Odd  Fellows  Home  in  Concord. 
He  is  also  president  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Association  of  Boards  of  Health,  and  jjresi- 
dent  of  the  State  Board  of  Medical  Examiners, 
representing  the  New  Hampshire  Medical 
Society  under  the  medical  registration  law. 

In  politics  Dr.  Cook  is  a  Republican;  and 
he  was  sent  as  Representative  to  the  State 
legislature  in  1883-84,  serving  during  his 
term  as  chairman  of  the  Committee  on  Mili- 
tary Affairs.  In  1879  'i'^  was  commissioned 
Assistant  Surgeon  of  the  New  Hampshire 
National  Guard.  In  1882  he  was  promoted 
to  the  post  of  Surgeon.     Two  years  later  he 


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was   made   Medical    Director,  and  in  1893  and 
1894  was  Surgeon -general. 

Dr.  Cook  has  given  especial  attention  to 
the  treatment  and  prevention  of  small-pox 
and  to  the  questions  which  confront  the  army 
physician.  He  is  the  author  of  a  paper  en- 
titled "Small-pox,"  published  in  the  Transac- 
tions of  the  New  Hampshire  Medical  Society 
in  1873,  and  of  another,  "Hygiene  of  the 
Camp,"  General  Orders,  Adjutant  -  general's 
office,  1884.  F"raternally,  he  is  a  member  of 
Eureka  Lodge,  No.  70,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  of  Valley 
Lodge,  No.  43,  L  O.  O.  F.,  of  Hillsborough; 
of  the  Ancient  Order  of  United  Workmen, 
and  of  the  Sons  of  Veterans  Camp,  Thomas 
Leaver,  No.  4,  of  Concord. 


IMOTHY  B.  ROSSITER,  one  of  the 
wealthiest  men  in  Claremont,  was  born 
there,  -September  18,  1807,  son  of  Sher- 
man and  Olive  (Baldwin)  Rossiter.  Sir  Ed- 
ward Rossiter,  the  founder  of  the  family,  with 
his  son  and  son's  wife,  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Bray 
Rossiter,  embarked  from  Plymouth,  England, 
on  the  ship  "Mary  and  John,"  March  20, 
1630,  and  arrived  at  Nantasket,  Mass.,  May 
30,  1630.  They  began  a  settlement  at  Mat- 
tapan,  and  in  the  spring  of  1636  removed  to 
Windsor,  Conn.  .Sir  Edward  Rossiter,  who 
was  chosen  in  London  in  1629  to  serve  as 
an  assistant  to  Governor  Winthrop,  died  soon 
after  his  arrival  in  the  colonies.  Dr.  Bray 
Rossiter,  his  son,  removed  in  1650  to  Guil- 
ford, Conn.,  where  he  became  a  planter,  and 
purchased  in  165 1  the  Desbourough  estate. 
Dr.  Rossiter  died  September  30,  1672,  leav- 
ing ten  children.  Josiah  Rossiter,  a  son  of 
the  Doctor,  born  at  Windsor,  removed  with  his 
father  to  Guilford.  For  ten  years,  between 
tile  years  1700  and  171  i,  he  was  Assistant 
Governor     in     the     colony     of      Connecticut, 


and  for  some  years  Recorder  and  Justice 
of  the  Peace.  He  had  seventeen  children. 
His  death  occurred  January  31,  17 16.  The- 
ophilus,  his  son,  born  February  12,  1696, 
married  Abigail  Pierson,  November  18,  1725, 
became  the  father  of  fourteen  children,  and 
died  April  9,  1770.  His  son.  Captain  Will- 
iam, who  was  born  February  11,  1740,  mar- 
ried Submit  Chittenden,  February  18,  1768, 
and  died  December  28,  1820,  leaving  eleven 
children. 

Sherman  Rossiter,  the  father  of  Timothy 
B.  Rossiter,  born  April  20,  1775,  leaving 
Guilford,  Conn.,  came  up  the  Connecticut 
River  to  Claremont  when  that  section  was 
nearly  all  wilderness.  He  was  one  of  the 
first  settlers  of  the  eastern  part  of  the  town. 
His  death  occurred  in  his  sixty-fourth  year. 
His  wife,  Olive,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Tim- 
othy Baldwin,  of  Guilford,  had  eight  children 
—  William,  Pomeroy  M. ,  Luzern  S.,  Stephen 
F.,  Chittenden,  Lorett,  Submit,  and  Timothy 
B.  William  was  a  merchant  of  Claremont. 
When  but  twenty-four  years  of  age  he  engaged 
in  business.  He  was  Selectman  a  number  of 
years  and  a  Representative  to  the  General 
Court.  He  died  I'ebruary  29,  i860,  leaving 
three  children  —  Sarah,  Adelaide,  and  Albert. 
Pomeroy  M.,  deceased,  married  Elizabeth 
Tucker,  who  bore  him  one  child.  Luzern  S. 
married  Elizabeth  Dart,  who  bore  him  four 
children.  Stephen  F.  married  Maria  A. 
Marshall,  and  had  four  children.  Figuring 
prominently  in  local  politics,  he  has  been 
.Selectman,  Representative,  County  Commis- 
sioner, and  Tax  Collector.  In  January,  1897, 
he  was  appointed  President  of  the  Claremont 
National  l?ank.  Chittenden,  also  deceased, 
married  Charlotte  Converse,  and  left  four 
children.  Lorett,  deceased,  married  William 
Tutherly,  and  had  three  children.  Her  hus- 
band   lias  held  various  ofifices  in  the  town  sov- 


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ernmcnt.  Submit,  deceased,  married  Edmund 
Wheeler,  of  Newport,  N.  II.,  a  prominent  cit- 
izen of  the  place,  and  had  one  child. 

Timothy  H.  received  a  common-school  edu- 
cation. After  his  marriage  he  settled  in 
Newport,  N.II.,  where  he  devoted  himself 
successfully  to  a,i;riculture  for  twenty-two 
years.  On  A])ril  i,  iS5,S,  he  removed  to 
Claremont,  and  bought  the  farm  of  Nathaniel 
Goss.  lie  then  began  farming  on  a  large 
scale,  and  by  his  industry,  frugality,  and 
scientific  methods  of  work  has  steadily  pros- 
jjered,  accumulating  a  handsome  property, 
becoming  virtually  a  private  banker.  He 
is  consi<K'red  one  of  the  wealthiest  men  in 
the  town.  When  celebrating  his  golden 
wetlding  in  1 8<S6,  he  received  the  heartiest 
congratulations    from    friends    and    neighbors. 

In  May,  1836,  he  married  Elvira  Dust  in, 
who  was  born  December  14,  i8og,  daughter 
of  Moody  Dustin.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Rossiter  are 
in  excellent  health  to-day,  and  he  still  attends 
to  his  duties  about  the  farm.  They  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Congregational  church.  They  had 
two  sons  and  one  daughter.  George,  one  of 
the  sons,  marrieil  Caroline  Gleason,  of  Plain- 
field,  N.II.,  and  had  three  children  — Charles, 
Edward,  and  Robert.  The  second  child, 
named  Edward,  died  in  December,  1879. 
Ellen,  the  third  child,  died  at  the  age  of  four 
and  one-half  year. 


T^ENJAMIN  LYMAN  CULVER,  late 
a  retired  resident  of  Pembroke, 
Merrimack  County,  N.II.,  who 
died  December  6,  1896,  was  born  in  Norwich, 
Vt.,  August  10,  1830,  son  of  the  Rev.  Lyman 
and  Fanny  (Hovey)  Culver.  The  Culver  fam- 
ily is  of  French  origin,  and  is  said  to  have 
been  founded  in  America  by  I5enjamin  L. 
Culver's  great-grandfather,  John    Culver,  who, 


it  is  thought,  emigrated  from  Pari.s,  France. 
He  settled  in  Connecticut,  where  he  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits  for  the  rest  of  his 
life. 

His  son,  James  Culver,  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Connecti- 
cut; and  in  early  life  he  settled  in  Vermont. 
He  served  in  the  I'rench  and  Indian  War. 
The  active  period  of  his  life  was  .spent  in  till- 
ing the  soil.  He  married  ;  and  he  and  his  wife, 
who  both  lived  to  a  good  old  age,  reared  a  family 
of  eight  children.  The  parents  were  members 
of  the  Methodist  I']piscopal  church  and  noted 
for  their  religious  zeal.  Two  of  their  sons 
became  ministers,  and  the  Rev.  David  Culver 
preached  in  Pembroke  in  1824. 

Lyman  Culver,  Benjamin  L.  Culver's  father, 
was  born  in  Willington,  Conn.  ;  and  at  the  age 
of  seven  years  he  accompanied  his  parents  to 
Norwich,  Vt.  His  boyhood  and  youth  were 
passed  upon  a  farm,  and  his  leisure  hours  were 
devoted  to  study.  He  was  practically  a  self- 
educated  man  ;  and  at  the  age  of  twenty-two, 
having  fitted  himself  for  the  ministry,  he  be- 
came a  Methodist  preacher.  Two  years  later 
he  espoused  the  Calvinist  I5a[)tist  faith,  which 
he  earnestly  adhered  to  for  the  rest  of  his  life; 
and  he  preached  in  Vermont,  New  Hampshire, 
and  Massachusetts  for  fifty  years.  He  was 
one  of  the  most  estimable  and  devout  13aptist 
clergymen  of  his  day,  and  was  sincerely  loved 
by  a  large  number  of  friends  and  acquaint- 
ances in  different  parts  of  New  Plngland. 
The  Rev.  Lyman  Culver  died  in  HarrisvilJe, 
now  Chesham,  N.II.,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
nine  years.  His  wife,  formerly  Fanny  Hovey, 
was  a  daughter  of  Edmund  Hovey,  of  Crafts- 
bury,  Vt.  She  became  the  mother  of  eleven 
children,  two  of  whom  are  now  living,  namely: 
Betsey  Hovey,  who  married  Zophar  Willard, 
of  Harrisville,  N.H.,  and  whose  only  daugh- 
ter, Addie  E. ,  is  the  wife  of  I'rank  S.   Harris, 


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of  Troy,  N.  H.  ;  and  Sarepta  S.,  who  married 
Charles  J.  Smith,  of  Chesham,  N.  H.,  and  has 
three  children  —  Herman  P.,  Flora  A.,  and 
Charles  M.  A  daughter  named  Caroline  Ar- 
villa,  who  died  a  few  weeks  ago,  in  June, 
1897,  was  the  wife  of  John  H.  Emmons,  of 
Danbury,  N.  H.,  and  had  two  children  —  Car- 
rie F.  and  Retta  E.  Another  daughter,  I-'an- 
nie  Bell,  is  also  deceased;  and  a  son  Levi 
died  on  his  plantation  at  Taylor,  Tex.  The 
mother,  Mrs.  Fanny  H.  Culver,  died  at  the 
age  of  seventy-si.\  years. 

l^enjamin  Lyman  Culver  was  educated  in  the 
public  schools  in  his  native  State,  attending 
both  common  and  high  schools,  and  resided 
with  his  parents  until  he  was  si.xteen  years  old. 
He  then  went  to  Boston;  and,  after  living  in 
that  city  two  years,  he  went  to  Manchester, 
N.  IL,  where  he  learned  the  art  of  photogra- 
phy. He  applied  himself  thereafter  to  his 
calling  in  various  parts  of  New  England,  till 
in  1865  he  settled  in  Pembroke,  where  he  con- 
ducted the  business  of  a  photographic  studio 
some  si.xteen  years.  He  finally  relinquished 
photography,  which  he  had  followed  success- 
fully for  thirty  years;  and  for  two  years  he 
was  here  engaged  in  the  millinery  and  fancy- 
goods  trade.  Having  accjuired  sufficient 
means  with  which  to  pass  the  rest  of  his  life 
in  rest  and  recreation,  he  in  1882  retired  from 
active  business  pursuits,  and  spent  his  time 
leisurely  at  his  jjleasant  home  in  the  village  of 
Suncook  until  his  decease  at  the  date  above 
mentioned. 

On  January  24,  1856,  Mr.  Culver  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Miranda  G.  Knowl- 
ton,  daughter  of  Ariel  P.  and  Abigail  (Lee) 
Knowlton.  Her  father  was  a  native  of  Hop- 
kinton,  N.  H.  ;  and  her  mother  was  born  in 
Manchester,  Mass.  Mrs.  Culver  is  of  English 
ancestry ;  and  her  paternal  grandparents  were 
Daniel    H.  and   Mary   (Stocker)    Knowlton,  of 


Hopkinton.  Daniel  H.  Knowlton  was  a 
blacksmith  and  a  farmer.  He  supported  the 
Whig  part}'  in  politics,  and  in  his  religious 
views  was  a  Congregational ist.  He  lived  to 
be  seventy-one  years  old,  and  his  wife  to  be 
over  seventy.  Mrs.  Culver's  mother  was  a 
daughter  of  Amos  Lee,  and  a  grand-daughter 
of  Edward  Lee,  of  Manchester,  Mass.,  a  sea- 
faring man,  who  for  many  years  was  engaged 
in  foreign  trade.  He  was  noted  for  his  piety 
and  religious  zeal.  He  died  at  the  age  of  over 
seventy  years.  Ariel  P.  Knowlton,  Mrs.  Cul- 
ver's father,  was  a  boot  and  shoe  manufacturer 
of  Hopkinton.  He  was  originally  a  Whig, 
but  later  a  Republican,  and  was  very  conserva- 
tive in  his  political  views.  He  was  deeply 
interested  in  educational  matters,  and  served 
upon  the  School  Committee  for  many  years. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-one  years,  and 
his  wife  lived  to  be  seventy-five.  They  were 
members  of  the  Congregational  church. 

No  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Cul- 
ver. Mr.  Culver  always  supported  the  Re- 
publican party,  but  took  no  active  part  in  po- 
litical affairs  beyond  casting  his  vote.  He 
was  connected  wi-th  the  Masonic  fraternity  and 
the  Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows.  Mr. 
Culver  was  highly  respected  by  his  fellow- 
citizens.  His  life  was  an  extremely  busy  one, 
and  he  died  lamented  by  all.  Mrs.  Culver 
is  a  member  of  the  Congregational  church. 


REDERICK  MYRON  COLBY,  of 
Warner,  as  well  as  all  the  Colbys  of 
America,  is  descended  from  Anthony 
Colby,  one  of  the  Puritan  colonists  of  Boston 
in  1630,  who  subsequently  settled  in  Amesbury, 
Mass.,  where  the  house  he  dwelt  in  still 
stands.  The  second  son  of  his  father,  An- 
thony was  a  lineal  descendant  of  Sir  Robert 
de   Colebi,    one    of    King    John's    knights    in 


lilOCRAlMIKAI,    KK.VIKW 


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1199.  The  family  scat  was  in  the  County  of 
Noifoiiv,  luigland.  In  early  times  the  name 
was  variously  spelled  Colby,  Colebi,  Coleby, 
Colebey,  Colebei,  Chaiilby,  Colbye,  and 
Colebeye.  The  name  of  two  English  towns, 
as  well  as  that  of  descendants  of  the  family 
living  ill  their  vicinity,  is  Coleby;  but  the 
family  estate  in  Swardest  is  called  Colby 
Manor.  A  Danish  form  is  Koldby.  The 
Colby  aims  are  "argent,  a  chevron  engraved 
between  three  scallups,  sable,  the  crest  a 
plumed  helm  and  an  arm  grasping  a  naked 
sword.  The  motto,  'Vincit  amor  patriae.'" 
Anthony  Colby,  the  American  settler,  had  five 
sons  and  three  daughters.  I'rom  Thomas 
Colby,  his  fourth  son,  the  line  of  descent  was 
continued  through  Jacob,  Valentine,  Levi, 
Valentine,  anti  Le\'i  ( ).  to  I'rederick  Myron 
Colby.  The  following  account  of  Mr.  Colby 
is  taken  from  the  'l\vLiilictli  Century  Review 
for  April,   1S90  :  — 

"Frederick  Myron  Colby,  the  historical  ro- 
mancer and  novelist  and  the  most  versatile 
writer  in  the  Granite  State,  was  born  in  War- 
ner, N.II.,  December  9,  iS4,S.  He  was  the 
son  of  Levi  O.  and  Mary  (Durelle)  Colby. 
His  early  education  was  obtained  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town  and  of  Concord. 
He  never  attended  college,  but  his  knowledge 
is  extensive  and  sound.  He  is  a  good  French 
and  Latin  scholar,  has  a  wide  acquaintance 
with  English  literature,  and  is  familiar  with 
all  the  old  chronicles  and  sagas. 

"Mr.  Colby's  early  life  was  passed  on  a 
farm.  He  has  always  been  a  hard  worker  with 
lirain  and  muscle,  and  has  a  physique  abun- 
dantly able  to  sustain  much  fatigue.  b'or  a 
number  of  years  he  was  a  successful  school 
teacher  in  Merrimack  County.  He  had  written 
considerably  for  the  local  press  when,  in  1S72, 
a  novel  of  his,  'The  Pioneers  of  Kentucky,' 
was    published    by    R.    M.    DeWitt,    of    New 


York.  This  successful  venture  was  folhiwcd 
by  other  attempts  in  the  same  channel.  The 
winter  of  1S75-76  he  spent  in  Washington, 
D.C. ,  as  the  correspoiuient  of  Uoston  and  New 
Hampshire  jjapers  ;  while  several  historical  ar- 
ticles from  his  pen,  of  local  interest,  were 
written  at  the  capital  for  some  of  the  leading 
publications  of  the  country.  Mr.  Colby  may 
be  regarded  as  a  voluminous  writer,  having  had 
published  some  thirty  serial  stories  in  various 
periodicals,  (|uite  a  ninnber  of  bound  books, 
and  over  three  hundred  poems,  besides  num- 
berless sketches  and  stories.  His  most  meri- 
torious work,  from  a  purely  literary  stand- 
point, was  a  novel  printed  by  the  Methodist 
Hook  Concern,  New  York,  in  i<S.S6,  entitled 
'The  Daughter  of  Pharaoh,'  which  has  had  a 
large  sale.  Another  book,  a  juvenile  for  boys 
and  girls,  entitled  ']5rave  Lads  and  Bonnie 
Lasses,'  was  recently  issued  by  the  same 
house.  Lie  is  at  ])resent  engaged  on  a  novel 
describing  Oriental  life  in  the  days  of  Ahab 
and  Jezebel,  and  he  has  also  nearly  ready  a 
story  of  adventure  for  boys. 

"As  a  townsman  Mr.  Colby  is  a  valuable 
citizen;  and  socially  he  is  much  of  a  favorite, 
though  somewhat  inclined  to  be  reserved  in 
unfamiliar  or  imcongenial  company.  He  is 
si.x  feet  in  height,  of  fine  physique  and  cour- 
teous manner.  With  a  comfortable  income 
from  his  pen,  he  lives  as  near,  perhaps,  as  any 
one  ever  does  the  author's  ideal  life,  in  the 
pleasant  village  of  his  native  town." 

In  1882  Mr.  Colby  was  united  in  marriage 
to  Miss  Hannah  Maria  George,  daughter  of 
Gilman  C.  George,  a  leading  resident  of  the 
town.  Since  he  came  of  age,  Mr.  Colby  has 
been  a  candidate  repeatedly  for  every  office 
in  town.  He  has  been  Town  Treasurer  four 
years,  a  member  of  the  School  Board  si.x  years, 
and  Postmaster  four  years.  He  has  been  a 
Trustee  of  the  Pillsbury   Library  since  its  es- 


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tablishment.  Mr.  Colby  is  a  member  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Historical  Society,  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Antiquarian  Society,  and  an 
honorary  member  of  the  Manchester  Press 
Club. 

4m»^t 

iHARLKS  LEWIS  PERRY,  for  twenty- 
five  years  a  successful  tailor  of  Clare- 
niont,  Sullivan  County,  N.  H.,  was 
born  in  Charlestown,  N.  H.,  March  4,  1823, 
son  of  Charles  and  Mary  (Putnam)  Perry. 
At  the  age  of  seventeen  Mr.  Perry  came  to 
Claremont,  where  he  learned  the  tailor's  trade, 
and  then  began  business  for  himself.  Devot- 
ing his  entire  attention  to  custom  work,  he 
became  prosperous,  antl  in  1X57  built  the 
handsome  business  block  known  as  Perry's 
Block,  where  he  located  until  obliged  to  retire 
on  account  of  failing  health.  He  was  suc- 
ceeded in  business  by  his  son,  Charles  Eu- 
gene. Mr.  Perry  was  a  business  man  of  ex- 
ceptional ability,  scrupulously  honest,  a  man 
of  exemplary  habits,  public-spirited,  a  useful 
citizen  and  a  devoted  husband  and  father.  He 
had  accumulated  a  competency,  and  was  look- 
ing forward  with  pleasure  to  a  life  free  from 
cares,  when  he  was  called  to  leave  this  world, 
his  death  occurring  January  15,  1876.  He 
is  survived  by  his  wife,  formerly  Dorothy 
Blake  Mitchell,  daughter  of  Charles  and  Sil- 
via (Mitchell)  Mitchell,  and  four  sons  — 
Charles  E.,  P"rank  H.,  Theodore,  and  Arthur. 
William  Mitchell,  Mrs.  Perry's  paternal 
grandfather,  was  born  in  ]5oston.  He  came  to 
Claremont  from  Ilennikcr,  N.II.,  settling  in 
the  north-eastern  part  of  the  town,  on  Cornish 
Road,  where  he  was  one  of  the  earliest 
farmers.  He  was  a  rejiresentative  man  of  the 
county,  a  prosperous  farmer,  and  a  Christian 
of  high  standing.  His  father  was  a  sea  cap- 
tain, and  was  lost  at  sea.  Mr.  Mitchell  mar- 
ried   first    Sophia   Atherton,   by   whom    he   had 


children  as  follows:  William,  Jr.,  who  settled 
in  Malone,  N.  Y.,  where  he  married  and  died; 
Robert,  who  married,  and  reared  a  family  in 
Claremont,  where  he  died  ;  Horace,  who  also 
married  and  died  in  Claremont;  Sydney,  who 
married  and  died  in  Claremont,  leaving  one 
child;  Louisa,  who  died  unmarried;  Lydia, 
who  married  Aaron  Smith,  reared  four  chil- 
dren, and  died  in  Cornish  ;  Betsey,  who  married 
a  Mr.  Thompson;  P^annie,  who  married  Mr. 
Starbird,  a  successful  tailor  of  Claremont; 
Charles,  who  married  Silvia  Mitchell,  daughter 
of  Thomas  Mitchell.  William  Mitchell  mar- 
ried second  a  widow,  who  bore  him  three 
children  —  Thomas,  Henry,  and  Mary  Ann. 
He  died  in  1832,  at  the  age  of  sixty-four 
years.  He  was  a  Whig  and  a  strong  advocate 
of  abolition  principles,  and  regarded  as  one 
of  the  leading  citizens  of  Sullivan  County. 
He  died  in  the  faith  of  the  Episcopal  church. 
Thomas  and  Henry  Mitchell,  sons  of  Will- 
iam, were  early  settlers  in  Iowa;  and  Thomas 
was  the  founder  of  the  town  of  Mitchellville. 
Thomas  Mitchell,  familiarly  known  as 
"Uncle  Tom,"  and  well  described  as  one  of 
nature's  noblemen,  was  Polk  County's  first 
actual  settler,  building  himself  a  log  cabin 
there  in  1844.  He  was  born  in  Claremont, 
March  3,  18 16,  worked  as  a  farm  hand  and 
paper-mill  employee  until  nineteen  years  of 
age.  He  then  went  to  Springfield,  Vt. ,  and 
shortly  after  removed  to  St.  Charles  County, 
Missouri,  and  in  March,  1840,  went  to  Iowa, 
settling  in  Polk  County,  as  above  mentioned, 
in  1S44.  It  was  his  delight  in  the  early  days 
to  entertain  the  passing  emigrants,  and  his 
liberal  hospitality  cheered  the  heart  of  many 
a  wayfarer.  He  was  long  one  of  the  most 
honored  citizens  of  Mitchellville,  and  did 
much  for  the  morality  of  the  town,  being 
c)]iposed  to  liquor  and  eager  for  the  advance- 
ment  of  the   town's   best    interests.      He   held 


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many  nrfices,  and  at  the  liiiii,'  nl  liis  death  was 
the  oldest  resident  ol  tlie  eounty.  lli-  pos- 
sessed many  traits  which  endeared  him  to  the 
hearts  of  tiie  people.  lie  married  first,  in 
1841,  Miss  Klmira  Swift,  of  Thctford,  Vt. 
She  died  in  1860;  and  he  married  in  1861 
Miss  y\nn  C.  Mattern,  who,  with  her  par- 
ents, had  come  from  Pennsylvania  to  Iowa 
some  years  previously.  He  died  June  15, 
icS94,  sincerely  moinned  by  all  who  knew  him. 

Charles  Mitchell,  the  father  of  Mrs.  Perry, 
settleil  on  a  farm  near  the  paternal  homestead, 
where  he  lived  and  prosjieretl.  Jle  was  an 
honored  member  of  the  I'lpiscopal  church,  in 
which  he  was  a  warden.  His  children  were: 
Elizabeth,  Ira,  Jane,  Dorothy  (Mrs.  Perry), 
Kdwin,  John,  William,  Abbie,  Henry,  Ada, 
Ella,  and  Sophia. 

John  Mitchell,  a  brother  of  Mrs.  Perry,  was 
born  February  28,  1830.  He  graduated  from 
the  Kimball  Union  Academy  at  Meriden, 
N.  II.,  and  entered  Dartmouth;  but  his  college 
course  was  interrupted  by  the  death  of  his 
father.  He  subsecjuently  studied  law  with 
McClure  and  Governor  Metcalf  in  Clarcniont, 
and  then,  joining  his  uncle  in  Des  Moines,  was 
admitteil  to  the  Polk  County  bar  in  August, 
1856.  He  established  an  independent  practice 
in  1857.  Four  years  later  he  was  commis- 
sioned Captain  of  a  company  of  cavalry  in  the 
State  service,  and  fought  against  the  Indians 
for  three  months  in  North-western  Iowa.  In 
the  fall  of  the  same  year  he  was  elected  to  the 
legislature  from  Polk  County,  and  served  two 
years  during  the  exciting  times  of  1S61  and 
1862.  He  was  made  a  member  of  the  City 
Council  and  first  Chairman  of  the  ]?oard  of 
Supervisors,  and  filled  various  offices  of  trust 
until  1867,  when  he  was  ajjpointed  Registrar 
of  Bankruptcy  in  the  P'ifth  Congressional  Dis- 
trict. He  was  elected  Judge  of  the  Fifth 
District    Circuit    Court    in    November,     1868, 


and  served  twelve  years,  twice  being  re-elected 
without  op]iosition.  His  integrity  as  a  man 
and  his  ability  as  a  jurist  were  of  the  highest 
order.  Upon  retiring  from  the  bench  in  1881, 
he  continued  for  two  years  in  the  practice  of 
law,  and  in  1883  became  associated  with 
C.  A.  Dudley.  This  partnership  continued 
until  the  death  of  Mi-.  .Mitchell,  which  oc- 
curred December  29,  1890.  No  man  was 
more  respected  by  his  townspeople,  rich  and 
poor.  He  was  a  friend  to  the  needy,  and  be- 
loved by  all,  i)ublic-si)irited,  temperate  in  all 
things,  charitable  in  word  and  deed;  and 
Claremont  may  well  be  proud  of  so  worthy  a 
son.  He  was  intimately  connected  with  the 
best  life  of  the  city  of  Des  Moines,  was  Vice- 
President  of  the  Iowa  Loan  and  Trust  Company, 
Director  of  the  Des  Moines  National  Bank, 
and  Director  and  Counsellor  of  the  Central 
Loan  and  Trust  Company.  He  married  Re- 
becca Anshutz,  daughter  of  C.  P.  Anshutz,  of 
Moundsville,  W.  Va. 

Charles  p]ugene  Perry  succeeded  his  father 
in  business  in  Claremont.  I-'rank  H.  Perry, 
after  completing  the  study  of  law,  went  to  Des 
Moines,  and  began  the  practice  of  his  profes- 
sion, but  afterward  became  the  popular  editor 
of  the  Record,  a  Des  Moines  luiblication.  Of 
the  two  other  sons,  Theodore  and  Arthur,  the 
younger  has  become  a  musician  of  note.  Mrs. 
Perry  is  now  residing  in  Claremont. 


EORGE  W.  WILSON,  who  owns  a 
5 1  productive  farm  in  Franklin,  was 
born  in  Salisbury,  N.  H.,  July  15, 
1824,  son  of  Dr.  Job  and  Nancy  (Farnuni) 
Wilson.  His  grandfather.  Captain  Nathaniel 
W'ilson,  who  served  as  an  officer  in  the  Conti- 
nental army  during  the  Revolutionary  War, 
settled  in  Gilmanton,  N.  H.,  where  he  spent 
the  remainder  of    his   life.      He  was    an    able 


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farmer    and    a    citizen    of    more    than    ordinar)' 
intelligence  and  worth. 

Job  Wilson,  M.D.,  the  father  of  George 
W.,  was  born  in  Gilmanton.  After  graduating 
from  college,  he  began  the  practice  of  medi- 
cine in  Boscawen.  Later  he  moved  to  Salis- 
bury and  in  1831  to  Franklin,  settling  on  the 
farm  which  his  son  George  W.  now  owns. 
The  farm  was  tilled  by  hired  assistants;  and  he 
continued  to  practise  his  profession  with  suc- 
cess until  his  death,  which  occurred  in  Sep- 
tember, 1851.  He  was  a  physician  of  ability, 
and  he  provided  his  children  with  a  good  edu- 
cation. His  wife,  Nancy,  who  was  a  native  of 
Concord,  N.  H.,  became  the  mother  of  ten 
children,  of  whom  the  only  survivor  is  George 
W.  Their  son  Benjamin  died  in  infancy. 
Benjamin  F.  died  in  Battle  Creek,  Mich. 
Their  daughter  Lucinda  Conant  married 
Thomas  Eastman,  and  died  in  West  Concord. 
Abigail  died  in  Salisbury,  at  the  age  of 
seventeen  years.  Lydia  married  Grove 
Stevens,  of  Haverhill,  N.  H.,  and  died  in  that 
town.  Jeremiah  practised  medicine  in  Con- 
toocook,  and  died  in  May,  i8g6.  Job  P.,  who 
was  a  farmer,  died  in  Plymouth,  N.  PL 
Thomas  W. ,  who  followed  a  profession  in 
.Salisbury,  died  April  13,  1861.  Ephraim  ¥. 
Wilson,  M.  D.,  died  in  Rockland,  Conn.  The 
mother's  death  occurred  in  1853. 

George  W.  Wilson  was  seven  years  old  when 
his  parents  moved  to  this  town.  He  attended 
school  in  PVanklin,  Pembroke,  and  Gilman- 
ton. After  remaining  at  home  and  caring  for 
his  parents  during  their  declining  years,  he 
succeeded  to  the  ownership  of  the  property. 
I^esides  the  home  farm  of  eighty  acres  he  now 
owns  another  tract  of  one  hundred  acres,  which 
he  has  improved.  He  carries  on  general  farm- 
ing and  dairying.  His  property  is  desirably 
located.  The  four-story  residence  he  occupies 
was  erected  by  his  father. 


On  June  15,  1855,  Mr.  Wilson  married  Pollen 
M.  Sawyer,  who  was  born  in  Charlestown, 
Mass.,  August  28,  1834,  daughter  of  .Stephen 
and  Marinda  (Hale)  Sawyer.  The  father  was  a 
cooper  by  trade.  Both  natives  of  Iloijkinton, 
N.  PL,  they  resided  in  various  places,  and  at 
one  time  occupied  the  farm  in  Salisbury  upon 
which  Daniel  Webster  was  born.  They  finally 
moved  to  South  .Salisbury,  where  their  last 
days  were  spent.  .Stephen  Sawyer  died  in 
1861,  and  his  wife  died  in  1873.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Wilson  had  one  daughter —  Emma  Eliz- 
abeth, who,  born  May  25,  1856,  died  June  25, 
1863.  In  politics  Mr.  Wilson  acts  with  the 
Republican  party,  and  he  has  served  with 
ability  in  some  of  the  town  offices.  Pie  is 
connected  with  the  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  and 
both  he  and  Mrs.  Wilson  are  members  of  the 
Congregational  church. 


B 


R.  EDWARD  HORATIO  FOS- 
TER, formerly  a  well-known  medi- 
cal practitioner  of  Concord,  was 
born  October  13,  1839,  in  Canterbury,  N.  H., 
son  of  David  M.  and  Sarah  (Bradley)  Foster. 
Pie  is  a  direct  descendant  of  Reginald  Foster, 
who  settled  in  Ipswich,  Mass.,  in  1635.  His 
grandfather,  Asa  Foster,  served  in  the  French 
and  Indian  War,  and  under  General  Pepper- 
ell  was  at  the  capture  of  Louisburg.  During 
the  Revolutionary  War  y\sa  was  one  of  Gen- 
eral Arnold's  body-guard  at  the  time  of  the 
General's  desertion.  When  he  died  in  Can- 
terbury in  1862,  he  was  ninety-six  years  old. 
Plis  son,  David  M.  I-'oster,  a  native  of  Canter- 
burv,  followed  the  occupation  of  school  teacher 
in  his  earlier  days,  and  was  greatly  interested 
in  politics.  David's  wife,  Sarah,  was  born  in 
Brunswick,  Me. 

Edward  H.  Foster  attended   public  and    pri- 
vate schools  in  his   native   town,  and    then   en- 


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tcicd  licrksliiic  Cnllcj^c  at  riUsfujUl,  Mass. 
He  grailiialcil  Irum  Muwdoin  College,  Maine, 
in  1866.  I)r,  l'"()stcr  first  located  in  liiadford, 
Vt.,  remaining  one  year.  For  three  years 
thereafter  he  was  located  in  Marhlehead,  Mass. 
In  July,  iiSjJ,  aftc!"  spending  a  year  on  the 
Pacific  Coast,  he  came  to  Concord,  where  he 
practised  for  the  remainder  of  his  life.  In 
politics  Dr.  I-'oster  voted  independently.  Me 
was  Presiilent  of  I'ass  Creek  Ranch  Ciini|iany, 
of  Wyoming,  and  also  of  the  luneka  Headache 
Cnre  Company,  of  this  city. 

Dr.  Foster  was  twice  married.  His  first 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Ella  M.  Merrill, 
was  a  native  of  Marhlehead.  She  had  one 
child  —  Edward  L.  Foster,  of  Concord.  On 
.September  16,  1879,  he  was  marrieil  to  Clara 
B.  Smith,  of  Lowell,  Mass.  By  this  marriage 
there  are  two  children  —  Reginald  S.  and 
Clara  II  I'oster.  The  Doctor  died  A[)ril  5, 
1897. 

JHHRBURN  JOSIAH  WINSLOW, 
one  of  the  most  prominent  business 
men  antl  inHucntial  residents  of 
Pittsfield,  was  born  in  Nottingham,  N.H., 
March  i6,  1834,  son  of  Josiah  and  Rnth 
(Tucker)  Winslow.  15y  both  paternal  grand- 
parents, each  of  whom  was  a  Winslow,  he  is 
directly  descended  from  Governor  Edwaril 
Winslow,  who  came  with  the  Pilgrims  in  the 
"Mayflower."  The  grandfather,  I^lisha  Wins- 
low, was  a  prosperous  farmer  of  Nottingham, 
and  lived  to  a  good  old  age.  He  was  the 
father  of  si.\  children,  all  now  deceased. 

Josiah  Winslow,  tlie  second  child  and  the 
eldest  son  of  lilisha,  was  born  in  Nottingham, 
November  12,  1797.  He  was  reared  to  farm 
life,  but  learnetl  the  tanner's  and  shoemaker's 
trades,  which  he  followed  for  many  years.  He 
finally  moved  to  Pittsfield,  and  his  last  days 
were  spent  upon  the  farm   in   this  town.     A 


citizen  of  more  than  ordinary  wortli,  lie  ac- 
quired a  high  reputation  for  honesty.  He 
was  a  supporter  of  the  Democratic  parly,  and 
took  a  lively  interest  in  local  politics.  His 
wife,  Ruth,  whose  father,  James  Tucker,  was 
born  in  Salisbury,  Mass.,  April  15,  1766, 
became  the  mother  of  four  children,  namely: 
Sally  T. ,  deceased;  James  T. ,  deceased;  Sher- 
burn  J.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  and 
Alilla  ].,  deceased.  James  T.  married  Fanny 
Hall,  of  Illiana,  111.,  and  had  one  son,  James 
Albert.  Josiah  Winslow  died  at  the  age  of 
si.\ty-six  years,  and  his  wife  lived  to  be 
si.\ty-seven.  They  were  members  of  the  Free 
Will  Baptist  church. 

Shcrburn  Josiah  Winslow  began  his  educa- 
tion in  the  common  schools,  and  completed 
his  .studies  at  the  Pittsfield  Academy.  Subse- 
quently in  1856,  after  teaching  school  for  sev- 
eral years,  he  engaged  in  agriculture  upon  a 
farm  located  on  Tilton  Hill.  This  property, 
which  contains  one  hundred  and  seventy-five 
acres,  he  cultivated  successfully  until  1S83. 
Some  time  previous  to  that  year  he  became 
interested  in  lumbering,  for  which  and  other 
enterprises  he  afterward  forsook  farming. 
He  has  had  an  interest  in  four  different  com- 
[lanies  at  one  time;  anil  since  1887  he  has 
been  associated  with  e.\-Governor  Tuttle, 
under  the  firm  name  of  Winslow  &  Tuttle. 
He  is  interested  in  the  E.xeter  (N.H.)  Manu- 
facturing Con-ipany,  of  which  he  is  the  treas- 
urer and  a  director;  antl  he  was  for  ten  y-ears 
the  superintendent  of  the  Pittsfield  Water 
Works,  of  which  he  is  now  a  director.  For 
many  years  he  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Pitts- 
field Savings  Bank,  which  he  now  serves  in 
the  capacity  of  auditor  anil  member  of  the  in- 
vestment committee.  He  is  also  one  of  the 
])rincipal  stockholders  and  a  director  of  the 
Pittsfield  Gas  Company. 

On    March     19,     i860,    Mr.    Winslow    was 


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united  in  marriage  with  Margaret  Dennison, 
daughter  of  Joseph  Dennison,  of  Stafford, 
Conn.  He  has  two  daughters  —  Cora  and 
Nellie.  Cora  is  now  the  wife  of  James  L. 
Hook,  of  Pittsfield,  and  has  one  daughter, 
Margaret  L.  Mr.  Winslow  acts  with  the  Re- 
publican party,  and  is  a  member  of  the  pres- 
ent School  Board  of  Pittsfield.  He  takes  a 
deep  interest  in  all  matters  relating  to  the 
growth  of  the  town  and  the  development  of  its 
business  resources,  and  his  aid  in  securing 
these  ends  can  always  be  depended  upon.  He 
is  connected  with  the  Masonic  fraternity. 
]5oth  he  and  Mrs.  Winslow  are  Episcopalians, 
and  he  is  treasurer  of  the  church  in  Pittsfield. 


'ON.   IRA  COLBY,  one  of  the  leading 
lawyers  of  the  State  of  New    Hamp- 
1*^  '  shire,  was  born  in  Claremont,  N.H., 

January  ii,  1831,  son  of  Ira  and  Polly  (Foster) 
Colby,  both  of  purely  English  descent.  Their 
families  in  the  various  branches  number  many 
persons  of  distinction.  On  the  maternal  side  he 
is  descended  from  Reginald  P'oster,  who  came 
from  Exeter,  Devonshire,  England,  and  set- 
tled in  Ipswich,  Essex  County,  Mass.,  in 
1638.  It  has  been  stated  in  an  account  of 
the  descendants  of  Joseph  Stickney,  which 
appeared  in  the  AVic  Hauipshirc  Granite 
lilontlily  of  July,  1892,  that  the  family  of  this 
Reginald  is  honorably  mentioned  in  "The 
Lay  of  the  Last  Minstrel"  and  "Marmion." 
When  Mrs.  Colby  was  eleven  years  of  age, 
her  father  removed  with  his  family  from 
Esse.v,  Mass.,  to  Henniker,  N.H.,  to  prevent 
his  sons  from  becoming  seafaring  men.  She 
there  met  Mr.  C'olby,  a  native  of  the  place. 
They  were  married  April  17,  1827,  and  imme- 
diately removetl  to  Claremont,  where  they 
ever  afterward  lived.  Mr.  Colby  was  one  of 
the   most   successful   and  entcri)rising  farmers 


of  his  town,  and  was  honored  with  many  posi- 
tions of  trust.  He  served  as  a  Selectman  in 
the  years  1858  and  1859  a"'^'  ^'^  'I  Representa- 
tive of  the  town  in  the  legislature  of  New 
Hampshire  in  1872  and  1873.  He  died  in 
1873,  at  the  age  of  seventy  ycar.s. 

The  subject  of  this  sketch  lived  at  his 
father's,  and  worked  upon  the  farm  on  "Bible 
Hill,"  so  called,  until  seventeen  years  of  age, 
his  only  schooling  up  to  that  time  having 
been  obtained  at  the  district  schools.  He 
then  entered  Marlow  Academy,  and,  while 
there,  decided  to  obtain  a  college  education. 
Finishing  his  preparatory  course  of  study  at 
Thetford,  Vt.,  he  entered  Dartmouth  College 
in  1853,  and  was  graduated  four  years  later. 
During  the  winter  seasons,  while  at  the  acad- 
emy and  college,  he  was  engaged  in  teaching, 
first  in  New  Hampshire  and  afterward  in 
Massachusetts.  The  year  after  graduation 
was  spent  in  teaching  at  Waukesha,  Wis.  In 
September,  1858,  he  began  the  study  of  law 
in  the  office  of  Messrs.  Freeman  &  McClure 
in  Claremont.  Two  years  later  he  was  ad- 
mitted, upon  examination,  to  the  Sullivan 
County  bar.  For  the  past  thirty-five  years 
he  has  been  engaged  in  the  practice  of  his 
profession  in  the  office  where  he  obtained  his 
first  knowledge  of  law. 

In  giving  the  particulars  of  his  public 
career  we  quote  from  a  contemporaneous  his- 
tory:  "He  was  always  a  Republican  in  poli- 
tics, and  in  the  time  of  the  Rebellion  was  an 
active  and  zealous  supporter  of  the  cause  of 
the  Union.  He  was  a  Representative  in  the 
legislatures  of  1864,  1865,  1881,  1883,  and 
1887,  a  member  of  the  State  Senate  during 
the  years  1869  and  1S70,  ami  of  the  Republi- 
can National  Convention  in  1876.  With  the 
exception  of  two  years  he  was  County  Solici- 
tor the  entire  time  from  1864  to  1888.  In 
1889   he  was   aijjiointcd    by   the   governor   and 


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council  one  of  a  coinniissioii  ol  llircc  to  re- 
vise, codify,  and  amend  tlie  i'uhlic  Statutes 
of  New  Hampshire.  On  tiie  resignation  of 
Judge  Allen  in  March,  1893,  he  was  ap- 
pointed an  Associate  Justice  of  the  Supreme 
Court,  but  declined  the  apjiointment.  He 
was  for  ten  years  a  member  of  the  Committee 
of  the  Stevens  High  School,  and  has  been  for 
many  years  one  of  the  'I'rustees  of  the  Fiske 
Free  Library.  He  has  always  taken  a  lead- 
ing part  in  public  affairs,  and  has  been  an 
active  promoter  of  the  public  welfare.  In  his 
profession  he  has  been  a  hard  worker  and 
close  student,  antl  ranks  among  the  best  law- 
yers in  the  State.  He  has  an  extensive  and 
lucrative  practice,  and  for  many  years  has 
been  engaged  on  one  side  or  the  other  of  all 
the  important  causes  in  his  county.  As  an  ad- 
vocate at  the  bar  and  a  debater  upon  the  floor 
of  the  House  of  Representatives  or  the  Sen- 
ate he  ranks  among  the  very  best." 

He  married,  June  20,  1867,  Miss  Louisa 
M.  Way,  daughter  of  Gordon  Way,  Lsq.,  of 
Claremont,  and  sister  of  Dr.  O.  15.  Way,  of 
that  place.  Their  only  child,  Ira  Gordon 
Colby,  is  a  graduate  of  Dartmouth  College  of 
the  class  of  1894,  and  also  a  graduate  of  the 
Boston  University  Law  School,  class  of  1897. 
In  religion  Mr.  Colby  is  a  Methodist,  as  was 
his  father  before  him.  For  many  years  the 
father  was  one  of  the  Board  of  Trustees  of 
his  church;  and  the  son,  upon  his  death,  suc- 
ceeded to,  and  still  holds,  the  same  office. 


ON.     GEORGE     ASHBY     CUM- 
MINGS,    ex-Mayor    of    Concord    and 

-'^  V, ^  formerly    a    member    of    the    State 

Senate,  was  born  in  Acworth,  June  13,  1833, 
son  of  Alvah  and  Polly  (Grout)  Cummings. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Sullivan,  and  his 
mother  was   born   in   Acworth.      He  was  edu- 


cated in  the  public  schools  of  South  Acworth. 
At  the  age  of  twenty  years  he  engaged  in  the 
marble  business  in  I'Vanklin,  .\.  IL,  where  he 
remained  until  1S61.  He  then  moved  to  Con- 
cord, where  he  has  pro.spennisly  carried  on  the 
.same  business.  His  reputation  is  that  of  an 
able,  energetic  business  man.  He  was  a  Rep- 
resentative to  the  New  Hampshire  legislature 
during  the  years  1870  and  1871,  a  member  of 
the  Board  of  Aldermen  of  Concord  in  1873 
and  1874,  Mayor  of  Concord  in  1880  and 
1881  ;  and  he  was  in  the  State  .Senate  in  1890 
and  1891,  being  elected  president  of  the  New 
Hampshire  Senate  Association  in  the  same 
year.  Since  its  formation  he  has  been  a  di- 
rector of  the  Concord  Street  Railway  Com- 
pany. He  is  the  president  and  a  director  of 
the  Concord  Shoe  Manufactory,  a  tru.stee  of 
the  Merrimack  County  Savings  Bank  and  the 
New  Hampshire  Orjihans'  Home  in  Franklin, 
a  trustee  and  the  vice-president  of  the  Odd 
Fellows  Home;  and  he  has  been  the  presi- 
dent of  the  Concord  Odd  Fellows  Hall  Asso- 
ciation since  its  organization. 

On  February  24,  1854,  Mr.  Cummings  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Mary  E.  Smith,  of 
Manchester.  Of  their  two  children  Frank  E. 
Cummings,  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  is  living. 
Mr.  Cummings  is  a  member  of  White  Moun- 
tain Lodge,  No.  5,  I.  O.  O.  F.  In  that  fra- 
ternity he  has  been  Grand  Master  of  the  State, 
and  he  has  represented  this  jurisdiction  in 
the  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge  of  the  United 
States.  He  is  a  Baptist  in  his  religious 
views,  and  he  is  the  president  and  a  trustee  of 
the  First  Baptist  Society. 


OSIAH  EDWARDS  DWIGHT,  a  mem- 
ber of  the  noted  old  New  England  fam- 
ily to  which  President  Timothy  Dwight 
of  Yale  College  belonged,  is  one  of  the  leading 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


business  men  of  the  city  of  Concord,  N.H. 
Born  in  Belchertown,  Mass.,  May  17,  1S39, 
son  of  Harrison  D.  and  Sophia  (Cooi<) 
DwiglTt,  he  traces  his  lineage  through  his 
mother,  also,  back  to  the  early  days  of  the 
New  England  colonies. 

On  the  paternal  side  his  first  ancestor  to 
settle  in  this  country  was  John  Dvvight,  who 
came  from  Dedham,  England,  in  1634,  and 
located  in  the  part  of  Massachusetts  after- 
ward named  Dedham.  He  was  the  second 
man  of  wealth  in  the  settlement,  and  with 
eighteen  others  owned  the  land  comprising 
later  the  town  of  Dedham  and  about  nine  sur- 
rounding towns.  His  daughter  Mary  was  the 
first  white  child  born  in  the  town  of  Dedham. 
John  Dwight's  son  Timothy,  from  whom  the 
subject  of  this  sketch  is  directly  descended, 
was  born  in  Dedham,  luigland,  in  1629.  He 
inherited  the  estate  and  virtues  of  his  father, 
and  was  one  of  the  prominent  men  of  his  day. 
A  sturdy  soldier,  he  was  cornet  of  a  troop  in 
his  younger  days,  and  was  afterward  com- 
mander of  a  company  of  foot,  and  is  commonly 
alluded  to  as  Captain  Timothy  Dwight.  His 
title  was  no  empty  honor,  for  he  was  engaged 
in  ten  expeditions  against  the  Indians;  and  in 
1660  he  was  one  of  two  agents  appointed  to 
treat  with  the  Indians,  which  they  did  with 
satisfactory  results.  lie  was  for  ten  years 
Town  Clerk  of  Dedham,  twenty-five  years 
■Selectman,  and  two  years  Representative  to 
the  General  Court.  Captain  Dwight  is  said  to 
have  "  taught  "  in  the  Second  Church  in 
Boston  previous  to  the  settlement  of  its  second 
minister.  Increase  Mather.  He  was  married 
six  times,  and  was  the  father  of  fourteen 
children.      He  died  in  171 7. 

Captain  Timothy  Dwight's  son  Nathaniel, 
who  was  known  as  Justice  Nathaniel  Dwight, 
was  horn  in  Dedham,  November  20,  1666,  and 
removed  from  Dedham  to  Norlh.imjiton,  Mass., 


in  1695.  He,  tocj,  was  a  man  of  affairs,  a 
trader,  farmer,  and  surveyor  of  land  on  a  large 
scale.  A  Justice  of  the  Peace  for  a  great 
many  years,  he  was  called  uj^on  to  transact 
much  important  business.  Justice  Nathaniel 
Dwight  was  a  very  religious  man.  He  died 
while  on  a  business  trip  to  West  Springfield, 
Mass.,  in  171  i  ;  and  his  grave  is  the  oldest  in 
that  city.  The  next  in  line  is  Captain  Na- 
thaniel Dwight,  Jr.,  who  was  born  in  North- 
ampton, Mass.,  in  1712,  and  was  a  brother  of 
President  Timothy  Dwight  of  Yale  College. 
He  was  a  farmer  and  surveyor,  and  was  one  of 
the  first  settlers  in  Belchertown,  Mass.,  where 
he  located  in  1734,  and  acted  for  some  time  as 
agent  for  Mr.  Belcher,  for  whom  the  place  was 
named.  Prominent  in  all  civil  and  religious 
affairs,  he  was  coimty  surveyor  and  a  member 
of  the  church  in  Northampton  of  which  Jona- 
than Edwards  was  pastor.  Captain  Nathaniel 
Dwight,  Jr.,  was  an  earnest,  practical, 
straightforward  man,  always  ready  for  what- 
ever duty  called.      He  dietl  in  1784. 

His  son,  Captain  Justus  Dwight,  who  was 
born  in  Belchertown  in  1739,  was  a  farmer, 
and  was  town  surveyor  of  Belchertown  for  a 
number  of  years.  Politically  a  conservative, 
or  a  Tory,  he  believed  that  the  independence 
of  the  colonies  would  eventually  be  consum- 
mated, but  that  they  were  premature  in  their 
uprising;  and,  paying  a  substitute  who  was 
anxious  to  fight,  he  calmly  awaited  the  out- 
come of  the  Revolution.  Justus  Dwight,  too, 
was  a  deeply  religious  man.  He  died  in 
US24.  His  son  Nathaniel,  grandfather  of 
Josiah  E.  Dvvight,  was  born  in  Belchertown 
in  1772.  He  was  "a  man  of  great  good  sense, 
great  kindness  of  heart,  and  of  unbending  in- 
tegrity, one  of  the  most  conscientiously  honest 
men,  a  sincere,  humble,  consistent  Christian. 
The  ilistinguishcd  name  of  Dwight  has  been 
honoreil  as  borne  by  this  estimable  man." 


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S'S 


Harrison  D.  Dvvij^ht,  son  of  tlio  tliinl  Na- 
thaniel, was  born  in  Hclcliertowii  in  i<So6.  In 
his  early  niaiilioml  he  was  enga.u'eil  in  the  manu- 
facture of  shotguns  and  rifles;  and  he  was 
subsequently  in  the  lumber  and  wood  business, 
also  followin}^  tin;  pursuit  of  agriculture. 
Known  and  highly  respected  in  ]5elchertown 
anil  the  neighiioring  towns,  he  was  often 
urgeil  to  aeci'pt  public  office,  but  invariably 
declined,  llediedin  iSjS.  1 1  is  wife,  Sophia, 
was  a  daughter  of  David  \V.  and  Salome 
(Cady)  Cook  and  a  native  of  lladley,  Mass. 
David  W.  Cook,  who  was  born  in  lladley, 
July  26,  1771;,  traced  his  liescent  from  ("ap- 
tain  Aaron  Cook,  of  Hadley,  son  of  Aaron, 
of  Northamjiton,  Mass.,  through  Moses, 
Aaron,  and  William.  David  W.  Cook  died 
in  Belchertown  in  1869.  He  was  married 
November  23,  1799,  to  Salome  Cady,  who 
was  born  in  Shutesbury,  Mass.,  January  i, 
1779,  daughter  of  Jeremiah  and  Hannah 
(Warner)  Cady. 

Jeremiah  Cady,  Mrs.  Sophia  Cook  Dwight's 
maternal  grandfather,  was  born  in  Killingly, 
Conn.,  July  17,  1752.  He  was  descended 
from  Nicholas  Cady,  an  immigrant,  who  set- 
tled in  Watertown,  Mass., about  1645.  Nich- 
olas Cady  had  a  son  Joseph,  who  was  known  as 
Captain  Joseph  Cady;  and  Captain  Joseph's 
son  Stephen's  son  Samuel  was  Jeremiah 
Cady's  father.  Jeremiah  Cady  was  an  active 
member  of  the  celebrated  13oston  Tea  Party 
of  December,  1773.  A  record  of  his  service 
as  a  Revolutionary  soldier,  enlisting  from 
Shutesbury,  Mass.,  is  contained  in  the  ar- 
chives at  the  State  House,  Boston,  as  follows: 
"Jeremiah  Cady,  private  in  Captain  Reuben 
Dickenson's  Company,  Colonel  Woodbridge's 
regiment,  enlisted  May  15,  1775,  served  two 
months,  one  day."  From  Shutesbury  he  was 
on  muster-roll,  August  i,  1775  (see  vol.  .\iv. 
p.    84,    at    State    House).      Jeremiah    Cady's 


autograpli  signature  is  apjicnded  to  a  receipt 
for  pay  at  Charlestown,  July  27,  1775  (.see 
\id.  .\x,\v.  p.  104).  Jeremiah  Cady,  i)rivate, 
re|)orted  on  roll  of  Captain  Dickenson's  com- 
pany, .September  28,  1775,  as  from  .Shutesbury 
(vol.  liv.  p.  165).  "Jeremiah  Cady  of  Cap- 
tain Noah  Dickenson's  company.  Colonel 
I-'lisha  Porter's  regiment,  enlisted  August  r8, 
1777,  discharged  August  21,  1777,  served  four 
days  in  Hampshire  County  regiment,  marched 
in  alarm  to  New  Providence"  (vol.  xviii.  pp. 
182  ami  192).  "Jeremiah  Cady,  private  in 
Captain  Joel  Steven's  company.  Colonel  David 
Rassier's  regiment,  enlisted  October  12, 
1781,  discharged  October  25,  1781.  Roll 
dated  at  Pittsfield;  served  at  Stillwater"  (vol. 
.\.\vi.  p.  288,  Field  and  Staff  Rolls).  Mr. 
Cady  died  at  the  home  of  his  daughter,  Mrs. 
.Salome  Cook,  June  i,  1848,  aged  ninety-five 
years,  ten  months,  fourteen  days.  He  was 
married  in  Amherst,  Mass.,  November  12, 
1772,  to  Hannah,  daughter  of  Aaron  and  Ruth 
(Selden)  W^arner,  of  Amherst,  Mass.  Mrs. 
Cady  was  born  June  30,  1754,  and  died  about 
1829. 

Josiah  Edwards  Dwight  received  a  good 
education,  attending  the  public  schools  of 
Belchertown  and  the  academy  at  Amherst, 
Mass.  In  1855  he  obtained  employment  as  a 
clerk  in  the  dry-goods  house  of  E.  H.  Sanford 
at  Worcester,  Mass. ;  and  after  eight  years  of 
faithful  service  he  in  1863  purchased  an  inter- 
est in  the  business,  the  firm  becoming  E.  H. 
Sanford  &  Co.  In  1865  he  disposed  of  his 
share  to  Mr.  Sanford,  and  removing  to  Con- 
cord, N.H.,  became  associated  with  J.  R. 
Hill,  manufacturer  of  saddlery  goods  and 
harness,  Mr.  George  II.  Emery  becoming  a 
member  of  the  fnni  at  the  same  time.  These 
three  gentlemen  conducted  a  flourishing  busi- 
ness under  the  firm  name  of  J.  R.  Hill  &  Co. 
until    1885,  when   Mr.  Hill  died.      In    18S8  a 


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corporation  was  formed,  retaining  the  old 
name;  and  Mr.  Dvvight  was  made  treasurer  of 
the  company,  his  present  position.  J.  R.  Hill 
&  Co.  are  the  manufacturers  of  the  celebrated 
Concord  harness.  Much  of  the  energy  and 
ability  of  his  ancestors  has  been  transmitted 
to  Mr.  Dwight,  with  the  integrity  that  is  a 
distinguishing  mark  of  his  family;  and  he  has 
the  entire  confidence  of  all  with  whom  he  has 
dealings.  He  is  a  director  of  the  Eagle  and 
Phcenix  Hotel  Company,  director  and  vice- 
president  of  the  Hill  Associates;  and  presi- 
dent of  the  Rumford  Building  and  Loan  Asso- 
ciation. A  stanch  Republican,  he  has  been 
elected  to  public  office,  and  has  faithfully  dis- 
charged his  duties.  He  was  a  member  of  the 
Concord  Common  Council  two  years,  18S7  and 
1 888,  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  in 
1889  and  iSgo,  in  1895  was  appointed  by 
Governor  Busiel  police  commissioner  of  Con- 
cord to  fill  out  the  unexpired  term  of  the  Hon. 
Stillman  Humphrey,  deceased;  and  in  1897 
he  was  reappointed  for  the  full  term  of  six 
years  by  Governor  Ramsdell. 

Mr.  Dwight  was  married  December  25,  1862, 
to  Lucy  J.,  daughter  of  James  R.  Hill,  and 
has  two  chilih-en  —  Mabel  S.  and  Harrison  H. 
His  daughter  is  the  wife  of  Charles  F.  Conn, 
treasurer  of  the  l^oston  Terminal  Company  of 
Boston,  Mass.  Mr.  Dwight  is  an  Odd  Fel- 
low, belonging  to  Rumford  Lodge,  No.  46, 
I.  O.  O.  F. ,  and  is  at  present  a  member  of 
the  lodge  board  of  trustees.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  South  Congregational  Church. 


IDMUND  SH.Vl'IR,  a  thriving  farmer  of 
Boscawen,  N.H.,  was  born  in  Bow, 
this  State,  September  lo,  1834. 
His  ])arcnts,  Edmund  and  .Sallie  (Dow)  Sil- 
ver, who  resided  in  l-iow  for  the  greater  part  of 
their   lives,  died    when   their  son    lulmund  was 


quite  young.  They  had  nine  children  — 
Lewis,  Laura,  Cyrene,  Leonard,  Gideon,  Sul- 
livan, Daniel,  Edmund,  and  George.  Lewis 
died  in  March,  1897.  Daniel  is  engaged  in 
farming  in  .Salisbury,  N.  PL  George  is  in 
Penacook ;  and  the  others,  except  Edmund, 
the  subject  of  our  sketch,  are  deceased. 

Edmund  Silver  received  his  education  in  the 
district  schools,  remaining  at  home  with  his 
parents  until  he  was  seven  years  of  age.  He 
then  went  to  Ware,  Mass.,  where  he  was  em- 
ployed on  a  farm;  and  he  was  similarly  en- 
gaged in  other  towns  for  a  few  years,  returning 
subsequently  to  Bow.  At  the  age  of  twenty 
he  went  to  Canterbury,  remaining  there  three 
and  a  half  years.  He  then  spent  three  years 
in  Warner,  N.H.,  afterward  removing  to 
Webster,  in  which  place  he  was  engaged  in 
farming  for  about  thirty-five  years.  Subse- 
quently, coming  to  Boscawen,  he  purchased 
his  present  farm,  then  known  as  the  Ferrin 
farm.  It  contains  about  sixty-five  acres,  most 
of  which  is  under  cultivation.  l^esides  gen- 
eral farming  he  carries  on  a  milk  business. 
He  also  owns  the  farm  at  Webster  where  he 
formerly  lived,  which  contains  forty-five  acres. 

On  November  2,  1858,  Mr.  Silver  married 
Lydia  Ann  Kimball,  of  Albany,  N.Y.,  who 
was  born  March  9,  1834,  a  daughter  of  Jacob 
and  Nancy  (Hubbard)  Kimball.  Her  father 
was  a  native  of  Hopkinton,  and  her  mother  of 
Wilmot,  N.  H.  The  former  was  employed  in 
Wilmot,  where  he  worked  at  farming.  He 
subsequently  went  to  New  York  City,  where 
he  worked  in  a  livery  stable,  residing  there 
until  his  death.  His  wife  also  died  there. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Silver  have  three  children,  as 
follows:  Henry  Albert,  Luella  Grace,  and 
Frederick  E.  Henry  died  July  20,  1878,  at 
the  age  of  seventeen  years.  The  other  two 
remain  at  home  with  their  parents.  Mrs. 
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innking.  She  is  a  mcmljcr  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  at  VVehster.  Mr.  Silver  is  a 
Republican  in  his  politics.  lie  was  formerly 
Highway  Surveyor  in  Wehster.  A  self-made 
man,  he  has  won  success  by  hard  work,  and  is 
well  known  and  highly  regarded  throughout 
the  comity. 

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VARNARl)  r()\Vh:RS,  for  many  years 
one  of  the  leading  farmers  and  most 
iidluential  citizens  of  Cornish,  was 
born  at  Croydon,  N.H.,  April  20,  1808.  His 
grandparents  were  Lemuel  and  Thankful  (Le- 
land)  Powers,  and  his  parents  were  Colonel 
Samuel  and  Chloe  (Cooper)  Powers.  Colonel 
I'owers  was  born  at  Northbridge  in  1763,  and 
was  a  soldier  and  officer  of  tlie  Revolution. 
His  family  consisted  of  the  following-named 
children:  Olive,  Obed,  Judith,  Nancy,  Chloe, 
Samuel,  Ara,  Lemuel,  Solomon,  Ithamar, 
Larnard,  and  Randilla.  Olive,  born  in  1786, 
died  in  1S41,  unmarried;  Obed,  born  in  1788, 
married  Cynthia  Cummings,  and  had  a  fam- 
ily of  five  children;  Judith,  born  in  1790,  be- 
came Mrs.  Barton,  and  was  the  mother  of 
seven  children;  Nancy,  born  in  1792,  died  in 
1829,  was  the  wife  of  David  Kenney,  and  had 
three  children;  Chloe,  born  in  1795,  married 
Lemuel  Martindale,  and  bore  him  eight  chil- 
dren; Samuel,  born  in  1795,  died  unmarried  in 
1828;  Ara,  born  in  1797,  married  Mary  Seaver, 
of  Charlestown,  and  they  were  the  parents  of 
three  chikiren  ;  Lemuel,  born  in  1801,  died  in 
infancy;  Solomon  was  born  in  1804;  Ithamar, 
born  in  1805,  died  in  1834;  Randilla,  born 
in  181  I,  married  Alfred  Ward,  and  was  the 
mother  of  two  children. 

Larnard  Powers  received  his  education  in 
the  common  schools  of  Croydon.  After  leav- 
ing school  he  engaged  in  farming  in  his  native 
town  for  two  years,  and  then  came  to  Cornish, 
where    he  bought  the  estate    upon    which    his 


widow  and  some    of    his    family    still    reside. 
In  politics  he  was  always  a  Jeffer.sonian  Dem- 
ocrat;     and,     although     keenly    interested     in 
the  town  affairs,  he  was  never  an  aspirant  for 
liolitical  honors  or  for  town  oflices.      His  busi- 
ness and  personal  affairs   required  the  whole  of 
his  attention.      llis  many  fertile  acres  of  land 
were   largely   devoted   to   the    raising   of  grain 
and   hay  and    to    the  pasturage    of    his  flocks. 
He  started  in  life  as  a  poor  boy,  with  his  own 
way  to  make;  and  he  succeeded  by  thrift,    in- 
dustry, and  energy  in  amassing  a  comfortable 
fortune  and   in   reaching  a  leading  position  in 
his  line  of  business.      His  dairy  business  was 
extensive,   and    it   is   estimated   that   his  wife 
made    at    their    farm     seventy-five     thou.sand 
pounds  of  the  highest-grade  butter.      This  was 
always  sought  for  in   the   Boston   markets;  and 
among  the  private  customers  supplied  was  the 
Hon.    William    M.  Lvarts,  of    New  York  City, 
he  having  a  summer  residence  at  Windsor,  Vt. 
The  business  was    kept   up   until    five  or   six 
years  ago,  when,  consequent  upon  the  opening 
of  the  creameries,  it   was  discontinued.      Mr. 
Powers  took    a    deep    interest    in    educational 
matters,  and,  although  not  a  college-bred  man 
himself,    was    extremely    painstaking     in    the 
education   of   his   children.      He  was  a  gentle- 
man  of  the  old   school,   genial,  generous,  and 
courteous,    and    was    universally    admired    and 
respected. 

On  April  7,  1836,  Mr.  Powers  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Ruby  M.,  daughter  of  John 
Barton,  of  Croydon;  and  in  1838  they  removed 
to  Cornish.  Their  children  were:  Caroline 
M.,  born  in  1837;  KrastusB.,  born  in  1840; 
Alice  v.,  born  in  1846;  and  Samuel  L.,  born 
in  1847.  Caroline  was  educated  at  Claremont 
and  at  Kimball  Union  Academy.  After  com- 
pleting her  course  of  study,  she  became  a 
teacher,  and  taught  with  unusual  success  for 
many  terms,  having  the  painstaking  and  deter- 


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miiiation  which  she  inherited  from  her  father 
ami  a  natural  tact  in  dealing  with  children. 
She  was  married  to  Horace  B.  Wellman,  of 
Cornish,  October  5,  1864,  and  has  one  daugh- 
ter—  Ada  P.,  born  October  5,  1S67.  Ada 
was  educated  at  Kimball  Union  Academy,  as 
her  mother  had  been  ;  and,  like  her  mother, 
she  also  taught  school  very  successfully.  She 
married  Nelson  H.  Morgan,  of  Springfield, 
N.  H.,  October  30,  1S95,  and  is  now  living  on 
the  old  homestead.  Erastus  B. ,  second  child 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Powers,  fitted  for  college  at 
Kimball  Union  Academy,  was  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  College  in  1865  and  at  Harvard 
Law  .School  in  1S66.  He  was  a  student  of 
unusual  ability,  and  stood  first  in  his  class  in 
college.  After  being  admitted  to  the  bar,  he 
taught  school  for  a  number  of  years,  and  was 
master  of  the  high  school  at  Nashua,  N. H. 
He  entered  upon  the  practice  of  law  in  Boston, 
Mass.,  and  has  made  a  reputation  for  himself 
as  one  of  the  most  talented  men  in  the  legal 
profession  of  that  city.  He  married  l-jiima  F. 
Besse,  of  Wa'reham,  Mass.,  daughter  of  Cap- 
tain David  and  Emma  (Knowlton)  Besse; 
and  one  daughter.  Ruby  Barton,  was  born  to 
them  November  15,  1872.  January  4,  1S93, 
she  was  married  to  Clarence  VVadsworth  Clark, 
of  Maiden,  Assistant  Travelling  Auditor  of  the 
Boston  &  Maine  Railroad.  Alice  V.  Powers 
attended  Kimball  Union  Academy,  and  then 
taught  school  in  the  East  and  in  Cass  County, 
Missouri.  She  married  Nathaniel  Randall,  of 
Ohio,  an  e.xtensive  grain  grower  and  stt)ck- 
raiser,  and  has  one  daughter — ^  Edith  V.,  born 
January  12,  1876,  who  was  educated  in  one 
of  the  Missouri  Normal  Schools.  Samuel  L. 
Powers  was  graduated  at  Dartmouth  College 
in  1874,  and  studied  law  in  New  York  City. 
After  his  admission  to  the  bar  he  opened  a  law 
office  in  Boston,  where  he  has  since  been  a 
practising  lawyer  and  one  of  the  leaders  of  his 


profession  in  that  city.  He  was  elected  a 
delegate  to  the  P'ranco-American  Treaty  Con- 
vention at  Paris  in  1878,  and  has  been  counsel 
in  many  important  cases  in  litigation.  He  is 
at  present  counsel  for  the  New  England  Tele- 
graph and  Telephone  Company.  Mr.  Powers 
resides  in  Newton,  Mass.,  and  is  President  of 
the  Newton  Club.  He  married  Eva  Crowell, 
of  Dennis,  Mass.,  on  June  21,  187S,  and  has 
one  son  —  Leiand,  born  in  Newton,  July  i, 
1890. 


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HARLES  A.  BAILEY,  an  able  busi- 
ness man  of  Merrimack  County,  New 
Hampshire,  and  an  esteemed  resi- 
dent of  Hookset,  was  born  in  Pembroke,  No- 
vember II,  1847,  son  of  Charles  and  Sarah  A. 
(Edmunds)  Bailey.  His  paternal  grandfather, 
Josiah  Bailey,  was  born  in  Chester,  Rocking- 
ham County,  this  State,  on  February  11, 
1766.  When  a  young  man  he  removed  with 
his  family  to  Pembroke,  Merrimack  County, 
and  was  there  engaged  as  a  miller  until  his 
death,  P'ebruary  19,  1854.  His  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Ruth  P'rost,  was  born  March 
8,  1769,  in  Tewksbury,  Mass.,  and  died  in 
Pembroke,  N.H.,  November  28,  1835.  They 
were  married  November  15,  1792,  and  were 
the  parents  of  ten  children. 

Charles,  the  youngest  child,  was  Imrn  in 
Dunbarton,  N.  H.,  September  28,  1810,  and 
when  but  four  years  of  age  accompanied  his 
parents  to  Pembroke,  where  he  grew  to  man- 
hood and  was  educated.  He  followed  farming 
in  connection  with  brickmaking  for  many 
years,  coming  from  Pembroke  to  Hookset  in 
1852.  Here  he  purchased  the  estate  now 
owned  and  occupied  by  his  widow,  and  was 
engaged  in  his  two  occupations  until  his  death, 
June  2,  1896,  being  a  most  successful  business 
man.  He  was  highly  esteemed  wherever 
known  for  his   uprightness   of   character.      Po- 


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litically,  he  was  a  sound  Democrat,  and  while 
in  I'cmliroke  served  as  Selectman  two  terms. 
I'ldlli  lie  ami  his  j;oo(]  wife  early  united  with 
the  Methodist  Church  of  Suncoolv.  On  Ajiril 
I,  1841,  he  married  Miss  Sarah  A.  Edmunds, 
daughter  of  Ca|)tain  I'.dward  Kdmimds,  of  Chi- 
chester, N.H.,  where  iier  birtii  occurred  De- 
cember 9,  I.S2I.  Four  chii(hen  were  the  fruit 
of  their  union,  and  three  of  them  are  now  liv- 
ing, as  follows:  Mary  K. ,  born  October  16, 
1843;  Abbie  J.,  born  December  27,  1845, 
now  rcsitliiig  in  Suncook,  the  widow  of  the 
late  Hall  \i.  Emery;  and  Charles  A.,  the 
special  subject  of  this  sketch. 

Charles  A.  Ikiiley  acquired  his  elementary 
education  in  the  public  schools  of  Hookset, 
and  further  advanced  in  learning  by  an  attend- 
ance at  the  Pembroke  Academy.  He  subse- 
quently worked  on  the  home  farm  several  sea- 
sons, and  also  engaged  in  brick  manufacturing 
until  1.S77,  wlien  he  embarked  in  a  new  entcr- 
]irise.  Purchasing  nineteen  acres  of  rocky 
land  in  Allenstown,  in  the  vicinity  of  Suncook 
village,  Merrimack  County,  he  spent  his  en- 
ergies in  developing  its  resources,  and  by  his 
able  management  soon  had  a  good  paying 
granite  quarry  in  full  operation.  Succeeding 
well  with  this,  he  has  since  bought  other  land 
near  by,  and  has  built  two  and  one-half  miles 
of  railroad,  which  he  operates  with  his  own 
locomotive.  He  has  now  more  than  one  bun- 
dled acres  of  land,  about  one-fifth  of  which  is 
in  a  good  state  of  cultivation,  and  is  devoted 
to  general  farming.  In  connection  with  his 
quarrying  he  has  an  extensive  trade,  shipping 
granite  to  all  parts  of  New  England  and  to 
many  of  the  Western  States.  Mr.  Bailey  has 
continu-'d  his  residence  in  his  native  town,  and 
is  prominently  identified  with  its  leading 
interests. 

Mr.    Bailey    married    December    16,     1875, 
Miss   Mary  J.,  daughter   of    Harvey  and    Mary 


(Putnam)  Dcnnison,  of  Allenstown.  J-ivc 
children  have  brightened  their  pleasant  home, 
namely:  Hall  I'.dward  and  Harvey  Dennison, 
twins,  born  January  4,  1877;  Clara  Louise, 
born  January  17,  1879,  died  the  following 
August;  Charles  Parker,  born  June  16,  1885; 
and  Emery  Ward,  born  January  10,  1887. 
Politically,  Mr.  J5ailey  is  a  steadfast  Republi- 
can. Fraternally,  he  is  a  thirty-second  degree 
Mason,  belonging  to  Jewell  Lodge,  No.  29, 
F.  &  A.  M.,  of  Suncook;  Trinity  Chapter, 
Horace  Chase  Council;  Mount  Horeb  Cf>m- 
mandery,  Ariel  Council,  P.  of  J.  ;  Aaron 
P.  llnghis  Lodge  of  Perfection;  and  St. 
George  Chapter,  Rose  Croi.x.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
]5ailey  are  valued  members  of  the  Methodist 
church. 


ILLLXM  CANT  STUROC,  "the 
bard  of  Sunapee, "  as  he  is  often 
called,  was  born  November  4,  1822, 
in  a  humiile,  straw-thatched  cottage  in  Ar- 
broath, Scotland,  son  of  P'rancis  Sturoc  and 
his  wife,  Ann  (Cant)  Sturoc.  Doubtles.s,  the 
poetic  genius  has  descended  to  him  from  his 
paternal  great-grandfather,  James  Sturoc,  who 
wrote  a  book  of  "Hymns  and  Spiritual 
Songs,"  and  died  in  Panbride  in  1750.  Other 
distinguished  members  of  the  family  were  well 
known  in  the  church.  Among  these  was  the 
Rev.  David  Sturoc,  who  was  of  ready  speech 
and  pen,  and  two  generations  ago  repeatedly 
entered  juiblic  debate  with  the  renowned  Dr. 
W^ardlow,  of  Glasgow.  Francis,  the  father  of 
William,  was  well  known  as  highly  cultured 
and  profoundly  read,  although  throughout  his 
life  he  followed  mercantile  occupations. 
Cantsland,  an  ancient  estate  in  Kincardine- 
shire, now  in  other  hands,  was  for  several 
hundred  years  in  the  possession  of  the  Cants, 
the  mother's  family.  James  Cant,  the  mater- 
nal  grandfather  of  William  C,  and  a  resident 


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of  St.  Cyrus  in  the  same  county,  was  cousin 
to  the  famous  Immanuel  Cant,  or  Kant,  who 
died  in  1S04.  James  had  four  daughters  — 
Helen,  Ann,  Margaret,  and  Jane.  His  only 
son,  John,  died  in  Bridgeport,  Conn.  Ann 
Cant  married  Francis  Sturoc,  December  19, 
1808,  and  to  them  were  born  ten  children. 
The  father  died  in  185 1,  aged  seventy-seven 
years,  after  surviving  the  mother  some  years. 
William  Cant,  the  ninth  child  of  his  par- 
ents, spent  his  earliest  years  in  Arbroath, 
Forfarshire,  Scotland,  there  obtaining  his 
elementary  education.  Afterward  he  spent 
two  years  at  lulinburgh,  where  he  took  a 
course  of  study  under  Andrew  Combe,  a  well- 
known  educator  of  his  day.  After  finishing 
his  education  in  his  native  land,  Mr.  Sturoc 
went  to  Canada  in  1846,  and  located  in  Mon- 
treal. He  there  secured  a  position  with  Ed- 
ward Maxwell,  an  architect  and  builder. 
Some  years  later  he  met  William  W.  East- 
man, of  Sunapee,  N.  H.,  upon  whose  invitation 
he  paid  his  first  visit  to  this  town.  It  was 
during  this  visit  that  he  made  the  acciuaintance 
of  the  late  Hon.  Edmund  Burke,  of  Newport, 
N.H.,  who  advised  him  to  study  law,  and  who 
ultimately  received  him  into  his  office  for  that 
purpose.  Under  the  influence  and  instruction 
of  so  strong  a  politician  the  young  man  soon 
became  widely  interested  in  politics,  and 
before  long  was  championing  upon  the  stump 
the  Jeffersonian  doctrines  to  which  he  has 
since  firmly  adhered.  He  was  admitted  to  the 
bar  in  1855,  and  in  the  following  year  he  came 
to  Sunapee,  where  he  has  ever  since  had  his 
home.  He  became  a  prominent  figure  in  the 
public  life  of  the  community,  and  soon  com- 
manded the  full  confidence  of  his  townsmen  in 
all  legal  matters.  His  legal  reading  was  at 
the  same  time  extensively  pursued;  and  in 
1 87 1  he  was  the  author  of  a  series  of  articles 
on    "A   Constitutional   Judiciary,"    appearing 


in  the  New  Hampshire  Patriot,  which  were 
attributed  by  many  of  his  profession  to  the 
late  Hon.  Edmund  L.  Cushing,  subsequently 
Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court.  From 
1865  to  1S69  Mr.  Sturoc  represented  his  town 
in  the  General  Court,  where  he  maintained  a 
prominent  position  among  the  leaders  on  the 
Democratic  side  of  the  House,  and  where  he 
was  distinguished  as  a  ready  and  eloquent 
speaker. 

Not  only  in  America,  but  in  his  native  land, 
his  poems  have  received  attention  and  admira- 
tion. Appreciative  notices  of  him  are  to  be 
found  in  "Scottish  Poets  in  America"  by 
Ross,  "Modern  Scottish  Poets"  by  Edwards, 
II  Chapin's  "Poets  of  New  Hamiishire," 
"Round  about  the  Round  O"  by  George  Hay 
(author  of  History  of  Arbroath,  Scotland), 
and  in  the  Granite  Moiil/ily.  Much  of  the  in- 
formation embodied  in  this  brief  sketch  is  to 
be  credited  to  the  Granite  AJoiit/i/y.  In  the 
interesting  biography  of  Mr.  Sturoc,  published 
by  this  periodical,  the  writer  says  of  his  work: 
"His  occasional  poetic  productions,  given  to 
the  public  through  various  channels  in  the 
past,  have  demonstrated  through  their  fineness 
and  delicacy  of  sentiment,  combined  with 
vigor  of  expression,  the  real  poet  soul  with 
which  he  is  endowed,  have  undoubtedly  won 
him  truer  admiration  than  an3thing  he  has 
accomplished  in  other  directions,  and  have  in- 
spired the  hope  for  which,  we  trust,  there  is 
reasonable  promise  of  fulfilment,  that  ere  his 
life  work  is  ended  he  may  gather  uji  for  preser- 
vation in  substantial  form  the  charming  gems 
of  fancy  to  which  his  muse  has  given   birth." 

In  1856,  December  12,  Mr.  Sturoc  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Sarah  C.  Chase,  a 
cousin  of  the  late  Chief  Justice  J.  V..  Sargent, 
of  Concord.  His  home,  a  fine  old  mansion, 
which  was  the  ancestral  home  of  his  wife,  was 
remodelled    by  liim    in    i860.      In  July,    1867, 


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he  received  from  Dartmouth  College  the  de- 
gree of  Master  of  Arts.  Though  seventy- five 
years  of  age,  Mr.  Sturoc  is  still  in  vigorous 
health.  He  derives  niuiii  enJDyiiu-iit  from 
scientific  studies,  which  fur  the  last  twenty 
years  ho  has  carrit'd  on  in  the  ictircnient  of 
his  study,  snrnnnidcd  l))'i)is  excellent  lihrary 
and  his  favorite  hoiii<s  on  astronomy,  geology, 
and  cerebral  physiology.  Of  his  many  beau- 
tiful poems  none  is  more  liked  in  Sullivan 
County  than  the  one  here  appended:  — 

L.\KK    Sl'N.-M'KK. 

Once  more,  my  Muse,  from  rest  of  many  a  year. 
Come  fortli  nijain  and  sing,  as  oft  of  yore; 

Now  lead  my  step  to  where  the  crags  appear 
In  silent  grandeur,  by  the  rugged  shore 

That  skirts  the  margin  of  thy  waters  free. 

Lake  of  my  mountain  hmne,  loved  Sunapee  ! 

Meet  invocation  to  the  pregnant  scene. 

Where  long,  ere  yet  the  white  man's  foot  did  roam, 
Strode  wild  and  free  the  daring  Algonquin, 

And  where,  perchance,  the  stately  Metacom 
Inspired  his  braves  with  tliat  poetic  strain 
Which  chccicd  tlie  W.impanoags,  but  cheered  in  vain. 

Clear  mountain  mirror!   who  can  tell  but  thou 
Hast  borne  the  red  man,  in  his  light  canoe. 

As  fleetly  on  thy  bosom  as  e'en  now 

Thou  bear'st  the  pale  face  o'er  thy  waters  blue  ? 

And  who  can  tell  but  nature's  children  then 

Were  rich  and  liappy  as  the  mass  of  men  ? 

Sweet  Granite  '•  Katrine  "  of  this  mountain  land, 

O  jewel  set  amid  a  scene  so  fair ! 
Kearsarge,  Ascutney,  rise  on  either  hand. 

While  Grantham  watches  with  a  lover's  care ; 
And  our  dark  "  Ben  "  to  Croydon  sends  in  glee 
A  greeting  o'er  thy  silvery  breast.  Lake  Sunapee ! 

How  grand,  upon  a  moonlit  eve.  to  glide 

Upon  thy  waters,  'twi.xt  tlie  mountains  high. 

And  gaze,  within  thy  azure  crystal  tide. 

On  trembling  shadows  of  the  earth  and  sky. 

While  all  is  silent  save  when  trusty  oar 

Awakes  an  echo  from  thv  slumbering  shore. 


O  lovely  lake,  I  would  commune  with  thee, — • 
For  in  thy  ijresencc  naught  of  ill  is  found, — 

That  cares  which  wed  the  weary  world  to  mc 
May  cease  to  harass  with  their  carking  round. 

And  I  awhile  mirlst  nature's  grandeur  stand. 

On  moiMit  of  rapture  'twixt  the  sea  and  land. 

Thy  past  is  curtained  by  as  deep  a  veil 

As  shrouds  the  secrets  which  we  may  not  reach  ; 
And  then  'twere  wisdom,  when  our  quest  doth  fail, 

To  read  the  lessons  which  thou  now  dost  teach, 
And  in  thy  face,  on  which  we  look  to-day, 
See  hopes  to  cheer  us  on  our  onward  way. 

Roll  on,  sweet  lake  !  and  if,  perchance,  thy  form 
Laves  less  of  earth  than  floods  of  Western  fame, 

Yet  still  we  love  thee  in  the  calm  or  storm. 
And  call  thee  ours  by  many  a  kindly  name. 

No  patriot  heart  but  loves  the  scenes  that  come. 

O'er  memory's  sea,  to  breathe  a  tale  of  "homo." 

And,  when  the  winter  in  its  frozen  thrall 
Binds  up  thy  locks  in  braids  of  icy  wreath. 

Forget  we  not  thy  cherished  name  to  call. 
In  fitting  shadow  of  the  sleep  of  death. 

When  golden  rays  shall  o'er  our  rest  still  flee. 

As  morning  beams  salute  thy  Iirow,  sweet  .Sunapee! 


ILI.IA.M  J().Si:i'!l  FORTIlvK,  of 
Franklin  village,  a  retired  hat 
manufacturer,  was  born  December 
S,  1824,  in  Gentilly,  Quebec  County,  Canada. 
His  father,  Dr  Thomas  Fortier,  who  was  a  very 
]irominent  physician  of  Quebec,  and  later  of 
Gentilly,  was  a  member  of  Parliament  for 
fourteen  years.  Dr.  Thomas  was  twice  mar- 
ried, first  to  Eliza  Hannah,  November  15, 
1 819,  when  he  was  twenty-four  years  of  age. 
l^y  this  union  there  were  seven  children,  born 
as  follows:  Thomas  K.,  September  27,  1820; 
Mary  Ann  Emily,  May  29,  1823;  William 
Joseph,  the  subject  of  this  sketch ;  Edward 
F.,  September  30,  1825;  Mary  L.,  January 
4,  1827;  Francis,  Januar)-  7,  182S;  and 
George    Edward,    March    7,     1831.       Mary    L. 


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died  in  infancy,  and  Francis  was  drowned  in 
1840.  Tlie  Doctor's  second  marriage  was 
made  witli  Leocadie  Gronden,  of  Gentilly, 
wlio  bore  liim  five  children  —  Adeline,  Georgi- 
ana,  Sarah,  Artanse,  and  Thomas.  Having 
taken  an  active  part  in  the  trmildes  of  1S37, 
Dr.  Fortier  was  reduced  to  poverty.  He  re- 
mained in  Gentilly  for  the  remainder  of  his 
life,  and  died  there  at  the  age  of  eighty-four 
years. 

William  Joseph  Fortier,  in  common  with 
his  brothers  and  sisters,  was  educated  in  the 
select  schools  of  Canada.  At  the  age  of  four- 
teen, his  father  having  lost  his  property,  he 
started  out  in  life  for  himself.  He  walked  to 
Irasburg,  Vt.  ;  and  there  he  lived  with  Dr. 
George  Pierce,  employed  by  the  latter,  but 
also  attending  school  for  a  time.  He  then 
served  an  apprenticeship  of  three  years  with 
Deacon  Seth  Cole,  a  hatter  of  Coventry 
Falls,  Vt.,  and  continued  in  Deacon  Cole's 
employment  as  a  journeyman  for  three  years 
longer.  About  1S42  he  came  to  I-'ranklin  and 
located  at  his  present  home.  After  working 
for  wages  a  little  longer  in  I'ranklin,  he 
started  the  manufacture  of  hats,  and  continued 
in  that  business  until  the  beginning  of  the  late 
war.  In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the 
United  States  Cavalry  at  Providence,  R.I., 
and  was  in  Company  I  for  three  years.  He 
was  in  many  hard  battles  and  skirmishes,  re- 
ceiving a  very  bad  injury  in  his  right  knee  by 
being  thrown  frf)m  his  horse  while  participat- 
ing in  a  charge  at  Middlebury,  Vt.  On  that 
occasion  he  was  taken  (jrisoner,  and  was  sub- 
sequently confined  in  Libby  Prison  for  forty 
days,  after  which  he  was  taken  to  Bell  Island, 
and  thence  to  Richmond,  where  he  was  re- 
leased. He  ne.xt  went  to  Cedar  Point  and 
then  to  Anna[)olis,  Md.,  where  he  was  pro- 
nounced unfit  for  duty  and  detailed  for  service 
in  the  ijost-officc.       Here  he  I'emained    until  he 


was  discharged  from  service,  in  May,  1865. 
He  returned  to  Franklin,  and  for  about  three 
years  after  he  sold  dry  goods  on  the  road.  At 
the  end  of  that  period  he  resumed  the  manu- 
facture of  hats,  caps,  etc.,  which  he  sold  in 
the  New  England  States,  at  times  employing 
from  fifteen  to  twenty  hands  in  his  factory. 
He  continued  in  this  business  until  1889, 
when  he  retired  on  account  of  failing  health. 

On  June  2,  1850,  Mr.  F"ortier  was  married 
to  Martha  Hancock,  of  Northfield,  N.H. 
Born  January  i,  1839,  she  died  December  7, 
1S89.  Her  children  were:  Emily  Ann,  born 
March  12,  1851;  Mary  Ella,  born  April  11, 
1854;  and  Georgie  Anna,  born  September  9, 
1856.  Emily  is  now  the  proprietor  of  a  suc- 
cessful furnishing  and  fancy  goods  store  at 
Franklin.  Georgie  is  living  at  home  with  her 
father.  Mary  died  April  9,  18S4.  Mr.  For- 
tier is  a  member  of  G.  l".  Swett  Post,  No.  38, 
G.  A.  R. ,  at  Franklin  P"alls;  also  of  Meridian 
Lodge,  No.  60.  He  attends  the  Christian 
church.  A  hard-working  and  industrious  man, 
he  has  been  (piite  successful  in  life,  and  is 
highly  respected  by  his  townsmen. 


ALSTON     H.      PENNIMAN,    one    of 


Plainfield's  most  able  farmers  and 
-^  \^  ^  prominent  residents,  was  born  in 
this  town,  which  is  in  the  north-western  part 
of  Sullivan  County,  January  9,  1819,  son  of 
Thomas  and  Dorinda  \V.  (Wood)  Penniman. 
He  comes  of  substantial  Colonial  stock  of 
English  extraction,  being  a  lineal  descendant 
of  one  of  the  very  early  settlers  on  the  shores 
of  Massachusetts  Bay;  namely,  James  Penni- 
man, who,  with  his  wife,  Lydia  I'lliot,  and  her 
brother,  John  I'Hiot,  of  luinorcd  memory  as  the 
apostle  to  the  Indians,  arrived  on  tlu'  ship 
"Lion  "  in   163  i. 

The  family  name,   it   is   said,  was   originally 


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523 


Pen-na-man,  signifying  tiic  cliicf  or  head  man. 
Another  branch  of  the  family  in  Yori<.shire 
were  lioyalists;  and  some  of  them  were  titled 
as  kniglits  and  liarnnets,  one  iieing  a  Sir  James 
renniman,  who  was  kniglitetl  by  Charles  I. 
on  the  battlefield.  James  I'enniman,  the  emi- 
grant, with  othcr.s  petitioned  for  a  new  town 
at  Mount  VVollaston;  and  accordingly,  in  1640, 
the  town  of  liraintree  was  incorporated.  He 
was  one  of  the  leading  men,  holding  the  office 
of  Justice  of  tiic  Peace;  and  a  nuiuber  of  years 
later  he  was  one  nf  the  |ietitioners  for  the  new 
plantation  of  Mendoii,  ordered  in  1660,  his 
son  Joseph  being  named  as  one  of  the  commis- 
sioners to  settle  it.  I.ydia  ICliot,  the  wife  of 
James  Penniman,  was  born  at  Nasing,  Mssex 
County,  England,   in  1610. 

Peletiah  and  Hannah  (Taft)  I'enniman, 
grandparents  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
were  lifelong  residents  of  Massachusetts. 
They  had  a  family  of  seven  chikben,  as  fol- 
lows: Hannah  Pish,  burn  I\Pnc]i  2,  ■/(''S,  who 
died  May  6,  1S20;  Nathaniel,  bcnn  Decem- 
ber 2,  I7(')7,  died  May  22,  ii>47  ;  Lydia,  burn 
March  2,  1770;  Ruth,  born  April  20,  1772; 
Luther,  l)orn  P'ebruary  13,  1775;  'riiomas, 
named  above,  born  June  24,  177S;  and  Nancy, 
born  October  8,   1781  — all  deceased. 

When  a  young  man,  Thomas  Penniman 
settled  upon  a  farm  in  Plaiiifield,  and  was  a 
leatling  sijirit  among  the  early  residents  of 
this  town.  He  figured  prominently  in  public 
affairs,  serving  as  a  Selectman  for  a  inmiber 
of  years,  and  was  highly  respected  for  his 
ability  and  upright  character.  He  died  Au- 
gust 18,  1854.  His  wife  was  Dorinda  \V. 
Wood,  a  native  of  U.xbridge,  Mass.  They  had 
si.x  children,  namely:  Merritt  ¥.,  born  March 
15,  icSi5;  Henry  N.,  who  was  born  May  15, 
I  Si  7,  and  died  September  21,  181 8;  Ralston 
H.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Dorinda  W., 
born    February    iS,    1821;   Thomas,    Jr.,    born 


January  19,  1823;  and  David  U.  W. ,  born 
September  13,  1826,  who  died  July  25,  1829. 
Merritt  I".,  who  became  a  jirosperous  farmer, 
married  Pavinia  Dan)on,  and  had  a  family  of 
six  children.  Dorinda  W.  married  John  T. 
Freeman,  who  was  for  many  years  cashier  of 
the  Windsor  Savings  Hank.  She  died  August 
16,  1862.  Thomas,  Jr.,  wedded  Mary  Smith, 
and  resided  at  the  homestead  until  his  death, 
which  occurred  January  24,   1S86. 

Ralston  il.  Penniman  as  a  boy  attended 
school  in  his  native  town,  and  at  an  early  age 
began  to  make  himself  useful  upon  the  farm. 
After  the  death  of  his  father  he  continued  to 
live  with  his  br<jthers  at  the  homestead  until 
1867,  when  he  decided  to  engage  in  farming 
upon  his  own  account.  He  purchased  the 
Waterman  Spaulding  farm,  together  with 
adjoining  tracts  of  land,  the  whole  amounting 
to  four  hundred  acres,  and  entered  upon  the 
care  and  utilization  of  this  prrijierty  with  an 
energy  which  insured  success  from  the  start, 
l-'or  many  years  he  was  extensively  engaged  in 
raising  sheep,  which  was  the  source  of  consid- 
erable profit.  He  became  widely  and  favor- 
ably known  throughout  this  section  in  the  days 
when  sheep-raising  was  a  prominent  branch  of 
agriculture,  and  gained  both  notoriety  and 
wealth  in  the  wool  trade. 

Mr.  Penniman  married  Elizabeth  Colby, 
daughter  of  Jesse  and  Lydia  (Scott)  Colby,  of 
Plainfield.  Mrs.  Penniman  died  January  24, 
1876,  leaving  fom'  children,  namely:  Robert 
R.,  born  December  16,  1867;  Lydia  S. ,  born 
January  11,  i86g;  H.  Dorinda,  born  January 
22,  1871  ;  and  Brainard  W. ,  born  October  2, 
1S74.  I^obert  R.  Penniman  was  graduated  at 
Dartmouth  College  with  the  class  of  1894,  and 
is  now  assisting  in  the  management  of  the 
home  farm.  He  is  actively  interested  in  edu- 
cational affairs,  and  is  at  the  present  time 
serving    upon    the    School     Hoard.       Lydia    S. 


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I'enniman  fitted  herself  for  educational  work  at 
the  Kimball  Union  Academy,  Meriden,  N.H., 
and  taught  school  for  five  years.  She  is  now 
residing  at  the  homestead,  and  presides  over 
the  household  affairs.  H.  Dorinda  also  taught 
school  for  a  time.  She  is  now  the  wife  of 
Frank  W.  Heywood,  who  is  connected  with 
a  large  harvesting  concern  in  Indianapolis, 
Ind.  They  have  one  daughter  —  Gladys,  born 
luly  18,  1895.  Brainard  W.  Penniman  com- 
pleted his  studies  at  the  Kimball  Union 
Academy,  and  is  now  assisting  upon  the  farm. 
In  jjolitics  Mr.  Penniman  is  a  Republican, 
and  has  frequently  been  nominated  for  public 
office;  but  his  party  was  in  the  minority  here. 
He  takes  a  lively  interest  in  political  affairs; 
and  so  an.xious  was  he  to  learn  the  result  of 
the  last  national  election,  November,  1896, 
that  he  walked  to  Cornish  Flat  to  obtain  the 
news,  and  did  not  return  until  two  o'clock  the 
following  morning.  He  is  a  regular  attendant 
of  the  Congregational  church,  and  contributes 
liberally  toward  its  support. 


tp)TARVEY    CHASF,  a  successful   farmer 
r^i       and    lumberman    of    Hopkinton,    was 

Ji®  V  born  here,  on  Clement's  Hill, 
A]irii  3,  1829,  son  of  Enoch  J.  and  Sarah 
(Holmes)  Chase.  Enoch  Chase  moved  to 
Concord,  and  in  I S40  settled  down  again  in 
Hopkinton  on  the  farm  now  owned  by  his  son. 
He  bought  a  tract  of  land  containing  si.v  hun- 
dred acres,  lying  along  the  Contoocook  River, 
for  five  thousand  dollars.  This  jilace  was  the 
old  Folsom  farm,  which  was  considered  quite 
an  important  piece  of  property,  the  buildings 
of  which  were  erected  by  Mr.  Folsom  as  they 
now  stand.  The  location,  known  as  the  Chase 
Hill,  commands  a  fine  view  of  the  surrounding 
coutitry.  Included  in  the  jiurchase  was  Pond 
Mill,    the    site    of    which    is    now    occupied  by 


another  mill.  The  tract  was  heavily  timbered 
and  a  valuable  one.  Lumbering  was  Enoch's 
main  dependence,  and  in  this  he  was  prosper- 
ous. Here  he  resided  for  some  years.  He 
died  at  his  daughter's  place  in  St.  Johnsbury, 
Vt.,  October  16,  1879,  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
eight.  His  second  wife,  Nancy  Johnson 
Chase,  was  the  widow  of  another  Mr.  Chase 
before  her  marriage  to  p]noch  Chase.  Her 
death  in  Wilmot,  at  the  age  of  seventy-seven, 
preceded  that  of  Enoch. 

Harvey  remained  with  his  father  until  about 
twenty-three  years  of  age,  when  he  left  the 
farm  and  passed  nine  years  in  Concord  and 
two  years  in  Chichester.  I-^rom  Chichester  he 
returned  to  the  old  farm.  He  has  here  carried 
on  general  farming  and  lumbering,  making 
somewhat  of  a  specialty  of  the  latter.  He  has 
added  to  the  place,  so  that  it  now  contains 
about  a  thousand  acres  and  lies  on  both  sides 
of  the  Contoocook  River.  He  has  rebuilt  the 
mill,  and  operates  it  according  to  demand. 
The  timber  is  very  valuable,  and  the  new 
growth  quickly  becomes  available  on  account 
of  its  rapid  increase.  He  recently  sold  the 
stumpage  on  two  hundred  acres  for  sixteen 
thousand  five  hundred  dollars. 

He  has  always  shown  himself  to  be  a  public- 
spirited  man,  and  has  filled  many  offices  of 
trust.  In  1852-53  he  was  Selectman  and 
in  1S54  Councilman.  In  1879  he  was  elected 
to  the  State  legislature.  He  is  not  actively 
identified  with  church  interests,  but  his  wife 
is  a  stirring  worker  in  the  Methodist  Episco- 
pal church.  He  has  always  been  a  stanch 
Republican. 

Mr.  Chase  was  married  March  16,  1852,  to 
Martha  R.,  daughter  of  Charles  C.  and  Olive 
(Crockett)  Hennett.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Bennett, 
both  natives  of  Freedom,  N.  H.,  were  married 
in  that  town,  and  settled  on  a  farm  in  Concord 
when   Martha   was   two  years   old.      The   latter 


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was  Iioin  in  I'VcccIom,  July  9,  1834.  Her 
niotlicr  lived  with  lier  after  Martha's  marriage, 
ami  (lied  Noveiiibcr  19,  I S96,  at  the  advanced 
age  of  eighty.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Chase  have  two 
children,  a  son  and  a  daughter.  The  son, 
l'"red  Harvey  Chase,  is  with  the  family  on  the 
faini,  and  also  has  a  steam-mill  at  (iilsum, 
near  Keene.  He  is  quite  a  successful  business 
man.  The  daughter,  Mattie  Olive  Chase, 
after  graduating  from  the  Warner  High 
.School,  took  a  training-school  course,  and 
afterward  taught  for  four  years  in  the  Concord 
schools.  -She  was  married  March  17,  1897,  to 
Joseph  Newton  Abbott,  son  of  Isaac  N.  Ab- 
bott, of  Concord.  Two  other  children  of  Mr. 
Chase  were :  Mary  Jane,  who  died  aged  four- 
teen ;  and  Georgiana,  who  died  when  ten  years 
old.  l'"red  llar\-ey  Cha.se,  the  only  son,  who 
resides  with  his  parents,  owns  a  steam-mill  at 
Gilsum,  near  Keene.  He  was  married  March 
10,  1897,  to  Lillian  Idella  Jackman,  of  Con- 
CDi'd,  daughter  of  l-'.noch  and  Mary  K. 
(Moody)  Jackman.  .She  graduated  al  the 
Concortl  High  School,  was  subsequently  a  stu- 
dent of  the  Concord  Normal  School  and  a 
teacher  of  the  Walker  School  in  that  city. 
Mr.  Chase,  Sr. ,  who  is  one  of  the  sturdy, 
reliable,  and  hearty  sort  of  men,  has  made  a 
splenditl  success  of  his  material  life.  He 
stands  high  in  the  regard  of  his  townsmen, 
and  well  deserves  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  all. 


|EV.  JOHN  VANNEVAI?,  born  in 
South  Maiden,  now  Everett,  Mass., 
L^  V_^  on  June  23,  1857,  was  the  youngest 
of  three  children  of  Aaron  15.  and  Dorothy  G. 
Vannevar,  both  of  whom  were  born  in  Am- 
herst, Mas.s.  He  lived  in  the  place  of  his 
birth  until  twelve  years  of  age,  when  the  fam- 
ily moved  to  Summer  Street,  Maiden.  He 
was  educated   in   the   public  schools,  complet- 


ing the  college  course  in  the  Maiden  High 
School  and  graduating  in  1876.  He  then 
entered  Tufts  College,  graduating  with  the 
degree  of  ]iachelor  of  Divinity  in  j88o,  and 
taking  a  post-graduate  course  of  one  year.  He 
was  ordained  to  the  work  of  the  Christian  min- 
istry of  the  Univer.salist  church  in  the  home 
church  of  that  faith  in  Maiden  on  November 
23,  1880.  Called  to  the  pastorate  of  the  Uni- 
versalist  society  in  Amesbury  in  the  summer  of 
1 88 1,  he  remained  there  two  years,  during 
which  period  he  was  married  to  Gertrude  F. 
Swasey,  of  Maiden.  Hecause  of  impaired 
health  the  winter  of  1883  and  1884  was  .spent 
in  Florida.  Soon  after  returning,  he  accepted 
a  call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  First  Universal ist 
Society  of  Canton,  Mass.,  where  were  born  a 
son  and  a  daughter.  In  the  winter  of  1887, 
because  of  a  bronchial  affection,  a  leave  of  ab- 
sence was  granted  him  ;  and  he  spent  a  portion 
of  the  cold  season  in  Southern  California,  but 
was  suddenly  callcil  home  by  the  illness  of 
Mrs.  Vannevar's  mother.  The  month  of 
March  was  passed  in  Lakewood,  N.J.,  where 
so  much  benefit  was  received  that  pastoral  work 
was  immediately  resumed.  In  the  fall  of 
1892  he  resigned  the  Canton  pastorate,  after 
nine  years  of  service,  and,  in  answer  to  a  crav- 
ing long  possessed,  ])urchased  a  large  farm  in 
East  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  moved  thereon  in 
October.  Three  years  of  farm  life  ended  with 
a  yearning  for  a  return  to  jnilpit  work;  and  a 
call  to  the  pastorate  of  the  White  Memorial 
(Universalist)  Church  of  Concord  was  ac- 
cepted in  the  summer  of  1895,  and  work 
begun  in  the  following  SeiJtember.  In  April, 
1S96,  a  daughter  was  born,  and  the  following 
summer  was  spent  in  Europe.  Soon  after 
assuming  charge  of  the  Concord  parish,  resi- 
dence w^as  taken  up  in  the  city,  where  among 
a  kindly  people  the  days  and  weeks  are  being 
pleasantly  passed. 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


IIARLKS  M.  ROLFK,  a  well-known 
manufacturer  of  Concord,  is  a  native 
of  this  city,  born  August  i8,  1S41, 
son  of  Nathaniel  and  Mary  J.  (Moody)  Rolfe. 
His  paternal  grandfather,  also  named  Nathan- 
iel, was  one  of  the  pioneer  settlers  of  Concord, 
and  came  here  from  Haverhill,  Mass.  He  se- 
cured the  first  water-power  operated  on  the 
Merrimack  River,  and  carried  on  a  consider- 
able lumbering  business  besides  being  engaged 
in  farming.  This  water-power  is  still  in  pos- 
session of  the  family,  and  has  been  for  the 
past  seventy-fi\'e  years.  Grandfather  Rolfe 
died  in  1829,  full  of  years  and  honor,  and  left 
to  his  sons  the  valuable  water  privilege  above 
mentioned,  besides  a  large  tract  of  timber 
land.  Nathaniel  Rolfe,  Jr.,  father  of  Charles 
M.,  was  also  a  farmer  and  lumberman.  He 
carried  on  a  large  trade,  and  furnished  lumber 
for  the  frames  of  many  of  the  great  mills  at 
Lawrence  and  Lowell,  Mass.  He  is  still 
living,  a  hale  and  hearty  man,  at  the  age  of 
eighty-three  years.  His  wife  was  Miss  Mary 
J.  Moody,  a  daughter  of  Joseph  Moody,  of 
Canterbury.  She  became  the  mother  of  si.x 
children  —  Charles,  Joseph,  Abial,  John, 
Mary,  and  Artiiur.  Mary  died  at  the  age  of 
nine  years.  Joseph  was  a  New  Hampshire 
sharpshooter  in  the  Civil  War,  and  saw  much 
active  service.  He  is  now  a  resident  of 
Minneapolis,  Minn.,  where  he  deals  in  real 
estate  and  operates  a  plant  for  the  manufacture 
of  dredging  machines.  He  has  held  many 
responsible  positions  there,  having  been 
County  Clerk  and  a  member  of  the  School 
Hoard.  Abial  Rolfe  is  in  lousiness  with  his 
brother  Charles.  He  married  Georgie  J. 
Gage,  daughter  of  Isaac  K.  (lage,  and  has 
three  sons —  Harry,   Herbert,  and  Fred. 

In  1866  Charles  Rolfe,  in  company  with  his 
brother  Abial,  established  the  door,  sash,  and 
blind  mill    which   they   still   carry  on.      They 


do  a  large  business,  employing  abuiit  fifty 
men.  The)'  also  carry  on  general  farming  to 
quite  an  extent.  Mr.  Rolfe  married  Maria 
L.  Morrison,  and  has  three  sons — Harlow, 
Henry,  and  Ben  ;  and  a  daughter,  Mary,  who 
is  now  a  medical  student  in  Boston. 

Mr.  Rolfe  has  taken  an  active  part  in  pub- 
lic affairs,  and  has  capably  filled  the  office  of 
Town  Treasurer,  and  also  that  of  Treasurer  of 
the  Boscawen  schools.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Independent  Order  of  Odd  Fellows,  being  an 
active  worker  in  the  organization.  He  also 
belongs  to  I  Just  in  Island  Grange,  P.  of  H.,  of 
Penacook.  In  religious  faith  he  is  a  Congre- 
gationalist.  In  jDolitics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and 
cast  his  first  Presidential  vote  for  General 
McClellan  in  1S64. 


ILLIAM  P.  WOOD,  a  farmer  of 
Plainfield,  was  born  here,  Decem- 
ber 29,  1859,  son  of  Alban  Palmer 
and  Rhoda  (Eaton)  Wood,  of  this  town.  His 
grandfather,  John  Wood  was  the  first  male 
child  born  in  Lebanon,  N.  H.  John  was  one 
of  the  foremost  and  wealthiest  farmers  in  the 
district  and  a  very  religious  n)an.  He  mar- 
ried Persis  Hyde,  of  Lebanon,  who  bore  him 
eleven  children;  namely,  Persis,  John,  Jr., 
Lucinda,  Jemima,  Sally,  Thomas,  Annie, 
Harriet,  Martha,  Palmer,  and  one  child  who 
died  in  infancy.  Persis,  who  was  born  in 
1797,  and  did  not  marry,  died  at  the  age  of 
fifty.  John  Wood,  Jr.,  born  in  1799,  who 
became  a  very  prosperous  farmer  and  a  promi- 
nent man  in  Lebanon,  served  in  all  the  town 
offices,  and  was  a  Representative  to  the  Gen- 
eral Court.  He  married  .Sylvia  Whittaker, 
ami  had  two  sons  —  John  and  Joseph.  Lu- 
cinda, born  in  1801,  married  .Samuel  Wood,  of 
Lebanon,  a  wealthy  farmer  and  real  estate 
owner,    and   had    two    chikhen  —  Hannah    and 


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527 


Cl;ir,i.  Jemima,  limii  in  1.S03,  rn.'inicd  Isaac 
Loiglilmi,  a  laiiiici  ol  llartlurd,  Vt.  Sally, 
jjorn  in  1M05,  liccamc  Mrs.  Silas  Waterman, 
ui  Lclianiin.  riiomas,  burn  in  iSio,  who  be- 
came a  wealthy  farmer  antl  si)ecnIator  of  Leba- 
non, married  Joanna  Davis,  and  had  two 
daughters.  Annie,  born  in  i<Si2,  died  at  the 
age  of  si.\.  Ifairiet,  born  in  18 14,  married 
Allen  II.  Wekl,  of  Lebanon,  who  was  first  a 
professor  in  a  seminary  of  that  town,  and  later  a 
farmer  and  the  Superintendent  of  Schools  for 
the  comity  of  St.  Croi.x,  Wisconsin.  Their 
son,  Allen  Palmer  Weld,  i)ecame  a  lawyer  in 
River  Falls,  Wis.,  and  is  now  Judge  of  Pro- 
bate. Martha,  born  in  i,Si6,  was  unmarried, 
and  resided  with  her  brother  Thomas. 

Alban  Palmer  Wood,  born  January  28, 
1819,  received  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
Lebanon,  and  afterward  taught  school  for  some 
years.  He  then  went  to  Plainfield  and  took 
charge  of  a  farm.  Formerly  he  raised  large 
numbers  of  sheep,  when  sheep-raising  was  a 
profitable  industry  for  the  New  I-jigland 
farmer.  He  has  filled  many  public  positions 
in  his  town,  and  he  has  been  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  for  more  than  thirty  years.  An  attend- 
ant of  the  Baptist  church,  he  is  ever  reaily  to 
support  it  financially  as  well  as  morally.  A 
Mason  of  Cheshire  Lodge,  No.  23,  of  Cornish 
F''lat,  he  has  held  all  the  offices  in  that  body, 
and  is  very  popular  in  the  fraternity.  His 
wife,  Rhoda,  who,  born  in  1822,  died  April  25, 
1S90,  had  five  children  —  Alma,  William  P., 
Alban  A.,  Frank  H.,  and  Byron  Hayden. 
Alma  H.,  born  November  15,  1853,  taught 
school  for  many  years  with  remarkable  suc- 
cess, and  is  now  living  with  her  father. 
Alban  A.,  born  May  15,  1856,  settled  in 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  after  his  marriage,  and  was 
an  overseer  there.  His  wife,  Grace  V.,  born 
in  1857,  died  July  4,  1S91.  He  now  makes 
his  home  with  his  father,  and  has  two  children 


--Gertie  L.  and  Byron  M.  liyion  i  hiy<lcn, 
born  May  9,  1868,  is  an  engineer  in  tiic 
emjjloy  of  the  B(»ston  &  Maine  Railroad  Com- 
jiany,  running  from  West  Lebanon  t<i  Concord 
on  one  of  the  e.xjjress  trains,  lie  married 
Hattie  Ilurlburt,  of  West  Lebanon,  and  has 
two  children. 

William  P.  Wood  was  a  |nii)il  of  the  cr)ni- 
nion  schools  and  Kimball  Academy.  Ujion 
finishing  school,  he  went  to  Boston,  and  was 
for  a  time  employed  as  a  private  secretary. 
His  health  failing,  he  came  back  to  New 
Hani|)shire,  and  at  Meriden  conducted  for 
some  time  the  store  now  managed  by  Chellis 
&  Stickney.  He  then  took  charge  of  the  farm 
he  is  now  ojjerating,  and  has  since  been  en- 
gaged in  agriculture  and  dairying.  Mr.  Wood 
is  respected  as  a  citizen.  On  November  2, 
1886,  he  married  Minnie  B.  Bean,  whose 
father,  Samuel  Bean,  is  a  wealthy  resident  of 
Lebanon,  now  retired  from  active  business. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wood  have  no  children.  Mr. 
Wood  is  a  Mason,  having  membershij)  in 
Cheshire  Lodge,  No.  23,  in  which  he  has  held 
all  the  offices,  and  which  he  has  represented 
in  the  Grand  Lodge.  He  attends  the  Baptist 
church. 


BENEZER  LOVEREN,  a  practical 
farmer  of  Hopkinton,  was  born  here, 
F'ebruary  27,  1827,  son  of  Cajitain 
Benjamin  and  Esther  (Bartlett)  Loveren,  his 
parents  being  originally  from  Deering,  Hills- 
borough County.  His  paternal  grandparents 
were  Flbenezer  and  Eunice  (Iladlock)  Loveren, 
who  removed  from  Kensington,  N.  H.,  to 
Deering,  where  they  settled.  A  separate 
sketch  of  Captain  Benjamin  Loveren  appears 
on  another  page  of  this  volume. 

libenezer  Loveren  was  the  only  child  of  his 
parents,  and  was  born  on  the  farm  where  he 
now  lives  and  where  he  has  spent  his   life  up 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


to  the  present  time.  Tlie  house  in  which  he 
resides,  however,  is  not  the  old  original  farm- 
house, it  having  been  built  by  his  father  in 
1S44.  It  is  the  place  in  which  Captain  Ben- 
jamin Loveren  passed  his  last  moments. 
Ebenezer  assisted  his  father  on  the  farm  until 
the  death  of  the  latter,  when  he  took  charge  of 
the  property,  which  he  has  since  improved. 
To  the  original  farm  has  been  added  one-hun- 
dred acres,  its  present  size  being  three  hundred 
acres.  Mr.  Loveren  owns  also  a  two  hun- 
dred-acre lot  of  pasture  land  in  the  town  of 
Webster,  of  which  he  makes  profitable  use, 
besides  about  three  hundred  acres  in  towns 
near  by.  Besides  carrying  on  general  farming, 
he  does  a  large  trade  in  milk;  and  throughout 
his  career  he  has  shown  a  high  degree  of  busi- 
ness ability  in  increasing  his  worldly  posses- 
sions, having  acquired  quite  a  large  amount 
of  property  in  addition  to  his  real  estate. 

Mr.  Loveren  has  never  married.  He  has 
never  cared  for  public  life,  and  does  not  ex- 
press any  political  preferences.  His  house- 
hold affairs  have  been  most  ably  conducted  for 
the  past  fifteen  years  by  a  valued  housekeeper, 
Miss  M.  Esther  Buswell,  during  the  first  three 
years  of  which  period  his  father  was  living 
and  formed  a  part  of  the  domestic  circle. 


TT^APTAIN  BENJAMIN  LOVEREN, 
I    jr'^      who  for  nearly  si.xty  years  was  one  of 

V>r  ^  the  best-known  and  most  highly 
esteemed  citizens  of  Hopkinton,  was  born  in 
Deering,  Hillsborough  County,  N. H.,  Sep- 
tember II,  1805,  son  of  Ebenezer  and  Eunice 
(Hadlock)  Loveren.  He  was  reared  to  agri- 
cultural pursuits,  and  also  became  a  noted 
school  teacher,  following  that  occupation  very 
successfully  for  several  years.  Soon  after 
attaining  his  majority,  or  in  December,  1826, 
he  came  to   Hopkinton,  where  he   took    up  his 


residence;  and  he  remained  here  until  his  death 
on  May  14,  1885.  Beginning  with  about  one 
hundred  acres  of  land,  he  added  in  course  of 
time  two  hundred  acres  more,  and  also  became 
the  owner  of  some  twenty  thousand  dollars' 
worth  of  other  property.  His  h<5me  was  in 
the  Tyler  district,  where  his  only  child, 
Ebenezer,  now  resides;  and  he  was  known  as 
one  of  the  most  prosperous  farmers  in  the  town. 
His  title  of  Captain  was  acquired  in  the  State 
militia,  in  which  he  served  efficiently  for  three 
years  or  more.  Recognized  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen  as  a  man  of  integrity,  sound  judg- 
ment, and  good  business  capacity,  he  was  chosen 
by  them  to  serve  first  as  Selectman,  and  in 
1848-49  as  Representative  of  Hopkinton  in  the 
State  legislature.  He  was  also  a  delegate  to 
the  Constitutional  Convention  held  soon  after 
the  above-mentioned  date. 

In  1826,  the  year  in  which  he  came  to  Hop- 
kinton, he  married  Miss  Esther  Bartlctt, 
daughter  of  Solomon  and  Anna  (Stevens)  Bart- 
lett,  of  Deering.  She  died  four  years  before 
her  husband,  passing  away  October  29,  1881, 
at  the  age  of  seventy-seven  years.  They  were 
the  parents  of  one  child,  Ebenezer,  already 
mentioned,  who  inherits  many  of  his  father's 
best  traits  of  character,  and  a  sketch  of  whom 
may  be  found  on  another  page  of  this  volume. 
Captain  Loveren  had  one  sister  and  one 
brother,  John  Loveren,  who  resided  on  the  old 
homestead  in  Deering,  N.  H.  His  wife  had 
three  brothers  and  eight  sisters  born  on  the 
old  homestead  in  Deering. 


BIATHAR  RICHARDS,  a  retired 
merchant  of  Newport,  was  born  here, 
October  8,  1825,  son  of  Seth  and 
Fanny  Richards,  of  Dedham,  Mass.  He  is 
descended  from  Edward  Richards,  one  of  the 
twelve  immigrants  bearing  that  surname,  who, 


ABIATHAR     RICHARDS. 


BIOGRAPHICAL    KEVJ KVV 


S3' 


according  to  the  records  of  the  New  I'jiglaiul 
Ilisloric  Genealogical  Society,  originally  came 
fniin  I'jiglaiul  to  this  country  at  dilfcrcnt  times 
ill  the  jieriod  between  1630  and  172.S,  and 
whose  descendants  are  to-day  represented  in 
the  learned  professions,  the  arts,  commerce, 
and  the  gencial  business  of  the  country.  lid- 
ward  Richards,  who  arrived  in  1632,  was  the 
sixth  of  the  twelve  referred  to.  With  him,  a 
felliiw-passenger  on  the  .ship  "IJon,"  was 
his  brother  Nathaniel,  who  afterward  joined 
the  party  led  by  the  Rev.  Mr.  Hooker  through 
the  wilderness  to  the  valley  of  the  Connecti- 
cut, and  was  among  the  foimders  ot  Hartford. 
While  a  resident  of  Cambridge,  Mass.,  on 
September  10,  1638,  Edward  married  Susan 
Hunting.  He  was  afterward  one  of  the  sixty- 
two  original  proprietors  of  the  town  of  Ded- 
ham,  near  Boston,  where  many  of  his  descend- 
ants are  to  be  found  td-day.  He  spent  the  rest 
(it  his  life  in  Detlham,  anil  died  theie  in  1G.S4. 
l'"i(im  Edward  the  line  nf  descent  comes 
through  John  (first),  John  (second),  John 
(third),  and  Abiathar  to  the  sixth  generation, 
represented  by  Sylvanus,  wlm  in  the  begin- 
ning of  this  century  moved  with  his  family  to 
Newport,  N.  H.,  and  settled  on  a  large  tract  of 
land  in  the  western  part  of  the  township,  on 
what  is  known  as  the  "old  road  "  to  Clare- 
mont.  Sylvanus  Richards  was  for  some  years 
one  of  the  largest  land-owners  and  tax-payers  in 
the  town.  In  addition  to  conducting  his  farm 
he  kept  a  wayside  inn.  About  the  year  1812 
he  moved  to  Newport  village,  and  there  be- 
came the  proprietor  of  the  Rising  Sun  Tavern. 
His  wife,  Lucy  I'iichardson  J^ichards,  bore 
him  four  children.  Of  these  Seth  Richards, 
born  in  Dedham,  February  20,  1792,  grew  up, 
and  ultimately  succeeded  to  the  proprietorship 
of  the  Rising  Sun.  Captain  Seth  Richards, 
the  name  by  which  Seth  was  generally  known, 
was  an  active  business  man  of  strict  integrity, 


yet  genial  and  benevolent,  a  gentleman  of  the 
okl  school.  He  was  often  called  on  for  ser- 
vice in  town  offices,  and  in  1.S33  he  was  chosen 
to  represent  the  community  in  the  State  legis- 
lature. After  a  time  he  gave  u|)  the  hotel  and 
turned  his  attention  to  store  keeping.  In  1835, 
when  the  Cheneys  retired  from  Newport,  he 
purchased  their  stock  in  trade,  together  with 
the  old  stand,  and  afterward  carried  on  the 
business  successfully  for  many  years.  He 
relinquished  this  occupation  in  1853,  when  he 
became  interested  in  the  Sugar  River  l-'lannel 
Mills.  I'"inally  he  retired  from  active  life  about 
the  year  1867.  Captain  Richards  married  April 
8,  1817,  Fanny  Richards,  of  Dedham.  They 
had  two  sons  and  si.\  daughters.  One  of  the 
sons  was  the  Hon.  Dexter  Richards,  who  is  well 
known  throughout  the  State  in  business,  social, 
political,  and  philanthropic  circles. 

Abiathar  Richards,  the  younger  of  his  par- 
ents' two  sons,  attcndcti  the  schools  of  New- 
port, and  was  given  a  term  at  the  Windsor 
Academy,  Vermont.  He  began  his  mercantile 
career  at  the  age  of  seventeen  as  a  clerk.  At 
the  age  of  thirty,  he  oi)ened  a  general  store  in 
Newport,  which  he  afterward  carried  on  most 
successfully  for  many  years.  In  the  year  1895 
he  retired  from  active  business,  and  he  has 
since  been  enjoying  a  well-earned  rest  in  his 
beautiful  home  in  Newport.  He  was  married 
February  7,  1854,  to  Esther  A.  Durant,  who 
was  born  December  16,  1830,  daughter  of 
Isaiah  and  Esther  C.  (Reed)  Durant,  of  Lang- 
don,  N.  H.  He  has  two  sons — I'red  W.  and 
Dexter  A.  Fred  W. ,  born  in  Newport, 
January  31,  1856,  who  is  in  business  at 
Omaha,  Neb.,  married  Sarah  E.  Barton,  of 
Newport,  who  has  had  one  daughter,  Chris- 
tine, born  October  30,  1883.  De.vter  A., 
born  in  Cambridgeport,  Mass.,  November  11, 
1868,  who  is  a  travelling  salesman  for  a  drug 
firm,   married  Ella    M.    Furlong,    of    Charles- 


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BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


town,  Mass.  ]\Irs.  Richards  is  a  member  uf 
the  Congregational  church.  The  father,  Abi- 
athar  Richards,  is  a  Democrat  in  politics. 
For  forty-seven  years  he  has  been  a  Mason  of 
Mount  Vernon  Lodge,  and  has  served  in  many 
of  its  offices.  He  is  also  connected  with  the 
Knights  of  Honor,  Mount  Coit  Lodge,  No. 
86.  A  prominent  man  of  his  town,  a  good 
citizen,  and  a  fine  old  gentleman,  Mr.  Rich- 
ards  is  a  worthy  representative   of   the  family. 


ILLIAM  W.  AUSTIN,  a  farmer 
and  drover  of  Webster,  N.  H.,  the 
son  of  Eldad  and  Naomi  Austin,  was 
born  in  Webster,  then  a  part  of  Boscawen, 
July  I,  1829.  His  grandfather,  Paul  Austin, 
of  Georgetown,  Mass.,  was  one  of  the  first 
settlers  of  the  town.  Taking  up  land  when 
the  country  around  it  was  a  wilderness,  he 
cleared  and  brought  under  cultivation  the  large 
farm  where  the  subject  of  this  sketch  now 
lives.  He  died  in  1852;  and  his  wife,  Me- 
hitable  Lowell,  of  Georgetown,  died  in  1829. 
They  had  eight  children  —  John,  Sallie,  Doro- 
thy, Eldad,  Eunice,  Mary  Ann,  William,  and 
Samuel. 

Eldad,  the  second  son,  and  the  father  of  Mr. 
William  W.  Austin,  adopted  farming  as  his 
occupation,  and  remained  at  home  with  his 
parents  until  his  marriage,  when  he  bought  a 
farm  near  by,  where  he  spent  the  rest  of  his 
life.  He  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Congregational 
church  at  Webster  for  forty  years.  He  died 
April  15,  1883,  at  the  age  of  eighty-three. 
His  wife,  Naomi,  a  native  of  Webster,  died 
August  15,  1891,  aged  eighty-nine.  They  are 
survived  by  two  of  their  children,  namely; 
Mary  Ann,  whose  husband,  Sherman  Little, 
died  September  20,  1895;  and  William  W., 
of  whom   we  shall    now  speak. 

William    W.    Austin   received   his   advanced 


educaticjn  at  Kimball  Lfnion  Academy,  Meri- 
den,  N.  H.  He  lived  at  home  until  he  was 
twenty-eight  years  of  age,  when  he  began  to 
buy  and  sell  cattle,  going  to  Brighton  and 
Watertown  markets.  He  also  dealt  exten- 
sively in  lumber,  and  was  on  the  road  the 
greater  part  of  the  time.  He  was  in  this 
business  up  to  about  four  years  ago,  but  since 
then  he  has  engaged  in  general  farming  and 
the  milk  business.  His  farm  consists  of  about 
two  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  well-improved 
land,  and  the  buildings  are  new  and  substan- 
tial. He  keeps  on  an  average  twenty  cows, 
and  sells  his  milk  to  Whiting  &  Sons.  In 
politics  Mr.  Austin  is  a  stanch  Republican, 
and  he  always  takes  an  active  interest  in  pub- 
lic affairs.  He  represented  his  district  in  the 
legislature  in  1S85,  and  he  has  been  Select- 
man in  the  town  for  eight  years.  He  is  con- 
nected with  the  Masonic  order,  being  a 
member  of  Harris  Lodge,  No.  91,  A.  F.  & 
A.   M.,  of  Warner,  N.H. 

He  was  married  January  i,  1857,  to  Miss 
Abbie  Cook  Morse,  a  daughter  of  .Samuel  and 
Judith  Morse,  of  Craftsbury,  Vt.  By  this 
union  he  had  four  children,  namely:  George 
S.,  born  September  27,  1858,  who  died  March 
12,  1894;  Henry  Herbert,  who  was  born  No- 
vember 19,  1862,  was  graduated  from  Dart- 
mouth College  in  1SS5,  married  Hattie  Stott, 
and  lives  in  Arlington,  Mass.,  where  he  is 
engaged  as  a  civil  engineer;  Mary  Abbie, 
born  October  29,  1864,  now  a  nurse  living  in 
Boston;  and  Louisa,  born  January  29,  1867, 
who  lives  at  home  with  her  father.  Mrs. 
Abbie  C.  Austin  died  October  21,  iS8o;  and 
Mr.  Austin  was  again  nuuried  April  25,  1SS2, 
to  Alma  E. ,  the  daughter  of  luastus  and  Eliz- 
abeth (Morse)  Blanchard,  of  Vermont.  She 
was  born  in  Greensboro,  Vt.,  January  13,  1849. 
Both  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Austin  are  members  of  the 
Congregational  church  in  Webster  village. 


BIOGRAI'irifAJ,    REVIEW 


533 


\r\)  f  WAAAW  IIAI.I.,  ihr  enterprising 
ludprictdr  (jf  I  .aiif^ddii  Creamery, 
I.iiiigiliin,  N.ll.,  anil  dealer  in 
butter,  cream,  milk,  eg^s,  ciiiekeiis,  purk,  and 
other  farm  and  dairy  products,  was  born  in 
Claremont,  this  State,  IVIarch  23,  1850.  He 
is  a  son  of  Jonathan  and  Caroline  I,.  (I.eet) 
liall  and  a  descendant  of  one  of  the  oldest 
families  in  Sullivan  County. 

Both  his  grandfather  and  his  great-grand- 
father Ilall  i)ore  the  Ciiristian  name  of  Jona- 
than. Grandfather  Hall  was  born  August  25, 
1776,  in  Spencer,  Mass.,  whence  he  came  to 
I.aiigdon  when  a  young  man.  lie  afterward 
I'cmoved  to  Claremont,  where  lie  died  in  1854. 
In  his  active  years  he  followed  the  occupations 
of  a  farmer,  carpenter,  and  cooper;  and  he 
fought  in  the  War  of  181  2.  He  married  Sally 
Prouty,  whose  father  was  a  very  influential 
citizen  of  Spencer,  Mass.  She  was  born  in 
1779,  and  died  in  1871.  They  were  the 
jjarents  of  eleven  children,  two  sons  and  nine 
daughters,  Jonathan,  third,  being  the  )'oungest 
son. 

Jonathan  Hall,  third,  was  born  in  I^angdon, 
June  19,  KS15,  and  is  now  living  in  Keene, 
N.H.  After  leaving  school,  he  learned  the 
trade  of  a  shoemaker  and  later  that  of  a  car- 
penter. Since  then  he  has  been  variously  em- 
ployed as  an  architect,  inventor,  manufact- 
urer, and  millwright.  Many  of  the  machines 
built  by  C.  B.  Rogers,  of  Norwich,  Conn., 
were  designed  by  him.  He  was  the  bulkier 
of  the  only  floating  saw-mill  known  and  built 
in  Quebec,  and  the  largest  saw-mill  in  that 
Province,  over  one  hundred  men  being  em- 
ployed in  the  constructiini  work.  Mention 
should  also  he  made  of  the  Orcutt,  Charles 
iSridgeman,  and  Sprague  Hlocks  in  Keene, 
besides  a  number  of  other  buildings  in  that 
cit)-  and  in  I.angclon.  Though  strong-willed 
anil    somewhat     stern    in    his    bearing,    he    is 


known  as  a  m.in  ot  high  moral  principles,  and 
is  an  honorefl  atui  respected  citizen.  In  po- 
litical views  he  is  a  Republican,  i)iit  his  life 
work  has  lain  in  other  fields  than  tiiat  of  p(j|i- 
tics.  He  is  a  member  of  the  Second  Advent 
church. 

His  Wife,  Caroline  L.,  is  a  daughter  of 
Andrew  I.eet,  of  Claremont,  X.H.,  a  de- 
scendant of  Governor  Lcctc,  of  Connecticut. 
She  was  born  in  1S18.  They  have  hatl  six 
children,  all  boys,  as  follows:  Leonard  T., 
Edward,  Franklin,  William,  Henry,  and  l*'red, 
of  whom  the  three  eldest  served  in  the  Re- 
bellion, and  I-'ranklin,  born  in  Claremont, 
ilied  of  starvation  in  .'\ndersonville  Prison. 
Leonard  T. ,  born  in  Drewsville,  Cheshire 
County,  was  in  the  Third  New  Hampshire 
Infantry.  After  the  war  he  became  a  harness- 
maker,  and  subsequently  followed  that  occupa- 
tion. Dying  in  1892,  he  left  a  widow  and 
two  children.  Edward  Hall,  also  a  native  of 
Drewsville,  who  was  in  the  Second  New 
Hampshire  Regiment,  was  a  machinist  in 
Claremont.  He  died  in  1870,  and  is  survived 
by  four  children.  Henry,  born  in  Claremont, 
is  a  farmer  in  Alstead,  is  married,  and  has 
two  children.  Frederick,  born  in  Claremont, 
who  died  in  1885,  was  a  carpenter  in  Keene. 
He  married,  and  had  one  child  that  died  in 
infancy. 

William  Hall  acquired  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  Keene  and  Swanzcy,  N.H.,  after 
which  he  worked  at  wood-turning  three  years. 
He  then  took  up  carpentry,  which  he  followed 
with  his  father  for  a  time;  and  later  he  be- 
came interested  with  him  in  the  manufacture 
of  farming  tools  at  Keene.  Seven  years  ago 
he  purchased  the  farm  he  now  occupies ;  and 
for  the  past  three  years,  in  addition  to  farm- 
ing, he  has  carried  on  an  extensive  business 
as  proprietor  and  manager  of  the  Langdon 
Creamerv- 


534 


BlOGRAl'UKAI.    REVIEW 


Mr.  Hall  married  Mamie  L.  Johnson,  of 
Svvanzey,  N.  H.,  who  was  born  in  1855  in 
Marlboro,  N.H.  Their  five  children  are  all 
living,  namely:  Cyrene,  born  in  1876;  James 
A.,  born  in  1878;  Jonathan,  born  in  1880; 
Ira  A.,  born  in  1S84;  and  Emery  Wyman, 
born  in  1S93.  At  the  present  time  Mr.  Hall 
is  serving  as  a  Selectman  of  the  town,  also  as 
a  member  of  the  School  Board.  Honest  and 
temperate,  like  his  father,  he  is  highly  es- 
teemed as  a  useful  citizen  and  a  good 
neiirhbor. 


tLBION  H.  FRENCH,  M.D.,  a  well- 
known  physician  of  Pittsfield,  was 
^__^  born  in  Gilmanton  N.  H.,  March 
27,  1847,  son  of  Thomas  H.  and  Sarah  Ann 
(Brown)  French.  His  great-grandfather, 
Ezekiel  French,  an  Englishman,  who  was  a 
pioneer  of  either  Loudon  or  Hampton,  N.  H., 
spent  his  last  days  in  Loudon,  where  he 
owned  a  farm.  The  second  of  EzekieTs  two 
marriages  was  contracted  with  Sallie  Smith. 
His  son  John  was  a  native  of  Loudon.  When 
a  young  man,  John  settled  in  Gilmanton, 
where  he  became  a  wealthy  farmer,  and  died 
at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years.  He  married 
Lucy  T.  Prescott,  who  lived  to  the  advanced 
age  of  ninety-three  or  ninety-four  years.  She 
reared  five  children,  of  whom  Thomas  H., 
Albion  H.  French's  father,  was  the  eldest. 
Of  these  children  the  survivors  are:  Ann  M., 
the  widow  of  William  Brackett,  late  of 
Epsom,  N.  H.;  and  Warren  B.  The  other 
two  sons,  John  O.  and  Samuel  P.,  were  grad- 
uates of  Dartmouth  College  and  physicians. 
In  the  latter  part  of  his  life  the  father  was 
a  Republican.  Both  he  and  his  wife  were 
members  of  the   Congregational   church. 

Thomas  H.  P'rench  was  born  in  Gilmanton 
in  I  Si  5.  In  early  manhood  he  engaged  in 
agriculture  with   a   determination   to   succeed. 


He  was  rajiidly  becoming  prosjierous  when  he 
died,  in  the  j^rime  of  life,  aged  thirty-seven 
years.  He  held  a  Captain's  commission  in  the 
State  militia,  and  was  about  to  be  promoted 
at  the  time  of  his  death.  Politically,  he  acted 
with  the  Republican  party.  His  wife,  Sarah 
Ann,  who  was  a  daughter  of  Richard  Brown, 
of  Loudon,  became  the  mother  of  five  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Merven  E.  and  Albion  H.  are 
living.  Merven  E.  French  married  Addie  M. 
Gilman,  and  has  three  children  —  John  H., 
Mabel,  and  William  A.  Mrs.  Thomas  H. 
French  died  at  about  the  same  age  as  her  hus- 
band. She  was  a  member  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church. 

Albion  H.  French  attended  the  academies 
in  Pembroke  and  Pittsfield  and  the  Northwood 
Seminary.  He  fitted  for  college  at  the  Gil- 
manton Academy,  took  a  partial  college  course 
under  Professor  E.  R.  Avery  of  Tilton  Semi- 
nary and  at  the  University  of  Vermont.  Then 
he  entered  the  medical  department  of  the 
University,  from  which  he  was  graduated  with 
the  class  of  1875.  After  that  he  pursued  his 
medical  studies  at  Long  Island  and  New  York 
City.  He  was  a  delegate  to  the  National 
Medical  Convention  in  New  York  City  in  1880. 
The  first  eight  years  of  professional  life  were 
passed  in  Epsom,  N.H.  From  that  town  he 
moved  to  Leominster,  Mass.,  where  he  prac- 
tised four  years.  After  residing  in  Gilmanton 
for  a  short  time  on  account  of  poor  health, 
he  in  1892  located  in  Pittsfield  and  has 
since  remained  here.  He  is  regarded  as  a 
skilful  and  reliable  physician.  He  has  a 
large  and  lucrative  practice,  and  is  much 
sought  for  in  all  the  adjoining  towns. 

Dr.  French  has  been  twice  married.  His 
first  marriage  was  contracted  September  23, 
1873,  with  Emogene  F.  Grant,  a  native  of 
(jilmanton.  She  died  at  the  age  of  forty-one 
years,    leaving   one   daughter,    Ethel    M.      Dr. 


lUOORAl'JIICAL    REVIFAV 


S3S 


I'^rciich  was  again  married  on  September  19, 
1892,  to  Lila  M.  Thompson,  of  Chichester, 
N.ll.  Ill  jiolilics  Dr.  I'"rench  supports  the 
I\epublican  party,  and  he  is  cliairman  of  the 
Hoard  of  luhication  in  Pittsfield.  He  is 
liJL^hly  esteemed  by  all.  Mrs.  l'"rench  is  a 
meml)er  of  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church. 


lARLES  S.  ROWI'.T-L,  a  farmer 
and  the  Postmaster  of  West  Ilopkin- 
ton,  was  born  June  26,  1857,  in  the 
house  which  he  now  occupies,  son  of  Isaac  and 
1  farriet  (Adams)  Rowcll.  This  farm  was 
owned  by  his  great-grandfather,  who  settled 
here  shortly  after  the  Revolutionary  War, 
|)robably  about  1780,  and  was  the  birthplace 
of  his  grandfather,  Moses  Rowell,  who  was 
born  November  29,  1776.  Moses  lived  on 
the  farm  both  during  his  father's  lifetime  and 
after  his  death,  when  he  became  its  owner. 
At  one  time  he  owned  some  mills;  but  after  a 
while  he  sold  them,  devoting  himself  exclu- 
sively to  the  farm.  On  November  26,  1801, 
he  married  Tamesin  Kastman,  who  had  eight 
children  —  Abram,  Benjamin,  ]''.lizabeth, 
Abram,  Isaac,  Albert  G. ,  Achsa,  and  Roxana. 
Ai)ram  tlied  at  the  age  of  seven  years,  Albert 
at  the  age  of  five,  and  Achsa  in  infancy. 

Isaac  Rowell,  born  April  19,  1813,  re- 
mained on  the  farm  with  his  father  until  he 
was  sixteen  years  of  age.  Then  he  learned 
the  carpenter's  trade,  which  he  afterward 
followed  until  his  marriage,  on  which  occa- 
sion he  returned  to  the  farm.  He  made  sev- 
eral additions  to  the  farm,  wliich  contained  in 
his  time  about  three  hundred  acres  of  land. 
In  I S40,  February  20,  he  married  Harriet  R. 
Adams,  a  daughter  of  James  and  Lydia  John- 
son Adams,  of  Henniker.  They  had  five  chil- 
dren, namely:  James  A.  and  Harriet  Klla, 
who   died    in    infancy;   Harriet    Ella  (second). 


who  on  October  24,  1866,  married  Frank 
Howlctt,  of  Bradford;  Mary  E.,  who  married 
June  9,  1874,  George  Gove,  of  Henniker  ; 
and  Charles  S.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch. 
Mr.  Howlett  died  June  23,   1873. 

Charles  S.  Rowell  has  spent  his  life  on  the 
farm,  which  was  also  the  home  of  his  father, 
his  grandfather,  and  his  great-grandfather. 
He  has  made  the  dairy  the  especial  feature. 
Since  the  post-office  was  established  at  West 
Hopkinton,  May  29,  1857,  when  Joseph  P. 
Dow  was  made  Postmaster,  it  has  been  twice 
in  charge  of  members  of  the  Rowell  family. 
Charles  Rowell  has  now  held  the  position  for 
eighteen  years.  He  married  Florence  S. 
Goodwin,  December  25,  18S2.  They  have  no 
children.  The  Rowells  have  been  a  family  of 
stanch  Democrats.  An  industrious  farmer 
and  a  good  citizen,  Charles  S.  Rowell  is  much 
esteemed  by  all  who  know  him. 


Y^ATlIANIhLL  ICVERKTT  MARTIN,* 
1^^  a  successful  attorney  and  well  known 
J-^*  x^  business  man  of  Concord,  was  born 
in  Loudon,  N.H.,  August  9,  1855,  son  of 
Theophilus  B.  and  Sarah  L.  (Rowell)  Martin. 
He  is  of  Scotch-Irish  blood  on  the  paternal 
side,  being  a  direct  descendant  of  William 
Martin,  who  came  to  this  country  from  Ireland 
about  the  year  1732.  Landing  in  Boston, 
William  Martin  went  thence  to  Londonderry, 
N.H.,  from  which  place  he  removed  subse- 
quently to  Pembroke,  Merrimack  County. 
James  Martin,  the  great-grandfather  of  Na- 
thaniel E.,  served  with  the  rank  of  Ensign 
during  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  died  be- 
fore the  cause  of  American  independence  was 
achieved.  Mr.  Martin's  maternal  ancestors 
were  English,  and  first  located  in  Haverhill, 
Mass.,  whence  Grandfather  Rowell  removed  to 
Loudon,  N.  H. 


536 


BIOGRAPHICAL    REVIEW 


The  subject  of  this  sketch  was  educated  in 
the  district  school  of  Loudon  and  in  the  pub- 
lic schools  of  Concord,  completing  his  studies 
in  the  Concord  High  School  at  the  age  of 
twenty  years.  He  studied  law  with  Sargeant 
&  Chase,  was  admitted  to  the  bar  August  14, 
1879,  and  immediately  began  the  practice  of 
his  profession.  After  practising  alone  until 
May,  1885,  he  then  became  associated  with 
Mr.  J.  A.  Albin,  the  partnership  continuing 
until  September,  1896,  when  Mr.  Dewitt  C. 
Howe  was  admitted  to  the  firm.  In  1887  Mr. 
Martin  organized  the  Concord  Building  and 
Loan  Association,  of  which  he  has  since  been 
treasurer.  He  is  also  treasurer  and  director 
of  the  Sullivan  County  Railroad.  In  politics 
he  affiliates  with  the  Democratic  party;  and 
he  served  as  County  Solicitor  from  July  i, 
1887,  to  July,  1889.  Fraternally,  he  belongs 
to  Ruraford  Lodge,  No.  46,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of 
which  he  is  Past  Grand  Master. 


ILLIAM  F.  WADLEIGH,  a  farmer 
of  Webster,  is  a  native  of  Laconia, 
liorn  January  24,  1837,  son  of  Na- 
thaniel R.  and  Polly  H.  (Ray)  Wadleigh. 
The  father,  who  was  a  prominent  farmer  of 
Laconia,  and  was  born  in  1802,  died  in  1854. 
The  mother,  born  March  4,  1806,  died  in 
1870.  They  had  eight  children,  namely: 
Mary,  now  deceased,  who  was  the  wife  of 
William  Barrett,  of  Nashua,  N.H.;  I'lliza, 
deceased,  who  was  the  wife  of  William 
Thompson,  of  Harrington,  N.H.;  Isaac,  who 
married  Abbie  Davis,  now  deceased,  and  lives 
in  Ludlow,  Vt. ;  Almira,  deceased,  who  mar- 
ried James  Filgate,  of  Laconia;  Catherine, 
who  is  the  widow  of  Amos  B.  Tibbetts,  and 
lives  in  Bairington,  N.H.;  Chase,  who  mar- 
ried Mary  Foss,  and  resitles  in  Hastings, 
Minn.;   William  I'.,  the  sul)ject   of   this   arti- 


cle; and  Horace,  who  married  Plettie  Hay- 
wood, and  lives  in  Ludlow,  Vt. 

At  the  early  age  of  eleven  years  William 
F.  Wadleigh  went  to  Gilford,  N.H.,  and 
worked  out  on  the  different  farms  until 
twenty-one  years  old,  when  he  tried  his  fort- 
unes in  Lawrence,  Mass.  Here  he  was  em- 
ployed for  eight  years  in  the  soap  factory  of 
L.  Beach  &  Son.  After  his  first  marriage 
Mr.  Wadleigh  removed  from  Lawrence  to 
Laconia;  and  four  years  later  he  entered  on 
his  present  farm  of  five  hundred  acres  in 
Webster,  where  he  has  since  lived.  He  car- 
ries on  general  farming,  and  raises  stock  of 
all  kinds.  Outside  his  agricultural  occupa- 
tions he  is  interested  in  the  Merrimack  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  of  which  he  is  a  director. 
In  politics  he  favors  the  Prohibition  party. 
He  has  been  Road  Surveyor,  and  he  was  Se- 
lectman from  1887  to  1889. 

On  August  6,  1861,  Mr.  Wadleigh  married 
Abbie  Proctor,  of  Derry,  N.  H.  liorn  July 
31,  1828,  she  died  October  5,  1886.  Her 
children  were:  Allen  B. ,  born  November  23, 
1863,  who  died  October  10,  1864;  one  who 
died  in  infancy;  Charles  C,  born  September 
16,  1867,  who  died  October  14,  1889;  and 
Anna  P.,  born  October  11,  1868,  who  died 
August  6,  1894.  Anna  married  Luther  C. 
Putney,  of  Webster,  who  now  makes  his  home 
with  Mr.  Wadleigh;  and  they  have  one  child, 
Winnifred  Maud,  born  October  2,  1893. 
Mr.  Wadleigh  contracted  a  second  marriage 
May  19,  1 888,  with  Mrs.  Mary  Calef  Bean, 
the  widow  of  John  C.  Bean,  and  a  daughter 
of  Garlantl  and  Maria  T.  (Fitz)  Calef.  Her 
father,  who  was  a  farmer  and  a  resident  of 
Boscawen,  died  in  this  township  at  the  age  of 
ninety.  Mrs.  Wadleigh  was  born  Marcii  26, 
1842.  She  is  a  member  of  the  Bajitist  church 
at  Warner.  Mr.  Wadleigh  is  a  member  of  tiie 
Methodist    Episcopal    church   at   Webster,  and 


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takes  an  active  interest  in  clinrcii  affairs.  lie 
belongs  to  the  Daniel  Webster  Grange  at 
Webster,  and  is  one  of  the  best  known  of 
Webster's   to\vns|-)eoi)le. 


LKRb:n    WOODMAN,   a  successful 

farmer  of  I'lainfield,  Sullivan  County, 
N.Il.,  and  a  veteran  of  the  Civil 
War,  was  born  in  Newburyport,  Mass.,  March 
9,  1834,  son  of  Daniel  and  Sarah  (Hall) 
Woodman.  His  grandfather,  Joseph  Wood- 
man, was  a  native  of  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  a 
cabinet-maker  by  trade.  He  was  twice  mar- 
ried;  and  his  second  wife  was  Abigail  Atkin- 
son, of  Newbury,  who  reared  the  following 
children:  William,  lujna,  Abbie,  Jane,  Han- 
nah, Betsey,  rh(i.'be,  David,  John,  James, 
Joseph,  and  Daniel. 

William  Woodman  became  a  prominent 
business  man  of  Dover,  N.H.,  was  a  man  of 
strict  integrity,  and  for  a  period  of  fifty  years 
was  president  of  two  banks.  He  married  Re- 
becca Wheeler,  of  Dover.  I'",dna,  Abbie,  and 
Jane  remained  single,  and  passed  their  lives 
in  Newburyport.  Hannah  became  the  wife  of 
Major  Nathaniel  Coffin,  a  wealthy  and  influ- 
ential citizen  of  that  city.  Betsey  married 
Daniel  Lunt,  a  merchant  and  farmer  of  New- 
bury, and  had  two  children.  I'hcebe  married 
Captain  Thomas  Disney,  of  Newburyport,  and 
had  a  family  of  four  children.  Davitl  was  a 
cooper  by  trade,  and  resided  in  Newburyport. 
He  married,  and  had  a  family  of  three  chil- 
dren, two  of  whom  are  living.  John  was  a 
shoe  dealer  in  Newburyport.  He  married 
Eliza  Little,  and  had  three  children.  James 
learned  the  mason's  trade,  and  followed  it  in 
]5oston ;  was  the  father  of  three  children. 
Joseph  followed  the  trade  of  a  mason  in  the 
same  city,  and  was  the  father  of  four  children. 

Daniel  Woodman,  Alfred  Woodman's  father, 


was  born  in  Newbury  in  the  year  1800.  He 
learned  the  painter's  trade;  and,  settling  in 
Newburyport,  he  carried  on  business  as  a 
house,  ship,  and  sign  painter  for  many  years. 
He  acquired  a  high  reputation  in  his  calling, 
and  accumulated  considerable  property.  He 
died  June  14,  1S74.  Mis  wife  was  Sarah 
Hall,  a  native  of  Canterbury,  N. H.  They 
had  five  children,  as  follows:  Sarah,  born 
September  25,  1829;  Caroline,  born  October 
9,  1831;  Alfred,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Mary,  born  June  17,  1837;  and  Charles,  born 
April  7,  1841.  Sarah  died  December  24, 
1850.  Caroline  became  the  wife  of  Samuel 
Jones,  of  Newburyport,  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Jones,  Spear  &  Lane,  dry-goods  merchants, 
Boston.  She  died  in  1883,  leaving  one  son, 
John  Henry.  Mary  prepared  herself  for  edu- 
cational work,  and  during  the  greater  part  of 
the  time  for  the  past  twenty  years  she  has 
been  teaching  in  Lisbon,  Portugal.  She  came 
back  to  the  United  States  some  three  years 
ago,  and  erected  a  handsome  residence  in 
Central  Scpiare,  Woburn,  Mass.,  but  later  de- 
cided to  return  to  Lisbon.  Charles  is  a  mer- 
chant in  Boston. 

Alfred  Woodman,  after  completing  his  edu- 
cation in  the  high  school  of  Newburyport, 
began  to  learn  the  tailor's  trade  with  Charles 
Pool  &  Co.,  with  whom  he  remained  two 
years.  In  company  with  several  other  youths 
he  then  shipped  on  board  the  "Oliver  Put- 
nam," bound  for  Havre,  France.  The  vessel 
sailed  on  Friday;  and  about  three  days  later 
she  met  with  a  serious  mishap,  which  damaged 
her  to  the  extent  of  many  thousands  of  dollars. 
She  was  finally  towed  into  New  York.  Cured 
of  his  sea  craze  for  a  time,  young  Woodman 
then  went  to  Concord,  N.IL,  where  he  fin- 
ished his  trade  with  Lincoln  &  Shaw,  the 
future  Governor  Tuttlc  of  New  Hampshire 
being  an  apprentice  in   the  same  shop  during 


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his  two  years'  service  with  this  firm.  The 
effects  of  the  disaster  which  befell  his  first 
attempt  to  go  to  sea  having  disappeared,  he 
was  again  seized  with  a  desire  to  see  the 
world;  and  he  shipped  on  Isoard  the  "Castil- 
ian  "  for  a  voyage  to  Peru.  His  experience 
this  time  was  of  a  more  satisfactory  nature; 
and,  after  his  return  some  fifteen  months 
later,  he  again  shipped  upon  the  same  vessel 
for  Liverpool.  He  made  five  trips  to  South 
America  on  board  the  "Castilian." 

At  the  breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War  he 
enlisted  in  Company  B,  Second  Regiment, 
New  Hampshire  Volunteers.  He  was  in  the 
battles  of  first  Bull  Run,  Drury's  Bluff,  Will- 
iamsburg, Oak  Grove,  Yorktown,  Fredericks- 
burg, Glendale,  Fair  Oaks,  and  Gettysburg. 
He  was  captured  by  the  enemy,  and  his  con- 
finement in  Libby  and  Belle  Isle  Prisons  so 
injured  his  health  that  he  now  receives  a  pen- 
sion from  the  government.  After  his  dis- 
charge he  shipped  as  mate  of  the  schooner 
"Hiawatha,"  which  was  commanded  by  his 
cousin.  Captain  Disney,  with  whom  he  made 
coasting  trips  for  a  short  time.  Returning  to 
Concord,  he  engaged  in  the  tailoring  busi- 
ness, which  he  followed  successfully  for  eight 
years.  Indoor  confinement,  however,  proved 
disastrous  to  his  already  undermined  health; 
and  he  was  obliged  to  seek  some  open-air  em- 
ployment. He  accordingly  about  twenty  years 
ago  purchased  his  present  farm  in  Plainfield, 
where  he  has  derived  much  benefit  from  the 
invigorating  atmosphere,  and  has  devoted  his 
energies  to  general  farming.  His  property, 
which  consists  of  about  three  hundred  acres, 
is  one  of  the  most  valuable  estates  in  this 
town.  It  is  situated  upon  the  east  bank  of 
the  Connecticut  River  in  the  midst  of  moun- 
tain and  valley  scenery,  and  contains  a  sub- 
stantial lirick  residence  and  well-constructed 
out  -  buildings.       His    principal    attention    is 


given  to  raising  sheep  for  wool,  which  he  has 
found  a  profitable  enterprise.  He  has  no  de- 
sire for  political  prominence,  but  as  a  sup- 
porter of  the  Republican  party  he  takes  an 
active  part  in  town  meetings  and  conventions; 
and,  if  matters  are  not  altogether  to  his  lik- 
ing, he  is  sure  to  be  heard  from. 

Mr.  Woodman  married  Maria  T.  Gallup, 
who  was  born  in  Plainfield,  July  19,  1838, 
daughter  of  Captain  Thomas  F.  Gallup  of  this 
town.  She  is  the  mother  of  three  children, 
namely:  Ellen  Edna,  born  March  5,  1868; 
P'red  T.,  born  June  28,  1871;  and  Kate  K., 
born  March  17,  1S75.  Pollen  Tulna  completed 
her  studies  at  tlie  Kimball  Union  Academy, 
and  is  residing  at  home.  P>ed  T.  is  a  gradu- 
ate of  the  high  school  at  White  River  Junc- 
tion, Vt.,  and  is  now  studying  law  with  the 
Hon.  John  L.  Spring,  of  Lebanon,  N.  H. 
Kate  K.  was  graduated  from  the  Kimball 
Union  Academy,  and  has  been  teaching  school 
in  Plainfield  for  the  past  three  years. 

Mr.  Woodman  is  a  comrade  of  K.  K.  Sturte- 
vant  Post,  No.  2,  Grand  Army  of  the  Repub- 
lic, of  Concord.  He  attends  the  Baptist 
church.  Upright  and  fair-dealing,  he  is  re- 
garded with  the  highest  esteem  by  his  neigh- 
bors and  acquaintances,  who  are  always  willing 
listeners  to  his  narrations  of  adventure  which 
his  personal  experience  is  able  to  fiumish  in 
abundance.  In  1887  he  accompanied  an  old 
school  friend  who  was  suffering  from  mental 
affliction  upon  a  two  months'  trip  to  the 
Azores,  and  his  description  and  his  remarks 
concerning  it  are  exceedingly  witty  and  inter- 
esting. 


ILLIAM  LEAVITT  BENNETT,  a 
prominent  resident  of  Andover,  was 
born  in  the  town  of  Loudon,  this 
State,  January  16,  1837.  His  grandfather, 
Jeremiah    liennctt,    formerly   of    Kingston,  ac- 


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companied  by  a  neighbor  named  Clough,  jour- 
neyed from  there  to  Loudon,  earrying  his 
luggage  and  ini|)iements  on  a  hand-barrow. 
Having  chosen  a  tract  of  timbered  land  favor- 
ably situated,  he  felled  a  few  trees,  and  built 
a  log  hut.  lie  had  been  a  reed-maker  by 
trade;  hut,  after  coming  to  Loudon,  he  de- 
voted himself  to  clearing  his  land  and  to  till- 
ing the  soil.  Ho  gradually  placed  it  under 
cultivation;  and,  when  he  died,  at  the  ripe 
age  of  ninety-five  years,  he  could  look  with 
])ride  on  a  well-improved  farm,  won  from  a 
wilderness  through  his  own  industry  and  cour- 
age. His  wife's  name  before  marriage  was 
Alice  Courrier.  Their  son  Amos  grew  uj)  on 
the  farm,  and  was  from  boyhood  trained  to 
agricultural  jnirsuits,  in  wiiich  lie  was  en- 
gaged throughout  the  rest  of  Jiis  life.  A  man 
of  thrift  and  industry,  he  increased  the  tillage 
area  of  the  farm.  His  wife,  who  was  chris- 
tened Nancy  Batchelder,  became  the  mother 
of  foui"  sons  and  one  daughter —  Lucretia  N., 
William  I..,  Jeremiah  F. ,  True  H.,  and 
Joseph  (.'lark.  True  fought  in  the  late  war 
with  the  Ninth  New  Hampshire  Cavalry,  and 
lost  his  life  in  the  service.  Jeremiah  lives  in 
Rockfortl,  111.;  and  Joseph  Clark  resides  at 
Oelwein,  la. 

William  Leavitt  Bennett  was  educated  in 
the  public  schools  of  his  native  town.  After- 
ward he  learned  the  carpenter's  trade,  and 
worked  in  factories  at  Concord  and  Laconia, 
this  State,  and  in  Springfield,  Mass.  h"or  a 
time,  also,  he  was  night  watch  at  a  shoe  fac- 
tory in  Concord  and  a  keeper  at  the  Concord 
Insane  Asylum.  Later  he  purchased  the  Dr. 
Henry  Weymouth  place  on  Taunton  Hill, 
Andover,   and  has  since  resided  there. 

On  the  1 8th  of  April,  1863,  he  was  united 
in  marriage  with  IVLiry  Elizabeth,  daughter  of 
Captain  William  and  Lydia  (Stevens)  Hun- 
toon,  of  Andover.      Mrs.  Bennett  received  her 


early  education  in  the  district  schools  of  An- 
dover, and  then  attended  the  Andover  Acad- 
emy for  three  yeans.  She  became  a  successful 
teacher,  and  taught  for  some  time  in  Andover, 
Salisbury,  Boscawen,  l-'ranklin,  and  Concord 
grammar  schools  before  her  marriage.  Mr. 
Bennett  is  a  member  of  the  I.  O.  O.  !•'.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Democrat,  and  his  first  Presi- 
dential vote  was  cast  for  Stephen  A.  Doug- 
las. He  takes  a  keen  interest  in  all  public 
questions,  and  he  has  been  chosen  to  serve 
as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  .Selectmen  of  the 
town. 


LI  A.  BOUTWICLL,  a  farmer  and  lum- 
berman of  Hopkinton,  N.H.,  son  of 
Samuel  P.  and  Lydia  A.  (Allen) 
Boutwell,  was  born  in  Barre,  Vt.,  l'"ebruary  25, 
1833.  His  lineage  has  not  been  traced;  but  a 
little  research  would  probably  show  that  he 
belongs  to  the  old  New  England  family  of 
Boutwells,  of  which  the  Hon.  George  S. 
Boutwell,  ex-Secretary  of  the  Treasury,  is  a 
rejiresentative.  Its  founder,  James  Boutwell, 
said  to  have  been  made  a  freeman  in  Lynn, 
Mass.,  in  1638  or  1639,  died  in  165  i,  leaving  a 
wife  Alice,  sons  James  and  John,  and  a  daugh- 
ter Sarah.  The  sons  married,  and  settled  in 
Reading,  Mass.,  John  being  the  ancestor  of 
the  distinguished  statesman.  Some  of  the  de- 
scendants of  the  second  James,  and  jierhaps 
others,  have  spelled  the  name  Boutclle. 

Nehemiah  Boutwell,  grandfather  of  Eli  A., 
of  Hopkinton,  was  a  native  of  Vermont,  and 
served  in  the  Revolutionary  War  at  the  time 
of  the  raid  on  Plattsburg,  N.V. ,  when  the 
English  made  a  naval  display.  He  married 
Susannah  Holt.  Samuel  P.,  his  eldest  child, 
was  born  in  1806  in  Barre,  Vt.  He  married 
Lydia  A.  Allen,  a  daughter  of  Nathan  and 
Esther  (Paine)  Allen.  She  was  a  relative  of 
Ethan   Allen,    and   resided    in   Brookfield,  Vt. 


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Samuel  P.  Boutwell  and  his  wife  reared  four- 
teen children,  only  seven  of  whom  are  at  pres- 
ent living,  most  of  them  in  Vermont.  Samuel 
Edson  lives  in  Hopkinton,  as  did  Elmer,  who 
is  now  deceased.  Seven  of  the  sons  were  in 
the  army;  and  of  these  Luther  died  in  Vir- 
ginia, and  Augustus  retired  and  died  in  iiis 
own  State  from  the  effects  of  army  service. 

Eli  A.  Boutwell,  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
during  his  early  years  remained  at  home  on 
the  farm  at  Barre,  Vt.  He  received  the  edu- 
cation of  the  common  schools  of  the  town; 
and  at  the  age  of  nineteen  he  left  his  native 
place,  and  went  to  Hookset,  N.H.,  where  he 
learned  to  make  shoes.  Coming  to  Hopkin- 
ton in  1853,  and  in  1856  removing  to  Mere- 
dosia,  Morgan  County,  111.,  he  continued  in 
the  same  business,  remaining  at  Meredosia 
until  i860,  when  he  went  to  Berlin,  111.  On 
August  15,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the  One 
Hundred  and  Sixth  Illinois  Regiment,  Com- 
]iany  A,  under  Colonel  Lathrop  and  Caj)tain 
Henry  Yates,  half  brother  to  Dick  Yates,  the 
famous  war  governor  of  Illinois.  Mr.  Bout- 
well was  in  service  in  Kentucky,  Tennessee, 
Louisiana,  Arkansas,  and  other  places.  In 
June,  1863,  he  was  in  active  service  before 
Vicksburg  during  the  siege;  and  after  the  fall 
of  Vicksburg  he  was  sent  to  Helena,  Ark., 
under  General  .Steele,  also  to  Little  Rock, 
Ark.,  the  i^'ederal  forces  taking  possession 
of  tiic  city.  He  entered  the  army  as  private, 
and  was  promoted  to  Sergeant,  and  in  July  was 
sent  to  a  military  school  at  Philadelphia,  Pa., 
where  he  remained  for  a  short  time.  He 
afterward  rejoined  his  regiment  at  Little 
Rock,  Ark.,  and  went  with  them  to  Pine 
Bluff,  where  they  were  stationed  until  the 
close  of  the  war,  when  he  was  discharged, 
and  returned  to  Hopkinton,   N.H. 

In    1869  Mr.   lidutwell    left    his   business   of 
shoemaking   and  went    to  farming,  also  engag- 


ing in  lumbering;  and  in  1S72  he  purchased 
the  farm  in  Hopkinton  where  he  now  resides. 
He  also  at  the  same  time  purchased  the  mill 
property,  which  was  somewhat  dilapidated, 
and  at  once  rebuilt  it,  and  has  since  built 
several  additions.  He  now  has  an  extensive 
plant,  and  is  doing  a  large  business,  having 
generally  ten  men  and  about  eight  teams. 
He  has  recently  added  steam,  thereby  increas- 
ing to  more  than  double  the  former  capacity 
of  his  mill.  He  handles  a  large  amount  of 
lumber  annually,  and  is  said  to  have  a  ready 
market  for  what  he  can  furnish,  especially  in 
Concord.  His  farm  contains  about  fifty-five 
acres,  besides  which  he  owns  several  tracts  of 
timber  land,  making  in  all  about  four  hundred 
acres.  He  has  served  the  town  in  official 
capacity  for  many  years,  having  been  Collector 
of  Taxes  in  1874  and  1875,  Assessor  and  ap- 
praiser of  real  estate  in  1875,  Selectman  from 
1876  to  1S78,  being  chairman  of  the  board. 
In  1879  and  1880  he  served  as  Representative, 
and  from  1882  to  1888  he  was  supervisor  of 
the  check  list.  In  1892  he  was  again  one  of 
the  Selectmen. 

On  March  27,  1855,  Mr.  Boutwell  married 
Harriet  Walker  Weeks,  who  was  born  in  Hop- 
kinton, N.H.,  June  i,  1829,  a  daughter  of 
Thomas  J.  and  Hannah  (Smith)  Weeks.  Her 
paternal  grandfather,  Captain  William  Weeks, 
a  graduate  of  Harvard  College,  served  on  the 
staff  of  Washington  in  the  Revolutionary 
War.  P"ive  children  were  born  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Boutwell,  namely:  Rozella,  wlio  died 
at  the  age  of  two  years;  Harvey  Lincoln; 
Henry  Beecher  Allen;  Arthur  Jefferson;  and 
P^lla,  who  died  when  fourteen  years  of  age. 
Harvey  Lincoln  Boutwell,  born  April  5,  i860, 
was  graduated  in  1882  from  the  New  Hamp- 
shire State  College  and  in  1886  from  Boston 
University  .School  of  Law,  receiving  the  de- 
gree of  Bachelor  of  Laws.      He  is  now  a  coun- 


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scllor-at-lavv  in  llic  cily  uf  Hostcjii,  Mass.,  and 
is  also  scrviii<^  his  thiid  Icrni  in  the  State 
legislature.  lie  resides  in  Maiden,  Mass. 
December  28,  1886,  he  married  Nellie  C. 
Booth.  They  have  two  ciiiltlren  —  Robert 
Dewey  and  Louis  l'^\'ans.  Henry  Hcecher 
Allen  Boutwell  lives  near  his  father.  He 
married  Alice  Montgomery  in  1885,  and  has 
had  two  children  —  Ernest  Allen;  and  Nellie 
Maria,  who  died  at  the  age  of  one  year. 
Arthur  J.  l^outwell  is  now  in  business  with 
his  father,  and  is  superintendent  of  the  mill. 
April  12,  1890,  he  married  Carrie  J.  l'"itts. 
They  have  had  three  children,  namely:  Carrie 
Elia,  who  died  at  the  age  of  four  months: 
ICarle  iMtts;  and  LeRoy  Arthur.  Mr.  lili  A. 
lioutwell  has  built  up  a  large  business,  in 
which  he  has  been  successful;  and  he  is  at 
present  taking  an  active  part  in  it.  lie  is 
alive  to  all  the  interests  of  the  town,  and 
enjoys  the  respect  of  his  fellow-citizens.  He 
is  a  Past  Commander  of  Post  No.  5,  Grand 
Army  of  the   Republic,    of   Hopkinton,    N.H. 


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TT^HARLES  M0RTIMI':R  BINGHAM, 
I  ^Y       3-     former     well-known     merchant     of 

V^i2__^  Claremont,  Sullivan  County,  N.I  I., 
was  born  in  New  London,  Conn.,  I'ebruary 
22,  1804,  son  of  Nathan  Bingham.  His 
father  settled  in  Claremont  in  i8og.  He  was 
a  hatter  by  trade,  and  carried  on  a  large  and 
successful  business  here.  He  was  a  musician, 
and  played  the  bass-viol  in  the  P^piscopal 
church  for  years.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy-eight.  He  had  si.\  children.  His 
daughter  Lucretia  married  Ralph  Metcalf, 
who  became  the  governor  of  New  Hampshire. 
Her  sister  lilizabeth  married  Luther  S. 
Porter,  and  Maria  became  the  wife  of  Henry 
W.  Galpin.  Silas  L.,  one  of  the  three  sons, 
was  a  professional  voice  teacher.      He  died   in 


Clevelaiul,  (Ailo.  George,  tin,  'imy  mu living 
member  of  the  family,  resides  in  Minneapolis, 
Minn.  Both  IClizabcth  and  Silas  Bingham 
had    remarkable   voices. 

In  18 18,  at  the  age  of  fourteen,  Charles 
Mortimer  Bingham  began  to  fit  himself  for  a 
business  career  by  entering  the  employ  of 
Josiah  Stevens  &  Sons,  dealers  in  general  mer- 
chandise, his  father,  Nathan  Bingham,  having 
made  an  agreement  with  the  firm  that,  under 
certain  conditions,  he  should  remain  with 
them  until  twenty-one  years  of  age.  We 
copy,  with  a  few  verbal  corrections,  the  fol- 
lowing well-told  story  of  his  life  and  charac- 
ter: "A  typical  New  Englander,  having  com- 
pleted his  term  of  service  with  Josiah  Stevens, 
he  struck  out  for  himself.  He  left  Claremont 
with  little  capital,  but  with  a  good  deal  of 
honest  purpose,  and  engaged  in  business  in 
Grecnbush,  Vt.  From  thence  he  went  to 
Chester,  where  he  did  a  thriving  business 
until  1837,  when  he  was  induced  by  friends  to 
return  to  Claremont.  A  copartnership  was 
formed  in  A])ril  of  that  year  with  Mr.  Stevens, 
under  the  firm  name  of  C.  M.  Bingham  &  Co., 
dealers  in  hardware,  dry  goods,  and  groceries. 
The  firm  existed  until  the  sudden  death  of  Mr. 
-Stevens,  which  occurred  September  18,  1842. 
With  the  exception  of  three  years  in  part- 
nership with  a  son  of  his  former  partner,  Mr. 
Bingham  continued  alone  until,  having  passed 
forty-one  years  of  his  life  in  the  mercantile 
line,  he  closed  up  his  affairs  in  1871,  and  re- 
tired from  active  business. 

"Possessed  of  a  vigorous  intellect,  he  early 
attracted  the  notice  of  his  fellow-citizens,  and 
by  them  was  called  to  many  important  posts, 
the  duties  of  which  he  discharged  to  their 
acceptance.  He  represented  his  town  in  Gen- 
eral Court  for  four  years,  was  for  many  years 
Town  Treasurer,  and,  save  with  few  excep- 
tions,  was    elected    Moderator  at   the  annual 


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town  meetings  for  more  than  thirty  years. 
He  was  one  of  tlie  prime  movers  in  1843  in 
organizing  the  parish  of  Trinity  Church,  was 
the  first  Warden  elected,  which  position  he 
held  continuoLisly  for  thirty  years,  and  had 
previously  held  that  office  in  Union  Church. 
He  inherited  great  capabilities  for  music,  had 
sedulously  studied  its  theory,  and  on  all  occa- 
sions did  much  to  encourage  the  science  in 
Claremont.  He  was  for  many  years  chorister 
of  his  church,  his  sister,  Mrs.  Porter,  singing 
in  his  choir. 

"He  married  first  Mary,  daughter  of  George 
Cook,  of  Cornish.  His  second  wife  was  Abby 
Fairbanks,  of  Charlestown,  by  whom  he  had 
six  children  —  Catherine  F.,  Charles  I'^.,  Mary 
C,  William  M.,  John  F.,  and  Lucy  F.  The 
four  last  survived  him.  He  married  third 
Mrs.  Lydia  Ballou  Perry,  widow  of  Mr.  Lewis 
Perry,  of  Claremont.  She  is  a  descendant  of 
John  Chamberlain,  who  occupies  a  prominent 
position  in  the  early  history  of  Westmoreland, 
New  Hampshire. 

"Mr.  Bingham  died  March  5,  1S8S,  at  the  age 
of  eighty-four  years.  He  was  a  man  of  kindly 
disposition,  of  unusual  energy  and  industry, 
and  of  unblemished  honor  and  integrity.  A 
gentleman  of  the  olden  time,  he  was  distin- 
guished for  many  excellent  personal  qualities, 
was  of  singularly  pure  and  abstemious  habits, 
witty  and  genial  withal,  and  dearly  beloved  by 
those  who  had  the  good  fortune  to  know  him 
intimately.  In  him  even  old  age  appeared 
delightful.  He  is  inadequately  j^raised  when 
he  is  named  one  of  the  best  men  wlio  ever 
lived  in  Claremont." 


LBON  LOVKRIN,  a  prominent  farmer 
of    Northfield,  is   a    native  of   Spring- 
field,   N.H.      He   was  born  May  24, 
1 85  I,  son  of   Austin    C.  and    Lavina  A.  (Mor- 


rill) Loverin.  The  father,  who  was  a  farmer, 
died  in  1868.  He  was  twice  married.  The 
children  of  his  first  marriage  were:  Elijah  W. 
and  Gilbert,  both  of  whom  are  now  deceased. 
Jlis  scconfi  wife,  Lavina,  a  native  of  Wilmot, 
bore  him  si.x  other  children,  namely:  Oliver 
B.,  who  resides  in  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  ; 
Sarah,  who  is  the  wife  of  George  Morgan,  of 
Springfield,  N.H.;  Ara  M. ,  who  is  a  hotel 
keeper  of  Concord;  Daniel  O.,  now  deceased ; 
and    Ida   L. ,  who   lives  in  New  London,  N.H. 

Albon  Loverin,  the  fourth  child  of  his  par- 
ents, received  his  education  in  the  common 
schools.  After  attaining  his  majority,  he 
worked  out  on  farms  around  Springfield  and 
at  Francestown  for  a  time.  Subsequently  he 
was  employed  in  Hanover  eight  years  and  in 
Manchester  three  years.  Mr.  Loverin  came 
to  Northfield  in  1885,  and  bought  the  estate 
near  Tilton  village  known  as  the  Chase  Wyatt 
farm,  upon  which  he  now  resides.  It  contains 
seventy-five  acres.  Since  it  came  into  his 
possession  he  has  made  some  improvements. 
Besides  carrying  on  general  farming,  he  keeps 
a  dairy,  which  yields  him  considerable  profit. 
In  November  of  the  same  year  he  married  Miss 
Jennie  L.  McDowell,  who  was  born  May  18, 
1858,  in  Heighgate,  Vt.,  daughter  of  Leonard 
and  Winnifred  (Burt)  McDowell.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  McDowell,  who  came  originally  from 
Montreal,  Canada,  settled  in  lulen,  Vt.,  and 
passed  the  last  part  of  their  lives  in  that 
town.  Mr.  Loverin's  only  child,  Gracie 
Belle,  is  now  seven  years  old. 

In  the  summer  season  the  family  residence 
is  one  of  the  many  New  Hampshire  homes 
opened  to  the  city  dweller  who  wishes  to  rest 
and  recreate  amid  beautiful  and  healthful  sur- 
roundings. About  twenty  boarders  arc  ac- 
commodated here  every  year.  The  estate  is 
now  called,  and  very  approjiriately,  "Mountain 
View    l-'arm."      Mr.    Loverin    is    a    Democrat, 


DANIEL    DOWNES. 


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ami  h;i.s  always  stood  by  bis  party.  lie  is 
well  known  and  esteemed  tliroiiLjhoLit  the 
county. 


,ANIEL    DOWNES,    a    well-known 
resident    of  Andover,    was    born    in 


r~*-^  Salisbury,  N.II.,  June  lo,  1.S37. 
11  is  fatlier  was  Isaac  Downes,  who  came  from 
Maine,  bis  native  State,  successively  bought 
a  farm  in  Salisbury  and  J'^llsworth,  lived 
on  each  for  a  time,  and  then  removed  to 
Lowell,  Mass.,  where  he  kept  a  boarding- 
house  until  his  death.  Isaac  married  Mary  A. 
Cilly,  of  West  Andover;  and  tlieir  children 
were:  Philip,  Leonard,  I'riscilla,  Lydia, 
Ann,  I'Lllen,  Daniel,  and  Isaac.  I'hili|i 
Downes,  who  was  a  soldier  in  the  Union 
Army,  died  from  the  effect  of  wounds  received 
in  the  battle  of  Gettysburg.  Leonard  was 
killed  in  a  railroad  accident  in  1859.  Fris- 
cilla,  Ann,  and  Ellen  are  also  deceased. 
Lydia,  who  resides  at  Eranklin,  is  the  witlow 
of  the  late  Mark  J.  Levenworth  ;  while  Isaac, 
a  resident  of  Andover,  is  a  well-known  lumber 
merchant. 

Daniel  Downes  received  his  education  in  the 
town  school  of  Lowell.  Then  he  went  to  work 
in  one  of  the  mills,  and  later  was  engaged  in 
teaming  for  three  years.  At  the  expiration  of 
that  time  he  came  to  Andover  and  hired  a 
farm  on  Taunton  Hill,  which  he  afterward 
conducted  for  about  four  years.  After  this 
Mr.  Downes  did  teaming  for  the  peg  mills, 
furnished  wood  for  the  Winnepesaukee  Paper 
Mills  and  other  corporations,  and  was  at  the 
same  time  running  a  saw-mill  and  working  up 
a  lumber  business  for  himself.  He  also 
opened  a  general  merchandise  store  in  the 
village  of  Potter  Place,  where  he  built  a  fine 
set  of  buildings  about  fifteen  years  ago.  Mr. 
Downes  is  a  self-made  man.  Always  active  and 
enterprising,  prosperity  has  crowned  his  efforts. 


.Mrs.  Downes  was  before  marriage  Jane 
Kennislon,  daughter  of  Calvin  and  lilizabcth 
(lloyt)  Kenniston.  Her  children  —  lidward, 
Ida  J.,  I'red  !•:.,  Marcilla  M.,  Jessie  M.,  and 
Bert  W. —  arc  all  married;  and  there  is  a 
rising  generation  of  fifteen  grandchildren. 
Mr.  Downes  is  well  known  as  an  active  mem- 
ber of  the  social  and  benevolent  organizations 
of  Andover.  Also  interested  in  the  adminis- 
trative affairs  of  the  town,  he  has  been  Select- 
man and  Road  Agent;  and  in  1893-94  he  was 
its  Representative  in  the  State  legislature. 
He  has  served  on  the  School  Hoard  at  Cilley- 
ville,  and  is  a  member  of  the  grange.  In  pol- 
itics he  is  a  Democrat,  and  his  first  vote  was 
cast  for  Stephen  A.  Douglas  in  i860.  He 
is  one  of  the  most  active  members  of  the  L^ni- 
versalist  society  here,  which  relies  on  him  for 
generous  support  when  necessary. 


-f^TlRAM    C.    ];LLENWOOD,*a  carpen- 
r^l       ter   and    undertaker    of    Charlestown, 

-L®  y_^ ^  N.li.,  was  born   in  Woodward,  \'t., 

November  26,  1826,  son  of  Cyrus  and  Sally 
(Draper)  Ellenwood.  His  grandfather,  Jo- 
seph EUenwood,  was  a  native  of  Greenfield, 
N.  H.,  where  he  also  resided  during  the 
greater  part  of  his  life,  engaged  in  general 
farming.  He  married  Mary  Punchard,  who 
became  the  mother  of  nine  children.  Their 
son,  Cyrus,  father  of  the  subject  of  this  sketch, 
was  born  in  Greenfield,  N.II.,  in  17S2.  He 
was  a  shoemaker  by  trade,  and  removed  to 
Charlestown  at  the  age  of  fifty  years.  In  181 1 
he  married  Sally  Draper,  and  they  had  seven 
children  —  Sally,  Harvey,  Simeon,  Frances, 
Hiram  (the  subject  of  this  .sketch),  Warren  F., 
and  Sarah. 

Hiram  C.  Ellenwood  spent  his  school  days 
in  Acworth,  N.H.,  where  he  stayed  until  he 
was  twelve  years   of  age.      He   then   went  to 


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Charlestowii,  and  worked  on  different  farms 
outside  the  village.  When  he  was  twenty 
years  old,  he  began  to  learn  the  carpenter's 
trade,  serving  as  an  apprentice  for  three  years. 
He  afterward  went  to  Boston,  where  he  worked 
at  his  trade  for  two  years.  On  his  return  he 
continued  as  a  carpenter ;  but,  becoming  sexton 
for  the  Unitarian  church,  he  entered  also  into 
the  business  of  undertaking,  which  he  has 
continued  for  thirty-five  years.  lie  is  one  of 
the  prominent  Democrats  of  Charlestown,  and 
has  served  on  public  committees  on  several 
occasions.  He  was  appointed  Town  Sexton 
in  1861,  which  position  he  has  since  held. 
In  October,  1855,  Mr.  Ellenwood  married 
Martha  Clark,  who  was  born  in  Newbury,  Vt. , 
a  daughter  of  Moses  Clark.  They  had  one 
son,  Simeon,  who  died  in  infancy. 


LBERT  P.  DAVIS,  attorney -at  -  law 
and  one  of  the  most  active,  prominent, 
and  pushing  citizens  of  Warner,  was 
born  May  2,  1835,  in  the  village  of  Waterloo, 
Merrimack  County,  N.H.  The  Davis  family 
originated  in  Wales,  from  whence  the  first 
ancestor  in  this  country  emigrated  in  1638, 
settling  in  Amesbury,  Mass. 

Gideon  Davis,  the  great-grandfather  of 
Albert  P.,  and  a  nephew  of  Francis  Davis, 
who  led  in  the  early  settlement  of  the  town, 
was  born  in  Amesbury,  where  he  lived  until 
after  his  marriage  with  Mary  Cheney.  In 
1784  he  came  to  Warner,  and,  taking  up  a 
large  tract  of  timber  land,  engaged  in  manu- 
facturing, in  the  winter  months,  oars,  selling 
them  in  Salem  and  Boston.  He  was  also  a 
skilled  mechanic.  He  reared  a  large  family, 
his  son  John  being  the  ne.\t  in  line  of  descent. 
John  Davis,  born  in  Amesbury,  Mass.,  in 
1775,  was  a  lad  of  eight  years  when  he  came 
with  his  parents  to  Warner.      He  was  a  natural 


mechanic,  one  of  the  best  of  his  times,  and  as 
a  carpenter  framed  nearly  all  the  ancient 
buildings  now  standing,  and  for  si.xty  years  was 
the  master  mason  and  builder  of  Warner.  He 
bought  land  about  one  mile  from  the  village 
of  Waterloo;  and,  after  he  gave  up  mechan- 
ical pursuits,  devoted  himself  to  farming, 
living  there  until  his  death  in  1865.  He  was 
a  well-developed  man,  both  physically  and  in- 
tellectually, having  the  broad  shoulders  and 
stocky  build  characteristic  of  the  Davis  family. 
He  possessed  great  force  of  character,  a  firm 
and  resolute  spirit,  and  a  personality  that  made 
him  a  leader  among  men.  He  reared  eight 
children,  of  whom  but  one  is  living,  Eleazer, 
who  resides  on  the  old  homestead. 

Zaccheus  Davis,  father  of  Albert  P.,  was 
born  near  Waterloo  in  1806.  Like  his  father, 
he  was  both  carpenter  and  farmer,  carrying  on 
his  joint  occupations  in  Waterloo  during  his 
life,  which  was  brought  to  a  close  in  1854,  at 
the  age  of  forty-eight  years.  He  married  Miss 
Lucinda  Pervere,  of  Sandown,  who  survived 
him,  dying  in  1881,  at  the  age  of  si.xty-nine 
years.  They  were  the  parents  of  four  chil- 
dren, namely:  Albert  P.;  Mary,  who  died  in 
early  womanliood;  Charles  S.,  a  soldier  in  the 
Eleventh  New  Hampshire  Volunteer  Infantry 
during  the  late  Rebellion,  now  engaged  in 
agricultural  pursuits  in  Warner;  and  Zaccheus, 
a  resident  of  Rochester,  N.H.  Maternally, 
Mr.  Davis  comes  from  the  well-known  Pervere 
and  Bennett  families  of  Sandown,  N.H. 

Albert  P.  Davis  was  fitted  for  college,  and 
just  ready  to  enter  Dartmouth  when  his  father 
died.  This  affliction  caused  an  entire  change 
in  his  plans,  his  widowed  mother,  with  her 
family  of  little  ones,  needing  his  care  at  home; 
and  the  college  had  to  be  abandoned.  He  at 
once  assumed  the  management  of  the  farm, 
carrying  it  on  until  i  S66,  when  he  sold  out, 
and    moved    into    this    village,    bringing     his 


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mother  to  his  now  home.  When  hut  sixlccn 
years  ohl  he  Iiej^an  teachinj;  hi  tlir  winter  sea- 
sons in  the  eiiuntry-seiiool  distriets;  and  tliis 
vocation  he  continued  al)out  fifteen  years, 
obtain in<^  a  fine  reputation,  both  as  instructor 
and  disciplinarian,  his  services  often  being 
sou{:;ht  in  schools  in  which  the  pupils  were 
unusually  turliulent  and  unruly.  Soon  after 
coming  lo  Warner  village,  Mr.  Davis  was 
appointeil  De|>uly  -Sheriff,  an  office  which  he 
filled  about  ten  years.  In  the  meantime  he 
studied  law  with  John  Y.  Mugridgc,  of  Con- 
cord, and  ill  1876  was  admitted  to  the  New 
Hampshire  bar.  At  once  opening  his  office 
in  Warner,  he  has  since  continued  in  the 
active  practice  of  his  profession,  making  a 
specialty  of  pension  law,  in  which  he  has  been 
particularly  successful.  He  examines  each 
case  thoroughly,  testing  its  merits  prior  to 
placing  it  before  the  department  of  pensions, 
and  has  invariably  succeeded  in  his  efforts  to 
benefit  his  clients.  His  knowledge  of  law, 
and  of  the  intricacies  of  pension  law  es[)e- 
cially,  makes  him  a  very  efficient  pension 
attorney. 

Mr.  Davis  has  been  actively  identified  with 
the  highest  and  best  interests  of  the  town  and 
county  since  arriving  at  man's  estate.  A  true 
and  loyal  citizen,  his  patriotism  was  aroused 
to  its  highest  point  during  the  progress  of  the 
late  Civil  War.  When  the  papers  containing 
the  accounts  of  the  second  battle  of  Bull  ]\un 
were  thrown  from  the  train,  he  and  his  brother 
Charles  were  in  the  hayfield.  They  at  once 
decided  that  one  must  don  the  blue  and  go  to 
the  front  as  a  soldier.  Sitting  down  on  the 
hay,  they  drew  cuts,  agreeing  that  one  should 
remain  at  home  and  care  for  the  two  families. 
The  lot  falling  on  Charles,  he  at  once  vol- 
unteered his  services  to  his  country.  In  the 
advancement  of  educational  interests  Mr. 
Davis  has   labored    indefatigably,   doing  espe- 


cially g(j(;d  work  as  superintendent  ol  the 
Simonds  High  Schfujl  for  two  years,  Mr. 
Davis  has  likewise  served  as  Town  Treasurer. 
He  was  private  secretary  to  Governor  Ilarri- 
man  in  1868  and  iS6c);  in  1889  was  a  mem- 
ber of  the  Con.stitutional  Convention;  and 
from  1891  till  1893  represented  this  town  in 
the  State  legislature,  serving  on  the  Judiciary 
Committee,  in  company  with  such  strong 
members  as  Briggs,  of  Manchester;  l{ingham, 
of  Littleton;  Spring,  of  Lebanon;  and  Nash, 
of  Conway.  He  is  an  ardent  I'rohibitionist 
and  a  close  student  of  political  economy,  his 
investigations  in  this  science  leading  him  to 
write  a  series  of  articles  on  the  tariff  question 
that  attracted  large  attention.  He  subse- 
cjucntly  wrote  the  "Warner  Papers,"  including 
such  topics  as  "Warner  in  the  Rebellion," 
"Warner  in  the  Revolution,"  giving  a  full 
history  of  events  in  Warner  during  those  two 
great  wars. 

Mr.  Davis  owns  a  good  deal  of  real  estate, 
mostly  village  and  town  property,  though  he 
has  large  tracts  of  land  in  both  Kansas  and 
Nebraska.  He  was  one  of  the  original  propri- 
etors of  the  Warner  Glove  Factory,  but  sold 
out  his  interests,  and  in  earlier  life  was  a 
stockholder  in  the  Melvin  Woollen  Mills,  and 
was  also  engaged  for  a  time  in  the  lumber 
business.  He  was  the  projector  of  the  system 
of  water-works  just  C(jmpleted  in  the  village; 
and  it  was  mainly  through  his  untiring  efforts 
it  was  established,  he  having  secured  the 
necessary  capital  from  abroad  and  otherwise 
materially  encouraged  the  enterprise.  Warner 
has  a  fine  public  library  founded  through  the 
instrumentality  of  Mr.  Davis,  who  agitated  the 
question  for  years,  and  finally  secured  a  room 
in  the  Town  Hall,  beginning  with  a  few  books 
as  the  nucleus.  He  then  interested  the  Hon. 
George  A.  Pillsbury,  of  Minneapolis,  Minn., 
who  was  for  some  years  in  business  here,  and 


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was  a  Representative  to  the  General  Court 
from  Warner.  Mr.  Pillsbury  donated  gener- 
ously, the  result  being  a  handsome  and  con- 
veniently arranged  building,  stocked  with  five 
thousand  volumes  of  choice  literature,  valued 
at  about  twenty-five  thousand  dollars. 

In  June,  1855,  Mr.  Davis  married  Miss 
Lav(ma  Harvey,  daughter  of  Abner  Harvey, 
of  Warner,  and  of  Mary  Fisk,  of  the  famous 
Fisk  family.  She  is  a  most  estimable,  capa- 
ble, and  accomplished  woman,  deeply  inter- 
ested in  all  reform  movements  and  every  other 
that  tends  to  help  the  poor  and  unfortunate, 
who  find  in  her  a  friend.  She  is  a  valued 
member  of  the  Bajitist  church  and  of  the 
W.  C.  T.  U.,  but,  being  an  invalid,  is  not 
able  to  do  any  active  work  in  either  organiza- 
tion. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Davis  have  two  children, 
namely:  Ida  M.,  wife  of  Walter  W.  Wheeler, 
of  Boston,  Mass.  ;  and  Woodbury  E.,  who  is 
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  in  Warner. 

Mr.  Davis  is  naturally  aggressive,  persist- 
ent, and  tenacious.  Once  having  carefully 
and  deliberately  marked  out  his  course,  he 
never  yields  to  any  obstacle  in  the  way  of  the 
consummation  of  his  plans  and  purposes;  and 
he  usually  succeeds  in  what  he  attempts.  This 
determination  has  necessarily  led  him  to  an- 
tagonize others  with  pet  plans  and  schemes, 
and  has  made  intense  personal  and  political 
enemies  of  men  smarting  under  defeats  and 
disappointments.  When  provoked  or  pushed, 
he  wields  a  vigorous  and  merciless  pen,  as  his 
enemies  can  testify. 

Aside  from  this  class  Mr.  Davis  possesses 
in  a  large  measure  the  confidence  and  respect 
of  his  fellow-townsmen,  who  willingly  credit 
him  with  great  personal  courage,  indepen- 
dence, and  originality,  and  with  having  bene- 
fited his  town  in  his  efforts  to  establish  a  free 
public  library  and  a  system  of  public  water- 
works;   by  his  investments  in    local    industrial 


works,  to  give  labor  at  home  to  the  laboring 
class;  by  his  intense  interest  manifested  in 
the  educational  institutions  of  the  town ;  by 
his  active  support  given  gladly  to  promote  and 
develop  the  moral,  social,  and  religious  inter- 
ests of  the  people;  and  by  his  active  co-opera- 
tion with  any  and  all  movements  that  tend  to 
make  a  healthy  and  vigorous  community,  with 
a  community  of  interests  and  aspirations. 


irA  ANFORD  RICE,  late  a  well-known 
11  farmer  of  Claremont,  who  died 
,—Km^  August  4,  1877,  was  born  in  this 
town,  December  2,  1805.  His  grandfather, 
Ebenezer  Rice,  who  was  one  of  the  earliest 
settlers  of  Claremont,  coming  with  a  little 
colony  of  pioneers  from  Tolland,  Conn., 
bought  considerable  land  in  the  village,  but 
afterward  removed  to  West  Claremont.  He 
was  a  carpenter  by  trade,  and  framed  the  old 
Union  church  at  West  Claremont.  He  was  a 
Deacon  of  the  church,  and  in  the  absence  of  a 
minister  he  used  to  read  the  services.  A 
stanch  patriot,  he  fought  for  American  inde- 
pendence in  the  Revolution.  His  death 
occurred  April  24,  1829.  His  children  were: 
Joseph;  Stephen;  Ebenezer;  and  Phebe,  who 
became  Mrs.  Timothy  Grannis. 

His  son  Joseph  was  a  prosperous  farmer,  a 
man  of  influence  in  the  town,  and  one  of  the 
leading  members  of  the  Union  Church.  He 
married  Lucy  Barron,  who  was  born  June  14, 
1772.  He  died  Aj^ril  24,  1829,  his  wife  sur- 
viving him  until  August  28,  1847.  They  had 
a  large  family  of  children.  Minerva,  the 
eldest,  born  November  30,  1795,  marriet! 
Daniel  J5ond.  Horace  was  born  Jul)'  2,  1801. 
He  died  in  Cambridge,  Mass.,  in  1872. 
Franklin  was  born  May  2,  1803;  and  Sanford 
and  Danford,  twins,  were  born  December  2, 
1805.     Sanford  was  lost  in  the  Mexican   War. 


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Phcl)c  Pamelia  was  born  January  i8,  1809,  and 
married  Harvey  Tolles.  George  Gilbert,  born 
September  ig,  i<Sii,  lived  in  Cambridge, 
Mass.,  and  died  tbcre  in  1H63.  Hiram 
Augustus,  born  September  27,  1 8 14,  died  in 
Missouri.  The  cliildren  of  Horace  Rice  by 
liis  wife,  formerly  Maria  Hall,  were:  Josepii 
Henry,  Ijorii  I'ebruary  ig,  i82g;  John  I'"rank- 
lin,  born  June  15,  1830;  and  y\deline  Alberta, 
born  April  12,  1835.  The  chililren  of  George 
Rice  by  his  wife,  Harriett  lluniiewell,  were: 
Carrie  M.,  born  in  1853;  George,  born  No- 
vember 4,  1S54;  and  D.  Webster,  born  June 
18,    1858. 

Danfortl  ivicc  fdUowed  his  father's  vocation 
of  farming,  and  was  one  of  Claremont's  most 
useful  citizens.  He  was  a  faithful  member 
of  llic  Union  E[)iscopal  Church.  His  wife, 
Caroline  Jones,  died  Septemioer  30,  1866, 
nearly  eleven  years  before  his  own  departure. 
Their  chikiren  were:  lulward  Barron,  born 
()ct(iber  jg,  1835,  who  married  limma  Hall 
in  Octolicr,  1870;  Caroline  Isabella,  b(irn 
June  8,  1838;  William  Danford,  born  No- 
vemlier  21,  1843,  who,  it  is  supposed,  was 
killed  in  battle,  September  30,  1864;  and 
!■' ranees  Lydia,  born  November  16,  1846,  who 
died  September  21,  1847.  The  children  of 
Edward  Barron,  the  eldest  son,  are:  Marian 
Isabella,  born  in  September,  1871;  Edward 
Barron,  born  in  December,  1875;  Augustus 
Hall,  born  in  1876,  who  died  in  1896;  Emma 
Erances,  born  in  187S;  anil  William  Alexan- 
der, burn  in  Decend^er,    1882. 


Yp)EONARD  wood  PEABODY,  M.D., 
IJT  of  Henniker,  one  of  the  oldest  medical 
—  ^  practitioners  in  Merrimack  County, 
was  born  in  Newport,  Sullivan  County,  Sep- 
tember 13,  1817,  son  of  Ami  and  Sarah  (John- 
son) Peabody.      He  is  a  descendant  of   P'rancis 


Peabody,  who,  born  iji  Ijigland  in  1614,  came 
to  New  ICngland  on  board  the  ship  "I'lantcr" 
in  1635.  This  ancestor,  after  residing  in 
Ipswich,  Mass.,  for  a  while,  removed  to 
Hampton  in  1638,  and  in  1651  .settled  in 
Topsfield,  Mass.  P'rom  him  the  line  of  de- 
scent comes  through  Captain  John  I'eabody, 
who  was  born  in  1642,  I'lnsign  JJavid  Pea- 
body, born  in  1678,  John  I'eabody,  born  in 
1714,  to  Jedediah  Peabody,  born  in  1743,  who 
was  the  grandfather  of  Leonard  W.  Jedediah 
served  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  partici- 
pated in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill.  In  1781 
lie  moved  his  family  from  Bo.xford,  Mass.,  to 
Warner,  N.  11.,  where  he  resided  for  many 
years.  The  maiden  name  of  his  wife  was 
Alice  Howlet;  and  their  last  days  were  spent 
in  East  Lebanon,  N.  II.,  where  they  died  at  an 
advanced  age.  Their  children  were:  Ami, 
Lydia  M.,  Mary,  Moses,  Susannah,  Thomas, 
Alice,  Andrew,  P'rederick,  Betsey,  and  John. 
Of  these,  one,  Alice,  who  married  VAcazsr 
Whitney,  remained  in  Merrimack  County. 

Ami  Peabody,  born  in  Bo.xford,  Mass.,  in 
I76g,  was  twelve  years  old  when  his  parents 
moved  to  New  Hampshire.  When  a  young 
man  he  settled  in  Newport,  N.  H.  ;  and  his 
death  occurred  in  that  town,  January  27,  1845. 
The  first  of  his  two  marriages  was  contracted 
in  Henniker  with  Patty  Rice.  She  had  two 
children,  namely:  Lucy,  who  married  Leonard 
Wood,  of  this  town  ;  and  iMartha,  who  married 
Harvey  Pheljis,  and  moved  to  Crown  Point, 
N.Y.  Neither  is  now  living.  The  second  mar- 
riage was  made  with  Sarah  Johnson,  a  native 
of  Guilford,  Conn.,  and  a  daughter  of  Miles 
Johnson,  who  served  in  the  Revolutionary 
War,  and  was  among  those  who  passed  the 
historic  winter  at  Valley  P'orge.  The  chil- 
dren of  this  imion  were:  Asenath,  Calvin, 
Reuel,  Maria,  P^liza,  P'rederick,  Sarah,  the 
Rev.   Charles,  Leonard   W. ,  Carroll   W. ,  De.x- 


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ter,  and  Helen.  Asenath  died  at  the  age  of 
twenty-seven  years.  Calvin  settled  in  Linn 
County,  Missouri.  Reuel  settled  in  Illinois. 
Maria  married  Button  Woods,  of  Concord, 
N.  H.  Eliza,  who  remained  a  spinster,  passed 
her  last  days  with  her  brother,  Leonard  W. 
Frederick  settled  in  Illinois.  Sarah  became 
the  wife  of  Henry  S.  Dutch,  and  lived  in  O.v- 
ford,  la.  Carroll  W. ,  who  was  a  carpenter  by 
trade,  resided  in  Sullivan  County.  None  of 
the  above  are  living.  The  Rev.  Charles  Pea- 
body,  who  graduated  from  Dartmouth  College 
in  1839,  was  for  many  years  a  field  agent  of 
the  American  Tract  Society.  He  is  now  liv- 
ing in  Pasadena,  Cal.  Dexter  Peabody  now 
occupies  the  old  homestead  in  Newport. 
Helen  Peabody,  the  youngest,  who  was  born 
in  1826,  and  completed  her  education  in  South 
Hadley,  Mass.,  in  1847,  became  the  first  prin- 
cipal of  the  Western  Female  Seminary  in  0.x- 
ford,  Ohio,  and  held  that  position  for  thirty- 
three  years.  Some  time  ago  she  spent  a  year 
in  Japan,  visiting  her  former  pupils.  .Since 
her  return  to  the  LTnited  States  she  has  re- 
sided with  her  brother  in  Pasadena,  Cal. 
Mrs.  Sarah  Peabody  survived  her  husband  ten 
years. 

Leonard  Wood  Peabody  acquired  his  early 
education  at  the  Kimball  Union  Academy. 
Subsecpiently  for  a  time  he  was  a  teacher  at 
the  Concord  Literary  Institute,  of  which  his 
brother  Charles  was  principal.  After  pursu- 
ing his  preliminary  studies  in  medicine  with 
Dr.  Timothy  Hayes,  of  Concord,  and  Dr.  J.  L. 
Svvett,  of  Newport,  he  attended  lectures  at  the 
V'ermont  Medical  College  in  Woodstock,  from 
which  he  was  graduated  in  1844.  He  began 
practice  in  Ilenniker,  where  he  remained  for 
a  short  time.  Then  he  located  in  Epsom, 
N.  H.,  residing  there  for  twenty-si.x  years. 
He  returned  to  Ilenniker  in  1871,  and  was 
engaged  in  practice  here  until    his   retirement, 


some  two  years  ago.  He  excelled  as  a  general 
physician  in  the  treatment  of  disease.  In  the 
course  of  his  professional  career  he  was  called 
to  over  one  thousand  obstetrical  cases,  usher- 
ing into  the  world  six  physicians,  besides  sev- 
eral ministers,  lawyers,  and  editors.  When 
diphtheria  made  its  appearance  in  this  State  in 
1 86 1,  he  was  remarkably  successful  in  coping 
with  that  dread  malady,  considering  the  fact 
that  there  was  at  the  time  little  or  no  knowl- 
edge concerning  its  character.  A  paper  pre- 
pared by  him  upon  the  subject  at  that  time 
showed  that  he  had  a  correct  understanding  of 
its  nature.  He  is  a  member  of  the  State  and 
Central  District  Medical  Societies,  having 
served  as  President  of  the  latter.  He  has  been 
a  delegate  to  the  National  Medical  Associa- 
tion, was  a  delegate  from  the  State  Society  to 
the  examination  at  Dartmouth  College  in 
1S61,  and  in  1S67  he  received  an  honorary 
degree  from  that  institution.  He  is  a  member 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Historical  Society  and 
of  the  New  Hampshire  Anticpiarian  Society. 
Taking  much  inteicst  in  the  objects  of  the 
latter  organization,  he  has  contributed  to  its 
collection  of  antiquities,  and  furnished  several 
valuable  genealogical  records.  Some  time 
since  he  presented  sixty  volumes  of  old  medi- 
cal journals  to  the  State  Historical  Library. 
In  politics  he  was  originally  a  Whig  and 
later  a  Republican.  Pie  cast  his  first  Presi- 
dential vote  for  William  Henry  Harrison,  and 
he  has  since  voted  for  every  Whig  and  Repub- 
lican candidate  up  to  the  present  time.  He 
represented  Henniker  in  the  legislature  in 
1885,  and  has  frequently  served  as  a  delegate 
to  district  and  State  conventions. 

On  January  28,  1846,  Dr.  Peabody  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Louisa  Lerned  Kelley. 
She  was  born  in  Warner,  N.  H.,  January  23, 
1821,  daughter  of  the  Hon.  Abner  and  Je- 
rusha  (l''owler)  Kelley.      Her  graiidhithcr  was 


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the  Rev.  William  Kellcy,  the  first  settled 
minister  in  Warner;  and  Jiei'  father  was  at  one 
time  State  Tieasurer.  Dr.  and  Mrs.  Peahody 
ari.:  the  parents  (if  tjiree  danghters;  namely, 
I'di/.aljetJi  Kelley,  Sarah  Matilda,  and  Maria 
Antoinette.  I'llizalieth  Kelley  I'eabody,  who 
<i;raihiated  at  ().\f(ird,  Oiiio,  in  1866,  married 
the  Rev.  William  Wilmer,  of  Attica,  Ind.,  a 
I'resbyterian  minister.  .Sarah  Matilda  mar- 
ried Curtis  1).  (diilds,  IS.  .S. ,  and  resides  in 
llenniker.  Maria  Antoinette,  who  was  a  stu- 
dent o(  O.xford  Seminary  when  that  institute 
was  destroyed  by  fire,  resided  at  home  until 
November  iS,  1896,  when  she  married  Charles 
v.  I'ealiody,  of  Clarence,  la.  liesides  these 
the  Doctor  has  also  rearetl  and  educated  a 
nejihew,  Clarence  Elwin  I'eabody,  a  son  of 
Carroll  \V.  Clarence  Elwin,  who  resided 
with  Dr.  Peabody  from  the  time  when  he  was 
seven  years  old  until  he  reached  his  major- 
ity, is  now  living  in  Boston.  Dr.  Peabody 
is  a  charter  member  of  Henniker  Lodge, 
1.  O,  O.  !'". ,  of  which  he  has  occupied  the 
ini]i()rtant  chairs.  He  has  also  held  a  seat  in 
the  (irand  Lodge  of  New  Hampshire. 


'rank  K.  DIMOND,  a  well-known 
business  man  of  West  Concord,  was 
born  on  the  estate  he  now  occupies 
about  thirty-si.x  years  ago,  son  of  Klbridge  and 
Jennett  (Hoit)  Dimond.  His  immigiant  an- 
cestor came  from  England,  and  was  among 
the  first  settlers  of  this  section  of  the  State. 
Nearly  all  the  descendants  of  the  immigrant 
are  still  living  in  this  region.  His  son, 
ICzekiel  Dimonti,  was  great-great-grLUulfather 
of  I'rank  K.  I^zekiel  had  seven  sons.  Reu- 
ben, the  great-grandfather  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch,  was  born  in  Concord,  N.  H.,  on 
wliat  is  now  known  as  Dimond's  Hill.  He 
was  a  farmer,  and   passed   the  greater   part   of 


his  life  in  Cfjntord,  dying  at  the  ago  of 
seventy  years.  His  wife  was  Wary  Currier 
DipKjnd,  who  reared  eleven  children.  The 
youngest  of  these  died  at  the  age  of  fifty, 
while  the  others  lived  to  be  from  seventy  to 
ninety  years  of  age. 

Jacob,  the  third  son  of  ICzekiel,  was  a  wheel- 
wright; and  he  owned  at  first  a  small  farm, 
lie  gradually  acquired  more  land  until  at  the 
time  of  his  death  he  was  jjroprietor  of  a 
goodly  number  of  acres.  Jacob  married  Rose 
Abbott,  daughter  of  Ezra  Abbott.  Her  only 
child,  Elbridge,  received  a  public-school 
training,  and  then  worked  at  his  father's  trade. 
l^ibridge  also  did  considerable  farming,  and 
built  some  substantial  farm  buildings.  He 
was  one  of  the  15oard  of  Aldermen  for  two 
years.  His  wife,  Jenett,  was  a  daughter  of 
ICnoch  and  Mary  (French)  Hoit,  of  Concord. 
Besides  Frank  E.  she  had  another  son,  Gil- 
man  H.  Dimond,  who  was  in  the  .Si.xteenth 
New  Hampshire  Regiment  for  nine  months 
during  the  Civil  War,  and  later  in  the  heavy 
artillery  until  the  close  of  the  war.  Oilman 
Dimond  married  Mary  E.  Colby,  and  has  three 
children  —  Irving  G.,  Stella  May,  and  F'tta  B. 
Elbridge  was  a  Republican  in  politics,  and 
twice  represented  the  town  in  the  State  legis- 
lature. His  first  Presidential  vote  was  cast 
for  W.  H.  Harrison.  He  was  a  member  of 
the  Congregational  church.  His  farm  is  a 
part  of  the  original  land,  and  the  old  residence 
was  one  of  the  first  houses  built  in  this  section. 

After  attending  the  district  schools  for  the 
usual  jieriod,  Frank  E.  Dimond  became  a  stu- 
dent at  Penacook  Academy.  He  has  always 
lesided  on  the  farm,  of  which  he  is  now  the 
proprietor.  It  contains  about  two  hundred 
acres,  thirty  of  which  are  under  cultivation. 
Mr.  Dimond  was  Selectman  of  his  ward  for 
two  years,  served  for  two  years  in  the  Common 
Council,  and  at  this  writing  is  Alderman-elect 


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of  Ward  Three.      He   is  a  Republican    in    pol- 
itics and  a  member  of  the  grange. 

On  June  14,  1S83,  Mr.  Uimond  married 
Mattie  E.  Carter,  daughter  of  Augustine  and 
Sarah  E.  Restieau.x  Carter.  Her  father  is  a 
son  of  Abiel  and  Patty  (Farnum)  Carter,  of 
Concord.  Abiel 's  father  was  Timothy,  born 
in  Concord  in  1767,  and  his  mother's  maiden 
name  was  Judith  Chandler.  The  next  in  line 
was  Ezra,  born  in  South  Hampton,  who  came 
to  Concord  with  his  father  about  1750,  and 
married  Phoebe  Whittemore.  Ezra  was  son  of 
Daniel  and  Hannah  Fowler  Carter.  Daniel 
was  son  of  Ephraim  Carter,  who  came  to  Con- 
cord about  1740,  being  the  first  Carter  to  settle 
there.  The  tradition  is  that,  when  he  and 
his  family  left  South  Hampton,  the  neighbors 
were  grieved  that  they  were  going  so  far  into 
the  wilderness,  and  wept  when  bidding  them 
farewell.  Reaching  Sugar  ]5all  Hill,  they 
chained  the  wheels  of  the  cart  containing  the 
goods  to  get  it  down  safely.  They  crossed 
the  Merrimack  in  a  canoe,  carrying  their 
goods  along  with  them,  and  causing  the  o.\en 
to  swim  while  the  cart  was  dragged  across  by 
means  of  bed-cords  fastened  to  the  tongues. 


(^AMES  OTIS  STRAW,  a  thriving 
farmer  of  Hopkinton,  was  born  in  this 
town  July  27,  1853,  son  of  William  S. 
and  Mary  Ann  (I'Tanders)  Straw.  An  account 
of  his  ancestry  may  be  found  in  the  sketch  of 
his  father,  William  S.  Straw,  contained  else- 
where in  this  volume. 

James  Otis  Straw  spent  his  early  years  on 
his  parents'  farm.  He  was  brought  up  to 
agricultural  [jursuits;  and  in  1S90  he  purchased 
his  present  home,  the  old  Currier  farm,  con- 
taining sixty-five  acres,  the  buildings  on 
which  were  erected  over  a  hundred  years  ago. 
Mr.  Straw  makes  a  specialty   of  dairying,  and 


also  pays  much  attention  to  breeding  high- 
grade  Guernsey  stock.  He  possesses  a  con- 
siderable amount  of  mechanical  skill,  and  is 
expert  in  the  use  of  all  kinds  of  tools.  In  . 
politics  he  is  a  free  silver  Democrat,  but  takes 
no  active  part  in  public  affairs  beyond  casting 
his  vote.  January  8,  1881,  he  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Ada  Whittemore,  daughter  of 
William  B.  and  Nancy  Whittemore,  of  Hop- 
kinton. Mr.  and  Mrs.  Straw  have  become 
the  parents  of  two  children:  Percy  W.,  who 
was  born  October  21,  1881,  and  died  at  the 
age  of  three  and  a  half  years;  and  Clayton 
Bayard,  born  April  20,  1885.  Mr.  Straw  is 
a  member  of  Contoocook  Grange,  P.  of  H. 
He  is  an  enthusiastic  sportsman,  and  is  one  of 
the  most  popular  residents  of  Hopkinton. 


-JEWELL  J.  ELLIS,  a  well-known 
Grand    Army    man    and    a    prominent 

^  *■  farmer    of    Cornish,    was    born     at 

Brandon,  Vt. ,  Sei)tember  5,  1840,  son  fif 
Seneca  and  Aurilla  (]5agley)  Ellis.  His 
grandfather  was  John  P^llis,  who  married  Mar- 
garet Holt,  and  was  the  father  of  Seneca  and 
William  Ellis.  William,  who  was  born  at 
Shoreham,  Vt.,  went  West  a  number  of  years 
ago,  and  has  not  since  been  heard  from.  The 
family  do  not  know  whether  he  is  living  or 
not. 

Seneca  Ellis  was  born  at  sea,  July  26,  1809. 
He  was  educated  in  the  schools  at  Brandon, 
Vt.,  and  subsequently  followed  the  occupation 
of  farmer  in  Vermont  and  New  Hampshire. 
The  last  thirty  years  of  his  life  were  spent  in 
Cornish.  In  August,  1862,  he  enlisted  in  the 
Sixteenth  New  Hampshire  Regiment,  and 
afterward  was  in  action  at  New  Orleans, 
Baton  Rouge,  and  in  Florida.  Although  his 
term  of  enlistment  was  but  nine  months,  he 
reinaineil  in  the  service  for  nearly  a  year.      He 


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came  home  in  August,  1863,  suffering  from  a 
mortal  illness  contracted  in  the  war.  The  de- 
sire of  seeing  home  faces  appears  t<i  Jiave  kept 
him  alive  until  it  was  gratified.  He  died  a 
few  days  later,  having  given  his  life  for  his 
country  as  surely  as  if  he  had  been  shot  down 
on  the  battlefield.  Ilis  wife  was  Aurilla, 
daughter  of  Curtis  and  I'hylinda  (Downing) 
I'agley ;  and  their  cle\cn  children  were: 
William  II.,  Julia,  Annie  M.,  Joel  C,  New- 
ell J.,  Jason,  George,  Orrilla  N.,  Loui.sa  J., 
h'rank  I'.,  and  Mmmeline.  William  II.,  a 
native  of  IJrandon,  born  in  January,  i<S'32, 
married  Harriet  Ellison,  of  Rockingham,  V't., 
and  resides  in  that  place  engaged  in  farming. 
He  has  had  two  children,  one  of  whom  is  liv- 
ing. Julia  A.,  born  in  Canton,  N.Y.,  August 
29,  i<S34,  first  married  Charles  Svveatt,  of 
Andovcr,  N.  IT.,  by  whom  she  had  two  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Annie  is  living.  Her  second 
husband  is  George  D.  Clapp,  of  Revere, 
Mass.,  a  blacksmith.  Annie  M.  Ellis,  born 
in  Canada,  April  g,  1836,  lives  in  Enfield, 
N. H.,  and  has  been  a  very  successful  school 
teacher.  Joel,  born  in  Canton,  N.Y.,  July 
-9<  ^^i?!  served  with  a  Massachusetts  regi- 
ment in  the  late  war,  and  was  killed  at  the 
battle  of  Antietam.  Jason,  born  February  17, 
1S42,  at  Brandon,  who  also  served  in  the  war, 
was  drowned  while  making  the  voyage  from 
New  Orleans  to  New  York  with  three  hundred 
or  more  sick  soldiers  coming  home  for  a  fur- 
lough upon  a  condemned  transport  boat. 
George,  born  at  Brandon,  May  18,  1846,  mar- 
ried Waity  \V.  Ford,  of  Adams,  Mass.,  and 
has  one  child,  Etta.  He  was  also  in  the  war, 
and  afterward  was  engaged  in  farming.  His 
death  occurred  December  26,  1878.  Orrilla 
N.,  born  at  Enfield,  this  State,  October  27, 
1 848,  first  married  Chester  Langworthy,  of 
Adams,  Mass.,  by  whom  she  had  one  daugh- 
ter, Sadie,  who  is  now  deceased.      She   is  now 


living  with  her  second  husband,  William  D. 
Spaulding,  formerly  of  Claremont,  now  of 
Cornish,  where  he  ha.s  a  large  farm.  Louisa, 
born  at  Enfield,  March  24,  1S50,  was  al.so 
twice  married.  Her  first  husband  was  Henry 
Marcy,  of  Rockingham,  Vt.  ;  and  the  second 
was  Edwin  S.  Ncwhall,  of  Lynn,  Mass.  She 
has  no  children.  Frank,  born  at  ICnfield, 
March  22,  1854,  lives  at  the  farm  in  Cornish 
with  his  mother.  Emmeline,  born  in  Cornish, 
January  29,  1857,  has  been  three  times  mar- 
ried. Her  first  husband  was  Frank  Pope,  and 
she  bore  him  three  children;  her  second  hus- 
band was  Samuel  Fairbanks,  by  whom  she  had 
one  child;  her  present  husband  is  Thomas 
Emery,  of  Cornish.  Mr.s.  Seneca  Elli.s,  who 
was  born  July  25,  181 1,  after  the  death  of 
her  first  husband  married  Samuel  Chase,  and 
is  now  living  in  Cornish. 

Newell  J.  Ellis  was  educated  in  the  schools 
of  Corni.sh.  Since  leaving  school  he  has  been 
engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  with  the 
exception  of  a  year  spent  in  the  Civil  War. 
He  enlisted  in  the  Seventh  Vermont  Regi- 
ment, and  subsequently  took  part  in  the  battle 
of  Mobile.  Mr.  Ellis  has  served  for  some 
time  on  the  School  Committee.  He  has  been 
Highway  Surveyor  and  has  acted  in  other 
public  capacities.  The  first  of  his  two  mar- 
riages was  contracted  with  Sarah  M.  Board- 
man,  of  Cornish,  who  died  January  10,  1892. 
Her  three  children  were:  Martha,  Charles,  and 
Mabel.  By  the  second  marriage  he  was  united 
to  Adeline  Hunt,  daughter  of  Dr.  Hunt,  of 
Bolton.  Martha  Ellis,  born  in  April,  186S, 
married  Daniel  Johnston,  of  Franklin,  Mass., 
where  he  is  employed  in  the  manufacture  of 
hats.  Charles  B.,  born  March  5,  1872,  is  liv- 
ing at  Franklin,  Mass.,  and  is  a  pressman  in 
the  hat  business.  Mabel,  born  August  26, 
1883,  is  still  a  school  girl  and  lives  at  home. 

Mr.  Ellis  has  owned  at  different  times  two 


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very  large  and  well-cultivated  farms.  The 
one  where  he  now  lives  has  the  best  appointed 
buildings  of  any  farm  hereabouts,  and  the  land 
is  under  high  cultivation.  In  politics  Mr. 
Ellis  is  a  Democrat.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Grand  Army,  and  belongs  to  the  local  grange. 


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jVRUS  O.  BROWN,  formerly  a  well- 
known  schoolmaster  and  now  a  pros- 
perous farmer  of  Epsom,  was  born 
in  Kensington,  N.  H,,  August  15,  1834,  son 
of  Abel  and  Ruth  (Fellows)  Brown.  On  the 
paternal  side  he  is  a  lineal  descendant  of  John 
Brown,  who,  born  in  England  in  15S9,  is  said 
to  have  been  of  Scotch  origin.  It  is  believed 
that  this  ancestor  was  reared  in  a  seaport 
town,  as  he  was  a  ship-carpenter  by  trade.  It 
is  recorded  that  he  w^as  concerned  in  the 
building  of  many  vessels  for  the  king.  He 
emigrated  to  New  England,  and  became  one 
of  the  first  settlers  of  Hampton,  N.  H.  He 
was  n)arried  in  that  town  in  1640  or  1641  ;  and 
Benjamin,  the  second  of  his  three  sons,  was 
born  in  Seabrook,  N.H.  From  John  Brown, 
born  in  I'lngland  in  15S9,  the  line  of  descent 
comes  by  Benjamin  Brown,  born  in  Seabrook, 
in  1647;  Benjamin  Brown,  Jr.,  born  in  South 
Hampton  in  1684;  Jonathan  Brown,  born  in 
Kensington  in  1718;  Abel  Brown,  born  in 
Kensington  in  1760;  and  Abel  Brown,  Jr., 
born  in  Kensington  in  1797. 

Abel  Brown,  Sr. ,  the  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  a  school  teacher  in 
his  younger  days.  Taking  an  active  part  in 
public  affairs,  he  served  as  a  Selectman,  and 
was  employed  to  settle  many  estates.  He 
lived  to  the  age  of  eighty-six  years.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  Whig.  He  married  Sally  Paige, 
a  native  of  Kensington,  and  a  daughter  of 
Stephen  Paige,  who  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Con- 
gregational church.      Mrs.    Abel    Ihown,    first. 


lived  to  be  eighty-two  years  old.  She  reared 
five  children  —  Abel,  Stephen,  Lewis,  Jona- 
than, and  Eliza.  Abel  Brown,  Jr.,  was  reared 
upon  a  farm.  When  a  young  man  he  went  to 
Boston,  where  he  learned  the  trade  of  a  bolt 
and  screw  maker,  and  subsequently  worked  as 
a  journeyman  for  a  year.  With  this  excep- 
tion the  active  period  of  his  life  was  devoted 
to  tilling  the  soil  in  his  native  State.  In 
politics  he  was  a  Whig,  and  he  took  a  leading 
part  in  local  affairs.  P"or  a  number  of  years 
he  served  upon  the  Board  of  Selectmen,  and 
was  a  member  of  the  legislature  for  two  terms. 
At  his  death  he  was  seventy-two  years  old. 
His  wife,  Ruth  Fellows  Brown,  became  the 
mother  of  five  children,  of  whom  Edgar  A.  and 
Cyrus  O.  are  living.  The  others  were  :  Quincy 
A.,  Charles  W.,  and  Luetta  M.  Edgar  A. 
Brown,  who  was  born  in  Kensington,  January 
29,  1828,  married  Eunice  Rowe,  of  Kensing- 
ton, and  her  children  are:  Harvey  E.,  F'oster 
H.,  Freeman  A.,  and  Quincy  A.  Uuincy  A. 
died  in  infancy.  Cyrus  O.  Brown's  mother 
died  at  the  age  of  fifty-eight  years.  In  their 
last  years  both  parents  were  Adventists. 

Cyrus  O.  Brown  was  educated  at  Hampton 
Academy  and  at  Phillips  Andover  Academy 
in  Massachusetts,  taking  a  classical  course  in 
the  class  of  1857.  When  nearly  prepared  to 
enter  college,  his  eyes  became  inflamed,  and 
his  physician  urged  him  to  give  up  all  study 
and  go  more  frequently  into  the  open  air. 
Yielding  to  this  advice  reluctant!}',  he  aban- 
doned his  hojies  of  a  collegiate  career  and 
accepted  the  jjosition  of  assistant  teacher  in 
Hampton  Academy.  .Subsequently  he  fol- 
lowed teaching  as  a  profession  in  Merrimack 
and  Rockingham  Counties  for  thirty-five  years, 
in  the  course  of  which  he  won  a  high  reputa- 
tion and  had  over  three  thousand  pupils  under 
his  instruction.  Since  then  he  has  resided  on 
his  faini.      Tliis  "])ro]icrty  contains  two  hundred 


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acres,     of    whicli     lie    successfully    cultivates 
forty. 

On  October  6,  1858,  Mr.  Urown  wctlded 
M;iry  IC.  Hrown,  a  druighter  of  Newell  and 
Mary  I",  lirowii,  of  I'lpsom.  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cyrus  ().  Jirown  have  had  live  children,  of 
whom  the  only  survivor  is  M.  Kvangclinc, 
born  May  29,  1875,  now  engaged  in  teaching. 
The  others  were:  Cora  K.,  born  July  4,  1859, 
whii  (lied  January  20,  1880;  Ruth  K.,  Ijorn 
July  15,  1863,  who  died  November  20,  1871  ; 
Augusta  T.,  born  April  14,  1867,  who  died 
on  the  same  day  as  Ruth;  and  Mamie  T. , 
born  November  15,  1872,  who  died  May  10, 
1879. 

In  politics  Mr.  ]?rown  acts  independently, 
and  votes  for  the  candidates  whom  he  con- 
siders best  qualified  to  hold  office.  For  sev- 
eral years  he  was  a  member  of  the  School 
Board  of  Epsom,  and  his  knowledge  of  educa- 
tional affairs  made  him  especially  valuable  to 
that  department.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown  are 
members  of  the  Free  Will  BajJtist  church.  A 
very  ]ileasant  interruption  in  Mr.  Brown's 
(|uiet  life  on  his  farm  was  the  fortieth  anni 
versary  of  the  class  of  '57,  held  at  Andover, 
June  24,  1897,  when  all  the  living  members 
were  invited  to  Phillips'  graduating  exercises 
of  '97  and  held  a  grand  alumni  meeting,  and 
when  those  present  partook  of  a  dinner  in  the 
spacious  hall  of  the  institution,  whicii  was  fol- 
lowed by  interesting  speeches  recalling  old 
times. 


«^  •^  » 


LMON  VV.  FRENCH,  of  Plainfield, 
Sullivan  County,  represents  the  third 
generation  of  the  Frenches  in  this 
town.  .  The  family  is  of  English  origin,  and 
members  of  it  were  pioneers  of  New  Eng- 
land. Its  founder  in  Plainfield,  Nathaniel 
French,  the  grandfather  of  Almon  W. ,  came 
here  when   about  twenty-two  years  of  age,    at 


the  time  when  much  of  the  district  was  an 
unbroken  wild.  Having  done  his  part  in  ren- 
dering the  [dace  habitable,  he  died  at  the  age 
of  eighty-nine.  His  wife,  Alice  Back  I*'rcnch, 
had  eight  children,  of  whom  one  died  in  in- 
fancy. The  others  were:  I.iman,  George, 
Hezekiah,  John,  Lucinda,  Betsey,  and  Susan. 
Liman,  who  lived  in  this  town  for  the  greater 
part  of  his  life,  following  the  occupation  of 
farmer,  never  married.  George,  who  was  al.so 
a  farmer  here,  married  Sarah  Hadlcy.  Heze- 
kiah married  Lucinda  Hyde,  and  had  a  family 
of  children.  He  lived  in  Plainfield  nearly  all 
his  lifetime.  Lucinda  successively  married 
Amos  F^ox  and  William  Hadley.  Betsey  be- 
came Mrs.  Hayes  Kenyon,  and  the  mother  of 
several  children;  and  Susan  married  John 
Hadley. 

John  P'rench,  the  father  of  Almon  W. ,  born 
here  in  1805,  died  in  December,  1890.  He 
worked  on  his  father's  farm  until  fifty-five 
years  of  age.  Then  he  bought  a  farm,  which 
he  managed  until  about  a  dozen  years  before 
his  death,  the  chief  business  being  raising  and 
selling  cattle.  He  remained  outside  the  arena 
of  political  strife,  and  never  cared  to  secure 
public  patronage.  Straightforward  and  hon- 
est, he  had  the  respect  of  all  who  knew  him. 
He  married  Harriet  Barry,  who,  born  at  Centre 
Harbor  in  1809,  died  in  1879.  Their  eight 
children  were:  Almon  W.,  John  H.,  Russell, 
Charles,  Melissa,  George,  Frank,  and  Sumner. 
John  H.  was  twice  married.  His  second 
marriage  was  contracted  with  a  lady  named 
French,  who  bore  him  one  son.  Russell,  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Plainfield,  married  Ade- 
laide Smith,  and  has  several  children. 
Charles  married  a  Miss  Westgate,  and  resides 
here.  George  married  Orena  B.  Spaulding, 
and  had  several  children.  F'rank  married  a 
Miss  Chapman,  and  has  a  family  of  children. 
1  Melissa  married  Titus  Pierce,  and  had  several 


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children.  Sumner  married  Miss  Freeman, 
and  was  engaged  in  farming  here  up  to  the 
time  of  his  death. 

Almon  W.  French  was  educated  in  the  jnib- 
lic  schools  of  his  native  town.  After  leaving 
school,  he  had  worked  at  farming  for  about 
fifteen  years,  when  he  became  the  proprietor 
of  a  farm  by  purchase.  Since  that  time  he 
has  bought  four  or  five  others.  He  has  always 
done  more  or  less  sheep-raising,  but  now  gives 
his  attention  mainly  to  dairying.  Industrious 
and  enterprising,  he  has  fully  earned  the  suc- 
cess he  has  met  with.  Like  his  father,  he  has 
not  sought  political  offices.  In  religious  faith 
he  is  a  Congregationalist,  and  he  is  a  gener- 
ous supporter  of  the  Congregational  society 
here.  Mr.  French  married  Melissa  Spauld- 
iiig,  who  was  Ijorn  in  1837.  ■''hs  died  in 
1870,  leaving  a  daughter,  Eva.  Eva  was 
twice  married,  and  by  her  first  marriage  has 
one  son,  Clarence  Almon  Daniels.  Clarence 
has  always  resided  with  his  grandfather, 
Almon  W.   French. 


ICA^MLTER  KENDALL  WADLEIGH, 
M.D.,*  a  skilled  and  popular  physi- 
cian of  Hopkinton,  N.H.,  was  born 
April  7,  1864,  ill  the  town  of  F"ranklin,  Merri- 
mack County,  N.  H.,  a  son  of  Jonathan  P.  and 
Betsey  (Thomas)  Wadleigh.  His  father,  who 
died  in  the  prime  of  manhood,  was  born  and 
reared  in  Sanbornton,  Belknap  County,  this 
.State,  but  spent  the  larger  part  of  his  life  in 
Merrimack  County,  where  he  was  a  large  land- 
holder. 

Walter  K.  Wadleigh  received  his  elementary 
education  in  Franklin,  being  graduated  from 
the  high  school  in  the  class  of  1881.  Decid- 
ing upon  a  professional  career,  for  which  his 
natural  tastes  and  talents  peculiarly  fitted  him, 
he  began  studying  medicine  with   Drs.    I.    F. 


Knight  and  W.  W.  Sleeper,  of  Franklin.  He 
subsequently  entered  Dartmouth  Medical  Col- 
lege, from  which  he  received  his  degree  in 
1886.  While  in  college  he  taught  school  a 
part  of  the  time,  thus  partially  defraying  the 
expense  of  his  education. 

Soon  after  receiving  his  diploma  and 
shortly  after  the  death  of  the  late  Dr.  Rogers, 
Dr.  Wadleigh  located  in  Hopkinton,  and  has 
since  met  with  flattering  success  as  a  practi- 
tioner, his  previous  experience  in  hospital 
work  having  doubtless  been  of  much  service 
to  him  in  his  labors.  He  is  a  member  of  the 
Centre  District  and  of  the  New  Hampshire 
Medical  Societies,  and  is  an  active  worker  in 
each  organization.  The  Doctor  is  a  close 
student,  and  keeps  himself  in  touch  with  the 
latest  discoveries  in  medical  science.  In 
1895  he  prepared  and  read  a  paper  on  the  uses 
of  strophanthus  that  attracted  considerable 
attention  among  bis  professional  brethren. 
He  was  popular  with  his  classmates  while  in 
college,  and  for  two  or  three  years  has  served 
as  President  of  the  Dartmouth  Medical 
Alumni  Association.  The  Doctor  is  also 
quite  prominent  in  local  society  circles,  being 
a  man  of  scholarly  attainments,  genial  and 
courteous  in  manner,  and  accomplished  in  the 
art  of  music,  playing  well  on  the  violin. 


LVAH  CHARLES  FERRIN,*  a  re- 
tired contractor  and  builder  of  Con- 
cord, who  served  in  the  United 
States  Navy  during  the  Civil  War,  was  born  in 
Plymouth,  N.  H.,  August  13,  1835,  son  of 
Daniel  E.  and  Mary  Jane  (Durgin)  Ferrin. 
His  father  was  a  native  of  Hebron,  N.  H.  ;  and 
his  mother  was  born  in  Buxton,  Me.  On  the 
father's  sitle  he  is  a  descendant  of  Revolution- 
ary patriots.  His  education,  which  was  begun 
in  the  public  schools  of  Lowell,  Mass.,  where 


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his  pnrcnts  took  up  their  residence  in  1S41, 
was  cimipU.'tcd  wiicii  lie  was  about  sixteen 
years  old  in  Ilehron,  N.I  I.,  to  wiiirli  they 
went  in  1S42.  He  started  in  life  as  a  farmer. 
After  following  tiiat  occupation  for  a  short 
time,  he  went,  in  1S53,  to  Boston,  Mass., 
where  he  obtained  employment  as  an  e.'fpress- 
nian.  I'ive  years  later  he  returned  to  his 
native  .State,  and,  settling  Iti  Concord,  learned 
the  mason's  trade.  At  this  he  worked  as  a 
joiiine^'man  until  he  became  a  member  of  the 
(irm  of  (Jately  &  i<"errin,  contractors  and 
builders,  with  whom  he  was  associated  until 
he  undertook  to  serve  in  the  Civil  War.  This 
event  occurred  August  19,  i<S64,  when  lie 
entered  the  United  States  Navy  at  Ports- 
mouth, N.ll.  In  January,  1865,  he  sailed 
fi'om  the  Kittery  navy  yard  on  board  the 
United  States  steamer  "Albatross"  for  Mo- 
bile Bay,  where  the  vessel  joinetl  the  West 
(iulf  squadron,  under  the  command  of  Com- 
modore Thatcher,  and  subsequently  cruised 
therewith  until  the  close  of  the  war.  After 
he  was  mustered  out  at  Charlestown,  Mass.,  he 
returned  home.  In  1867  he  formed  a  partner- 
ship with  R.  M.  Ordway,  under  the  firm  name 
of  Ordway  &  Ferrin.  This  firm  carried  on  a 
large  and  prosperous  business  as  masons  and 
contractors  until  the  death  of  Mr.  Ordwav, 
which  occurred  in  1885.  Mr.  I'"errin  had 
been  in  business  alone  for  about  two  years 
after  that  event  when  he  formed,  with  D.  C. 
Woodman,  a  copartnership  that  lasted  for  two 
years.  He  subsequently  remained  in  business 
until  September,  1895,  at  which  time  he  re- 
linquished active  pursuits.  He  is  now  living 
in  retirement  in  Concord.  During  his  busy 
career  he  erected  some  of  the  finest  buildings 
now  standing  in  this  city  and  vicinity,  which 
are  excellent  testimony  of  his  skill  as  a 
master  builder. 

On  May  14,   1859,  Mr.  Ferrin  was  united  in 


marriage  with  Hannali  MeiJullee,  a  native  of 
Candia,  N.  H.  'i'heir  only  child  died  .some 
time  ago.  In  the  Masonic  fraternity  Mr. 
Ferrin  has  reached  the  thirty-second  degree. 
He  is  connected  with  luireka  Lodge,  \o.  70; 
Trinity  Royal  Arch  Chapter,  No.  2,  Mount 
Iloreb  Commandery,  Knights  Templar;  and 
with  lulward  A.  Raymond  Consistory  of 
Nashua.  He  is  also  a  member  of  Kumford 
Lodge,  No.  46,  I.  O.  ().  I'.,  and  Tohanto 
Encampment;  and  a  comrade  of  ]•'..  K.  Sturte- 
vant  Post,  No.  2,  G.  A.  R.  In  jxjlitics  Mr. 
Ferrin   is  a  Republican. 


(sTYNSON    COLBY    ali;\andi:r, 

M.D.  ,*  a  prominent  homfeopathic 
physician  of  Penacook,  was  born  in 
Littleton,  N.IL,  October  10,  1855,  son  of 
Wesley  and  Sarah  B.  (Hray)  Ale.xander. 
Both  ]iaternal  and  maternal  ancestors  of  his 
served  in  the  War  for  Independence.  Wesley 
Alexander,  a  native  of  Swanzey,  N.  H.,  was  a 
prominent  resident  of  Littleton,  and  took  an 
active  part  in  jiublic  affairs.  He  was  one  of 
the  original  promoters  of  the  Re])ublican 
movement  in  this  State,  having  formerly  been 
a  supporter  of  the  Whig  party.  For  more  than 
thirty  years  he  used  his  influence  successfully 
in  securing  the  iiredomi nance  of  these  parties 
in  Littleton.  His  wife,  Sarah,  was  a  native 
of  Harrison,  Me. 

Anson  Colby  Alexander  acquired  his  early 
education  in  the  public  schools  and  at  the 
New  Hampton  and  New  London  Academies. 
His  medical  studies  were  begun  under  the 
instruction  of  Drs.  Daniel  Lee  Jones  and 
Charles  W.  Rowell,  both  of  Lancaster,  N.IL 
He  graduated  from  the  Philadelphia  School  of 
Anatomy  and  Surgery  in  1S79  and  from  the 
Hahnemann  Medical  College  of  the  same  city 
in   1880.      He  also  graduated    from  the    Penn 


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Hospital.  He  was  the  only  New  England 
student  in  many  years  who  won  the  gold  medal 
at  the  Hahnemann  College  for  superior  schol- 
arship in  every  department.  In  the  spring  of 
I1S81  he  began  the  practice  of  his  profession 
in  Tenacook.  Since  then  he  has  acquired  a 
wide  reputation  as  a  skilful  and  llmroughly 
reliable  physician.  He  is  a  tiiistee  of  the 
New  Hampshire  Savings  Bank. 

On  June  22,  1882,  Dr.  Alexander  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Fanny  Goodwin,  of 
North  Attleboro,  Mass.  Mrs.  Alexander  is 
tiie  mother  of  two  children;  namely,  Marion 
and  Harold  Wesley.  The  Doctor  is  a  member 
'of  the  New  England  Gynecological  and  Surgi- 
cal Society  of  Boston.  Well  advanced  in  the 
Masonic  fraternity,  he  is  Master  of  Horace 
Chase  Lodge,  No.  72,  a  Koyal  Arch  Mason  of 
Trinity  Chapter,  and  a  Knight  Templar  of 
Mount  Horeb  Commandery.  He  is  Past 
Grand  of  Dustin  Island  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F., 
and  a  member  of  the  Knights  of  Pythias. 
Desirous  of  promoting  the  general  welfare,  he 
takes  an  active  interest  in  public  affairs.  Po- 
litically, he  acts  with  the  Republican  party; 
and  he  is  a  member  of  the  Baptist  church. 


YRUS     F.     DUSTIN,     a     respected 


farmer  and  lumberman  of  Llopkinton, 
was  born  in  this  town,  January  25, 
1853,  son  of  Daniel  P.  and  Sarah  A.  (Barn- 
ard) Dustin.  He  has  resided  here  since  his 
birth.  In  1891  he  married  Miss  Nellie  S. 
Spalding,  daughter  of  Dustin  A.  and  Saman- 
tha  S.  (Putney)  Spalding.  Mr.  Dustin  is 
prominent  in  town  affairs,  and  in  i8g6  was 
elected  Representative  to  the  legislature.  He 
has  the  best  interests  of  the  town  at  heart,  and 
can  always  be  depended  upon  to  perform  his 
full  duty  as  a  citizen  and  as  a  representative 
of  the  people. 


EDWARD  PLUMMER  PAIGE,  a  former 
legislative  Representative  of  the  town 
of  Dunbarton,  was  born  in  Bradford, 
N.H.,  in  1857,  son  of  Bayard  P.  and  Louisa 
S.  Paige.  The  father  of  lulward  Plummer, 
who  was  born  in  Duid^arton,  subsequently  re- 
moved to  llopkinton,  N.H.,  where  he  acquired 
his  education.  At  the  age  of  fourteen  years 
he  returned  to  Dunbarton,  and  entered  the 
general  merchandise  store  of  his  brother  Jere- 
miah as  clerk.  Three  or  four  years  later  they 
moved  the  business  to  Bradford,  where  he  con- 
tinued to  work  for  some  time.  He  ne.xt  en- 
gaged in  stove-making,  turning  out  some  of 
the  first  stoves  used  in  this  part  of  New 
Hampshire.  Later  Mr.  Paige  went  to  Boston, 
Mass.,  where  he  was  associated  with  the 
well-known  firm,  Leach  &  Gilmore,  wholesale 
dealers  in  groceries.  Messrs.  Leach  &  Gil- 
more  also  owned  and  controlled  a  line  of 
steamboats  running  between  Boston  and  Ban- 
gor, which  was  a  financially  successful  under- 
taking until  William  K.  Vanderbilt  put  on  a 
steamer  in  opposition.  The  cut  rates  for 
passengers  anti  freight  rendered  the  enter- 
prise almost  profitless,  and  they  were  glad  to 
dispose  of  their  interest  to  Mr.  Vanderbilt. 
Mr.  Paige  also  sold  his  interest  in  the  grocery, 
after  which  he  removed  to  Montreal,  Canada, 
where  for  thirty  years  he  was  successfully  en- 
gaged in  the  manufacture  of  all  kinds  of  farm- 
ing implements.  He  then  returned  to  Dun- 
barton, and  remained  there  during  the  rest  of 
his  life,  dying  at  the  age  of  eighty-four  years. 
He  and  his  wife  had  si.x  children,  all  of  whom 
they  reared. 

Edward  P.  Paige  acquired  the  most  of  his 
education  in  the  Montreal  schools.  At  the 
age  of  sixteen  he  entered  his  father's  office  as 
clerk,  remaining  some  time.  Going  subse- 
quently to  Warner,  N.H.,  he  again  entered 
school,  completing  his  studies   in  1881.      He 


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then  went  to  California,  securing  a  jjosition 
as  clerk  in  a  furniture  store.  He  returned 
hiinic  in  the  fall  of  i,S.S4,  and  has  since  been 
engaged  in  farming  on  the  old  homestead.  In 
piditics  he  is  a  Rejiuhlican.  Mr.  Paige  has 
been  |)roniincntly  idciitificd  in  town  .affairs, 
serving  in  various  ofTices.  In  1890  and  1891 
he  had  the  further  distinction  of  being  a  Rep- 
resentative to  the  legislature. 


iMARLKS  IIORAC;]-:  KLin'CIIKR, 
one  of  the  prominent  farmers  of  his 
native  town,  Canterbury,  Merrimack 
County,  was  born  August  3,  1837,  son  of  John 
and  Nancy  (St.  Clair)  Fletcher.  John 
Metcher  was  born  in  Loudon,  N.H.,  March 
16,  1795.  He  married  Miss  St.  Clair,  of 
Canterbury,  born  October  2,  1799,  and  settled 
on  St.  Clair  Hill  in  Canterbury  township, 
where  he  became  a  prominent  farmer.  His 
wife's  father,  Noah  St.  Clair,  was,  it  is  said, 
a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War.  He 
had  ten  children.  Some  of  them  spelled  the 
name  St.  Clair,  and  some  spelled  it  Sinclair. 
If  the  same  as  Noah  Sinclair,  in  the  "Revolu- 
tionary War  Rolls,"  vol.  iii.,  he  enlisted  in 
February,  1777,  vvas  a  drum  major,  and  was 
discharged  in  February,   1780. 

Mr.  and  Mrs.  John  Fletcher  reared  four 
children;  namely,  Lovinia  A.,  William  M., 
John  M.,  and  Charles  Horace.  Lovinia  A. 
F^letcher  married  Edmund  D.  Hill,  and  died 
at  the  age  of  si.xty-five.  Her  husband  is  also 
deceased.  William  M.  was  born  December 
31,  1827,  married  Lucina  Jane  Hill  (now 
deceased),  who  was  born  January  24,  1S33. 
William  M.  F"letcher  resides  in  Canterbury. 
His  children  are:  John  T.,  a  farmer,  born 
February  5,  1S53;  Charles  W.,  a  carpenter 
born  January  12,  1855,  married  Miss  Nettie 
Ordway,    of   Loudon,    N.IL,    March    31,   1883, 


died  August  12,  1894;  Albert  O. ,  born  July 
7,  1857;  Annette  D.,  born  April  24,  i860, 
died  April  14,  1862;  Iva  May,  born  Septem- 
ber' 20,  1861,  married  I'rank  Chamber! in,  of 
Loudon,  professor  of  music;  Cora  Helle,  born 
October  6,  1863,  married  Charles  Huckland,  of 
Concord,  N.IL;  George  M.,  born  January 
12,  1865,  married  Miss  Lillie  (irover,  of 
Canterbury,  N.  H.;  Lucina  Jane,  born  Sep- 
tember 23,  1868,  married  January  30,  1885, 
Frank  Wells,  of  Lotulon,  N.H.,  a  blacksmith 
by  trade. 

John  M.  {'"letcher,  boin  July  24,  1832,  is 
now  a  jjractising  dentist  in  Concord,  N.H. 
A  sketch  of  his  career  will  be  found  on 
another  page  of  this  volume. 

Charles  Horace,  the  youngest  child  of  John 
and  Nancy  l'"letcher,  in  his  boyhood  went  to 
school  in  Loudon.  He  remained  at  home 
with  his  parents  until  his  marriage,  and 
directly  after  that  he  lived  for  a  time  on  Gib- 
son Hill  and  he  then  returned  to  the  old 
homestead,  where  he  lived  for  nine  years. 
Mr.  Fletcher  next  made  his  abode  in  liast 
Concord,  and  there  learned  the  stone  cutter's 
trade.  Again  returning  to  the  home  of  his 
boyhood,  he  took  up  farming,  subsequently 
making  several  changes,  until  he  finally  set- 
tled down  on  his  present  estate,  known  as  the 
old  James  farm,  and  consisting  of  about 
forty  acres.  In  addition  to  this  property  he 
owns  ninety  acres  elsewhere  in  the  townshiji.. 
His  life  has  been  a  most  industrious  one  and, 
on  the  whole,  successful.  He  is  a  man  much 
esteemed  by  all  who  know  him.  He  has  been 
a  Republican,  but  now  votes  the  Democratic 
ticket.  Though  not  eager  for  office,  he  has 
held  several  minor  positions  of  trust. 

Mr.  Fletcher  married  first  Miss  Lucy  Jane 
Peverly,  who  was  born  September  17,  1842, 
daughter  of  Nathaniel  and  Judith  Peverly,  her 
father  being  a  farmer   of    Canterbury.      Mrs. 


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Lucy  J.  Fletcher  died  March  24,  1878;  and  on 
April  7,  1880,  Mr.  Fletcher  married  Mrs. 
Hannah  Young  Potter,  the  widow  of  Thomas 
G.  Potter,  of  Gilmanton,  N.II.,  and  the 
daughter  of  David  and  Mary  (Bachelder) 
Young.  Her  father  was  a  farmer  of  Loudon 
township,  N.H. 

By  his  first  wife  Mr.  Fletcher  had  four 
children  —  Annette  D.,  Anna  A.,  Warren  S., 
and  Nancy  J.  Annette  D.  was  born  January 
29,  1S62,  became  the  wife  of  A.  P.  Chute,  of 
Canterbury,  and  has  one  son,  Howard;  Anna 
A.  was  born  November  20,  1865,  married  John 
A.  Dow,  and  lives  in  Canterbury;  Warren  S., 
was  born  July  17,  1868,  and  is  now  living  in 
Canterbury;  Nancy  J.,  the  youngest,  was  born 
September  25,  1870,  and  married  John  H. 
Meade,  of  Concord,  N.IL,  and  had  one  child, 
a  daughter,  Jenney  A.  Mrs.  Meade  died 
June  S,  1889.  The  present  Mrs.  Fletcher  is 
the  mother  of  two  children:  Lucy  May,  born 
May  16,  1 881;  and  Laura  E.,  born  December 
3,  1886,  both  residing  at  home  with  their 
parents. 

'OHN  S.  ANDREWS,*  a  thrifty  farmer 
and  stock-raiser  of  Plainfield,  Sullivan 
County,  N.H.,  was  born  in  this  town, 
February  27,  1853,  son  of  Nathan  and  Abigail 
]•;.  (F^llis)  Andrews.  His  great-grandfather, 
Nathan  Andrews,  was  the  first  of  the  family 
to  settle  in  Plainfield;  and  Wilbur  Andrews, 
his  grandfather,  was  a  native  of  this  town. 
He  followed  agricultural  pursuits  through  the 
active  period  of  his  life,  and  was  one  of  the 
prosperous  farmers  of  his  day.  He  left  a 
good  estate.  He  married  Orinda  Ross,  a 
native  of  Canada;  and  his  children  were: 
Nathan,  Abigail,  and  Wealthy.  Abigail  be- 
came the  wife  of  Joseph  Westgate,  of  Plain- 
field;  and  Wealthy  died  young. 

Nathan  Andrews,  John  S.  Andrews's  father, 


was  born  in  Plainfield  in  1826.  When  a 
young  man  he  went  West,  and  invested  in 
land  to  some  extent ;  but  he  soon  returned  to 
Plainfield,  and  settling  upon  one  of  his  farms 
devoted  the  rest  of  his  life  to  general  farming 
and  the  raising  of  cattle.  He  died  October 
II,  1888.  Political!)',  he  was  an  active  sup- 
porter of  the  Democratic  party,  and,  though 
not  an  office-holder,  was  wont  to  make  his  in- 
fluence felt  at  town  meetings.  He  attended 
tiie  Baptist  church.  Abigail  E.  liUis,  his 
wife,  was  born  in  Plainfield,  February  14, 
1833,  daughter  of  Stephen  B.  Ellis,  a  resident 
of  this  town  and  a  stone  mason  by  trade. 
She  became  the  mother  of  twelve  children, 
namely:  John  S.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch; 
Abbie  O. ;  Charles  H. ;  Addison  W. ;  Sarah 
A.;  Nathan  R.  ;  Seth  E.  ;  Emma  G. ;  Minnie 
E.  ;  Frank  B. ;  Lillian  E. ;  and  Clarence  K. 
Abbie  O.  married  James  A.  Sloan,  of  Hyde 
Park,  Mass.,  a  carpenter  by  trade,  who  is  now 
residing  upon  a  farm  in  Ascutne3'ville,  Vt. 
They  have  had  seven  children,  and  six  are  liv- 
ing. Charles  H.,  who  is  superintendent  of 
the  hospital  in  Claremont,  N.H.,  married 
Verona  Farnsworth,  of  Washington,  N.H. 
Addison  W.  has  been  in  the  livery  business 
in  Sharon,  Mass.,  for  some  years.  He  mar- 
ried Sarah  Barden,  of  Beverly,  Mass.,  and  has 
one  child.  Sarah  A.  died  at  the  age  of  nine 
years.  Nathan  R.,  who  is  unmarried,  resides 
at  the  homestead,  and  is  a  wealthy  farmer. 
Seth  E.  married  Gertie  Whitcomb,  of  Ver- 
mont, and  is  now  a  miller,  and  resides  in 
Claremont.  F^mma  G.  married  Charles  Cur- 
tis, a  native  of  Cornish,  N.IL,  who  is  now  a 
teamster  in  Plainfield.  Minnie  E.  died  at  the 
age  of  two  years.  F'rank  B  ,  who  is  employed 
as  a  clerk  in  Sharon,  Mass.,  married  Hattie 
Harwood,  of  that  town,  and  has  had  two  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  is  living.  Lillian  1{.  re- 
sides   with    her    brother   Addison    in    Sharon, 


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Mass.  ;  and  Claroncc  K.  lives  in  PJainficld, 
N.ll.  Mrs.  Abigail  1<:.  I'^llis  Andrews  died 
February  28,   1893. 

John  S.  Andrews  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon schools  and  at  Kimball  Union  Academy. 
He  was  employed  as  a  farm  assistant  for  ten 
years,  and  then  bought  tlie  ])aniels  farm  on 
Black  Hill,  where  he  began  the  pursuit  of 
agriculture  upon  his  own  account.  Three 
years  later  he  purchased  of  Lewis  Stickney 
his  present  farm,  which  is  one  ol  the  best 
pieces  of  agricultural  property  in  this  section, 
and  through  hard  work  and  the  exercise  of 
good  judgment  has  reached  a  state  of  comfort- 
able prosperity.  He  produces  large  crops  of 
hay,  grain,  potatoes,  and  other  staple  prod- 
ucts, and  raises  some  excellent  cattle,  sheep, 
and  horses.  Although  the  greater  part  of  his 
time  is  taken  up  by  his  regular  duties  at 
home,  he  has  found  opportunity  to  serve  the 
town  efficiently  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of 
Selectmen  ami  in  other  offices. 

Mr.  Andrews  married  Carrie  I,.  Packard, 
who  was  born  in  Plainfield,  February  8,  1864. 
Her  parents,  Charles  and  Mary  (Jordan)  Pack- 
ard, are  still  residing  here;  and  her  father  is 
a  painter  by  trade.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Andrews 
have  one  child,  a  daughter,  Cora  M.,  born 
July  3,  1883,  who  is  now  attending  school. 

Mr.  Andrews  is  connected  with  Cheshire 
Lodge,  No.  23,  F".  &  A.  M.,  and  is  Master  of 
Park  Grange,  Patrons  of  Husbandry,  of  Cor- 
nish.     He  attends  the  Baptist  church. 


4^  •^» 


r^TON.  JOHN  WHITAKER,*  a  retired 
f^n  lumber  dealer  of  Penacook  and  ex- 
-li®  V  _  member  of  the  State  Senate,  was 
born  in  Hopkinton,  N.H.,  June  9,  1835,  son 
of  John  and  Hannah  (Bickford)  Whitaker. 
He  is  a  descendant  of  one  of  three  brothers 
who    emigrated     from    PIngland    in    the    early 


tiays.  His  paternal  great-grandfather,  serving 
as  a  soldier  in  the  Revolutionary  War,  partici- 
pated in  the  battle  of  Bunker  Hill,  and  was 
present  at  the  surrender  of  Burgoyne.  Peter 
Whitaker,  the  grandfather,  a  native  of  Deer- 
ing,  N.H.,  was  a  pros])erous  farmer. 

John  Whitaker,  Sr.,  Mr.  Whitakcr's  father, 
first  enlisted  for  three  months'  service  in  the 
War  of  1812.  Upon  the  expiration  of  that 
term  he  re-enlisted  for  three  years.  In  civil 
life  he  was  chiefly  occupied  in  agriculture. 
He  met  his  death  in  a  conflagration,  which 
destroyed  his  dwelling  and  its  contents  in 
1856. 

John  Whitaker  was  educated  in  the  public 
and  private  schools  of  Hopkinton.  After 
leaving  school  at  the  age  of  sixteen,  his  first 
occupation  was  driving  a  coach  and  assisting 
in  an  express  business.  In  1858  he  opened  a 
livery  stable  in  Penacook  upon  his  own  ac- 
count, and  subsequently  carried  it  on  for  four 
years.  In  1864  he  entereil  the  lumber  busi- 
ness in  company  with  (j.  h\  Sanborn,  who 
■withdrew  at  the  end  of  one  year.  He  then 
formed  a  partnership  with  II.  H.  Amsden  and 
B.  F.  Caldwell,  under  the  firm  name  of  John 
Whitaker  &  Co. ;  and  they  carried  on  a  pros- 
perous business  for  some  years.  In  1886  Mr. 
Whitaker  purchased  the  interests  of  his  asso- 
ciates, and  conducted  the  enterprise  alone 
until  1890,  when  he  retired  from  active  pur- 
suits. He  is  a  Democrat  in  politics,  and 
takes  an  active  interest  in  ])ublic  affairs.  He 
served  as  an  Assessor  of  Penacook  in  1859, 
was  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Aldermen  for 
two  years,  a  Representative  in  the  legislature 
in  1S62,  and  State  Senator  in  1893  and  1894. 
He  is  a  director  of  the  Penacook  Electric 
Light  Company,  the  president  of  the  Concord 
Axle  Company,  a  trustee  of  the  Guarantee 
Savings  Bank  of  Concord,  and  is  Water  Com- 
missioner of  that  city. 


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On  February  6,  i860,  Mr.  Whitaker  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Frances  E.  Caldwell, 
of  Penacook.  A  thirty-second  degree  Mason, 
he  is  a  member  of  Blazing  Star  Lodge,  Trinity 
Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons;  Mount  Horeb 
Commandery,  Knights  Templar;  Edward  A. 
Raymond  Consistory  of  Nashua,  N.H.:  and 
Aleppo  Temple  of  the  Mystic  Shrine  of 
Boston. 


OHN  EVANS  ROBERTSON,*  a  well- 
known  ice  dealer  of  Concord,  was  born 
May  9,  1843,  in  Warner,  N.H.,  son  of 
Jiarrison  D.  and  Sarah  C.  (E^vans)  Robertson, 
both  of  Warner.  The  families  of  both  parents 
were  old  residents  of  Merrimack  County,  New 
Hampshire.  The  maternal  ancestors  origi- 
nally came  from  Newburyport,  Mass.,  where 
Grandfather  Benjamin  Evans  officiated  as 
Sheriff,  being  also  a  prominent  business  man. 
John  E.  Robertson  attended  the  public 
schools  of  Warner,  and  subsequently  fitted  for 
college  in  the  academy  at  Henniker,  N.H. 
However,  after  leaving  school  at  the  age  of 
eighteen,  he  did  not  go  to  college.  In  1864 
he  went  to  Montreal,  and  there  engaged  in 
the  produce  business,  under  the  firm  name  of 
Buck,  Robertson  &  Co.  Six  years  later,  on 
account  of  ill  health,  he  returned  to  Warner, 
where  he  conducted  a  country  store  until 
1874,  when  he  came  to  Concord.  Here  he 
was  assistant  cashier  of  the  National  Savings 
Bank  for  eight  years.  Beginning  in  1882  he 
dealt  in  coal,  wood,  and  ice  until  1888,  when 
he  sold  out  on  account  of  failing  health. 
Three  years  later  he  resumed  the  ice  business, 
whicli  he  still  carries  on.  He  is  a  trustee  and 
the  assistant  treasurer  of  the  National  Savings 
Bank.  When  the  institution  went  into  liqui- 
dation in  1877,  he  was  appointed  assignee  by 
the  court.  He  is  also  a  trustee  of  the  Guar- 
antee Savings  Bank  of  Concord. 


In  Bradford,  N.  H.,  August  15,  1864,  Mr. 
Robertson  was  married  to  Martha  I'.  Paige, 
of  Montreal.  Of  their  three  children  two  are 
living,  namely:  Sliirlie  Louise,  the  wife  of 
William  A.  Whitney,  of  Claremont,  N.H.; 
and  Carleton  Evans.  In  politics  Mr.  Robert- 
son is  a  stanch  Democrat.  He  has  been  Town 
Clerk  and  Selectman  of  Warner,  and  he  was  a 
Representative  in  the  New  Hampshire  legisla- 
ture in  187  I.  In  Concord  he  was  the  second 
Democratic  Mayor  after  the  incorporation  of 
the  city,  serving  for  the  year  1887-88.  He 
is  a  member  of  Mount  Horeb  Commandery, 
K.  T.,  and  of  White  Mountain  Lodge, 
I.   O.   O.    F. 


<■••♦-» 


'OHN  HENRY  ALBIN,*  one  of  the 
best  known  lawyers  of  Concord  and 
an  e.x-member  of  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  was  born  in  Randolph,  Vt.,  Octo- 
ber 17,  1843,  son  of  John  and  limily  (White) 
Albin.  His  ancestors  on  the  father's  side 
resided  in  Randolph  for  one  hundred  and  fifty 
years,  and  his  mother's  family  is  one  of  the 
oldest  in  Merrimack  County.  He  came  here 
with  his  parents  when  he  was  twelve  years 
old.  Having  completed  his  elementary  edu- 
cation in  the  public  schools  of  this  city,  he 
entered  Dartmouth  College  in  the  fall  of  i860, 
and  graduateil  from  that  institution  in  the 
summer  of  1864.  Afterward  he  studied  law 
with  the  Hon.  Ira  A.  Eastman,  ex  -Judge  of 
the  New  Hampshire  Supreme  Court,  and  was 
admitted  to  the  bar  in  the  spring  of  1868. 
Beginning  in  the  autumn  of  that  year,  he  was 
associated  with  Judge  Eastman  until  the  hit- 
ter's retirement  from  practice  in  1S73.  Mr. 
Albin  then  formed  witii  the  Hon.  Mason  W. 
Tappan  a  partnership  that  lasted  until  Mr. 
Tappan's  death.  He  subsequently  became  a 
partner  with  Nathaniel  Martin.  In  1895 
Dewitt  C.  Howe  was  admitted  to  tlie  firm. 


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On  September  5,  1872,  Mr.  Albin  wedded 
Georgia  A.  Modica,  of  Ilenniker,  N.II.  Of 
liis  three  chililren  two  are  living;  namely, 
Henry  Allison  atul  ICditli  Gertrude.  In  pol- 
ities Mr.  Albin  is  a  Republican.  P{e  was 
elected  to  the  legislature  from  Concord  in 
1872,  re-elected  in  1873,  and  he  represented 
Menniker  in  that  body  in  1876.  He  is  the 
president  of  the  Sullivan  County  Railroad 
Company,  a  director  of  the  Vermont  Valley 
and  of  the  Connecticut  River  Railroad  Com- 
panies, and  the  president  of  the  Concord  Street 
Railway  Company.  One  of  the  most  promi- 
nent Odd  Fellows  in  the  State,  he  is  a  mem- 
ber of  White  Mountain  Lodge,  No.  5 ;  was 
Grand  Master  of  the  Grand  Lodge  of  New 
Hampshire  in  1879  and  1880;  represented  this 
jurisdiction  in  the  Sovereign  Grand  Lodge  in 
1S81,  1882,  1884,  1885,  and  1886;  was  Grand 
Marshal  of  that  body  in  1888  and  1889;  was 
the  originator  of  the  degrees  known  as  the 
Uniform  Rank  and  the  I'atriarchs  Militant; 
and  has  been  a  trustee  of  the  Odd  Fellows 
Home  since  its  foundation. 


—•-••♦-♦— 


7TAHARLES  S.  TOWLE,*  one  of  Chi- 
(    jr'^      Chester's    representative    farmers,    was 

V„^_^  born  in  this  town,  October  17, 
1854,  son  of  James  B.  and  Sarah  (Sherburne) 
Towle.  His  grandparents,  Jonathan  and  Sally 
(Fellows)  Towle,  who  were  prosperous  farm- 
ing people  of  Chichester,  had  twelve  children, 
of  whom  Sarah  J.,  Betsey,  Mary  E.,  Cyn- 
thia, and  Olive  Jane  are  living.  Sarah  J.  is 
the  widow  of  George  l\  Haines,  late  of  this 
town,  and  has  five  children  —  Sarah  J.,  George 
H.,  Annie  M.,  Albert  H.,  and  Alvin  M. 
Betsey  is  the  widow  of  the  late  Augustus 
Leavitt.  Mary  E.  is  the  wife  of  Stephen 
Marston,  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H.  ;  and  her  children 
are :    Angle,     Munroe,     Sarah,     Clara,    Addie, 


Alice,  and  Adelle.  Cynthia  married  Clark 
Bennett;  and  her  children  are:  Clarence, 
Nettie,  Irving,  and  another  whose  name  is 
not  known.  Olive  Jane  is  the  wife  of  Albert 
Thompson,  of  Chichester,  and  has  four  chil- 
dren —  Ida,  Arthur,  Lillia,  and  Augustus. 
Jonathan  Towle  in  his  younger  years  was  a 
cooper  by  trade.  He  later  gave  his  attention 
to  agricultural  pursuits.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Democrat.  He  was  over  eighty  years  old 
when  he  died.  His  wife  also  lived  to  a  good 
old  age.  They  were  members  of  the  Baptist 
church. 

James  B.  Towle,  tiie  second  of  his  parents' 
children,  was  born  in  Chichester  and  reared  to 
farm  life.  He  owned  a  good  farm  in  Chiches- 
ter. In  politics  he  supported  the  Democratic 
party,  and  in  his  religious  views  he  was  a 
Methodist.  He  died  at  the  age  of  seventy- 
four  years.  His  wife,  Sarah,  became  the 
mother  of  seven  children,  five  of  whom  are  liv- 
ing; namely,  Lewis,  James  F.,  Sarah  J., 
Viola,  and  Charles  S.  Lewis  married  for  his 
first  wife  Helen  Abbott,  who  had  five  children  : 
Herman  G.,  Lucy  K.,  Sarah  E. ,  Fred  L. , 
and  Charles  A.  I'or  his  second  wife  he 
wedded  Mary  Hill,  of  Chichester.  James  F. 
Towle  married  Abbie  J.  Watson,  of  this  town, 
and  has  two  children  —  F.  Lenore  and  Paul 
E.  Sarah  J.  is  the  wife  of  John  F.  French, 
of  Chichester;  and  her  children  are:  Lizzie 
H.,  John  \V. ,  Frank  D.,  Susan  A.,  and  Jo- 
sephine P.  Viola  is  the  widow  of  the  late 
Alfred  Robinson;  and  her  children  are:  James 
O.  and  Bert  D.  Mrs.  James  B.  Towle  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-six  years. 

Charles  S.  Towle  attended  the  schools  of 
his  native  town,  and  at  an  early  age  began  to 
assist  his  father  upon  the  farm.  He  has  fol- 
lowed farming  very  prosperously  throughout 
his  life.  On  May  23,  187S,  he  married  Sarah 
R.    Lake,    daughter    of    fosiah    and    Marv    A. 


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BIOGRAPHICAI,    RFA  TEW 


(Richards)  Lake,  of  Pembroke,  N.II.  Their 
adopted  daughter,  Edith  May,  was  born  in 
]5oscawcn,  N.H.,  June  7,  1890.  Mr.  Towle 
is  much  liked  for  many  estimable  traits  of 
character.  Both  he  and  Mrs.  Towle  are  mem- 
bers uf  the  Methodist  Episcopal  church.  In 
politics  he  supports  the  Prohibition  party. 


^KKU  H.  FELLOWS,*  one  of  Chiches- 
ter's representative  men,  was  born  in 
this  town,  December  18,  1859,  son  of 
John  and  Ursula  M.  (Webster)  Fellows.  His 
grandfather,  John  Fellows  (first),  learned  the 
blacksmith's  trade  in  Chichester,  and  followed 
it  in  this  town  during  the  active  portion  of  his 
life.  John  owned  a  small  farm,  which  he  also 
cultivated  industriously.  In  politics  he  was 
a  Democrat,  and  he  served  as  a  Selectman  and 
in  other  town  offices.  He  married  Betsey 
Page,  who  bore  him  eight  children,  si.\  of 
whom  are  living;  namely,  James  B.,  Esther, 
Elizabeth  J.,  Louisa,  Frank  J.,  and  Octave. 
James  B.  married  for  his  first  wife  Betsey 
Webster,  who  died  leaving  one  son,  F'rank. 
For  his  second  wife  he  married  Lydia  Sever- 
ance, and  by  this  union  has  one  daughter, 
Hattie.  Esther  Fellows  became  the  wife  of 
George  M.  Warren,  of  Chichester;  and  her 
children  are:  Edwin,  Charles,  John,  and 
James.  Elizabeth  J.  married  James  W. 
Smith,  of  this  town;  and  her  children  are: 
Mabel,  Arvilla,  and  Dora.  Louisa  married 
fur  her  first  husband  a  Mr.  Hill,  by  whom  she 
had  one  child.  By  her  present  husband, 
Abraham  Drake,  she  has  had  no  children. 
P'rank  J.  married  Lizzie  Upton,  and  has  three 
children  —  Grace,  Walter,  and  Nettie.  Oc- 
tave married  Ann  Barton,  of  Pittsfield,  and 
has  two  sons  —  George  and  David.  John  Fel- 
lows (first)  was  for  many  years  a  Deacon  of  the 
Free  Will  Baptist  church.      He  died  at  the  age 


of    seventy-three    years,     and     his      wife     at 
seventy-seven. 

John  P^'ellows  (second),  P'red  II.  I'elbnvs's 
father,  was  born  in  Pittsfield,  N.  H.  At  an 
early  age  he  began  to  assist  upon  the  farm. 
Having  learned  the  blacksmith's  trade,  he 
followed  that  calling  in  connection  with  farm- 
ing throughout  his  active  period.  He  was 
Selectman  for  a  number  of  years  and  a  mem- 
ber of  the  legislature  for  two  terms.  In  poli- 
tics he  was  a  Democrat.  His  wife,  Ursula, 
who  was  a  daughter  of  John  Webster,  of  Sand- 
wich, N.H.,  became  the  mother  of  three  chil- 
dren—  lilla  A.,  Bessie,  and  Frank  H.  Ella 
is  now  the  widow  of  Nathaniel  S.  Marston, 
late  of  Chichester,  and  has  one  son,  John. 
Bessie  is  the  wife  of  E.  J.  Burnham,  of  Man- 
chester, N.H.  ;  and  her  children  are:  Ursula 
W. ,  Bessie  A.,  George,  and  Edward.  John 
Fellows  (second)  died  at  the  age  of  fifty-three 
years,  leaving  a  good  estate.  He  was  an 
active  member  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist 
church,  which  he  served  as  a  Deacon  for  sev- 
eral years.  His  wife,  who  survives  him,  is 
now  sixty-two  years  old,  and  resides  with  her 
son  at  the  old  homestead.  She  united  with 
the  P'ree  Will  Baptist  church  many  years  ago. 

Fred  H.  Fellows  attended  school  in  this 
town.  He  subsequently  served  an  apprentice- 
ship at  the  blacksmith's  trade  with  his  father, 
and  he  has  been  engaged  in  that  calling. 
Having  succeeded  to  the  homestead  property, 
he  carries  on  farming  there  with  prdfit.  On 
July  4,  1884,  he  wedded  Cora  Smith,  daugh- 
ter of  Sydney  Smith,  of  Pittsfield.  They  have 
three  children  —  Lula  A.,  lulith  B.,  and 
Bessie  P2. 

Mr.  P""ellows  is  a  Democrat  in  politics, 
while  he  has  no  desire  for  public  office.  He 
believes  in  the  adoption  of  all  measures  which 
would  tend  to  develop  the  business  and  in- 
crease the  attractiv.eness  of  the  town.      All  who 


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know  him  respect  him  tnr  his  aljility  anci    prn- 
giessive  tentleiicies. 


T^T1<:NRY    MARSHALL    la.WIvLL,* 
f^l       Chairman  of  the  Board  of  Selectmen 

iy^  y^ ^  of      Langdon,       Sullivan       County, 

N.II.,  son  of   Robert   and  l'h(ei)e    (ICvans)  VA- 
well,  was  born  in  tliis  town,  April   13,   1839. 

His  paternal  grandfather,  Benjamin  I'^lwell, 
a  lifelong  resident  of  Langdon,  was  a  wealthy 
farmer  and  highly  esteemed  citizen.  He  mar- 
ried a  Miss  Kendall,  and  had  four  children, 
named  :  Samuel,  Betsey,  Nancy,  and  Robert. 
Ik'njamin  Itlwell  and  his  wife  died  on  the 
same  day,  within  a  few  minutes  of  each  other; 
and  their  mortal  remains  were  buried  together 
in  the  same  cofifin.  Samuel,  the  eldest  son, 
lived  in  Langdon  all  his  life,  a  well-to-do 
farmer.  He  married  a  Miss  Jewett,  and  had 
four  children — Electa,  .Sojihronia,  Nancy, 
and  Samuel  K.  Betsey,  the  second  child  of 
]5enjamin  ]{lwell,  married  .Simon  .Sartwell,  a 
prosperous  farmer  of  Langdon,  very  prominent 
in  town  affairs;  and  they  had  several  children. 
Nancy  married  Colonel  Ansel  Glover,  of 
Alstead,  a  leading  Democratic  politician,  who 
was  at  one  time  a  delegate  from  his  party  to 
the  national  convention  in  Baltimore. 

Robert,  the  father  of  Henry  Marshall  Ll- 
well,  acquired  his  education  in  the  schools  of 
Langdon.  He  began  his  active  career  as  a 
farmer,  and  subsecjuently  engaged  in  lumber- 
ing. He  made  a  specialty  of  breeding  short- 
horned  cattle,  of  which  he  had  exhibits  at  the 
principal  New  England  County  and  State 
Fairs.  His  farm,  one  of  the  largest  in  Sulli- 
van County,  contained  from  tweh'e  hundred  to 
fifteen  hundred  acres.  After  the  big  fire  in 
]5ellows  l^\alls,  Vt.,  he  furnished  all  the  lum- 
ber for  the  rebuilding  of  the  town;  and  in  the 
days   before  the    railroad    was    built    he   rafted 


large  amounts  of  lumber  down  the  Cfjiniecticut 
River  to  Holyoke,  Mass.  He  was  very  enter- 
prising and  stirring,  and  did  a  good  deal  for 
the  community  at  large.  In  politics  he  was 
always  a  Republican,  and  was  a  State  Repre- 
sentative two  or  three  terms  and  one  of  Gov- 
ernor Goodwin's  Councillors.  He  was  an 
attendant  of  the  Universalist  church.  Phoebe, 
his  wife,  b(jrn  in  Rhode  Lsland  in  1810,  was 
a  daughter  of  Colonel  Aaron  Flvans.  .She 
died  in  1895.  They  were  the  parents  of  six 
children,  of  whom  one  died  in  infancy.  Those 
who  grew  to  maturity  were:  I^ucia,  Henry  M., 
May,  Julia,  and  George.  Lucia  died  of  ty- 
[ihoid  fever  while  attending  Kimball  Union 
Academy  at  Meriden,  N.  H.  Mary  married 
Charles  Town,  a  wealthy  farmer  of  Alstead, 
and  by  that  union  had  three  children.  Mr. 
Town  died;  and  she  has  since  married  George 
\V.  Stanley,  of  Langdon.  Julia,  who  at- 
tended school  in  lirattleboro,  \'t. ,  died  at  the 
age  of  eighteen,  of  heart  trouble.  George,  liv- 
ing in  I'rovidence,  R.I.,  is  an  owner  and 
trainer  of  race  horses,  and  has  one  horse 
named  Canonicus  that  has  a  record  of  2.19^. 
He  has  twice  married,  his  first  wife  being 
Carrie  Milliken,  daughter  of  John  Milliken,  of 
Charlestown,  and  his  second,  Emma  Gilbert, 
of  Marlboro,  N.H.  By  the  first  union  there 
were  three  children,  including  two  sons, 
Charles  and  Henry;  and  by  the  second  four  — 
Carrie,  Robert,  Addie  M,  and  Alice  M. 

After  attending  the  Langdon  schools,  Henry 
M.  El  well  studied  at  Tubbs  Union  Academy, 
Washington,  N.H.,  also  at  an  academy  in 
Chester,  Vt.  Upon  his  return  from  school  he 
stayed  at  home  with  his  father,  and  since  his 
father's  death  he  has  continued  to  carry  on  a 
successful  business  as  a  farmer. 

Mr.  Lllwell  has  twice  married.  His  first 
wife.  Belle  Foster,  daughter  of  Levi  Foster,  of 
Walpole,    N.H.,    died    in    1868.      Two  of  her 


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children  arc  now  living — Grace  and  Frank. 
Grace  first  married  Joseph  Mitchell,  a  druggist 
of  Bellows  Falls,  Vt. ,  and  is  now  the  wife  of 
a  Mr.  Thomas,  a  manufacturer  of  tinfoil  in 
New  York  City.  P^rank  lives  in  Langdon. 
His  twin  sister,  Fanny,  died  at  the  age  of 
thirteen.  Mr.  Elwell's  present  wife,  whose 
maiden  name  was  Martha  Rice,  is  a  daughter 
of  Charles  Rice,  of  Waljiole,  N.  H.  Two 
children  have  been  born  of  this  union  —  May 
and  Annie  L. 

In  1893  Mr.  Elwell  was  elected  Representa- 
tive to  the  Lower  House  of  the  New  Hampshire 
legislature,  and  served  on  the  Normal  School 
Committee.  He  has  been  Selectman  for  ten 
years  and  is  the  present  Chairman  of  the 
]5oard.  Every  year  for  twenty-si.x  years, 
whether  he  was  a  member  of  the  Board  or  not, 
the  Selectmen  of  the  town  have  met  at  his 
house  on  April  i  and  had  dinner  with  him. 


■«^»^» 


tNTHONY  K.    LANE,*  one  of  the  best 
known    residents  of     Chichester,    was 
^^^ born    in    this    town,    December    15,' 

1 812,  son  of  Jeremiah  and  Hannah  (Tuck) 
Lane.  His  great-grandfather,  Deacon  Joshua 
Lane,  who  was  born  in  Hampton  Falls,  N.H., 
followed  agriculture  in  his  native  town,  and 
died  December  29,  1806.  Jeremiah  Lane 
(first),  grandfather  of  Anthony  K.,  was  born 
in  Hampton  Falls,  March  10,  1732.  The  ac- 
tive portion  of  his  life  was  spent  in  farming; 
and  he  died  June  21,  1806.  He  was  a  zealous 
church  member  and  a  Deacon.  He  wedded 
Mary  Sanborn,  daughter  of  Lieutenant  Joseph 
Sanborn,  and  became  the  father  of  seven  chil- 
dren. 

Jeremiah  Lane  (second),  Anthony  K. 
Lane's  father,  was  born  in  Hampton  Falls. 
In  early  life  he  settled  in  Chichester,  where 
he  cleared   and   improved   a    large   farm.      One 


of  the  most  industrious  residents  of  this  town 
in  his  day,  he  became  the  owner  of  consider- 
able property.  In  politics  he  was  a  Whig,  and 
he  served  as  a  member  of  the  Board  of  Select- 
men. For  his  first  wife  he  married  lumice 
Tilton,  who  bore  him  eight  children,  none  of 
whom  are  living.  His  second  wife,  Hannah 
Tuck  Lane,  had  three  children,  of  whom  An- 
thony K.  is  the  sole  survivor.  She  died  at 
the  age  of  seventy-one,  while  Jeremiah  lived 
to  be  eighty  years  old.  They  were  members 
of    the  Congregational   Church  of  Chichester. 

Anthony  K.  Lane  attended  school  in  Chi- 
chester. Since  he  reached  his  majority,  he  has 
carried  on  general  farming.  He  owns  one 
hundred  acres  of  well-located  land,  forty  acres 
of  which  is  under  cultivation.  On  it  is  an 
excellent  orchard.  He  married  Sally  Yeaton, 
daughter  of  John  Yeaton,  of  Epsom,  N.H., 
and  has  reared  four  children;  namely,  John 
Y.,  Ann  M.,  Albert  C,  and  Frank  T.  John 
Y.  married  Clara  Perkins,  of  Pittsfield,  N.  H., 
and  has  one  daughter  living — Evaline  Z. 
Ann  M.  is  now  the  widow  of  Charles  H. 
Ordway,  late  of  Concord,  N.  H.,  and  has  two 
children  —  Charles  A.  and  Mabel  A.  Albert 
C.  graduated  from  Long  Island  College  Hos- 
pital at  Brooklyn,  N.Y.,  June  24,  1879.  He 
practised  his  profession  thirteen  years  in 
Billerica,  Mass.,  and  in  1892  settled  in  West 
Medford,  where  he  now  resides.  He  married 
Estella  J.  Davis,  of  Pittsfield;  and  his  chil- 
dren are:  Clarence  G.  and  Sadie.  F'rank  T. 
married  Louise  Batchelder,  of  Raymond, 
N.H.,  and  has  one  daughter,  Blanche.  Mrs. 
Anthony  K.  Lane  died  at  the  age  of  seventy 
years. 

In  politics  Mr.  Lane  is  a  Republican,  and 
in  religious  belief  he  is  a  liberal.  He  has 
long  occupied  a  leading  position  among  the 
well-to-do  farmers  of  Chichester,  and  is  much 
respected  by  his  fellow-townsmen. 


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^OIIN  ICNDICOTT,*  who,  with  his 
jjrothcr,  Jacob  ().,  aiui  liis  .sister  Mary, 
carries  on  tlie  old  farm  in  the  town  of 
Newport,  first  settled  by  their  father  Timothy 
in  1837,  was  born  in  this  town,  September  9, 
1821,  and  is  a  diiect  descendant  of  John  Kndi- 
cott,  the  first  governor  of  Massacluisetts.  Tim- 
othy Endicott,  the  father,  was  born  in  Danvers, 
Mass.,  in  1790,  and  was  a  farmer  and  the 
owner  of  a  saw  and  grist  mill.  lie  removed 
from  Danvers  to  East  Newport,  where  he  had 
about  one  hundred  and  fifty  acres  of  land. 
Remaining  there  until  1837,  he  then  settled 
in  Newport,  where  he  spent  the  remainder  of 
his  life.  His  wife,  Mary  Trask  hJulicott,  was 
born,  in  Beverly,  Mass.,  about  1795.  Hus- 
band and  wife  were  both  members  of  the  Con- 
gregational church.  Mr.  Endicott  was  a  Re- 
publican in  politics  during  his  later  years. 
A  good  neighbor  and  a  useful  citizen,  he  was 
held  in  high  regard  by  his  fellow-townsmen. 
He  died  at  his  home  in  1853.  His  wife  sur- 
vived him  twenty  years,  passing  away  at  the 
age  of  seventy-eight.  They  had  five  children 
—  William,  Lydia,  Mary,  John,  and  Jacob  (J. 
William  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-five  years. 
Eydia  married  a  Mr.  Roberts,  and  passed  away 
at  the  age  of  si.\ty-two.  Mary,  born  May  8, 
1816,  and  Jacob  ().,  born  April  20,  1823,  are, 
as  already  mentioned,  residing  on  the  farm 
with  their  brother  John,  all  being  unmarried. 
John  Endicott  received  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town.  He  was  reared  to 
agricultural  pursuits,  and  is  a  typical  New 
England  farmer.  He  owns  about  five  hundred 
acres,  besides  his  interest  in  the  homestead; 
and  he  had  a  milk  route  in  Claremont,  N.  H., 
which  he  carried  on  for  twelve  years,  keeping 
as  many  as  thirty-nine  head  of  cattTe.  He 
has  also  bred  stock  to  some  extent,  and  in 
this  has  been  very  successful.  He  raised  the 
largest  steer  in  tliis  section,  which  at   the  age 


of  four  years  weighed  twcj  thousand  seven  hun- 
dred ])ounds,  and  was  bought  by  Mr.  liaton, 
of  Manchester,  for  one  hundred  and  ninety- 
si.x  dollars.  Mr.  Juidicott  has  also  rai.sed  some 
fine  horses,  including  the  one  known  as  Rocket, 
which  was  one  of  the  fastest  horses  raised  in 
the  State  in  the  early  sixties,  having  a  record 
(jf  2.  16.  Mr.  John  Endicott  is  a  Republican, 
but  has  held  no  public  office.  He  super- 
intends the  work  of  the  farm,  buE  some  time 
since  gave  up  active  labor.  He  and  his 
brother  and  sister  attend  the  Methodist  Epis- 
copal church,  and  are  numbered  among  the  old 
established  families  of  the  town. 


^  lOSI'S  1".  K.XOWI.TON,*  a  well- 
known  livery  man  of  .Sunapee, 
N.H.,  was  born  in  this  town, 
July  24,  1845,  '^  SO"  "f  Dennis  G.  Knowlton. 
His  grandfather,  Samuel  Knowlton,  who  was 
a  lifelong  resident  of  Sunapee,  had  three  sons 
—  Dennis  G.,  Moses  E.,  and  John  P.  Dennis 
G.  Knowlton  had  two  sons — Charles  A.  and 
Moses  F. 

Moses  E.  Kn(iwltiin  was  educated  in  the 
schools  of  his  native  town.  When  he  first 
went  to  work  for  himself,  he  took  up  general 
farming.  Subsequently  he  ke[)t  a  general 
store  in  Sunapee  for  about  ten  years  in  com- 
pany with  his  father.  He  then  went  into  the 
hotel  business  in  Newport,  N.H.,  where  for 
four  years  he  successfully  conducted  the 
Pheni.x  ■  Hotel.  Finally,  returning  to  Suna- 
pee, he  engaged  in  the  livery  business,  to 
which  he  has  since  given  his  attention.  He 
keeps  a  thoroughly  up-to-date  establishment, 
and  some  of  the  finest  steppers  and  most  stylish 
turnouts  anywhere  to  be  found  may  be  obtained 
of  him.  As  the  natural  result  of  his  enterprise 
and  ability  he  has  been  very  prosperous  in 
business.      Mr.  Knowlton    is   a   public-spirited 


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iiKui,  liighly  esteemed  by  his  fellow-citizens. 
He  lias'hekl  many  important  offices,  all  of 
which  he  has  filled  with  tact  and  good  judg- 
ment. In  1890-91  he  represented  the  town 
in  the  legislature.  He  served  four  terms  as 
Selectman,  and  he  was  Town  Clerk  for  three 
years.  Mr.  Knowlton  is  a  member  of  the 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  No.  79,  at  Sunapee,  and  also 
belongs  to  the  encampment  at  Newport.  His 
religious  opinions  are  liberal,  and  in  politics 
he  is  a  Democrat.  He  married  February  22, 
1.SS2,  and  has  one  son,  John  D.,  who  was  born 
in  Newport,  July    11,   1SS5. 


in   farming  and 
He  married 


"i:XRI  G.  BLAISDELL,  an  accom- 
plished musician  of  Concord,  N.  H., 
1'^  ^  was  born  in  Dorchester,  N.  H., 
October  23,  1850,  son  of  Pettingill  and  Lau- 
rette  (Lillis)  Blaisdell.  He  is  originally  of 
Scotch  descent.  His  paternal  grandfather  was 
Sanborn  l^laisdell,  who  was  long  a  resident, 
and  presumably  a  native,  of  Dorchester,  in 
which  town  he  was  engaged 
where  he  spent  his  last  years. 
Mehitable  Sanborn. 

Pettingill  Blaisdell,  father  of  Henri  G.,  was 
born  in  Dorchester  in  1824.  He  received  his 
education  in  the  district  schools  and  subse- 
quently engaged  in  the  business  of  manufact- 
uring and  selling  lumber,  for  many  years 
conducting  a  large  saw-mill  on  Baker's  River. 
He  was  Postmaster  of  Dorchester  for  a  long 
time,  and  still  resides  on  his  farm  in  that 
town.  He  and  his  wife,  Laurette  Lillis 
Blaisdell,  reared  three  children  —  Henri  G., 
Pettingill  S.,  and  Ella  Mabel.  Pettingill  S. 
]51aisdell,  a  yoimg  man  of  marked  musical 
ability,  entered  into  business  with  his  father 
and  met  his  death  by  accident  in  the  mill. 
]{lla  Mabel  studied  music,  became  a  skilled 
violinist,  and  travelled   extensively  throughout 


the  countiy  in  company  with  her  brother 
Henri.  She  became  the  wife  of  Dr.  Charles 
li.  P'owler,  of  Bristol,  and  died  April  19, 
1882. 

Henri  G.  Blaisdell  obtained  his  general 
education  in  the  district  schools  of  his  native 
town  and  at  the  academies  at  VVentworth  and 
Keene.  When  but  nine  years  old  he  mani- 
fested a  decided  talent  for  music,  and  not  long 
after  began  its  systematic  study.  That  he 
might  become  proficient  as  a  violinist,  he  was 
placed  under  the  instruction  and  guidance  of 
Carl  Schultze  and  other  well-known  masters 
of  the  violin,  and  in  course  of  time,  by  hard, 
conscientious  work,  did  full  credit  to  his 
teachers.  Since  reaching  the  age  of  fourteen, 
he  has  followed  music  as  a  profession,  having 
travelled  extensively  through  the  United 
States  and  conducted  orchestras,  in  connection 
with  musical  festivals  and  operatic  presenta- 
tions, in  all  the  leading  cities.  He  was  the 
first  to  give  to  the  people  of  New  Hampshire 
an  efficient  orchestra,  organized  especially  with 
a  view  to  the  performance  of  symphonies  and 
other  high-class  musical  works,  and  which  he 
has  himself  conducted  on  various  important 
occasions.  Mr.  Blaisdell  has  a  well-estab- 
lished reputation  as  a  capable  and  very  suc- 
cessful teacher  of  the  violin,  and  his  knowl- 
edge of  voice  culture  has  caused  his  advice  to 
be  sought  by  singers  from  many  parts  of  the 
country.  He  is  also  well  versed  in  the  his- 
tory of  music,  has  an  intimate  acquaintance 
with  the  works  of  the  great  masters,  and  is  a 
frequent  contributor  to  the  leading  magazines 
of  the  country  on  this  and  kindred  topics. 
For  ten  years  he  was  concert-master  of  the 
Handel  and  Haydn  Society,  under  the  man- 
agement of  Carl  Zerrahn.  The  conductorship 
of  Gilmore's  concert  chorus  was  offered  to 
him  for  the  three  years  immediately  preced- 
ing   Mr.    Gilmore's   death,    but    liis   strong  at- 


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tachment  to  and  preference  for  his  native  State 
induced  him  to  decline.  At  iirescnt  he  is 
choir-master  of  tiie  Ijoys'  clioir  of  forty  voices 
at  St.  Paul's  Church  at  Concord.  He  has  de- 
voted some  time  to  com])osition,  but  subordi- 
nates his  practice  in  that  branch  of  musical  art 
to  his  \vi)rk  as  teacher  and  conductor.  lie  has 
a  large  acquaintance  among  the  leading  musi- 
cians of  the  country,  many  of  whom  are  his 
warm  friends. 

In  1869  Mr.  Blaisdell  was  united  in  mar- 
riage with  Lilly  D.  Leonard,  of  Glover,  Vt. 
He  and  his  wife  are  the  parents  of  two  prom- 
ising boys:  Carlysle,  who  has  already  given 
evidence  of  having  inherited  much  of  his 
father's  musical  talent;  and  Victor  J.  Mr. 
Blaisdell  is  a  Republican  politically.  Like 
all  true  artists,  he  loves  nature,  and  in  sum- 
mer he  spends  much  of  his  time  at  his  beauti- 
ful country  seat  on  the  shores  of  Lake  Winne- 
pesaukee  and  in  navigating  its  waters  in  his 
steam  yacht.  He  is  a  member  of  .St.  I'aul's 
Episco[ia]  Church  at  Concord. 


OHN  J.  JENNESS,*  a  well-to-do 
farmer  of  Pittsfield,  was  born  in  this 
town,  April  13,  1829,  son  of  John  and 
Ann  P.  (Tilton)  Jenness.  The  family,  which 
is  of  English  origin,  was  first  represented  in 
'America  by  three  brothers  who  were  early 
settlers  of  Rye  Beach,  N.  H.  John  Jenness 
(first),  grandfather  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  born  at  Rye  Beach,  and  reared  to 
agricultural  pursuits.  When  a  young  man,  he 
settled  in  Pittsfield,  and  was  afterward  en- 
gaged in  tilling  the  soil  in  this  town  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  when  he  was  forty-four 
years  old.  He  rendered  substantial  aid  in 
building  the  first  Congregational  church  in 
Pittsfield,  and  contributed  generously  toward 
its  support  while  he  lived.      In  politics  he  was 


a  Democrat.  He  married  a  lady  named  Page, 
and  with  her  reared  a  family  of  three  children, 
none  of  whom  are  living. 

John  Jenness  (second),  the  father  of  John 
J.  Jenness,  was  born  in  Pittsfield.  The  active 
period  of  his  life  was  devoted  to  the  cultiva- 
tion of  a  farm  in  this  town.  An  industrious 
and  successful  farmer,  he  acquired  consider- 
able property.  Pfditically,  he  acted  with  the 
Democratic  party,  and  for  many  years  he  was 
prominent  in  the  public  affairs  of  Pittsfield. 
He  served  with  ability  as  Town  Clerk,  Mod- 
erator, and  Selectman ;  and  he  represented 
Pittsfield  in  the  legislature.  At  his  death  he 
had  attained  the  age  of  sixty-one  years.  His 
wife,  Ann,  who  is  a  daughter  of  William 
Tilton,  of  London,  N.  H.,  has  been  the  mother 
of  four  children,  three  of  whom  are  living; 
namely,  John  J.,  Erank  W. ,  and  Lizzie  A. 
Now  ninety-three  years  old,  she  is  residing  at 
the  homestead  in  this  town. 

John  J.  Jenness  attended  the  school  in  his 
native  town.  When  his  studies  were  com- 
pleted, he  went  to  Alabama,  where  he  worked 
at  bridge-building  and  acquired  a  good  knowl- 
edge of  the  business.  After  residing  in  the 
South  four  years,  he  went,  in  1856,  to  Cali- 
fornia, where  he  was  engaged  in  the  construc- 
tion of  bridges  for  three  years;  and  he  then 
returned  to  Pittsfield.  For  over  thirty-five 
years  he  has  been  one  of  the  most  successful 
general  farmers  of  this  town.  His  estate 
covers  one  bundled  and  twenty  acres  of  e.xcel- 
lent  tillage  land. 

In  1863  Mr.  Jenness  married  Sarah  A. 
French,  daughter  of  Sylvester  H.  I'rench,  of 
Pittsfield.  Of  the  two  children  born  to  them 
John  H.  Jenness  is  living.  In  politics  Mr. 
Jenness  is  a  Democrat.  He  has  rendered 
capable  and  efficient  services  to  the  town  as  a 
Selectman,  and  as  its  Representative  in  the 
State    legislature  during    the    years   1S74  and 


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187s  he  proved  himself  a  wise  and  careful 
guardian  of  its  interest.  Mr.  Jenness  attends 
the  Baptist  church,  of  which  Mrs.  Jenness  is  a 
member. 

RTHUR  B.  CHASE,*  book-keeper  and 
paymaster  of  the  Sugar  River  Mills, 
was  born  in  Newport,  N.  H.,  Janu- 
ary 3,  1833,  son  of  Joseph  T.  and  Elizabeth 
D.  (Allen)  Chase.  Caleb  Chase,  the  grand- 
father, came  to  Newport  in  1822.  He  was  a 
native  of  West  Newbury,  Mass.,  and  a  farmer 
by  occupation.  He  was  a  member  of  the  old 
South  Congregational  Church  for  many  years. 
He  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-five  years.  His 
wife,  Hannah  Carr  Chase,  died  at  the  age  of 
seventy -six.  Joseph  T.  Chase,  father  of 
Arthur,  followed  the  shoemaking  trade  in 
Newport  throughout  his  life.  He  was  a 
member  of  the  Congregational  society  relig- 
iously and  a  Whig  and  Free  Soiler  in  politics. 
He  died  January  16,  1856,  when  not  quite 
fifty  years  old.  His  wife,  who  was  born 
March  10,  1812,  survives  him,  and  lives  with 
her  son,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Joseph  T.  Chase  had  six  children,  of 
whom  four  are  now  living:  Arthur  B.,  whose 
name  begins  this  sketch ;  Aretus  T.,  born 
October  30,  1835,  died  June  23,  1854; 
Henry  M.,  born  in  March,  1S41,  and  now  a 
resident  of  Minneapolis,  Minn.  ;  George  A., 
born  May  6,  1843,  lives  in  Tyngsboro,  Mass.  ; 
Francis  Vosburg,  born  in  1848  at  Greenfield, 
Mass.,  and  died  in  1876;  and  Joseph  E. ,  born 
June  17,  1852,  and  now  a  resident  of  Tennes- 
see City,  Tenn. 

Arthur  B.  Chase  was  educated  in  the  com- 
mon school  and  high  school  of  Newport,  and 
at  first  took  up  his  father's  trade,  which  he 
followed  until  1868.  In  that  year  he  secured 
his  present  position  as  book-keeper  and  pay- 
master   of    the    Sugar    River    Mills,    Dexter 


Richards  &  Sons,  proprietors.  This  concern, 
which  has  about  eighty-five  persons  on  its 
pay-roll,  is  one  of  the  most  flourishing  in 
this  vicinity.  June  9,  1857,  Mr.  Chase  mar- 
ried Miss  Ann  Richards,  a  sister  of  Mr. 
Dexter  Richards,  the  well-known  donor  to  the 
village  of  the  town  library,  the  high-school 
building,  and  other  generous  gifts.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Chase  have  no  children  other  than  an 
adopted  daughter,  Fanny  French  Chase. 
They  are  both  members  of  the  Congregational 
church,  of  which  Mr.  Chase  has  been  clerk 
for  twenty  years.  He  is  also  treasurer  of  the 
church  and  society.  Heis  a  Republican  polit- 
ically, and  has  held  the  office  of  Town  Clerk 
for  three  years.  He  is  also  secretary  and 
treasurer  of  Sugar  River  Lodge,  No.  55, 
I.  O.  O.  F. 


f^^JKORGE  OLIVER  LOCKE,*  of  Pem- 
\  f5 1  broke,  an  ex-member  of  the  New 
Hampshire  House  of  Representa- 
tives, was  born  in  South  New  Market,  N.H., 
September  ig,  1826,  son  of  Simeon  and 
Clarissa  (Tash)  Locke.  His  great-grand- 
father, David  Locke,  who  was  a  native  of 
Yorkshire,  England,  became  an  early  settler 
in  Rye,  N.H.,  where  he  owned  a  good  farm, 
and  resided  there  until  his  death,  which  oc- 
curred at  a  good  old  age. 

Simeon  Locke  (first),  grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  tliis  sketch,  followed  farming  in 
Epsom  for  a  time.  Later  he  moved  to  East 
Concord,  N.H.,  and  there  spent  the  rest  of 
his  life.  His  habits  of  thrift  and  industry 
enabled  him  to  acquire  considerable  property. 
In  politics  he  voted  with  the  Democratic 
party,  hut  his  retiring  disposition  would  not 
permit  iiini  to  take  any  active  part  in  public 
affairs.  He  attended  the  Congregational 
church.  At  his  death  he  was  seventy-nine 
years    old.       He    married    Abigail     Blake,    a 


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native  of  Epsom,  who  attained  the  age  of 
seventy-three,  and  was  the  mother  of  nine 
chihlrcn.  Of  these  the  third,  Simeon  Locke 
(second),  was  born  in  East  Concord.  He 
settled  in  South  New  Market,  and  there 
followed  his  calling;'  of  meclianic  for  the  rest 
of  his  active  period.  He  was  an  able  busi- 
ness man  as  well  as  a  good  mechanic,  and  by 
making  proper  use  of  his  op|iortunities  he 
realized  excellent  financial  results.  Me  was 
a  Democrat  in  politics,  and  long  occupied  a 
prominent  position  in  public  affairs  in  South 
New  Market.  Simeon  Locke,  second, 
reached  the  venerable  age  of  ninety-two  years. 
He  was  a  Deacon  of  the  Methodist  church. 
His  wife,  Clarissa,  who  was  a  native  of  South 
New  Market,  became  the  mother  of  thirteen 
children,  of  whom  Lydia  A.,  Sarah,  Simeon, 
Samuel,  and  George  (31iver,  are  living.  Mrs. 
Clarissa  Locke  died  at  the  age  of  seventy-two 
years. 

George  Oliver  Locke  was  educated  in  his 
native  town.  After  leaving  school  he  went  to 
Exeter,  N.H.,  where  he  served  an  apprentice- 
ship at  the  blacksmith's  trade.  He  subse- 
quently followed  his  trade  in  Andover  and 
Lawrence,  Mass.,  and  for  many  years  in  Pem- 
broke. He  worked  at  the  anvil  and  forge  for 
fifty  years  in  all.  In  that  period  he  saved 
a  comfortable  competency,  which  enabled 
him  to  retire  some  time  since.  He  is  now 
enjoying  the  fruits  of  his  industry.  He  owns 
and  cultivates  a  farm  of  forty  acres. 

On  November  18,  1852,  Mr.  Locke  married 
Harriet  T.  Locke,  daughter  of  Josiah  Locke, 
of  East  Concord.  Mrs.  Locke  is  the  mother 
of  two  children  —  Josephine  S.  and  Sarah  A. 
Josephine  S.  was  born  November  9,  1857,  and 
is  now  the  wife  of  Ira  B.  Moore,  of  Rochester, 
N.H.  Sarah  A.,  born  June  25,  1861,  is  the 
wife  of  A.  R.  Clough,  of  Dover,  N.H.,  hav- 
ing one   daughter,    Sadie.      Mr.    Locke   is  an 


earnest  supporter  of  the  Republican  party, 
and  has  been  a  leading  spirit  in  public  affairs. 
He  served  as  Tax  Collector  and  Highway 
Agent  for  a  number  of  terms,  and  during  the 
years  1865  and  1866  he  represented  this  town 
in  the  legislature.  He  is  connected  with 
Howard  Lodge,  I.  O.  O.  F.,  of  Suncook,  and 
with  the  grange  in  I'eml^roke.  Hoth  he  and 
Mrs.  Locke  arc  members  of  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church. 


ARTIN  V.  ]i.  HASTINGS,*  one 
of  the  leading  farmers  of  Grant- 
ham, N.IL,  son  of  Jonathan  B. 
and  Rosina  (Kidder)  Hastings,  represents  the 
third  generation  of  his  family  in  this  town, 
where  he  was  born  June  2,  1844.  His  grand- 
father, Jonas  Hastings,  a  farmer,  who  came 
from  Maine,  was  one  of  the  early  settlers  of 
Grantham.  He  married  Affie  Baker,  and  had 
a  family  of  ten  children:  Benjamin;  Maria; 
Jonathan  15.;  Rosilla;  Jonas,  Jr.;  William; 
Amos;  Affie;  John;  and  one  child  that  died 
in  infancy.  lienjamin  Hastings  was  a  car- 
penter and  farmer  in  Newport,  N.H.  He 
married  Eliza  Smith,  and  had  a  large  family 
of  children.  Maria  married  Joseph  Hastings, 
of  Grantham;  and  Rosilla  married  George 
Colburn,  of  this  place.  Jonas  engaged  in  the 
meat  business  at  Claremont.  He  married 
Mary  Whittikcr,  who  bore  him  one  child. 
William  was  a  farmer  in  Grantham.  His 
wife  was  Mary  Hart.  Amos,  also  a  farmer, 
married  Nancy  Manchester.  Affie  became 
the  wife  of  Julius  Owen,  of  Hanover,  and  the 
mother  of  several  children. 

Jonathan  B.  Hastings,  father  of  Martin,  was 
born  in  Grantham,  July  25,  18 17,  and  was 
educated  in  the  public  schools  of  the  town. 
He  began  his  working  life  as  a  farmer,  and 
has   continued   the  occupation  to  the  present 


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time.  He  is  now  advanced  in  years,  a  highly 
respected  citizen,  and  one  of  the  foremost 
farmers  in  this  region.  He  has  been  a  dealer 
in  cattle  and  sheep  up  to  within  a  short  time, 
hut  now  devotes  himself  chiefly  to  dairy  farm- 
ing. His  life  has  been  one  of  industry  and 
tlirifl,  free  from  dissimulatii)ii,  and  graced 
with  the  virtue  of  honesty.  His  children  — 
Sophronia,  Martin  V.  B.,  Mandanie,  Armenie, 
James,  Eugene,  and  one  that  died  in  infancy 
— ^  were  all  born  in  Grantham.  Sophronia 
married  Simeon  Smith,  of  Grantham,  and  has 
a  family  of  four  boys.  Mandanie  resides  at 
Franklin,  this  State.  Armenie  is  the  wife  of 
John  Whitehead,  of  Franklin,  and  has  two 
children.  James  lives  on  the  homestead  with 
his  father.  He  married  Jennie  Leavitt,  and 
they  have  four  children.  Eugene  died  when 
three  or  four  years  old. 

Martin  V.  B.  Hastings  received  his  educa- 
tion in  the  public  schools.  After  finishing 
his  course  of  study,  he  went  to  work  as  a 
farmer  and  teamer,  and  has  been  successfully 
engaged  in  the  same  lines  of  business  until 
now.  He  is  prominent  in  public  affairs,  has 
long  been  Selectman,  serving  his  constituents 
with  faithfulness  and  ability,  and  holds  that 
office  at  the  present  time.  In  politics  he  is  a 
loyal  Democrat.  Fraternally,  he  is  a  member 
of  Franklin  Lodge,  No.  6,  of  Lebanon,  and  of 
the  local  grange,  also  of  Blue  Mountains 
Lodge  of  Grantham,  being  an  officer  in  the 
last-named  body.  He  attends  the  Methodist 
cliinxh,  and  is  ever  ready  to  give  it  needed 
financial  support. 

Mr.  Hastings  has  been  twice  married;  and 
by  his  fir-st  wife,  Carrie  Little,  he  has  one 
child,  Florence  R.  His  second  wife,  Flora 
Relic  Finney,  was  born  at  Plymouth,  Vt. , 
January  25,  1861.  He  has  no  children  by 
the  second  marriage.  F'lorence  R.  Hastings, 
born  April    21,   1876,  married    Burt    Lewis,  of 


Claremont,  N.  H.  They  have  two  children, 
Robert,  born  March  28,  1894;  and  Raymond, 
born  in  August,   1896. 


J^^OHN  B.  MOORP:,*  a  prosperous  dairy 
farmer  of  Plainfield,  Sullivan  County, 
N.H.,  son  of  Hiram  and  Ruby  (Sillo- 
way)  Moore,  was  born  in  this  town,  April 
9,  1849.  His  great-grandfather,  William 
Moore,  who  was  a  native  of  County  Tyrone, 
Ireland,  emigrated  to  America  early  in  the 
eighteenth  century,  and  became  one  of  the 
first  settlers  in  Pembroke,  N.  H.  He  was  a 
Deacon  of  the  Congregational  church. 

James  Moore,  son  of  William,  was  a  native 
of  New  Hampshire,  but  passed  the  greater 
part  of  his  life  in  Vermont  as  a  hard-working 
farmer.  He  was  a  noted  tenor  singer  in  his 
day;  and  for  over  thirty  years  he  led  the  choir 
at  the  Congregational  church  in  Tiietford,  Vt. 
He  married,  and  reared  six  children,  as  fol- 
lows: Ezra,  a  prosperous  farmer  in  Vermont, 
who  married  a  Miss  Cutting,  and  reared  a 
family;  Cyrus,  who  followed  the  sea;  Betsey, 
who  married  Timothy  Knight,  a  farmer  of 
Thetford,  and  had  five  children;  Hiram,  who 
resided  in  Plainfield;  Jerusha,  who  became 
the  wife  of  Lyman  Cook,  of  Thetford,  and  had 
three  sons;  and  Lucinda,  who  became  Mrs. 
Durgin,  and  resided  in  Thetford. 

Hiram  Moore,  son  of  James  and  father  of 
John  B.  Moore,  was  born  in  ThetfortI,  October 
20,  1805.  Left  fatherless  at  the  age  of  five 
years,  he  was  reared  and  educated  in  Plain- 
field;  and,  when  old  enough  to  begin  life  for 
himself,  he  was  employed  as  a  farm  assistant. 
By  practising  economy  he  saved  from  his  earn- 
ings in  the  course  of  time  a  sum  sufficient  to 
buy  a  homestead;  and,  acquiring  possession 
of  the  Strong  farm,  he  resided  there  for  the 
rest  of  his  life.      He  carried  on  general   farm- 


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573 


ing,  and  was  quite  an  extensive  stock-raiser. 
Strictly  honorable  and  upright,  he  regarded 
all  others  as  honest  and  fair-dealing  until  ex- 
perience proved  the  contrary;  and  thus  he  was 
often  victimized,  but  never  complained.  Like 
his  father,  lie  possessed  a  good  tenor  voice. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Democrat.  Hiram  Moore 
died  in  1876,  and  was  sincerely  mourned  by 
his  neighbors  and  fellow  -  townsmen.  Mis 
wife,  whose  maiden  name  was  Ruby  Silloway, 
was  born  in  I'iainfield,  October  21,  1804. 
Her  parents  were  William  and  Jane  (French) 
Silloway  of  this  town,  and  her  father  was  a 
tiirifty  farmer.  She  became  the  mother  of 
nine  chiklren,  as  follows:  Mary;  l?etsey; 
F"anny,  now  deceased;  Sarah  and  Sylvia, 
twins;  William;  Delia;  George;  and  John 
B.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch.  Mary  and 
Betsey  were  born  in  Lincoln,  Vt. ;  and  the 
others  were  born  in  I'iainfield.  Mary  married 
Gardner  Gay,  of  this  town.  Betsey,  who  died 
in  1894,  was  the  wife  of  Elijah  Miller,  of 
Hanover,  N.IL,  late  a  successful  farmer  and 
a  prominent  citizen,  who  represented  his  town 
in  the  legislature.  They  had  three  children, 
two  of  whom  are  living.  Sarah  married  At- 
wood  Reed,  a  well-to-do  farmer  of  Plainfield, 
and  has  two  children.  Sylvia,  deceased,  was 
the  wife  of  David  Kimball,  of  Lebanon,  and 
^had  no  children.  William  owned  and  oper- 
ated a  grist-mill  in  Meridcn,  N.H.,  until  his 
death,  which  occurred  in  1893;  and  he  accu- 
mulated considerable  property.  His  wife, 
Margaret  Havens,  of  Plattsburg,  N.Y.,  died 
about  one  year  ago,  leaving  no  children. 
Delia  Moore  died  very  young.  George,  who 
is  a  carpenter  in  Meriden,  married  Lucretia 
Havens,  a  sister  of  his  brother's  wife,  and 
has  two  children.  Mrs.  Ruby  S.  Moore  is 
still  living,  and  is  unusually  active  both  phys- 
ically and  mentally  for  one  of  her  age.  Siie 
reads   the   newspapers   and    magazines  without 


the  aid  of  spectacles,  and  takes  as  much  in- 
terest in  cvery-day  topics  as  do  those  of  a 
younger  generation. 

John  15.  Moore  completed  his  education  at 
the  Kimball  Union  Academy  in  Meriden,  and 
assisted  in  carrying  on  the  home  farm  until  he 
was  twenty-one.  He  then  leased  a  farm  for  a 
time;  and  later,  purchasing  one  of  the  Spencer 
farms,  he  carried  it  on  for  eight  years,  or  until 
i)uying  the  Underbill  property,  where  he  now 
resides.  He  is  a  practical  and  industrious 
farmer,  tilling  the  soil  to  some  extent,  but 
giving  his  principal  attention  to  the  dairy. 
He  is  Steward  of  the  grange  in  this  town. 
Politically,  he  is  a  Republican. 

Mr.  Moore  married  Elizabeth  Pardy,  who 
was  born  in  Plattsburg,  N.Y.,  July  7,  1852, 
daughter  of  John  Pardy,  of  that  town.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Mooie  have  had  two  children  — 
Bessie,  born  Ajiril  11,  1876;  and  Nellie, 
born  in  May,  1S7S,  wiio  died  in  infancy. 
Bessie  Moore  attended  Kimijall  L^nion  Acad- 
emy, and  shortly  after  graduating  she  marricfl 
Almener  Merrihew,  of  Plattsburg. 

Mr.  Moore  inherits  from  his  ancestors  con- 
siderable musical  ability,  and  for  several 
years  has  sung  in  the  choir  of  the  Congrega- 
tional church  at  Meriden.  He  has  in  his 
possession  a  Bible,  which  was  brought  from 
Ireland  by  his  great-grandfather,  and  is  said 
to  be  over  two  hundred  years  old,  an  interest- 
ing and  valuable  family  relic  and  heirloom. 


M 


R.  RUFUS  MERRILL  WEEKS,* 
who  resides  in  the  village  of  Sun- 
cook,  and  is  a  well-known  dentist  in 
the  town  of  Pembroke,  was  born  in  Gilford, 
N.H.,  December  15,  1854,  son  of  William 
and  Lizzie  (Hutchinson)  Weeks.  Benjamin 
Weeks,  the  grandfather  of  Dr.  Weeks,  in  his 
younger  days  was  a  farmer.      He  later   learned 


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the   tanner's    trade,    which   he   followed    for  a 
time.      Then  he  kept   a   general    store    in    Gil- 
ford.      He    became     prominent     in     business 
circles  and    in    public   affairs,  holding   various 
town  ofifices ;   and   lie  was  connected  with   the 
old  State  militia.      In  politics  he  was  a  Whig. 
He  married,  and  reared  a  family  of  seven  chil- 
dren.     Of  the  hitter  tlie  only  survivor  is  Mrs. 
Harriet     Oilman,     who     resides     in     Gilford. 
Benjamin  Weeks  antl   his  wife  lived  to  a  good 
old  age.      He  left  with  a  good  estate  the  repu- 
tation of  an  able  and  successful  business  man. 
William    Weeks,    a    native   of    Gilford   and 
the    third-born   of   his   parents'    children,    was 
brought   up   on    a   farm.      At   an    early  age   he 
displayed   a  natural    aptitude   for    agricultural 
pursuits.      The   active   period   of   his    life   was 
spent    in    tilling   the   soil   of    a   good    farm    in 
Gilford,  and  he  attained  prominence  as  a  prac- 
tical  and    successful   farmer.       In    politics   he 
acted  with  the  Republican   party  in  his  later 
years.      He   served    as   a   Selectman   for   some 
time,  and  represented  his  district  in  the  legis- 
lature.     His  wife,  Lizzie,  became  the   mother 
of  eight   children,    of   whom  there   are   living: 
Elizabeth  A.,  William  H.,  Orin,  Annetta  E., 
Fred  A.,  Arthur  B.,  and  Rufus  M.      Elizabeth 
A.  is  the  wife  of   Robinson   Merrill,  of  Laco- 
nia,  and   has   one  daughter.  Flora,  who  is  now 
Mrs.  Charles   H.   Collins,   of   Lakeport,  N.  H. 
William  H.  wedded    Mary  Potter,  of   Gilford; 
and    his   children    are:    Nathaniel    H.,    Julia, 
Stark,    and    Millie.       Orin    married     Arvilla 
Page,  of   Thornton,  N.H.,  and   has   four  chil- 
dren—  Burt,    Lizzie,    Eliza,    and    Fred.      An- 
netta E.  is  the  wife  of  Edwin  Munsey,  of  Los 
Angeles,    Cal.  ;    and   her  children  are:    Laura 
and   Fred.     Fred   A.  married   Laura  Gilman, 
of  Gilford,  and   has  no  children.     Arthur  B. 
married  Carrie  Robbins,  of  Manchester,  N.H., 
who   died,  leaving   one   son,  Harry  A.      Will- 
iam Weeks  died  at  the  age  of  sixty-si.\  years, 


and  his  wife  lived  to  be  seventy-two.  They 
were  members  of  the  Free  Will  Baptist 
church. 

After  acquiring  his  early  education  in  the 
common  schools,  Rufus  Merrill  Weeks  at- 
tended the  academy  at  Laconia.  His  dental 
studies  were  begun  in  Manchester,  N.H.,  with 
Dr.  C.  W.  Clement,  with  whom  he  remained 
three  years,  attending  a  course  of  lectures  in 
]?oston  in  that  period.  In  1875  he  opened  an 
office  in  Suncook,  and  has  since  practised  his 
profession  here  with  success. 

Dr.  Weeks  was  united  in  marriage  with 
Luella  B.  Hoyt,  daughter  of  Amos  Hoyt,  of 
Manchester.  They  have  no  children.  Politi- 
cally, Dr.  Weeks  is  a  Republican.  He  is 
widely  and  favorably  known  as  a  skilful  den- 
tist, and  as  a  citizen  he  is  highly  respected 
and  esteemed.  He  is  Past  Master  of  Jewell 
Lodge,  F.  &  A.  M. ;  Past  High  Priest  of 
Hiram  Chapter,  Royal  Arch  Masons,  of  which 
he  was  one  of  the  organizers;  and  he  is  a 
thirty-second  degree  Mason.  He  is  also  con- 
nected with  the  Independent  Order  of  Odd 
Fellows.  Mrs.  Weeks  is  a  member  of  the 
Congregational  church. 


-1^ ESTER  L.  COLLINS,*  a  prosperous 
IJj  dairy  farmer  and  milk  dealer  of 
-^ —  ^  Franklin,  was  born  in  this  town, 
September  21,  1868,  son  of  Jonathan  L.  and 
Hannah  K.  (Floyd)  Collins.  Jonathan  L. 
Collins,  who  is  a  native  of  Grafton,  N.  H., 
moved  from  that  town  to  Franklin,  and  settled 
upon  the  farm  which  is  now  occupied  by  his 
son.  He  improved  the  property,  and  occupied 
it  until  1890,  when  he  removed  to  another 
farm  in  this  town,  and  is  still  actively  en- 
gaged in  agricultural  pursuits.  His  wife, 
Hannah,  who  was  a  native  of  Franklin,  tlied 
March     4,      1896,     leaving     three     children. 


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57S 


namely:  Vina  A.,  wife  of  James  W.  Hnn- 
tnnn,  of  this  town;  Lester  L.,  tlie  suliject  of 
this  sketeii ;  ami  Oakey  II.,  who  resides  with 
his  father. 

Lester  L.  Collins,  after  attending  the  com- 
mon sehools,  completed  his  studies  at  the  New 
Hampton  Institute.  He  then  engaged  in 
farming,  which  occupation  he  has  since  car- 
ried on  with  satisfactory  results.  In  1S92  he 
established  a  milk  route  in  company  with  his 
brother.  lie  has  two  huuch-ed  aci'es  of  land 
well  adapted  for  pasturage,  and  keeps  eighteen 
choice  cows,  delivering  to  his  regular  cus- 
tomers a  large  quantity  of  milk  daily. 

On  August  12,  1896,  Mr.  Collins  was  united 
in  marriage  with  Miss  Mabel  N.  Greeley. 
Mrs.  Collins  is  a  daughter  of  Alonzo  S.  and 
Mary  L.  (Sargent)  Greeley,  her  father  being 
a  native  of  Salisbury,  N.IL,  and  her  mother 
of  Hill.  They  are  industrious  farming  people 
of  East  Andover. 

Mr.  Collins  is  a  Democrat  in  politics.  He 
is  a  member  of  Merrimac  Lodge,  No.  28, 
I.  O.  O.  F.,  and  belongs  to  the  Order  of 
American  Mechanics  of  Franklin.  He  pos- 
sesses energy  and  a  progressive  tendency, 
which  form  the  essential  elements  of  his  con- 
tinued success;  and  he  is  one  of  the  most 
popular  young  men  in  I'ranklin. 


iHARLES  M.  BABBITT,*  the  well- 
known  contractor  and  builder  of 
F"ranklin  Falls,  was  born  in  Hano- 
ver, N.H.,  son  of  Isaac  and  Wealthy  (Lovejoy) 
I^abbitt.  His  grandfather,  Asa  Babbitt, 
who  came  from  England,  served  as  a  soldier 
in  the  Revolutionary  War,  and  spent  the 
greater  part  of  his  life  upon  a  farm  in 
Hanover,  dying  in   1837. 

Isaac  Babbitt  and   his  wife,    both    natives  of 
Hanover,    were     prosperous     farming    people. 


Isaac  died  in  1878,  and  Wealthy  in  1894. 
They  were  the  parents  of  twelve  children, 
namely:  Marinda,  now  deceased,  who  married 
William  Ward,  a  merchant  of  Lebanon,  N.IL; 
Isaac  Sylvester,  who  married  Melissa  S.  Ste- 
phens, of  Springfield,  N.H.,  and  is  now  a 
widower;  Leonard  IL,  deceased,  who  married 
Rachel  Merrill,  of  Hanover,  now  also  de- 
ceased; Almina,  who  married  i'"rederick  Mer- 
rill, a  farmer  of  Hanover;  Charles  M.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  Austin  M.,  who  mar- 
ried Louisa  Clough,  of  Canaan,  N.IL,  and 
died  in  1893;  Darwin  J.,  who  married  Alina 
Briggs,  of  Lebanon,  and  is  an  optician; 
Alden  A.,  wlu)  married  Anna  Dunton,  of 
Jefferson,  Me.,  and  is  an  optician  in  Lebanon; 
Dexter  W.,  who  married  Leafy  D.  Brown,  of 
New  York  State,  and  is  a  merchant  in  Leba- 
non; lunily,  who  married  George  Ross,  a 
farmer  of  I'lainfield,  N.IL,  and  is  now  de- 
ceased; Wealthy  A.,  deceased,  who  married 
Isaac  Hatch,  of  Hanover;  and  George  W. , 
who  married  Esther  V^alentine,  and  is  a  build- 
ing contractor  in  Lebanon. 

Charles  M.  Babbitt  passed  his  boyhood  in 
attending  school  and  assisting  upon  the  farm. 
He  resided  at  home  until  twenty-one  years 
old,  when  he  engaged  in  the  lumber  business 
in  Enfield,  N.H.,  remaining  there  for  nine 
years.  He  then  came  to  Franklin,  where  he 
conducted  a  boarding-house  for  some  years. 
In  1S73  he  erected  his  present  residence. 
Since  his  arrival  in  Franklin  he  has  given  his 
attention  to  the  contracting  and  building  busi- 
ness quite  extensively.  He  also  owns  aiul 
cultivates  a  good  farm. 

On  January  30,  1856,  Mr.  Babbitt  was 
joined  in  marriage  with  Alvina  W.  Jeune. 
She  was  born  in  Hartland,  Vt.,  March  29, 
1836,  daughter  of  Francis  C.  and  Rebecca  E. 
(Cady)  Jeune.  The  father  was  a  native  of 
Hartland  and  a  lumberman.      The  mother  was 


syf^ 


BIOGRAl'HICAL    RFA'IKW 


born  in  Windsor,  Vt.  Mr.  Babbitt  is  a  di- 
rector of  the  Franklin  Falls  Company.  In 
politics  he  is  a  Republican  and  quite  active 
in  public  affairs.  He  served  as  a  Selectman 
in  1887  and  1888,  and  was  First  Councilman 
for  two  years.  He  is  connected  with  the  In- 
dependent Order  of  Odd  Fellows  of  Franklin, 
and  also  with  the  grange.  Both  he  and  Mrs. 
Babbitt  attend  the  Ba|3tist  church. 


jHARLliS  H.  MORRILL,*  a  prosper- 
ous  farmer  and   lumber   manufacturer 

»if of  Pittsfield,  was   born   in  this  town, 

January  14,  1829,  son  of  Jacob  and  Mary 
(Hoyt)  Morrill.  His  paternal  great-grand- 
father, who  was  a  native  of  Salisbury,  Mass., 
settled  in  Brentwood,  N.H.,  and  resided  upon 
a  farm  in  that  town  for  the  rest  of  his  life. 
His  grandparents,  Jonathan  and  Betsey  (Gor- 
don) Morrill,  were  natives  of  Brentwood. 
Jonathan  Morrill  was  for  many  years  engaged 
in  agricultural  pursuits  in  his  native  town, 
and  his  last  days  were  spent  in  rittsfield. 
He  lived  to  be  sixty-nine  years  old,  and  his 
wife  died  at  sixty-seven.  They  were  the  par- 
ents of  five  children  —  Amos,  Betsey,  Hannah 
G.,  Jacob,  and  Louise — none  of  whom  are 
living. 

Jacob  Morrill,  Charles  H.  Morrill's  father, 
was  born  in  Brentwood  in  1802.  At  an  early 
age  he  adopted  agriculture  as  an  occupation. 
When  twenty-two  years  old  he  went  to  North- 
wood,  N.  H.,  where  he  resided  for  some  time. 
In  1828  he  bought  a  farm  of  sixty -five  acres 
located  in  Pittsfield,  and  cultivated  it  for  the 
rest  of  his  active  period.  His  wife,  Mary, 
who  was  a  native  of  Northwood,  became  the 
mother  of  four  children,  of  whom  Charles  H., 
Hczekiah  B.,  and  John  C.  are  living.  Hez- 
ekiah  married  Abigail  Saunders,  of  Strafford, 
N.H.;    and    his    children    are:    Clarence    and 


Abbie  L.  John  C.  married  Mary  J.  Kensing- 
ton, a  native  of  Maine.  Jacob  Morrill  lived 
to  be  eighty-nine  years  old,  and  his  wife  died 
at  the  age  of  forty-nine.  They  were  members 
of  the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 

Charles  H.  Morrill  acquired  his  education 
in  the  schools  of  Pittsfield.  While  still 
young  he  began  to  assist  in  carrying  on  the 
homestearl  farm.  He  later  engaged  in  agri- 
cultural pursuits  upon  his  own  account,  and 
now  owns  a  farm  of  one  hundred  and  twenty- 
five  acres.  He  also  operates  a  saw-mill, 
where  he  makes  shingles,  etc.,  on  a  large 
scale. 

On  March  20,  1861,  Mr.  Morrill  married 
Ruth  E.  Edgerly.  She  is  a  daughter  of 
Ezekiel  and  Deborah  M.  (Chesley)  Edgerly, 
the  former  of  whom  was  a  native  of  Barnstead, 
and  the  latter  was  born  in  Gilmanton,  N.H. 
lizekiel  Edgerly  followed  the  trade  of  a  tanner 
in  early  life,  and  his  last  years  were  spent  in 
general  farming.  He  died  at  the  age  of 
eighty,  and  his  wife  lived  to  the  age  of  ninety- 
two  years.  They  reared  a  family  of  four  chil- 
dren, of  whom  Ruth  E.  is  the  only  survivor. 
Mrs.  Morrill's  parents  attended  the  P^ree  Will 
Baptist  church.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Morrill  have 
three  sons  living — Itdward  S.,  Charles  C, 
and  Francis  M.  Edward  S.,  born  March  16, 
1870,  married  Lulu  Heath,  of  Epsom,  N.H.; 
Charles  C.  was  born  January  i,  1871;  and 
P"rancis  M.,  October  6,  1873.  In  politics 
Mr.  Morrill  supports  the  Republican  party. 
He  is  a  practical  and  successful  farmer.  Both 
he  and  Mrs.  Morrill  attend  the  I-'ree  Will 
Baptist  church. 

;UMNER  N.  BALL,*  the  proprie- 
tor of  Oak  Hill  Farm,  Washington, 
was  born  in  this  town,  June  3, 
1854,  son  of  Dexter  and  Hannah  (Jefts)  Ball. 
His   grandfather,    John    Ball,  was   a   native   of 


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Antrim,  N.H.,  and  a  jMosperous  farmer. 
Joliii  Tiiarricd  Rcljctca  I'roctor,  of  Stockiard, 
N.  II.,  ami  reared  a  family  of  seven  children; 
namely,  Dexter,  Worcester,  Allen,  Mclvin, 
Nathaniel  W.,  Rebecca  II.,  and  Rosanna.  Of 
these  Dexter  and  Worcester  are  the  only  sur- 
vivors. 

Dexter  Ball,  the  father  of  Sumner  N.,  was 
born  in  Antrim,  and  accompanied  his  parents 
to  Washington  when  he  was  three  years  old. 
lie  grew  to  manhood  as  a  farmer,  and  tilled 
tiie  soil  successfully  in  this  town  for  many 
years.  He  is  now  living  in  retirement  at- 
Washington  Centre.  His  first  wife,  Hannah 
Jefts  Hall,  who  was  a  native  of  New  Ips- 
wich, N.H.,  died  in  i886.  His  second  mar- 
riage was  contracted  with  Elizabeth  Perkins, 
of  Washington.  There  were  eight  children 
born  of  his  first  union,  of  whom  three  died  in 
infancy.  The  others  were:  George  D.,  John, 
Orin,  Sumner  N.,  and  Arlow.  John  died 
at  the  age  of  thirteen;  Orin,  at  sixteen;  and 
Arlow,  at  thirty  years.  George  D.,  now  de- 
ceased, married  Adeline  Cram,  who  also  died. 
They  left  one  daughter,  Lizzie,  who  is  the 
wife  of  K.  S.  Nichols,  of  Massachusetts,  and 
has  one  son,  Fred. 

Summer  N.  Ball  began  his  education  in  the 
district  schools,  and  completed  his  studies  at 
Tuffs's  Union  Academy  in  Washington. 
When  twenty-one  years  old  he  went  to  An- 
trim, and  for  five  years  was  there  engaged  in 
farming  for  ex-Governor  Goodell.  He  was 
next  employed  in  a  cutlery  manufactory  for  a 
year,  and  then  purchased  a  job  printing  estab- 
lishment. In  1880  he  founded  the  Antrim 
Rcf>orta\  a  weekly  newspaper,  which  he  later 
enlarged.  He  continued  as  its  editor  and 
proprietor  for  eight  years;  and  in  1888  he  sold 
out  to  C.  W.  Hutchins,  of  Hillsborough, 
N.H,  Returning  then  to  Washington,  he 
bought    the  John   Ball   homestead,    containing 


two  hundred  and  sixty-five  acres  of  excellent 
tillage  and  pastiue  land.  Oak  Hill  I'"arm  is 
widely  known  for  the  superior  quality  of  its 
dairy  products.  Its  proprietor  is  also  engaged 
in  raising  sheep  and  cattle  and  the  manufact- 
uring of  ma))le  sugar.  Mr.  Ball  ranks  among 
the  leading  farmers  cjf  this  section.  Actively 
interested  in  public  affairs,  he  was  Selectman 
for  four  years;  and  he  has  served  in  the  capac- 
ities of  Town  Auditor  and  a  member  of  the 
School  Board.  He  is  connected  with  Waverly 
Lodge,  No.  57,  I.  O.  O.  I'".,  of  Antrim;  and 
he  has  been  Master  of  Lovell  Grange,  No.  5, 
Patrons  of  Husbandry,  of  Washington. 

On  November  26,  1884,  Mr.  Ball  was 
united  in  marriage  with  Carrie  B.  Brooks. 
She  was  born  in  Antrim,  daughter  of  Joseph 
and  Betsey  (Whitcomb)  Brooks.  Her  father, 
who  was  a  cabinet-maker  by  trade,  died  while 
serving  as  a  soldier  in  the  Civil  War.  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ball  have  two  chiklren,  namely: 
John  S.,  born  August  30,  1886;  and  Nina 
M.,  born  I*"ebruary  27,  1889.  Mr.  Ball  is  a 
member  of  the  Baptist  church,  and  has  been 
superintendent  of  the  Sunday-school  for  sev- 
eral years. 

,APTAIN  HARRY  C.  FAY,*  editor- 
in-chief  of  the  National  Eagle,  a 
bright  and  thoroughly  up-to-date 
newspaper  published  in  Claremont,  was  born 
in  Richmond,  Vt.,  November  30,  1830,  son 
of  Captain  Nathan  and  Polly  (Colby)  Fay. 
Stephen  Fay,  his  great-great-grandfather,  was 
an  early  settler  in  Beiuiington,  Vt.,  and  was 
the  father  of  eight  children.  His  son  John 
kept  the  Catamount  Tavern,  which  during  his 
day  became  a  meeting-place  for  many  great 
statesmen,  who  formed  a  legislative  body,  and 
held  there  meetings  known  as  ''Councils  of 
Safety."  He,  John,  fell  in  the  battle  of  Ben- 
nington.     His  son,  Nathan    F'ay,  served   as  a 


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(Irunimer  boy  in  tlie  same  battle,  in  Colonel 
Warner's  command.  Nathan,  who  was  a 
cloth-dresser  by  trade,  removeil  from  Benning- 
ton to  Richmond,  Vt.,  about  the  year  1781, 
and  established  there  a  cloth-dressing  house, 
which  he  carried  on  successfully  for  a  number 
of  years,  leaving  a  flourisjiing  business  at  the 
time  of  his  death,  which  occurred  at  the  age 
of  seventy-seven.  He  married  a  daughter  of 
Colonel  Safford,  a  member  of  an  old  and 
prominent  family  of  Bennington. 

Captain  Nathan  Fay,  father  of  the  subject 
of  this  sketch,  continued  the  business  of  cloth- 
dressing  after  the  death  of  his  father;  but,  it 
subsequently  becoming  less  profitable,  he 
turned  his  attention  in  part  to  farming,  and  at 
the  time  of  his  death  was  the  owner  of  one 
thousand  acres  of  land.  A  member  in  early 
life  of  the  Democratic  party,  he  held  office 
continuously  for  twenty-five  years,  represent- 
ing his  town  in  the  legislature  at  six  different 
periods,  and  serving  it  as  Selectman  through- 
out his  public  career.  A  good  penman  and  a 
close  student,  he  possessed  also  a  fair  knowl- 
edge of  the  law,  and  transacted  much  legal 
business.  He  was  the  administrator  and  exec- 
utor of  many  estates,  and,  with  a  generosity 
not  often  seen,  rarely  accepted  remuneration 
for  his  services.  He  belonged  to  the  Univer- 
sal ist  church,  toward  the  support  of  which  he 
liberally  contributed.  Faithful  to  every  pub- 
lic and  private  obligation,  and  of  rare  public 
spirit,  his  death  at  the  age  of  eighty-one  was 
widely  regretted.  His  first  wife  was  Maria 
Murray.  By  his  second  wife,  Polly,  who  was 
a  daughter  of  Elliot  Colby,  he  had  eight  chil- 
dren—  Nathan  M.,  Safford,  Mary  Ann, 
Martha,  Enos  C,  Harry  C,  lilliot,  and  Ar- 
nold. 

Harry  C.  Fay  was  the  first  of  this  large 
family  to  leave  the  shelter  of  the  parental 
roof-tree.      At  the   atrc   of   fifteen    he   went   to 


Montpelier,  where  he  learned  the  printer's 
trade  in  the  office  of  I-^li  Ballou,  publisher  of 
the  Universalist.  After  serving  a  three  years' 
apprenticeship,  he  returned  to  school  at  South 
Woodstock  and  at  Thetford,  Vt.,  having  pre- 
viously studied  for  a  few  terms  at  both  insti- 
tutions. Going  to  Potsdam,  N.Y.,  in  1850, 
he  there  bought  out  William  Wallace,  a 
printer  and  publisher,  and  edited  the  Courier 
and  Freeman  for  eleven  years.  He  was  ap- 
pointed J'ostmaster  of  Potsdam,  in  which 
office  he  served  from  1856  to  i860.  When 
the  Civil  War  broke  out  he  sold  out  his  inter- 
ests to  his  brother  Elliot,  who  was  exempt 
from  military  duty,  and  at  the  call  for  three 
hundred  thousand  men  in  September,  1861, 
enlisted  for  three  years'  service  in  the  Ninety- 
second  New  York  Regiment,  in  which  he  was 
commissioned  Captain.  He  was  wounded  at 
Cold  Harbor,  Va. ,  and  became  commander  of 
the  regiment  after  that  engagement.  At 
Petersburg,  Va. ,  he  received  a  wound  in  the 
ankle,  and  in  February,  1865,  was  mustered 
out  of  the  service.  He  then  returned  to  his 
native  town,  Richmond,  Vt.,  and  the  follow- 
ing fall,  in  company  with  his  brother  Arnold, 
who  had  served  as  Captain  of  the  Seventeenth 
Vermont  Regiment  during  the  war,  went  to 
Irasburg,  Vt.,  where  he  was  engaged  in  farm- 
ing for  about  two  years.  Subsequently  sell- 
ing his  farm  to  his  brother  Arnold,  he  went 
into  the  printing  Inisiness  at  Waterbury, 
where  he  remained,  however,  but  a  short  time, 
going  thence  to  Burlington,  Vt.  After  con- 
ducting business  a  while  in  Burlington,  he 
sold  out,  and  in  1872  entered  the  employ  of 
the  Clareiuont  Manufacturing  Company,  with 
whom  he  served  as  foreman  for  seven  years. 
In  1880  he  purchased  the  National  Eagle,  and, 
taking  upon  himself  the  editorial  duties,  has 
been  since  thus  engaged.  The  Eagle  was  es- 
tablished   in    1834,    under   the   direction   of    a 


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committee  appointed  at  a  Whig  Sullivan 
County  Convention  tiie  year  before.  It  has 
since  passed  through  many  hands,  and  it  is 
worthy  of  note  that  Mr.  l'"ay"s  proprietorship 
has  already  lasted  longer  than  that  of  any  of 
his  predecessors.  Since  he  took  charge  of  it, 
its  circulation  has  incrcasetl  more  than  three- 
fold, and  it  is  now  upon  a  firm  financial  basis. 
It  has  a  wide  reputation  for  fairness,  the  cor- 
rectness of  its  news  items,  and  its  able  edito- 
rials. In  i8go  Mr.  I'"ay  took  into  partnership 
his  son,  Nathan  W.  Fay,  and  his  son-in-law, 
William  H.  Thompson.  Besides  publishing 
the  paper,  the  firm  has  a  monopoly  of  the  job 
printing  business  in  Claremnnt.  Captain  Fay 
is  said  to  be  the  oldest  living  publisher  in 
New  Hampshire.  He  has  figured  more  or  less 
prominently  in  politics,  and  during  1887  and 
1888  was  Representative  to  the  New  Hamp- 
shire legislature.  He  has  for  many  years 
been  a  member  of  the  Episcopal  church, 
which  he  has  served  in  an  official  capacity. 

Captain  Fay  married  Miss  Nancy  L. 
Skinner,  daughter  of  the  Rev.  Warren 
Skinner,  a  Universalist  minister  and  one  of 
the  early  pioneers  of  Universal  ism  in  this 
section,  and  who  served  with  the  rank  of 
Orderly  Sergeant  in  the  War  of  1S12.  Cap- 
tain and  Mrs.  Fay  are  the  parents  of  two  chil- 
dren :  Nathan  W.,  who  is  now  in  partnership 
with  his  father;  and  Lillie.  The  last  named 
married  William  H.  Thompson,  son  of  Sam- 
uel Liscom  and  Alsada  Eleanor  (]<"lint) 
Thompson.  Mr.  Thompson's  grandfather, 
William  Thompson,  who  was  a  successful 
wholesale  and  retail  dealer  in  meat  and  pro- 
visions in  Worcester,  Mass.,  had  two  chil- 
dren, one  of  whom  died  in  infancy.  The 
other,  Samuel  L.,  was  engaged  for  some  time 
in  business  with  his  father  in  Worcester,  but 
subsequently  removed  from  that  place  to  Per- 
kinsville,  Vt.,  and   thence   to   Chester   in   the 


same  State.  A  Republican  politically,  he 
was  largely  interested  in  local  politics,  and 
held  various  public  offices,  among  them  those 
of  Deputy  .Sheriff,  Selectman,  and  Justice  of 
the  Peace.  He  had  eight  children:  Moses 
Waldo;  Ella  Maria;  Harriet  Al.sada;  Will- 
iam, who  tiled  ill  infancy;  William  H.  ; 
Sarah,  who  died  at  the  age  of  six  years;  Sam- 
uel Leslie;  and  one  other,  who  died  unnamed. 
The  eldest,  Moses  Waldo,  has  been  established 
in  the  clotliing  business  in  Pioston  for  the  past 
thirty-five  years,  being  a  member  of  the  firm 
of  Thompson,  Willis  &  Nugent.  Ella  Maria 
married  A.  V..  Snell,  and  resides  in  Lewis- 
ton,  Idaho.  Harriet  Alsada  became  the  wife 
of  E.  P.  Mudge,  Clerk  of  the  Court  in  Lewis- 
ton,  Idaho.  Samuel  Leslie  is  a  druggist  in 
the  same  place.  At  the  age  of  twelve  years 
William  H.  Thompson  went  to  Cavendish, 
Vt.,  where  he  found  employment  in  the  store 
of  a  Mr.  Pierce,  a  merchant  and  an  e.\-school- 
master.  During  his  three  years  there  he  was 
under  the  tutorage  of  his  employer,  and  made 
rapid  progress  in  his  studies.  The  ne.xt  five 
years  were  spent  with  Messrs.  Chandler 
Brothers,  merchants  of  Proctorsville,  Vt.  ;  and 
subsequently  he  travelled  for  a  year  as  sales- 
man for  .S.  Washburn  Holmes,  a  wholesale 
grocer.  After  other  business  e.Kperiences  he 
removed  in  1880  to  Claremont,  and  entered 
into  partnership  with  Captain  Fay,  as  above 
narrated.  His  services  as  a  member  of  the 
firm  have  contributed  in  no  small  degree  to 
its  prosperity. 

ANIEL  L.  MOORE,*  a  successful 
farmer  of  Loudon,  Merrimack 
County,  was  born  here,  June  30, 
1843,  son  of  Archelaus  and  Harriett  T. 
(Lowell)  Moore,  his  parents  also  being  na- 
tives of  this  town.  Archelaus  ]\Ioore,  first, 
the   grandfather,    lived    and   died    in    Loudon, 


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having  followed  agriculture  here  all  his  active 
lite;  and  his  father,  the  great-grandfather  of 
Daniel  L.,  was  the  f:rst  of  the  name  to  settle 
here.  Archelaus  Moore,  second,  followed  the 
vocation  of  his  forefathers,  and  died  leaving 
eight  children:  Abigail,  wife  of  P.  L. 
French,  of  East  Concord,  N.H.;  Lydia 
Amanda,  who  married  Hugh  T.  Warren,  a 
farmer  of  Pembroke,  N.H.  ;  Jennie,  now  de- 
ceased, who  became  the  wife  of  James  Rich- 
ardson, a  carriage-maker  of  Pembroke;  Mon- 
roe A.,  who  died  at  the  age  of  sixteen;  Daniel 
I,.,  the  subject  of  this  brief  sketch;  Addie, 
who  is  the  widow  of  Alfred  Dearborn,  and  re- 
sides in  Concord,  N.H.;  Lucian  B.  and  Etta, 
both  of  whom  died  young. 

Daniel  L.  Moore  spent  his  youth  on  the 
home  farm,  and  was  brought  up  to  agricultural 
life.  He  married  first  Mary  Lavina  Weeks, 
a  daughter  of  Samuel  and  Abigail  T.  (French) 
Weeks,  her  father  being  a  farmer  and  tanner 
of  Gilmanton.  After  his  marriage  Mr.  Moore 
carried  on  the  home  farm,  also  raising  fruit 
and  dealing  to  some  extent  in  lumber.  He 
now  owns  five  hundred  acres  of  well-improved 
land.  Mr.  Moore  is  a  Democrat,  and  takes 
an  active  part  in  local  politics.  In  1891  and 
1892  he  represented  his  district  in  the  legis- 
lature. By  his  wife,  Mary  Weeks  Moore,  he 
had  seven  children,  namely:  Annie;  Lura; 
two  sons  who  died  in  infancy;  Josia;  an  infant 
unnamed;  and  Alfred  T.,  born  July  7,  1867, 
who  is  a  farmer  in  the  vicinity  of  the  old 
home.  Alfred  T.  Moore  married  Minnie  E. 
Clough,  who  was  born  November  i,  1867, 
daughter  of  Lathan  C.  and  Mary  E.  (Dimond) 
Clough,  her  father  being  a  stone  cutter  and 
farmer  of  Groton,  N.H.  His  first  wife  dying, 
Mr.  Daniel  L.  Moore  married  for  his  second 
wife  Miss  Mary  Anna  Sleeper,  daughter  of 
Levi  F.  and  Eliza  (Wells)  Sleeper,  her  par- 
ents being  residents  of  this  locality.      By  her 


he  has  two  children — -Carl  C.  and  Dwight  E., 
both  living  at  home.  Mr.  Moore  and  his  fam- 
ily attend  the  Second  Advent  church  on 
Loudon  Ridge. 


SWAIN  CLOUGH,  a  Selectman 
of  Pittsfield  and  an  ex-member  of 
the  New  Hampshire  legislature, 
was  born  in  this  town,  April  6,  1849,  son  of 
Benjamin  A.  and  Lydia  A.  (Sinclair)  Clough. 
His  grandfather,  William  Clough,  who  was 
born  in  Barrington,  N.H.,  came  to  Pittsfield 
as  a  pioneer.  He  cleared  and  improved  a 
farm,  and  was  a  prominent  man  in  his  day. 
In  politics  he  was  a  Republican.  He  married 
Sarah  Swain,  who  was  also  a  native  of  Bar- 
rington; and  they  were  the  parents  of  nine 
children,  none  of  whom  are  living.  Of  these 
Benjamin  A.,  father  of  the  subject  of  this 
sketch,  was  the  youngest  son.  Mrs.  William 
Clough  lived  to  the  advanced  age  of  ninety-six 
years.  She  and  her  husband  were  members  of 
the  Free  Will  Baptist  church. 

Benjamin  A.  Clough,  also  a  native  of  Pitts- 
field, was  in  trade  in  Barrington  in  his 
younger  days.  Later  he  settled  upon  the  old 
homestead,  where  he  tilled  the  soil  success- 
fully until  his  death,  which  occurred  when  he 
was  about  fifty-six  years  old.  He  was  a  Re- 
publican in  politics,  and  was  a  member  of  the 
Board  of  Selectmen  for  some  time.  In  his 
religious  belief  he  was  a  Congregationalist. 
His  wife,  Lydia,  a  daughter  of  Micajah  Sin- 
clair, of  Stratham,  N.H.,  became  the  mother 
of  one  son,  M.  Swain,  and  died  at  the  age  of 
forty-six. 

The  education  of  M.  Swain,  commenced  in 
the  common  schools,  was  completed  at  the 
Pittsfield  Academy.  After  leaving  school  he 
assisted  upon  the  home  farm  until  he  was 
twenty-two  years  old.  He  then  entered  the 
iirovision  business,  in  which   he   continued  for 


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ten  years.  In  1885  lie  established  himself  in 
the  livery  business,  which  he  has  since  fol- 
lowed successfully.  lie  owns  some  valuable 
real  estate  in  ritlsficld.  in  politics  he  is  a 
Republican,  autl  he  is  [ironiinent  in  public 
affairs.  He  has  served  as  Town  Auditor,  has 
been  i^eputy  .Sheriff  (ov  the  past  four  years, 
was  Representative  to  the  lei;islature  in  1S94 
and  1895,  and  was  elected  Selectman  in  1896. 
In  June,  18S8,  Mr.  Clouj;h  was  united  in 
marriage  with  Jessie  Marvey,  daughter  of 
Elder  Josei^h  Harvey,  of  I'ittsfield.  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Clough  have  no  children.  Mr.  Clough 
is  a  member  of  the  Oild  I'"cllows,  the  Knights 
of  Pythias,  and  the  Improved  Order  of  Red 
Men.  He  is  highly  esteemed  by  his  fellow- 
townsmen,  both  as  a  citizen  and  an  efficient 
tiublic  official. 


(^": 


HARLKS    N.    CLOUGH,*    Selectman 


)f  Canterbury  and  a  well-known 
v»,i£__^  farmer,  was  born  here,  January  15, 
1849,  son  of  Colonel  David  M.  and  Almira 
(Hatchelder)  Clough.  He  belongs  to  an  old 
and  prominent  family.  His  great-grandfather, 
Leavitt  Clough,  Sr. ,  was  likewise  born  in 
Canterbury,  where  he  also  lived  and  died. 
Leavitt  Clough,  Jr.,  was  a  farmer  and  a  Jus- 
tice of  the  Peace  in  his  native  town. 

Colonel  David  M.  Clough,  popularly  known 
as  "Corn  King,"  who  belongs  to  the  third 
generation  of  Cloughs  in  Canterbury,  was 
born  June  9,  1805.  He  was  educated  in  the 
district  schools  of  his  native  place  and  at  the 
Gilnianton  Academy.  At  the  age  of  eighteen 
he  began  to  teach  school,  and  he  subsequently 
followed  that  occupation  for  several  years. 
In  1832  he  removed  to  Gilmanton,  where  he 
lived  for  the  ne.xt  ten  years.  In  1856,  return- 
ing to  the  old  homestead,  he  bought  the  farm 
now  owned  by  his  son,  and  there  was  engaged 
in  farming  and  the  real  estate  business  for  the 


remainder  of  his   life.      He  died   January  31, 

1886.  Three  times  he  received  the  nomina- 
tion of  the  Democratic  party  for  the  Gov- 
ernor's Council,  and  he  was  elected  to  this 
office  for  the  first  term  of  Governor  Weston's 
administration.  He  represented  the  town  in 
the  State  legislature  for  two  years,  and  served 
it  as  Selectman  for  four  years.  He  was  twice 
married,  first  on  October  25,  1828,  to  Almira 
Batchelder,  who  was  born  June  7,  1805, 
daughter  of  Ebenezer  IJatchelder.  She  had 
borne  him  five  children,  when  she  died  No- 
vember 5,  iS5r.  The  second  marriage, 
performed  June  17,  1856,  united  him  with 
Mrs.  Caroline  Gibson  Towne,  of  Canterbury, 
daughter  of  Samuel  Towne,  Jr.  There  were 
no  children  by  this  second  marriage.  Mrs. 
Caroline  Clough,  now  eighty-two  years  old, 
resides  with  her  step.son,  Henry  L.  Clough, 
in  Canterbury.  Colonel  Clough's  children  by 
his  first  wife  were:  Elmira,  Henry  Leavitt, 
Mary  S. ,  lulwin  Davis,  and  Charles  N.  El- 
mira, born  in  1830,  died  August  9,  1838. 
Henry  Leavitt,  born  February  17,  1837,  mar- 
ried  Belle   H.    Shaw,  of  Concord,    March  31, 

1887,  and  has  one  child,  Elmira  E.,  born  No- 
vember 25,  1887.  He  carried  on  a  grocery 
business  in  Concord  for  thirteen  years;  but 
now  he  resides  at  the  old  homestead,  where  in 
summer  he  entertains  about  twenty  boarders. 
Mary  S. ,  born  in  1836,  died  August  2,  1838. 
Edwin  Davis,  born  October  5,  1843,  married 
Eliza  Jane  Couch,  and  now  resides  in  Con- 
cord, where  he  is  engaged  in  the  cider  and 
vinegar  business. 

Charles  N.  Clough,  the  youngest  child  of 
his  parents,  attended  the  district  schools  and 
Gilmanton  College.  Since  his  marriage  Mr. 
Clough  has  devoted  his  attention  almost.  e.\- 
clusively  to  farming.  He  now  owns  three 
hundred  acres  of  well-improved  farm  land  in 
Canterbury  township,  on  the    Mcrrimac  Inter- 


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vale.  Ill  connection  with  his  farm  quite  a 
large  dairy  business  is  carried  on.  He 
was  elected  Selectman  of  Canterbury,  which 
office  he  now  holds.  In  politics  he  is  a 
Democrat,  and  he  takes  an  active  interest  in 
the  affairs  of  the  town.  He  is  a  Mason  of 
Horace  Chase  Lodge,  No.  62,  of  I'enacook, 
N.H.;  anil  a  member  of  the  local  grange  of 
Patrons  of  Husbandry,  of  which  he  was  Over- 
seer for  some  time.  His  wife,  whose  maiden 
name  was  Kmma  T.  Morrill,  and  who  came 
from  Brighton,  Mass.,  has  made  him  the 
father  of  two  children.  Their  son,  David 
Morrill,  was  born  in  1879,  ^''"^'  their  daughter, 
Caroline  G.,  in  1886.  Both  parents  are  mem- 
bers of  the  Ba])tist  church  at  Penacook. 
Many  old  family  relics  which  have  been  in 
the  possession  of  the  doughs  for  many  years 
are  now  owned  by  Mr.  Clough  and  his  brotiier 

Henry. 

« ■  ■  ■ » 

'OHN  S.  R.  BROWN,  a  prominent 
farmer  of  Loudon,  Merrimack  County, 
N.H.,  was  born  in  this  town.  May  29, 
1819,  son  of  Richard  and  Mehitable  S.  (Rol- 
lins) Brown.  The  Brown  family  has  resided 
in  New  Hampshire  for  five  generations.  Jo- 
seph Brown,  great-great-grandfather  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch,  was  born  in  Rye, 
N.H.,  January  30,  16S9,  and  died  there, 
March  ig,  1759.  His  wife,  Elizabeth,  was 
born  May  16,  1693,  and  died  January  21, 
1760.  Their  son  Joseph,  who  was  born  in 
Rye,  September  2,  1722,  had  a  farm  in 
Epsom,  where  he  spent  the  greater  part  of  his 
life.  He  died  April  i,  1771.  His  wife, 
Abigal  .Shaw  Brown,  also  of  Rye,  was  born 
October  2,  1724,  and  died  December  4,  1785. 
Their  son  Job,  next  in  line,  was  born  in 
Epsom,  N.H.,  August  14,  1750,  and  remained 
in  his  native  town  until  about  1791,  when  he 
moved    to    Gilmanton,    where    he    encafred    in 


farming.  He  died  there  August  1,  18 14. 
His  wife,  in  maidenhood  Hulda  Page,  of 
Hampton,  N.H.,  was  born  March  10,  1756, 
and  died  December  29,  1831.  Tiiey  had  five 
children,  namely:  David,  who  was  born  Au- 
gust II,  1779,  married  Betsey  Able,  and  died 
August  20,  1867;  Joseph,  who  was  born  June 
10,  1782,  and  died  August  4,  1800;  Nancy, 
who  was  born  June  14,  1784,  married  Charles 
Rollins,  and  died  in  November,  1841  ;  Abigail, 
who  was  a  twin  sister  of  Nancy,  and  died  Jan- 
uary 6,  1786;  and  Richard,  the  father  of  the 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Richard  Brown,  who  was  born  November 
17,  1787,  received  his  education  in  tlie  com- 
mon schools  of  Epsom,  and  at  an  early  age 
was  employed  in  assisting  his  father  on  the 
farm.  When  but  si.xteen  years  old  he  began 
to  teach  school,  which  occupation  he  followed 
successfully  for  ten  years,  besides  doing 
some  farming.  At  the  age  of  twenty-six  he 
moved  to  Loudon,  and  bought  the  farm  on 
which  his  son  John  now  resides.  He  died  in 
Loudon,  June  li,  1867.  He  served  efificiently 
in  the  State  militia,  and  rose  to  the  ranks  suc- 
cessively of  Captain  and  a  General.  Richard 
Brown  was  three  times  married.  His  first  wife, 
in  maidenhood  Mehitable  Rollins,  was  born  in 
Loudon,  September  9,  1793,  daughter  of  John 
Rollins,  her  father  being  a  native  of  Loudon, 
and  the  son  of  Eliphalet  Rollins,  who  was  the 
first  of  the  family  to  settle  in  this  town. 
They  were  married  August  i,  181 3,  and  had 
four  children,  namely:  Sarah  Ann,  born  July 
28,  1 8 16,  who  married  Thomas  French,  and 
died  March  15,  1853,  her  husband  passing 
away  just  two  months  later;  John  S.  R.,  the 
subject  of  this  sketch;  Jane  S.  R.,  born  Au- 
gust II,  1821,  who  married  in  1842  John  S. 
Osborn,  and  now  lives  in  Loudon;  and  Me- 
hitable A.  T.,  born  November  13,  1823,  who 
married    Hiram    Wing,     May    31,     1852,    and 


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died  July  ig,  1887.  Richard  Brown  married 
for  iiis  second  wife  Sarah  S.  I'rencli,  who 
was  born  February  11,  1809,  and  died  Febru- 
ary 19,  1H38.  ]5y  her  he  had  two  cliildren: 
Albira  W.,  wiio  was  born  November  26,  1832, 
and  died  March  31,  1859;  and  Ann  lilliza, 
who  was  born  September  12,  1837,  and  died 
in  infancy.  Mr.  Ikown  was  married  for  tiie 
third  time  in  1838  to  Sarah  Jewett,  of  Gil- 
ford, N.  II.,  l)orn  April  13,  1798,  who  died 
January  18,  1865,  at  the  age  of  si.xty-seven. 
By  her  he  had  one  child,  Hulda  Maria,  born 
November  20,  1840,  who  married  Ouincy 
Jewett,  January  11,  1865,  and  died  in  Sep- 
tember,  1870. 

John  S.  R.  Brown  remained  at  home  with 
his  parents  until  reaching  the  age  of  twenty- 
si.\  years.  lie  then  travelled  six  years  for  a 
Bible  society,  and  subsequently  settled  on  the 
farm  where  he  now  lives,  and  where  he  is  en- 
gaged in  general  farming  and  fruit-raising. 
It  contains  about  three  hundred  and  fifty  acres 
of  fine  land,  and  he  has  greatly  improved  the 
property  since  it  came  into  his  possession. 
Mr.  Brown  was  formerly  connected  with  the 
State  militia,  in  which  he  gained  the  rank  of 
Second  Lieutenant.  In  ])olitics  he  is  a  Re- 
publican. He  married  November  16,  1852, 
Achsa  Ann  Mills,  who  was  born  January  21, 
1820,  a  daughter  of  John  and  Alice  (Will- 
iams) Mills,  of  Hampstead,  N.H.  Mrs. 
Brown's  father  was  first  a  sailor,  but  subse- 
quently engaged  in  agricultural  pursuits,  and 
also  worked  at  coopering.  He  died  in  Dun- 
barton  in  183 1.  Mer  mother  died  in  Plaistow, 
N.H.,  May  8,  1857.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brown 
have  had  seven  children,  namely:  Ann  Eliza- 
beth, born  September  i,  1853,  who  married 
Frank  Fletcher,  and  lives  in  Loudon;  Clara 
Jane,  born  March  3,  1855,  who  married  John 
E.  Dustin,  of  Pittsfield;  Abbie  Maria,  born 
January    26,    1857,    who    became    the   wife    of 


Charles  K.  Lane,  of  Exeter;  Richard  Henry, 
born  March  8,  1859,  who  resides  with  his 
parents;  David  Hamlin,  born  March  19,  1S61, 
who  married  Lizzie  Jenkins,  of  Barnstead,  and 
is  now  a  resident  of  Laconia;  John  Parker 
Mills,  who,  born  April  27,  1864,  married 
b'iorence  P.  Day,  of  Bradford,  Mass.,  Decem- 
ber 28,  1891,  lives  with  his  father,  and  has 
two  children  —  Earl  D.  and  Gladys;  and 
Mary  Alice,  born  May  8,  1867,  who  married 
Charles  A.  Hedgerly,  October  24,  1894,  and 
resides  in  Pittsfield.  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Brtjwn 
are  members  of  the  Congregational  Church  of 
Loudon,  in  which  Mr.  Brown  is  a  Deacon  and 
clerk.  They  take  an  active  interest  in  the 
welfare  of  the  community,  and  are  ever  ready 
to  aid  a  worthy  cause. 


,OODY  GILLINGHAM,  for  many 
years  an  active  farmer  and  promi- 
nent citizen  of  Newbury,  Merri- 
mack County,  N.  H.,  was  born  on  the  old  (iil- 
lingham  homestead,  January  2,  181 1,  and  died 
here,  October  16,  1882.  He  was  of  English 
ancestry,  being  a  lineal  descendant  of  the  em- 
igrant, James  Gillinghani,  who  crossed  the 
Atlantic  to  seek  a  new  home  in  the  western 
world  over  two  hundred  years  ago,  and  set- 
tling in  Salem,  Mass.,  there  married  in  May, 
1692,  Rebecca  Bly,  daughter  of  John  BIy. 
[See  Savage's  "Genealogical  Dictionary."] 

Their  son  James,  second,  born  in  1696, 
came  to  Newbury,  N.H.,  locating  on  the  north 
side  of  Todd  Pond,  where  he  bought  two  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  of  heavily  timbered  land, 
which  formed  a  portion  of  the  Pierce  grant. 
His  son  James,  the  third  of  that  name  in 
direct  line,  succeeded  to  the  ownership  of  the 
original  homestead,  on  which  he  made  material 
improvements,  replacing  the  first  rude  dwell- 
ing-house  by  the   present   residence,  which  he 


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erected  in  i8i 3.  Me  was  twice  married.  His 
first  wife,  I'ully  Little,  a  native  of  Sutton, 
bore  liim  tluee  ciiildren — James,  Daniel,  and 
Rath.  His  second  wife,  Betsey  Lane,  of 
Newbury,  became  the  mother  of  fourteen  chil- 
th-en,  one  of  whom  was  Moody,  the  special 
subject  of  this  sketch. 

Moody  Gillingham  remained  beneath  the 
parental  roof-tree  until  his  marriage,  when  he 
went  to  Warrensburg,  N.Y. ,  there  engaging 
in  agricultural  pursuits  until  the  death  of  his 
father,  two  years  later,  recalled  him  to  New- 
bury. At  once  taking  possession  of  the  home- 
stead, he  resided  here  until  his  demise,  as 
above  noted.  He  was  very  successful  in  farm- 
ing, and  in  business  of  all  kinds,  possessing 
keen  perceptions,  good  judgment,  and  an  excel- 
lent command  of  language.  He  was  a  clear, 
ready  speaker,  rarely  worsted  in  argument,  and 
exerted  an  influence  for  good  in  the  commu- 
nity. He  served  as  Selectman  for  three  years 
in  Newbury.  In  his  religious  views  he  was 
broad  and  liberal,  inclining  to  the  Univer- 
salist  faith.  He  married  Julia  Tvviss,  daugh- 
ter of  Jeremiah  and  Marion  (Peaslee)  Twiss. 
She  was  born  in  Bradford,  October  4,  181 5, 
and  died  June  11,  1869.  They  had  four  chil- 
dren;  namely,  Charles  H.,  Albert  L.,  Free- 
man H.,  and  Clara  L  Charles  II.  Gilling- 
ham married  Elinda,  daughter  of  John  and 
IVLary  (Marriott)  RLuid,  natives  of  England. 
They  have  six  children — Maud  C. ,  Annie 
E.,  Mary  A.,  Moody,  Ralph  B.,  and  Julia. 
Albert  L.  died  in  Salina,  Kan.,  October  16, 
1892.  His  wife,  Elizabeth,  daughter  of  Rob- 
ert Robertson,  bore  him  four  children:  Lena 
M.;  Irvill;  Pearl;  and  Clara  L,  who  is  the 
wife  of  Jesse  P.  Colby,  of  Danvers,  Mass. 

Freeman  H.  Gillingham  was  born  on  the 
Gillingham  homestead,  and  there  grew  to 
years  of  maturity,  acquiring  a  thorough  knowl- 
edge   of    practical    agriculture.      On    October 


29,  1877,  he  married  Annie,  daughter  of  Cum- 
mings  and  Car<dine  (Uowlin)  Pierce,  and  im- 
mediately removed  to  the  Pierce  farm  in  Brad- 
ford. Two  years  later  Mr.  Pierce  retired  from 
active  labor;  and  Mr.  Gillingham  tocjk  a  lease 
of  the  farm,  which  he  has  since  managed  with 
eminent  success,  carrying  on  general  farming 
with  most  satisfactory  results.  He  has  been 
prominent  in  local  affairs,  having  served  on 
the  School  Committee,  and  as  one  of  the  Se- 
lectmen of  the  town  in  1S81  and  again  in 
1895,  when  he  was  Chairman  of  the  ]5oard. 
In  1896  he  was  elected  to  the  State  legis- 
lature from  Bradford.  He  is  a  Republican 
in  politics,  but  is  popular  in  both  parties. 

Mr.  Gillingham's  first  wife  died  February 
I7»  i893'  li^aving  no  children.  On  May  25, 
1895,  he  married  Miss  Ida  M.  Ewins,  a 
daughter  of  John  H.  Ewins,  who  was  born  and 
still  lives  in  Warner.  Mr.  Ewins  married 
Lucetta  Pierce,  who  was  born  on  the  Pierce 
farm,  a  daughter  of  Captain  Cummings  Pierce, 
and  sister  of  Mr.  Gillingham's  first  wife. 
She  dietl  January  27,  1891,  leaving  two  chil- 
dren, namely:  Marietta,  wife  of  Alpheus  B. 
Huntoon,  of  Salisbury,  N.PL  ;  and  Ida  M., 
now  Mrs.  Gillingham. 

Captain  Cummings  Pierce  was  born  in 
Hillsborough,  N.H.,  May  22,  1803,  a  son  of 
Nathan  and  Phebc  (Cummings)  Pierce.  He 
was  a  first  cousin  of  the  late  Presitlent  Pierce. 
His  parents  removed  from  Hillsborough  to 
Bradford  in  1821,  and  bought  the  Pierce  home- 
stead, now  occupied  by  Freeman  H.  Gilling- 
ham. Cummings  Pierce  succeeded  to  the 
ownership  of  the  home  farm,  and  continued  the 
improvement  of  the  land,  clearing  a  large  part 
of  it,  and  soon  after  his  marriage  erected  the 
present  residence.  He  belonged  for  some 
years  to  an  artillery  company  in  the  old  State 
militia,  serving  as  Captain  the  most  of  the 
time.      He  was  strictly  honcn'able  and  upright, 


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anil  even  in  temper  and  disposition.  Siicli  a 
man  necessarily  liolds  a  higli  position  in  any 
community,  and  Captain  Pierce  was  no  excep- 
tion. He  served  in  all  the  town  offices,  and 
for  many  years  was  Selectman.  In  1S60  anil 
1 86 1  he  served  as  a  Representative  in  the 
State  legislature. 

In  1833  Captain  Pierce  married  Caroline 
Dowlin,  who  died  April  14,  1874,  leaving  two 
children,  namely:  T-ucctta,  who  married  John 
H.  ICwins,  and  died  January  27,  1891;  and 
Annie,  who  was  the  first  wife  of  Freeman  H. 
Gillingham,  and  died  h'ebruary  17,  1893. 
Captain  Pierce  survived  his  wife  and  both 
daughters,  passing  away  Noyeml)er  13,  1893. 


(syri^^ERT  STP:VENS,*  a  farmer  of  Con- 
^k  cord,  was  born  at  Canterbury,  N.H., 
/«)ls^^  January  24,  1833,  and  is  a  rep- 
resentative of  the  third  generation  of  the 
Stevens  family  born  in  this  town.  His  pa- 
ternal grandfather,  whose  name,  it  is  believed, 
was  Simeon  Stevens,  was  a  farmer  and  life- 
long resident  of  Canterbury.  He  attained  an 
advanced  age,  and  was  the  father  of  six  sons 
and  four  daughters.  Three  of  the  sons  — 
Moses,  John,  and  Thomas  —  went  West,  and 
settled  in  Princeton,  111.,  where  they  grew 
prosperous  and  married.  John  Stevens  had  a 
son  who  became  extremely  wealthy,  and  two 
of  the  sons  of  Simeon  Stevens  became  mem- 
bers of  Congress. 

Jesse  Stevens,  father  of  Albert,  remained 
in  his  native  town  when  his  brothers  went 
West,  and  in  course  of  time  became  one  of 
its  leading  citizens.  Early  in  life  he  began 
to  teach,  and  he  followed  that  occupation  for 
some  years.  He  lived  to  be  sixty-one  years 
old,  and  at  the  time  of  his  death  had  been 
Selectman  of  the  town  for  many  years.  He 
married    Abigail    Sherborne,    of   Epsom;    and 


they  had  seven  children  —  Harriet,  Mary  A., 
Sylvester,  Caroline,  Susan  T.,  Nancy,  and 
Albert.  Mary  is  the  wife  of  Rufiis  Virgin, 
a  sketch  of  whom  apj^ears  elsewhere  in  this 
work;  Sylvester  lives  in  East  Concord;  Caro- 
line, who  is  the  widow  of  Stephen  Clark,  re- 
sides at  Littleton,  Mass.;  Nancy,  who  lives 
in  Concord,  is  the  wife  of  Moody  S.  Farnum; 
Harriet  and  Susan  are  deceased. 

Albert  Stevens,  who  was  the  youngest  son 
of  his  parents,  received  his  education  in  the 
schools  of  Concord.  He  then  took  up  farm- 
ing, and  besides  he  was  for  some  time  en- 
gaged in  trade  at  Tilton,  N.H.  He  has  also 
done  some  butchering,  and  has  handled  many 
horses  and  cattle.  At  one  time  he  owned  a 
stage  line  between  Northwood  and  New 
Market.  In  1861  he  came  to  East  Concord, 
and  invested  in  a  farm;  but,  his  buildings 
being  burned,  he  bought  the  old  Carter  Tavern 
of  stage-coach  fame.  Mr.  Stevens  married 
Miss  Susan  E.  Goodwin,  a  daughter  of 
Reuben  Goodwin,  of  I-last  Concord.  Mrs. 
Stevens  died  in  September,  1872,  after  having 
borne  her  husband  one  son,  Jesse  G. ,  who 
married  Sarah  O' Reagan.  Mr.  Stevens 
served  as  Assessor  for  seven  or  eight  years, 
and  was  a  member  of  the  legislature  in  1872 
and  1873.  He  votes  the  Democratic  ticket, 
and  cast  his  first  vote  for  President  Buchanan 
in  1856. 

LVA  J.  DEARBORN,*  a  prosperous 
farmer  of  Canterbury,  N.H.,  was  born 
in  this  town,  October  13,  1851, 
son  of  James  and  Susan  (Fellows)  Dearborn. 
James  Dearborn,  who  was  a  native  of  Plym- 
outh, N.  H.,  came  to  this  town  when  a  young 
man,  and  carried  on  farming  here  the  rest  of 
his  life.  He  died  in  December,  1868.  His 
wife,  a  native  of  Canterbury,  died  April  i, 
1SS2.     They  had  five  children:  Ella,  now  the 


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wife  of  C.  Wesley  Carter,  of  Boscawen;  Alva 
J.,  the  subject  of  this  sketch;  Susan  E.,  who 
died  in  March,  1895;  and  twins,  one  of  whom 
was  named  Lyman,  and  both  of  whom  died  in 
infancy.  The  surviving  children  received  a 
good  education  in  the  grammar  school  and 
high  school  of  Canterbury. 

Alva  Dearborn,  though  but  seventeen  years 
old  when  his  father  died,  took  charge  of  the 
farm,  and  carried  it  on  successfully,  caring 
for  his  mother  the  rest  of  her  life.  Me  has 
greatly  improved  the  property,  and  the  farm 
now  contains  aJKUit  three  hundred  acres  of 
good  land.  Besides  general  farming  Mr. 
Dearborn  is  engaged  in  the  wood  and  lumber 
business,  and  also  carries  on  an  extensive 
dairy,  shipping  his  milk  to  Boston.  He  also 
makes  a  specialty  of  raising  hue  fruit  for  the 
market.  In  politics  he  is  a  Republican.  He 
has  served  several  terms  as  Selectman,  and 
has  held  other  minor  offices.  He  was  married 
October  10,  1883,  to  Miss  Ada  Belle  Cocfiran, 
of  Walpole,  N.H.,  born  February  4,  1854,  a 
daughter  of  Samuel  and  Relief  (Leonard) 
Cochran,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dearborn  are  the 
parents  of  four  children:  Susan  Relief,  born 
May  23,  1884;  Samuel  James,  b^rn  June  30, 
1886;  Fred  Earl,  born  October  4,  1888;  and 
Mollie  Keturah,  born  November  7,  1890. 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  Dearborn  are  highly  esteemed 
by  their  numerous  acquaintances  in  Canter- 
bury and  the  vicinity. 


'AMES  DODGE,  who  cultivated  a  good 
farm  in  Pembroke,  and  owned  consider- 
able real  estate  in  this  and  other 
towns,  was  born  in  Goffstown,  N.  H.,  Novem- 
ber 14,  1829,  son  of  John  G.  and  Polly  (Tal- 
lant)  Dodge.  His  great-grandfather,  Antipas 
Dodge,  who  lived  to  be  one  hundred  and  one 
years    old,    and    died   on    Independence    Day, 


was  a  native  of  Haverhill,  Mass.,  and  an  early 
settler  in  Goffstown.  The  first  wife  of  Anti- 
pas,  Margaret  Boise  Dodge,  was  the  mother  of 
James  Dodge,  grandfather  of  the  subject  of 
this  sketch.  The  names  of  his  second  wife 
and   her  children   are  unknown. 

James  Dodge,  who  was  a  lifelong  resident 
of  Goffstown,  and  spent  his  active  period  in 
tilling  the  soil,  married  for  his  first  wife 
Peggy  Gordon,  and  reared  a  family  of  si.x  chil- 
ch-en,  none  of  whom  are  li\ing.  One  of  them 
was  the  mother  of  the  famous  midget.  Com- 
modore Nutt.  James  Dodge  lived  to  be 
eighty-five  years  old,  and  his  wife  died  at 
sixty-nine.  John  G.  Dodge,  born  in  Goffs- 
town, was  brought  up  to  farming.  At  an 
early  age  he  displayed  a  liking  for  agricult- 
ural pursuits.  Subsequently  he  became  a 
successful  farmer.  He  was  a  prominent  man 
of  Goffstown  in  his  day,  serving  as  a  Justice 
of  the  Peace  for  many  years.  In  politics  he 
supported  the  Democratic  party.  His  entire 
life  was  passed  in  his  native  town,  and  he 
lived  to  be  seventy-nine  years  old.  His  wife, 
Polly,  who  was  a  native  of  Canterbury,  be- 
came the  mother  of  seven  children,  of  whom 
there  are  living:  Elizabeth  Dodge  and  John  G. 
Dodge  (second).  Elizabeth  is  the  wife  of 
William  H.  Hart,  of  Goffstown,  and  has  four 
sons — Horace  C,  John  D.,  Philip,  and  Ed- 
ward. Her  surviving  brother,  John  G. ,  who 
successively  married  Addie  M.  Travis  and 
Lucy  A.  Colby,  has  no  children.  Mrs.  Polly 
Dodge  died  at  the  age  of  si.xty-nine  years. 

James  Dodge  attended  schools  in  Goffstown, 
Hookset,  and  Andover,  N.  H.  When  he  was 
twenty-nine  years  old  he  left  home,  anil  then 
went  to  Canterbury,  N.H.,  where  he  resided 
for  a  time.  In  i860  he  bought  a  farm  in 
Boscawen.  Three  years  later  he  moved  to 
Concord,  N.H.,  where  he  lived  for  two  years. 
In  1865  he  purchased   his   farm    in    Pembroke. 


lilOCRAI'HIC  AL    KI'ATEW 


587 


He  did  not,  however,  become  a  permanent 
resident  of  this  town  until  1867,  after  which 
year  he  devoted  his  energy  to  general  farming. 
Ill  addition  to  his  homestead  farm  of  one  hun- 
dred and  fifty  acres  he  owned  about  one  hun- 
dred and  twenty-five  acres  of  woodland  and 
pasture  in  this  town,  and  about  four  hundred 
acres  in  Loudon,  N.H. 

On  March  28,  1859,  Mr.  I3odge  married 
rJetsey  Tallant,  daughter  of  John  I.,  and 
Sarali  J.  (Hean)  Tallant,  of  Concord.  'II  is 
chiltlren  are:  John  T.,  S.  Jennie,  and  James 
E.  S.  Jennie  is  now  tiie  wife  of  Herbert  J. 
Jones,  of  Alton,  N.  fl.  James  E.  wedded 
Mabel  Ahmuty,  and  lias  three  children — • 
Gladys,  James  Herbert,  and  Leon  T.  In  pol- 
itics Mr.  Dodge  was  a  stanch  Democrat.  He 
had  served  as  Selectman  and  uj^on  the  Board 
of  Ivlucation.  He  was  made  a  Justice  of  the 
Peace  in  1877,  and  so  continued  until  his 
death.  He  was  one  of  the  best  known  farmers 
of  the  locality,  and  had  the  respect  of  the  en- 
tire community. 


<^»^» 


T^HANCEY  ADAMS,  M.D.,  a  success- 
I  V^^      fill    medical    practitioner  of   Concord, 

V«ii°  ^  was  jjorn  in  North  New  Portland, 
Me.,  March  15,  1861,  son  of  Benjamin  and 
Eliza  l?riton  (Sawyer)  Adams.  He  belongs 
to  a  branch  of  the  famous  old  Massachusetts 
family  of  the  same  name.  Henry  Adams, 
the  founder  of  the  Massachusetts  family,  was 
an  English  emigrant,  who  came  over  to  this 
country  in  the  year  1630,  with  his  eight 
sons,  and  settled  in  Braintree,  in  the  Col- 
ony of  Massachusetts.  Of  these  eight 
sons,  one  subsequently  returned  to  England. 
The  names  of  the  others,  according  to  the 
records  of  Massachusetts,  were:  Peter,  Henry, 
Thomas,  Edward,  Jonathan,  Samuel,  and  Jo- 
seph.     Samuel    was    the    father   of    two    sons. 


one  of  whom  was  Joseph  Adams,  who  lived 
in  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.  Joseph  was  the 
father  of  Benjamin  Adams,  who  was  the  fa- 
ther of  William  Adams,  who  was  the  father 
of  Solomon  Adams,  who  was  the  great-grand- 
father of  Dr.  Adams.  Solomon  Adams  mi- 
grated from  North  Chelmsford,  Mass.,  his 
native  town,  to  h'armington.  Me.,  at  the  close 
of  the  Revolutionary  War.  The  record  shows 
that  he  had  served  his  country  during  that  war 
from  May  15,  1777,  to  May  15,  1780,  in  Cap- 
tain James  Varnum's  company,  of  Colonel 
Michael  Jackson's  regiment;  but  his  active 
military  service  actually  extended  beyond 
these  dates.  William  Adams,  son  of  Solomon 
and  grandfather  of  Dr.  Adams,  was  a  native  of 
Earmington,  Me.  He  passed  his  entire  life 
in  that  town,  engaged  in  farming,  and  died 
June  12,  1862,  at  the  age  of  seventy-three 
years.  He  married  Nancy  Hiscock,  and  had 
a  numerous  family  of  children,  of  whom  three 
died  in  infancy.  The  others  were  born  as  fol- 
lows: Thomas  H.,  March  14,  1813;  Hannah 
B.,  October  19,  1815;  William,  Jr.,  August 
21,  1817;  Nancy  K.,  August  4,  1819;  John 
R.,  August  17,  1S21;  Benjamin,  April  7, 
1823;  Samuel,  April  11,  1825;  Lucy  J., 
October  6,  1829;  and  Dolly,  September  3, 
1835.  Of  these  the  sole  survivor  is  lienja- 
min,  the  father  of  Dr.  Adams.  He  is  a  native 
of  Earmington,  Me.  In  early  manhood  he 
studied  law  while  teaching  school,  and  was 
subsequently  admitted  to  the  Franklin  County 
bar.'  He  then  took  up  his  residence  in  North 
New  Portland,  Me.,  where  he  was  engaged  in 
the  practice  of  his  profession  from  1847  to  1870 
when  he  moved  to  North  Anson,  Me.  He 
is  now  seventy-four  years  old.  From  1849  to 
1854  he  was  Postmaster  at  North  New  Port- 
land. He  was  Register  of  Probate  from  1854 
to  1855.  In  1873  he  was  a  member  of  the 
House  of   Representatives  of  the  Maine  legis- 


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BIOGRAI'IIICAL    RKVIEW 


latiire.  lie  is  :i  Congrcgationalist  in  relig- 
ious belief.  In  1849  he  married  Eliza  Briton 
Sawyer,  daughter  of  Ephraim  and  Elizabeth 
(Williams)  Sawyer.  Lemuel  Williams,  the 
erandfathcr  of  Mrs.  Eliza  Adams,  was  a  na- 
tive  of  Woolwich,  Mass.,  now  in  Maine. 
Having  enlisted  in  Colonel  Nixon's  regiment, 
he  served  during  a  part  of  the  Revolutionary 
War.  The  children  of  Benjamin  Adams  were 
Sarah  Frances,  Ellen  Maria,  and  Chancey. 
Sarah  Frances,  who  married  John  P.  Clark,  a 
lunil)erman  of  Skowhegan,  Me.,  has  had  si.x  chil- 
dren, of  whom  five  are  living.  Ellen  Maria 
died  at  the  age  of  two  and  one-half  years. 

Chancey  Adams  was  educated  in  the  district 
schools  of  North  Anson,  Me.,  and  at  Anson 
Academy,  graduating  from  the  latter  institu- 
tion in  the  class  of  18S0.  For  si.x  months 
after  his  graduation  he  was  employed  in  the 
drug  store  at  North  Anson.  Then,  feeling 
the  need  of  additional  education,  he  entered 
Waterville  Classical  Institute  (now  Coburn 
Classical  Institute,  Waterville,  Me.),  and 
graduated  from  the  same  in  1881.  In  the 
autumn  he  became  a  student  of  Colby  Univer- 
sity in  Waterville,  and,  after  completing  the 
course,  graduated  in  1885.  After  this  he 
taught  for  several  terms  in  the  district  schools 
of  Waldoboro  and  Embden  and  in  the  Phillips 
High  School.  Having  decided  to  enter  the 
medical  profession,  he  attended  the  Portland 
Medical  School  and  the  Maine  Medical  School 
in  Brunswick  during  the  years  1S88,  1890,  and 
1891,  graduating  (from  the  latter  institution) 
in  June  of  the  last-named  year.  From  1886 
to  1891  he  employed  all  his  spare  time  in  a 
drug  store  in  the  interests  of  his  intended 
profession.  After  graduating  from  the  Maine 
Medical  School,  he  entered  the  United 
States  Marine  Hospital  at  Staten  Island. 
Thence  he  went  to  Taunton,  Mass.,  as  assist- 
ant  physician    in    the    insane    asylum    of    that 


city,  where  he  remained  until  January  I,  1893. 
Desiring  to  qualify  himself  still  further  for 
the  medical  profession,  he  then  went  to  New 
York  City,  and  took  a  three  months'  course  in 
the  Post-graduate  Medical  School  and  Hospi- 
tal. After  this,  on  -September  26,  1893,  he 
opened  an  office  in  Concord,  where  he  has 
since  been  in  active  practice.  Dr.  Adams 
already  occupies  a  front  place  in  his  chosen 
calling,  and  his  ability  and  skill  are  acknowl- 
edged by  his  medical  associates.  He  has  been 
elected  a  member  of  the  North  Bristol  (Mass.) 
Medical  Society,  which  made  him  a  member 
of  the  Massachusetts  .State  Medical  Society. 
He  also  belongs  to  the  Centre  District  Medi- 
cal Society  of  New  Hampshire  and  the  New 
Hampshire  State  Medical  Society.  On  Janu- 
ary 25,  1897,  he  was  elected  City  Physician  of 
Concord  for  two  years. 

On  January  9,  1893,  Dr.  Adams  married 
Laurinda  Clara  Coombs,  of  Gloucester,  Mass. 
They  have  had  two  children :  Benjamin  W., 
who  died  in  infancy;  and  Edmund  Cliancey. 
In  politics  the  Doctor  is  a  Democrat,  and  he 
cast  his  first  Presidential  vote  for  Grover 
Cleveland  in  1S84.  He  is  a  member  of  Blaz- 
ing Star  Lodge,  No.  1 1,  of  Free  and  Accepted 
Masons,  of  Concord;  and  of  Concord  Lodge, 
No.  8,  K.  of  P.,  of  Concord.  Amply  qualified 
by  the  services  rendered  to  their  country  by 
his  ancestry  on  both  sides,  Dr.  Adams  is 
also  a  member  of  the  Sons  of  the  American 
Revolution. 


SCAR  F:  RICHARDSON,*  a  well- 
known  citizen  of  Concord,  was  born 
at  Southbriilge,  Vt. ,  January  2,  1835, 
son  of  Hazen  and  Zilby  (VVhitcomb)  Ricliard- 
son.  Hazen  Richardson  was  a  native  of  the 
State  of  New  Hampshire,  and  was  a  carpenter 
by  trade.  He  removed  to  Whitehall,  N.Y., 
quite    early    in    life,    and    passed    nu)st    of     his 


niOC.RAl'IllCAL    KI'-.VIFAV 


589 


days  in  that  town,  dying  there  in  i<S6o,  at  the 
aLje  nf  about  seventy  years.  lie  and  liis  wife, 
Ziihy  Whitcomh  Richardson,  had  eight  chil- 
dren; namely,  Dclilali,  Dequesna,  Lillian, 
Cornelia,  Oscar  F.,  Henrietta,  Jeffers  O.,  and 
Alice,  of  whom  Delilah,  Deciuesna,  Lillian, 
Jeffers  O.,  and  Alice  are  now  deceased. 

Oscar  v.  Richardson,  after  being  educated 
in  the  district  schools  of  Stockbridge,  Vt., 
fiist  found  employment  in  tiie  woollen-mills 
of  that  town,  where  he  continued  for  the  next 
five  years.  He  then  weiil  lo  Massachusetts, 
where  he  remained  fur  .d)iint  two  years.  At 
the  end  of  that  time  he  came  to  Concord,  to 
take  charge  of  the  finishing-rooms  in  the  n^ilis 
of  Messrs.  1^.  F.  &  13.  Holdcn,  whicli  have 
since  been  incorporated  as  the  Concord  Manu- 
facturing Company;  and  he  remained  in  their 
employ  some  seven  years.  He  was  subse- 
quently appointed  a  station  agent  for  the  C.  & 
C.  Railroad,  which  position  he  held  for  more 
than  si.\  years.      He  was  then  em|)loyed  at  the 


Concord  Water  Works  at  West  Concord,  and 
was  also  appointed  superintendent  of  I'cna- 
cook  Park.      He  was  also  connected  with   the 

police  force  of  the  city  of  Concord  for  ten 
years.  At  the  present  time  he  is  engaged  in 
the  milk  business,  maintaining  a  fine  herd  of 
sixteen  cows.  Although  an.\ious  to  take  up 
arms  in  the  defence  of  his  country  upon  the 
breaking  out  of  the  Civil  War,  his  strong 
filial  devotion  to  his  mother,  who  required  his 
presence  and  sujiport,  withheld  him,  and  led 
him  to  sacrifice  his  personal  inclinations  to 
his  duty  as  a  son.  In  i.Sji  Mr.  Richardson 
married  Miss  Nealy  Clough,  and  they  arc  the 
parents  of  three  ciii  hh'en :  .Susan,  wlio  is  the 
wife  of  Charles  Allison,  of  Concord;  Henry 
M.;  and  Alice  M.  Mr.  Richardson  is  a  Re- 
publican in  his  politics,  and  cast  his  first 
Presidential  vote  for  John  C.  Fremont  in 
1856.  He  enjoys  the  respect  and  confidence 
of  his  fellow-townsmen,  by  whom  he  is  re- 
garded as  an  u|iriglit  and  useful  citizen. 


INDEX. 


BIOGRAPHICAL. 


Abbott,  Andrew  J 50 

Abbott,  George  T 404 

Abbott,  George  W 351 

Abbott,  Isaac  N 89 

Adams,  Cliancey 5.S7 

Adams,  Charles  F 121 

Adams,  George  H 2S7 

Adams,  I'cabody  H 236 

Albin,  John  H 562 

.'\lexander,  Anson  C       ....  557 

Andrews,  John  S 560 

Andrews,  William  G 343 

Arey,  Jonathan 355 

Austin,  William  W 532 


Babbitt,  Charles  M 575 

Bailey,  Charles  .A 518 

Baker,  Cyrus  E 497 

Baker,  Edward  D 464 

Baker,  Frank  De  Forrest  ...  32 

Baker,  Henry  M 324 

Ball,  Sumner  N 576 

Barnard,  Augustus 359 

Barnard,  James  E 309 

Barnard,  Joseph 254 

Barnes,  Walter  B 240 

Barrett,  Edward  .S 376 

Bartlett,  Ai  J 144 

Bartlett,  Erastus  H 144 

Bartlett,  George  H 499 

Bartlett,  Henry  C 99 

Bartlett,  John  F 275 

Bartlett,  William  H 106 


Barton,  Hubl)anl  A. 
Batchelder,  Henry 
Bean,  Fred  .     .     . 
Bennett,  Curtis  W. 
Bennett,  James  iM. 
Bennett,  William  L. 
Bingham,  Cliarles  M 
Blaisdell,  Henri  ( 
Blake,  Clyde  A. 
Blake,  Francis  W 
Blood,  Hollis  L. 
Bond,  George  .S. 
Boutwell,  Eli  A. 
Breck,  William 
Breed,  Benjamin  W. 
Briggs,  Frederic  A. 
Brown,  Aaron  L.  . 
Brown,  Cyrus  O.  . 
Brown,  David  A.  . 
Brown.  Edmund  H. 
Brown,  John  ,S.  R. 
Bryant,  Edward    . 
Bryant,  Sylvanus  W. 
Burbank,  Almon  F. 
Burleigh,  Artemas  T 
Butler,  Jacob  N.   . 
Buxton,  Nathan  P 
Buxton,  Willis  G. 


PACE 

2S8 

350 
292 
96 
148 
S3S 
541 
56S 
216 

3'7 
224 
304 
S39 
5° 
434 
332 
342 
554 

369 
488 
582 
140 
26 
216 

59 
467 

145 
217 


C 

Cain,  J.  Leavitt 76 

Call,  Dana  W 167 

Call,  Joseph  L 121 

Canterbury  Shakers 470 

Carleton,  Henry  G 313 


Carr,  lOlislia  II 209 

Carr,  Frank  H 278 

Carter,  Harrison 151 

Carter,  Hosea  B.  .     .          .          .  407 

Carter,  Samuel  C 379 

Carter,  Samuel  W 151 

Carter,  Solon  .\ 251 

Carter,  William  H 283 

Chadbourne,  William  !•;.    .     .     .  484 

Chamberlin,  Henry  !■; 113 

Chandler,  William  J 33 

Chapman,  Frank  H 493 

Chase,  Arthur  B.  .     .          ...  570 

Chase,  Dudley  T 446 

Chase,  Harvey 524 

Chase,  Horace  J .  204 

Chellis,  .'Mvah  B 374 

Chesley,  Daniel  G 21 


397 
335 
284 
489 


Childs,  Horace      ... 

Choate,  Horace  L 

Choate,  Samuel     ... 
Churchill,  Edgar  A.  .     . 

Cilley,  George  H 54 

Clark,  Jacob  K 54 

Glark,  William 109 

Clough,  Charles  N 58 1 

Clough,  Jeremiah  A 397 

Clough,  Lauren  S 230 

Clough,  M.  Swain 580 

Clough,  Philip  C 174 

Cogswell,  David  W.  .318 

Cogswell,  Leander  W.  .     .  -125 

Colby,  Frederick  M 504 

Colby,  Ira 512 

Cole,  John  M 70 

Collins,  John  H 259 

Collins,  Lester  L 574 


592 


INDEX 


Connor,  James  IVI 291 

Cook,  George Soi 

Copps,  Rufus  r 92 

Coucli,  Enoch 483 

Courser,  Charles  H 392 

Cragin,  Moses  A 58 

Crowell,  Henry  H 363 

Culver,  Benjamin  L 503 

Cummings,  George  A 513 

Currier,  David  IVI 364 

Cutting,  Francis  M 97 

Cutting,  Freeman no 


Dana,  George  H 105 

DanCorth,  Sylvester  I' 469 

Davis,  Albert  P 54^) 

Davis,  George  E 388 

Davis,  John  F 166 

Davis,  Ora  C 4S7 

Davis,  Walter  S 401 

Day,  Edward  0 16S 

Dearborn,  Alva  J 585 

Dearborn,  Joseph  H 165 

Deming,  Norman  A 411 

Dickenson,  Aurelius      .     .     .     .  2r9 

Dickerman,  George  0 253 

Dimond,  Frank  E 551 

Dodge,  James s^^' 

Dodge,  Moses  E 463 

Dow,  George  VV.  S g(> 

Dow,  Samuel  H 60 

Dow,  William  D 145 

Downes,  Daniel 545 

Drake,  Nathaniel  S 47^ 

Dudley',  David  F 193 

Duncan,  John  T 122 

Dunton,  William 173 

Diislin,  Cyrus  F 558 

Dustin,  Henry  1) 220 

Dustin,  IVlighill 261 

Dwight,  Josiah  K 513 


Eastman,  Charles  0 30 1 

Eaton,  Horace  F 44S 

Edes,  Samuel  H 199 

Edgerly,  P'rank  G 316 

I'.dwards,  Henry  II 41^0 


PAGE 

Egglestone,  William  P.     ...  11 

Elkins,  James  S 4^'2 

Ellenwood,  Iliram  C 545 

Ellis,  Newell  J 552 

Elwell,  Henry  M 565 

Enierson,  Franklin  J 210 

Emerson,  Henry  A 158 

Emmons,  Gardner  P. 305 

Endicott,  John 567 

Evans,  Ellen  F 111 

Evans,  Ira  C 108 


F 

Fairbanks,  George  H.    .  99 

Farnuin,  Charles  H 139 

Farnum,  Moses  H 494 

Farwell,  David  E 441 

Farwell,  Jesse  H 414 

Fay,  Harry  C 577 

Fellows,  Fred  H 564 

Ferrin,  Alvah  C 556 

Fisher,  Charles  A 179 

Fisher,  George  W 19 

Fitch,  Alfred 485 

Flanders,  George  W 368 

Flanders,  Jacob  N 304 

Flanders,  Sullivan 218 

Fletcher,  Charles  H 559 

Fletcher,  John  M 352 

Fogg,  Mrs.  Miriam  S.  E.  .     .     .  200 

Ford,  John  S 81 

Fortier,  William  J 521 

Foster,  Edward  H 508 

Foster,  Frank  W 31 

Foster,  William  L 172 

Frame,  James 1 77 

Frazier,  John 49 

Freeman,  George  C 39 

French,  Albion  H 534 

French,  Almon  W 555 

French,  Frank  J 86 

French,  John  E 337 

Fuller,  Benjamin  II 94 

Fuller,  John  A 178 

G 

Gale,  lienjaniin  F 138 

(Marvin,  Jeremiah 83 

Gerrish,  Hiram  F 310 


Gibson,  Christopher  C 
Giles,  William  A.  J. 
Gilkey,  Charles     . 
Gillingham,  Moody 
Glidden,  Harvey  B. 
Glines,  Benjamin 
Gorrell,  Gawn  E.  . 
Goss,  Ephraim  P. 
Gould,  Charles 
Gove,  Wyer      .     . 
Grafton,  Frank  W. 
Grannis,  Homer  E. 
Graves,  Arthur  C. 
Graves,  Leland  J. 
Greene,  Herman  W. 
Griffin,  George  W. 
Griffith,  George  B. 
Gunnison,  John  \'. 


PAGE 

55 
213 

280 

583 
213 

75 
'43 
64 
68 
214 
3  78 
162 

37 
37' 
295 
'25 
iSi 

196 


H 

Haines,  George  H 409 

Haines,  Lewis  D 230 

Hale,  Napoleon  B 267 

Hall,  Charles  S 205 

Hall,  Rufus 193 

Hall,  William 52 

Hall,  William 533 

Ham,  Joseph  W 373 

Hardy,  Charles  W 242 

Hardy,  Philemon  C 451 

Hartwell,  Henry  H 337 

Hartwell,  William  B 34 

Hastings,  Martin  V.  B.      .     .     .  571 

Hayward,  Hiram  N 383 

Head,  Xatt 437 

Head,  William  F 435 

Heath,  ISenjamin  F 270 

Hill,  Warren  S 439 

Hilliard,  Clayton  B 153 

Hilliard,  George  E 257 

Hobart,  William  C 244 

Hoit,  Robert  VV 331 

Holden,  Charles  A 231 

Hollis,  Henry  F 13 

Hook,  John  G 479 

Howard,  John  B 164 

Hubbard,  Rev.  Isaac  G.     .     .     .  459 

Huljbard,  John  S 118 

Huber,  Charles  A 232 

Hunt,  John  H 303 


INDEX 


593 


I  lunlinglon,  Scwell  ('. 

I  liiiilonii.  Roswc-ll 

I I  ui'il,  C'arUoii  . 

1 1 II id,  (ieor^re  VV. 


I4« 

297 


J 

Jefts,  Cliailes  A 229 

Jefts,  Jolin  W.       .     .          ...  390 

Jenna,  James  I. 90 

Jenness,  John  J 569 

Jenney,  Henry  K 82 

Johnson,  Frank  L 215 

Jones,  Abraham  G 394 

Jones,  James  M.   .     .     .          .     .  492 

Jones,  John  A 209 

Jones,  John  F 454 

Jordan,  Frank  A 4rii 

Jordan,  Willis 234 


Lovercn,  I'benczer 
Loverin,  Albon 


PACE 


Kelley,  Andrew  J.     .     . 
Kelley,  John  L.     .     .     . 
Kenney,  Charles  L.  . 
Keiiney,  Frank  11.      .     . 
Kenrick,  Charles  C.  . 
Kimball,  (".ilman  1!.  .     . 
Kimball,  Herbert  iM. 
Kimball,  John  .... 
Kimball,  John  Shackforcl 
Kimball,  John  Stevens  . 
Knowlton,  Charles  .\.    . 
Knowlton,  John  P.     . 
Knowlton,  Moses  V. 


264 
357 
277 
373 
(>7 
.,S9 
241 
1 29 
320 

I(J2 
217 


L 

Lane,  Anthony  K 566 

Langmaid,  Charles  .\ 84 

Leavitt,  William  I> 474 

Leighton,  John  F 453 

Lewin,  Curtis  F 263 

Lewis,  C.  Reed 285 

Linehan,  John  C 3S0 

Little,  George  P 346 

Locke,  George  0 570 

Long,  Charles  H 247 

Long,  Isaac  H 85 

Lord,  Charles  C 262 

Loveren,  Benjamin 528 


M 

Maiden,  Cyrus 259 

Mardin,  Israel  C; So 

Martin,  Hazen  B 112 

Martin,  Nathaniel  K 535 

Mason,  Luther  L 389 

Maxiield,  Hcnjamin  F 187 

Maynard,  Walter  1! 202 

McClure,  John  A 208 

McCoy,  Henry 1S5 

Mclntire,  Harvey  G 441 

Merrill,  George  W 245 

Merrill,  Isaac  D 299 

Merrill,  J.  F.,  M.D 485 

Miller,  George  E 163 

Mitchell,  Andrew  J 123 

Moody,  William  11.  H.       ...  279 

Moon,  Jesse  W.  S 2S6 

Moore,  Byron 122 

Moore,  Daniel  L 579 

Moore,  John  B 572 

Moore,  Morrill 233 

Morgan,  Gilman  C 66 

Morrill,  Charles  H 576 

Morrill,  Milo  S 191 

Morrill,  Samuel  A 241 

Moulton,  Darius  N 36 

Moulton,  Fred 356 

Mudgett,  William  E 22S 


N 

Newton,  Charles  A 132 

Noycs,  Rev.  James 243 


O 

Ogilvie,  George     ......  252 

Osgood,  Addison  N 149 

Osgood,  Orren 239 

Otterson,  Thomas  J 491 


P 

Page,  Samuel  S 329 

Paige,  Edward  I' 558 

Parker,  Hiram 273 

Parker,  Hosea  W.     .....  26 


F'A'.R 

I'artridge,  Mary  E.  (.' 444 

I'allee,  Slephcn  C.    . 

412 

Patterson,  David  N. 

16 

Pealjody,  De.xter       .     . 

KJO 

Peabody,  Leonard  VV.    . 

549 

I'easlee,  Daniel  G.     .     . 

406 

Peaslee,  J.  Albert      .     . 

306 

Penniman,  Ralston  H.  . 

522 

Penniman,  Tliomas  T. 

oa 

Perry,  Charles  L.      .     . 

506 

Pierce,  Franklin  J.     . 

2^2 

Pierce,  Joseph  W.     .     . 

"35 

Pike,  Chester   .... 

36. 

Pike,  Elias  W.      ... 

322 

Pillsbury,  John  C.      .     . 

3^X5 

I'illsbury,  Moody  A. 

'  7' 

Pillsbury,  Parker  .     .     . 

40 

Porter,  Benjamin  F. 

114 

Powers,  Larnard  .     . 

5'7 

Putney,  Charles  K.    .     . 

339 

Q 

(2uimby,  Francis  1 203 

R 

Rand,  John  S 157 

Randall,  I'rank  E 235 

Randlett,  James  E 134 

Raymond,  Edgerton       ....  207 

Redington,  C.  W 126 

Rcdington,  O.  P 126 

Rice,  Danford 54S 

Rice,  George  W 95 

Rice,  Harrison  .V 161 

Richanls,  Abiathar 52S 

Richards,  Dexter 220 

Richardson,  Amos 308 

Richardson,  Oscar  F 588 

Robertson,  John  E 562 

Robinson,  Emmet  S 48 

Rolfe,  Abial 272 

Rolfe,  Charles  M 526 

Rolfe,  Henry  P 103 

Rolfe,  Robert  H 334 

Rossiter,  Timothy  B ,02 

Rounsevel,  John  P 43S 

Rowell,  Charles  S 535 

Runnels,  C\'rus 57 

Russell,  Joseph 236 


594 


INDEX 


PAGE 

s 

Sanborn,  Daniel  B 376 

Sanborn,  John  B 269 

Sanborn,  J.  H 131 

Sanders,  Alvin  W 275 

Sanders,  Charles  G 458 

Sargent,  David 500 

Sargent,  David  A 72 

Sargent,  Ebenezer  B 38 

Sargent,  Frank  H 173 

Sargent,  Philip 246 

Sargent,  Walter 345 

Sargent,  Warren 73 

Sarsons,  Eleazer  L 358 

Savage,  George  H 35 

Severance,  John  W 315 

Shakers,  The  Canterbury  .     .     .  470 

Shaw,  William 31 

Shepard,  George  E 133 

Sibley,  Ezra  T 15 

Silsbv,  Arthur  W 137 

Silver,  Andrew  J 73 

Silver,  Edmund 516 

Skinner,  Edward  P.,  Jr.     .     .     .  442 

Smith,  John  C 152 

Smith,  Levi  A 206 

Smith,  William  D 82 

Spencer,  Ethan  N 245 

Staniels,  Charles  E 47S 

Staples,  John  W 323 

Stark,  Charles  F.  M 446 

Stearns,  Ezra  S 385 

Stevens,  Albert 585 

Stovvell,  George  H 405 

Straw,  James  0 552 

Straw,  William  S 457 

Sturoc,  William  C 519 


Sturtevant,  Edward  H. 
Sumner,  George  A.  . 
Swasey,  John     .    ..     . 
Swett,  John  L. 


Tasker,  William    . 
Tennant,  James  B. 
Tenney,  John  T.   . 
Thissell,  William  T. 
Thompson,  Silas  P. 
Thrasher,  Wallace  I 
Togus,  Theodore  ,M 
Tolles,  Nathaniel 
Towle,  Charles  S. 
Tracy,  Stephen  A. 
True,  Nathaniel  M. 
True,  Samuel  M. 
True,  William  C. 
Tubbs,  Henry  .     . 
Tyler,  Austin    . 
Tyler,  John 
Tyrrell,  Edwin  A. 


Vannevar,  John     . 
Vaughan,  Frank  T. 
Virgin,  Rufus   .     . 


W 

Wadleigh,  Walter  K 
Wadleigh,  William  F. 
Wait,  Albert  S.     .     . 


176 

456 

'5' 

79 


29S 

9' 

248 
188 
100 

159 
40 
472 
563 
340 

"4 

181 

377 
403 
271 
326 

25 


52s 
3S7 
486 


5S6 


Walker,  George  li 137 

Wallingford,  George     ....  393 

Ward,  William  B 74 

Watson,  Irving  A 386 

Way,  Osmon  B 289 

Webster,  Daniel 9 

Webster,  Jesse 146 

Webster,  John  C 136 

Webster,  John  F.       .     .     .     .     .  119 

Webster,  Newell  H 296 

Weeks,  Rufus  M 573 

Westgate,  Daniel  C 120 

Westgate,  William  E 23 

Wheeler,  Giles 195 

Whitaker,  John 561 

Whitcomb.  Ruel 300 

White,  Curtis .  391 

Whittier,  Leon  D 76 

Whittier,  Nahum  M 76 

Wilkins,  Joseph 400 

Wilson,  George  W 507 

Wilson,  Jeremiah  W 223 

Wilson,  Oliver  P 109 

Winch,  Charles 117 

Winslow,  Sherburn  J 511 

Wood,  William  P 526 

Woodbury,  William  O.  C.      .     .  467 

Woodman,  Alfred 537 

Woodward,  Frank  R.          ...  106 

Woodworth,  Albert  B 473 

Wyman,  Daniel  F 494 


Yeaton,  Daniel 86 

536  ,  Yeaton,  James 460 

276  I  York,  Hiram  H 320 


PORTRAITS. 


Abbott,  Isaac  N 8S 

Baker,  Cyrus  K 496 

Baker,  Edward  D.  (StL'el)  .     .     .  465 

Blood,  Mollis  L 225 

Cain,  J.  Leavitt 77 

Carter,  Solon  A 250 

Couch,  Joseph       4S2 

Currier,  David  M 365 

Dow,  Samuel  H 61 

Downes,  Daniel 544 

Katon,  Horace  1' 449 

Edes,  Amasa 198 

Earwell,  Jesse  H.  (Steel)    ...  415 
Earwell,    Mrs.    Emma    J.    (iod- 

frey  (Steel) 419 


I'Ar.E 

Earwell,  Emma  (Steel)  ....  423 

Gerrisli,  Hiram  E 311 

Chiles,  William  A.  J 212 

Gilkey,  Charks 2S1 

Gorrell,  Sarah  Forrest  ....  142 

Greene,  Herman  W 294 

Hale,  Napoleon  B 266 

Jones,  Abraham  G 395 

Kimball,  John 12S 

Knowlton,  John  I' 155 

Linehan,  John  C 3S1 

Little,  Cieorge  1' 347 

McCoy,  Henry      ■               ■     ■     .  1S4 

Parker,  Hosea  W.     ....  27 

Pillsbury,  Moody  A 170 


Pillsbury,  Parker 41 

l^illsbury,  Sarah  H 43 

Richards,  Abiathar 529 

Kolfe,  Henry  P [02 

Russell,  Joseph     ...          .  237 

Tyler,  John 327 

Webster,  Daniel 8 

Winch,  Charles     .....  116 

Winslow,  Sherburn  J 510 

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Earwell  School  at  Charlestown, 

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